Happy Easter

Happy Easter! It has been such a long time since I blogged, but between being busy with other things and wonderful weather which I've been sure to made the most of (never know when the rain will be back again!), I haven't been stamping much recently.

Anyway yesterday my friend Linda hosted a fun scramble over at the Hero Arts Flickr group. At the mention of the word scramble, I seem to turn into a complete butterfingers but had a great time with Linda's paper piecing theme. A little earlier in the day I had made some chocolate and cornflake Easter nests and added mini eggs, so I thought I'd bag a few and add a paper pieced tag.

Stamps (Hero Arts) - CL758 A Little & B3837 Bunny Basket

I pulled out some card in spring\Easter colours and embossed and paper pieced the various parts of the tag. Then I added a little bunny on foam pads and after punching a hole in the top of the tag added some fibres. I don't know what the fibres are but they feel similar to raffia and are in the shape of twine. I'm submitting this card into A Blog Named Hero Layer Cake Challenge and Simon Says Stamp's Animal Antics Challenge.

I'm not the only one enjoying the glorious sunshine here. The garden seems to be full of ladybirds this year



and the flowers and shrubs are showing signs of soaking up all the lovely sunshine too!







Hope you're enjoying lovely weather wherever you are:)

Easter Bunnies Let Loose

The themes for Hero Arts April challenge are masculine projects, a sketch and stamp layering. So for this card I did a little bit of stamp layering.


Stamps (Hero Arts) - Flower Wreath, Bunny Basket, Decorated Egg & Celebrate Everyday

I stamped the wreath, eggs and bunnies and coloured them with watercolour pencils and Promarkers. Then I layered the leaves and flowers and added gems. The sentiment is embossed in white and for the background I used a dotty embossing folder which kind of reminds me of Easter eggs. If you're like me and love peeking bunnies, you’ll find loads of cuties through links on Virginia’s adorable card here.

As you can probably tell from the photo it's a gorgeous sunny day here today so I hope it continues that way for the weekend. Hope you all have a great weekend wherever you are!