Easter bookmarks

Still desperately trying to reduce my stack of supplies so that I can walk through my dining room again. I think I managed to use up about 1/2" worth of scrap paper by creating a stack of corner bookmarks (the book page slides in behind the bunny face so the ears are sticking out). These are my favourites - super easy to create, but cute as can be. I've made enough to use them for school Easter goodie bags. If you want to try making your own corner bookmarks there are a tonne of tutorials available online but my initial inspiration came from Positively Peaches Monster bookmark.

Challenges:
Allsorts - animals
One Stop Craft Challenge - for the kids
Hotshot Craft - anything but a card
Creative Belli - hearts
Deep Ocean Challenge - "B" (for bunny, bookmark & brown)

Easter greetings

I love finding a great sketch that can be used for multiple cards! I just finished making this batch of cards for the BC Childrens Hospital (sending them via Send A Smile 4 Kids Canada) using last week's sketch from Sketch and Stash. Most of the papers are from the "Peep" pack from We R Memory Keepers. The ribbons, flowers & buttons are freebies from a magazine. The gorgeous die cuts are Memory Box (thank you to my BFF Lee for cutting & sending these for me!). The bunny & puppy images are digital stamps from Karen's Doodles and the dragon is from Dustin Pike's Doodle Dragon Studios. Of course they are all coloured using Copic markers.

After assembling the cards I decided that they needed some some "bling" so I added Glossy Accents on the Easter eggs (background paper on dragon card, eggs in basket on bunny card) and Stickles to the basket filler (dragon card).

Challenges:
2 Sisters - anything goes
Allsorts - anything goes
Corrosive Challenges - another dimension (the images and flowers are popped up)
Crafty Catz - something starting with "B" (buttons, bunny)
Crazy Challenge - anything goes
Doodle Dragon - Pike's Playground - bling (glossy eggs & sparkly yellow basket filler)
Going Grey with Scrap-Creations - pop it
Karen's Doodles - pastel Easter
Moving Along With the Times - layers
Send a Smile 4 Kids - Easter/spring
Truly Madly Crafty - ribbon & bling

Finally unpacked ... sort of

Update: This card was chosen as one of the top 3 at Simply Create! Yay!

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I have finally completed my move, unpacked the majority of my boxes, and set up my crafting supplies. It's been so long since I've done anything creative (does arranging pots & pans in the cupboards count as creative? I think not) that I decided to start back with something simple.

I used one of my favourite digital stamps - "Follow the leader" from Pollycraft - which I coloured using Copic markers. The papers are from We R Memory Keepers. I needed a boost for my creativity so I chose this sketch from Scrapbook Essentials BC.

Now that I've broken the crafting drought, I'm going to get working on more Easter cards so that I can donate a bunch (including this one, of course) to BC Childrens Hospital (via Send A Smile 4 Kids Canada).  

Challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - winged things

iCopic Challenge - animal

Moving Along With the Times - lots of layers (I used 4)

Papercrafting Journey - make it cute (what's cuter than duckies)

Simon Says Stamp - 3 different papers

Simply Create Too - add sunshine to your day

Sisterhood of Crafters - use a digi

Stamp Man - colours of Spring/Easter

Truly Scrumptious - all creatures great & small

Easter bunny

Is it really only a week & a half until Easter? I imagine the Easter Bunny is busily making chocolate impressions of himself and pooping out jelly beans by the hundreds (hey, I can't be the only one who has been forced by their kids to watch the movie "Hop"). Well, I haven't used the ideas from the movie for my cards (yet) instead doing up a couple of pretty cards with lots of Spring colours.

The image is a freebie digi from Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine. I love this magazine - most issues include 2-pages of images drawn by David Parkins to photocopy or scan as digi stamps! I used my Copic markers to colour the bunny. Is it OK to complement myself? Because I'm just loving the way the roses worked out!

I should also mention that the cute sign sentiment in the first card came from Create with TLC. If you don't already follow this site then you really should as there are so many freebies offered not to mention a tonne of wonderful images & sentiment sets for sale.

Challenges I'm Entering:

• Aly's Sunday Challenge - Bunnies
• Craft Us Crazy - Easter
• Crazy Challenge - Easter
• Creative Inspirations - Easter
• Die Cut Dreams - Easter
• Eat, Sleep, Stamp - Sketch
• Paper Cutz - Bunny, lamb, chicks or Easter eggs
• Pink Elephant - Easter
• Simon Says Stamp - Spring colours / Easter
• Stamping For the Weekend - Easter
• Stamping Vacation - Easter
• Stamps 'R Us - Easter

Easter

Here is Luke wearing the bunny ears he made at the "Easter Eggstravaganza" at the Rec. Centre. He was so worried that he wouldn't earn enough points (for being good) to attend but he squeeked through in time.


Alex relaxing in my arms after a busy morning of easter egg hunting. I'm afraid I am raising a couple of nudists - it's tough keeping a diaper on Alex, never mind clothes!


The best find of easter morning was the giant Kinder egg. Inside that orange egg was a pretty cool basketball game toy which we played with for about an hour before the tiny ball was lost. The chocolate lasted all week though (you can see the chocolate shell on the floor next to Luke).