Anybunny for Framelits?

Today I had a lovely surprise when I opened my front door to find a brown Stampin' Up! box on my doorstep.  It was my items from pre-order for the Autumn/Winter Mini Catalogue and I was sooo excited to start playing.  This next mini catalogue would have to be my favourite ever, so many beautiful things.  The great part about being a demonstrator is that I get to purchase them a month earlier than they are generally available. 

This is the second card I made today, a cute little easel card using the new Framelits Labels collection dies and the Everybunny stamp set from the main catalogue.   These little bunnies are just too darn cute!  On this card I have combined three of the stamps using masking techniques, the little girl bunny with the basket, the boy bunny with the egg, and the mushrooms.  I love how it has come together to create a little scene.  You can't see it so well in this photo but I cut the little girl bunny out and added her to the card using Dimensionals.

It wasn't until I went in search of a tag for my sentiment that I realised how well the Lots of Tags Sizzlet die matched the new Labels Framelits!  I can see me using these together quite a bit in the future.

I am entering this card into the Festive Friday challenge this week.  I haven't had chance to join in with the challenges there this year, and was very excited to see that the next few weeks will be Easter themed!  This week we had to choose a card that inspired us and then create our own version.  My inspiration was not a single card, rather all of the beautiful easel cards I have seen, most of which come from the very talented Bronwyn Eastley.

Happy Stamping

Vintage Mashup

When I submitted my entry for the Friday Mash Up challenge #38 I noticed that they were leaving the entries for challenge #37 open until next week!  I was a bit intrigued by this challenge which was to use chipboard or distressing techniques, or mash them up and make a card using both distressing and chipboard. I am also entering this card into the 4 Crafty Chics challenge to use something new - new DSP from the upcoming Sale-A-Bration event.

For this post I have taken a few photos to show off different aspects of this card., this first one shows the card completely closed. I knew I wanted to use some of the DSP that is going to be available as part of Sale-A-Bration 2012, there are so many colours in this paper stack but I chose to keep it fairly simple and use two that use Calypso Coral and Pool Party.  The smaller butterfly is cut from DSP adhered to chipboard and then put through the Big Shot, the larger butterfly has been cut using the same die but with DSP only.  I added the sentiment and Crochet Trim to keep with the vintage feel of the card.

I wanted to take a close up of the butterfly accent because it shows off the distressing that I did.  I have to say I struggled a bit with this because I don't usually use distressing techniques.  I decided to use two on this card, one was to crumple the big butterfly and then drag the Crumb Cake ink pad over the creases to highlight them - I was a bit nervous about this but was happy with how it turned out.  On both of the butterflies I sanded back the edges of the DSP to give it a worn look. 

Now to the card itself ...  This picture shows the card partially open.  This was such a fun card to make and was the tutorial by Patty Bombyk and is featured on Splitcoaststampers this week, I wanted to try something a bit different and this certainly fit the bill.  The top 2/3 of the card opens up and the bottom splits in half and opens sideways!  

Here is a picture of the inside to show both how it opens and the insert I made.  I don't usually make an insert for my cards, but this one just needed something on the inside.  I am not sure if it was the expanse of Calypso Coral, or the general vintage feel of the card, but it seemed bare, so I added a piece of Pool Party card stock sponged around the edges and used the image from Creative Elements to create a border at the top and bottom.

Happy Stamping