Easter Bonnet

Hello Nomad friends.   This card was inspired by the Boblende kreativitet's moodboard and then it went a little bit strange.  

I started with a white hammered card base and smeared with mowed lawn distress ink then added a sheet of green paper embossed with a gemini embossing folder.  I smeared the embossed detail with pine needle distress ink to make it pop.  I cut the rosette using sizzix paper rosette die and some small strips of red card.  Then I added some blue scalloped circles and for some reason then I grabbed my missees Betty dies and went with blue hair.  I have always fancied blue hair!!!   Looks like her easter bonnet is exuberant!!

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Beer Box Bunnies

Hello Nomad friends.   Clocks forward an hour in Europe today leaving us owls way behind.  So here's a bunch of bunnies to brighten a grey short day.

Staring at the double-sided patterned card I used for my card base I finally decided it came from The Works.  I used a scrap of greenish card cut with Mama Elephant grass die and smooched with Mowed Lawn distress ink for the ground.  The bunnies are all cut from ex-beer box, and hoping my beer loving friend pays us a visit over Easter and brings me a new box, cos this one is disappearing fast.  I actually used three different bunny dies (you don't say!!) from two different manufacturers and three different sets.  Mix and match at it's finest!!  Mummy bunny with the egg is Nellie Snellen Easter bunny.  I added a little promarker detail and paper pieced a few more scraps in for the egg and flower.  Bunny on the left is from sizzix Nature Friends set, and bunny on the right from sizzix Quirky Animals.  

For a change I did a little inside management with the other half of the grass cut scrap and a writing field cut with Kort og Godt wonky circle.  

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Deer Friends

Hello Nomad friends.  My second christmas card for the month, this one inspired by a few different challenges.

I kept this scrap of patterned paper from the Nille sheet I was using the other day cos I thought the embossed deer and trees would make a nice background.  Endless Passion had the perfect sketch and I decided to add Poppystamps Shasta Oval Frame and Grand Whittle Reindeer to the scene.  The sentiment panel is a Spellbinders die stamped with some letter stamps.   

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A Girl's Best Friend

Hello Nomad friends.  I'm feeling pastel and purple and scrappy and geometrical.

I do like a nice hexagon card.  I used Daisy Mae distressed hexagons for the card base and smeared my white hammered card with wilted violet distress ink.  The little kraft squares are leftovers from when I cut some Poppystamp Clever Keypad details many moons ago, but a cute scrap is a cute scrap.  I stamped the squares with potting soil archival and a Rubber Dance heart stamp which will never be the same again.  Looking at it now, I maybe didn't need to permanently alter it, but heart stamps I have oodles of, triangles? not so many.  The girl is a piece of printed Studio Light paper cut with Poppystamps Simple Rings die.  Now, these are awesome!!   I thought I was buying a set of circle dies, but you actually get a set that cuts 2mm wide rings!!  You also get the circles for inside the rings, but in this case they are the negative cut, from ex-beer packaging.  What lovely kraft card they use for food.    

 

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Presently Santa

Hello Nomad friends.  It's Christmas time!!!   OK, take a breath!  I am trying for at least two xmas cards a month and here's my first March offering.  

I made a round card with lots of Do-craft cardboard sticker presents and a MFP stamped, embossed, coloured and fussy cut santa.  I cut the background layers of Nille patterned paper with Kort og Godt wavy circle dies.

and then turned it into an easel card.

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Pushing Back The Blue

Hello Nomad friends.  Nature seems to think spring is here.  Bit chilly tonight though, and all my crocus disappeared into the deer!!!   Seems she doesn't like snowdrops though, so they are looking magnificent!!  Anyway, here's some encouragement using those crazy bunnies from sizzix.

I handcut the egg aperture from prima patterned paper and added another piece behind.  I cut sizzix bunny hop hares from various patterned scraps.  The ground is sizzix scribbles and the letters from the wood slices set.  The words of encouragement are from a patterned sheet.  

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Gnomey Dilemma

Hello Nomad friends.  It was a bit overcast today but quite warm and I spent some time in the garden planting some veg seed in pots.  Starting with good intentions LOL.  I am over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today with some inspiration for the Make It Funny Challenge.  Do hop over and check out all the funny makes from the team.   Today I'm keeping it simple...

I stamped Flowers Gnome on a die cut panel and coloured with distress markers and gel pens.  Then I stamped the sentiment, mounted on a yellow base card and done!

 

 

Carmen's Veranda have so many funny, profound and meaningful sentiments do hop over and check them out.  New ones added regularly to the top of the page.

You have all month to share your funny stamped anythings. Please read the updated rules before entering. Real rubber or clear stamping and theme must be the focus of your project for a chance to win Lost Coast $$$$$'s.   We need at least 20 entries to award the prize.

 

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