March Blog Hop - Spring/Easter
March - Easter/Spring
I'm not one for making/sending Easter cards, so I decided to go with the Spring theme. My idea of spring is flowers and pastel colours. It was my daughter's birthday yesterday, so she had a selection of pastel themed birthday cards.
I know Georgie loves the Pop of Paradise stamp set (as she bought it!), so that featured in my first design. I'm not a fan of fussy cutting, but decided to have a go, I don't think I did too bad. I think the flamingo would look at least as good in Flirty Flamingo and the leaves in Emerald Envy, but as I was using pastels I went for Sweet Sugarplum (stamped off) and Lemon Lime Twist. I love how it turned out!
My next card also uses pastel colours along with the Sale-a-Bration Party Pandas stamp set. I decided on a Lemon Lime Twist card base for this one and used some of the Sale-a-Bration memories and more cards. It's quite a simple card, but I think it's effective.
It doesn't show up very well on photos, but I glittered the balloon using a Nuvo glitter pen, which picked up the colour too.
For my final card I decided to use one of my favourite stamp sets, Daisy Delight. I love this set as I find it so versatile and when teamed up with the coordinating punch you can't go wrong. I stamped the images first and then sponged through the stencil. this was the first time I have sponged through a stencil, I tend to use them with the embossing paste, but I am really happy with the effect I got using different colour inks - I faded it out nearer the stamped images.
In hindsight I think this would possibly look better with a third stamped daisy, what do you think?
Anyway, that's me done. Hope you liked my Spring cards. If you want to have a go at these, my ingredients lists are below.
If you missed Karyn's previous blog in the hop, here is her link:
Otherwise, onwards to Julie's blog:
Ingredients
Flamingo card
Cardstock: Whisper white
Stamp sets: Pop of Paradise
Happy Birthday Gorgeous
Thoughtful Banners
Ink Pads: Peekaboo Peach
Soft Sky
Sweet Sugarplum
Lemon Lime Twist
Basic Black
Gold washi tape (non-SU)
Party Panda card
Cardstock: Lemon Lime Twist
Whisper White
Sweet Soiree Memories & More Card Pack (Sale-a-Bration)
Stamp sets: Party Pandas (Sale-a-Bration)
Vertical Greetings
Basic Black
Stampin' Write Marker: Soft Sky
Nuvo Glitter Pen (non-SU)
Daisy Delight card
Cardstock: Whisper White
Stamp sets: Daisy Delight
Happy Birthday Gorgeous
Thoughtful Banners
Ink Pads: Wisteria Wonder
Sweet Sugarplum
Lemon Lime Twist
Peekaboo Peach
Soft Sky
Pool Party
Powder Pink
Stencil (from a Christmas set - possibly retired?)
Adhsive gems (non-SU)
Sale-a-Bration sets possibly only available until end of March. To order, message me, or go to my online shop: http://lynnsmith@stampinup.net
A lovely range of cards - daisles look fine to me x
ReplyDeleteLovely trio Lynn...
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely selection of pastel cards, really great makes :-)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful with the freshness of Spring x
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