Spring has Sprung, Happy Easter

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Hi there, its Riet today. Are you also crazy about Easter? I love it. Making the house cozy and making nice cards for family and friends. So this is my Easter card.
I used Lost Coast Designs Bubbles background.
and Katzelkraft bird which are also for sale at Lost Coast Designs

I made a background with Mustard Seed, Mermaid Lagoon, Abandoned Coral and Lucky Clover Distress Oxide. Made the border around the card with a black posca marker. After that I made the black grids with a stencil and the black posca marker and added some lines with a white posca pen.
The egg is heat embossed with a fine black embossing powder.
Now the fun part starts. I colored with all the distress colors I used for the background.
It takes some practice, but I love the result. I treated it like watercolor paint. Stamped the bird on a piece off watercolor paper, and colored it with Distress Oxide.

I hope you enjoyed it, until next time.
And don't forget to join the challenge.

Spring Has Sprung: Day 12: Bunny and Flower and Bonus Project

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Happy Spring again from Laurie, and I hope you are all posting your spring makes on the Portal.  And I hope wherever you are, there is spring weather.

I made a card for this challenge using the Sketchy Lily from Lost Coast Designs and the bunny from the Duck and Bunny Set at Carmen's Veranda.  What shouts spring more than flowers and bunnies???

I started with a piece of corrugated cardboard that I tore off of a shipping box.  I peeled the top layer of paper off the cardboard to expose the ridged layer below.  I lightly painted the ridges with Gesso and let that dry well.

Next I took a sheet of scrap book paper and tore one edge of it to use as my background.  I went around all the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink then stamped the flower directly onto my paper. 
I then re-stamped it onto blue paper, cut out just the flower part, and glued that atop the stamped flower.

Next I stamped my bunny onto some cream slightly patterned scrapbook paper with black ink and cut him out.  I added just a little light blue color to his eyes and affixed him next to the flower - I wanted it to look like he was smelling the sweet flower!  I added some word stickers above the rabbit.

Final touch was to glue some vintage lace along the top edge and tie a piece of twine around the lace to help hold it in place.  

We are excited to see what fun spring themed projects you can cook up in your craft room, so be sure to post them today to enter the challenge!

Bonus Project!

I created this little bookmark using the sweet PixikinHLP stamp from Lost Coast Designs.  My green background is a piece of a larger Gelli print that I made awhile ago with light green and some yellow paints.  I stamped the baby Pixi with black StayzOn ink directly onto my background paper and colored a bit with green Copic markers to darken up the leaves and vine.  I then re stamped the Pixi on the same piece of my Gelli print, cut out just the little swaddled Pixi and glued that atop my original stamped image.

I then stamped the tiny face onto white card stock, added some color with Copic markers, and attached it directly over the face on my previously stamped image.

I finished it off by attaching it to a piece of yellow card stock that I rounded the corners of and then machine stitched around the edges.  I punched a hole in the top and added some decorative green fiber and just like that, it's a book mark!!

Springtime Gnome Fun

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Did you know that gnomes love flowers? They do enjoy a nice frolic in the fresh spring flowers....such a nice diversion after staying hunkered down all winter long.

Such a fun way to share a bit of Spring time joy with a friend.

I started off by applying various shades of blue and green alcohol ink to a piece of Craft Plastic cut down to card size.

I then stamped several Sketchy Cone Flowers, a Butterfly and my Pointy Hat Gnome friend on white cardstock using VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink which was then colored with KingArt dual tip markers.

Then came the layering of the flowers...some affixed directly to the panel others adhered with foam tape and finished up with the little butterfly.

Added the panel to a teal card base and with a few kind words this card is ready to be popped into the mail to a friend!

Remember you still have time to join in our

Spring has Sprung Challenge

and

 Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda 

We are still shipping and the going viral sale is still on!!!
25% off unmounted and cling mounted stamps with the code
QUARANTINEUS
excludes sundries and Katzelkraft stamps.

Coffee and Carrots

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Hello Portal Peeps.  Gail here doing some midnight crafting.....
Have you seen the new gnomes at Lost Coast Designs??  They rock!!!  Here's Coffee Gnome with a very fun Carmen's Veranda sentiment. 

Keeping it simple but what more do you need???
I stamped, coloured and fussy cut Lost Coast Designs Coffee Gnome.  I stamped the Carmen's Veranda sentiment on a green base card using black archival ink and also used the edge of the ink pad to make a bit of ground for the gnome to be on.  Add the gnome and done!!!

I hope you have all the vegetables, donuts and coffee you need.

But if you need some new stamps check out
 Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda 
We are still shipping and the going viral sale is still on!!!
25% off unmounted and cling mounted stamps with the code
QUARANTINEUS
excludes sundries and Katzelkraft stamps.

 

Spring Has Sprung: Gnomes & birds

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here showing you a big ,Spring has sprung-card'! Here in Holland spring really has sprung! Even in this strange times... nature doesn't know what's going on....

I made my glossy card by using the wonderful new Gnomes, I really love them so much! 💖💙
I coloured a piece of glossy paper with alcohol inks. I stamped the gnomes with black StazOn and masked them. I stamped the trees and the house. I coloured the card with Stabilo pencils, gelpens, and paint markers and I drew some more black lines.
Stamps used: Straw house, Swinging gnome, Rabbit gnome  and  ATC Birds in trees

Stay safe and healthy.
Liesbeth XX

Spring has Sprung gnome

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Hello Cathy here with a Spring gnome card for you.
It might say it's Spring but where I'm  we had snow the other day. So I made it Spring inside with this card.

Can you tell I'm a loving these new gnomes.
Anywho  I made a Spring/Easter card for you.

I used Rabbit Gnome

I stamped him and colored him with Copic markers and cut him out.
Next I got some Spring looking paper and layered it on a pink cardstock base.
In my bits I had the banner and a saying that says Spring has sprung and how prefect was that.
I added to the top and the Rabbit Gnome to the bottom. That is it.

You can join the Spring challenge here

Also the sale is still going on so head over and get some rubber for 25% off.