Happy Easter

I hope everyone has had a great day so far. Here is one more Easter card that I made. I used the CTMH set Little Treasures. It's so cute, there are several different items that you can stamp inside the jar. I even masked some of those jelly beans to make the jar appear to be fuller. After coloring the jelly beans with Copic/Prisma markers, I covered the entire jar with Glossy Accents. The lid was colored with a silver gel pen and I cut out several different layers of paper and glued them one on top of he other. Paper is DCWV and I'm not sure of the ribbon.

We are having dinner at Kip's sister's house this evening and here is my main contribution: 

I just had to take a picture of all these beautiful colors in my salad bowl. It is a bag of mixed salad greens with blueberries, strawberries, Mandarin oranges, pineapple tidbits and chopped pecans. It is dressed with a homemade lemon poppyseed dressing. Here's the recipe for the dressing: 

Lemon Poppyseed Dressing

1/2 cup of frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed

1/3 cup honey

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 teaspoon poppy seeds

 1 teaspoon lemon juice (optional)

Combine all ingredients and mix well. With some salads I prefer the extra tang of the lemon juice, but not normally with this one.

Bunny Parade

This is the card that I made for my sister for Easter this year. Every year I make her some type of card that references bunny ears being eaten. It's been a running joke for years. I found this pattern in the Paper Creations magazine last year and have been waiting to use it since then. This is also my card for the Limited Supply Challenge on Splitcoast today. It was a Triple Play challenge: three colors (plus a neutral), three layers and three focal points.

I think this is the first card that I have ever made that has no stamping on it! I cut the bunnies out of brown paper and then drew the eyes on using a white paint pen and a Sakura glaze pen. I used a Fiskars Threading Water border punch and a Stampin Up Word Window punch. My sentiment was handprinted with a gel pen.

We are having some very rough weather right now. The tornado sirens have been going off and on for part of the morning. I think the worst part has passed us right now. Be safe!

ROAD TRIP

Just a quick card tonight. I needed several easy, quick and easy to reproduce Easter themed cards and this is what I came up with. Sorry for the picture quality, I couldn't get a good picture of this card for some reason, they were all either very washed out or too dark. I tried to edit it but didn't have much success. The little bunny is from a Clear Dollar Stamps set called Easter Blocks and was stamped with CTMH Baby Pink ink. I used some hot pink fun flock on the inside of his ears. Paper is DCWV and I used Fiskars Threading Water border punch for my scalloped edge.

Oh my goodness I had so much fun today! My friend Julie and I (and her sweet daughter) went on a road trip today to Dover, Tennessee to visit a new scrapbook store called Precious Scraps. The drive took us a little longer to get there than we planned, almost two hours, but it was so worth it. I have been reading Bev's blog as she has gotten ready to open the store, seen pictures of the store in progress and then pictures as the store was ready to open. It was great to visit and meet her in person. There was so much beautiful paper in there and you can never have enough pretty paper can you? So of course I had to add to my paper collection and you will be seeing some of that in the next few days. I also picked up a couple of new stamps and a couple of other odds and ends. It is a place I will definitely visit again very soon.