Monday, February 23, 2026

Egg Hunt Easter Card

I am a member of the club of the month from Waffleflower.com and in January I received that club of the month product. It was the postage Egg Hunt stencil set. TOOOO cute and I was happy when their new release for Feb 2026 had more of the Egg Hunt products..... I bought their Basket Sentiments combo that has both stamps with matching dies, the Tall Grass die set, the Grass Texture cover plate die, as well as the Postage Collage Egg Hunt Icons die set. Here is one of the cards I made using this new release as well as other die sets from my stash and card stocks from the stash:

Here is the Basket Sentiments set:


the Tall Grass die set on the right next to the Grass Texture cover plate:


For the grass inside my basket I used the Grass Lawn die set from Divinity Designs along with the Carrots die set from IOStamps (ImpressionObsession):


and a photo of the Postage Collage Egg Hunt Icons Die set:


For my cards my card bases are cut and scored at the top. Used plaid and printed card stocks from my 6x6 card stock stash for the card fronts. The white doily was die cut using the Sunny Studio doily die set:


For my green card fronts I did not want to use a bright lime green card stock so I used a mint green card stock instead. I die cut the Grass Texture cover plate die and I used my deckled edge trimmer to cut all green pieces to the size I wanted for the card fronts. I used the Tall Grass die and cut those out of mint green card stock also and I sponged a darker green ink over that to add a darker green to that piece. I used the deckled edge trimmer to trim that at the bottom so it would match the deckled edges of my green card stock front pieces:


Put on a RomCom movie and did all the die cutting for these cards using scraps and card stocks from the stash. Then I assembled the card fronts. Once I got those all done the card front looked flat so I decided to use white splatter and put that on the green card front.... but all card fronts were already assembled..... so I pulled out a Spellbinders rectangle layering die det and cut a rectangle from scrap white card stock and laid that over the front of the cards just showing the green fronts and then I splattered the and they turned out well:



Layered all my pieces and sponged edges of the egg pieces and then used small stencils from the stash to add designs to the eggs:



Fun card to assemble and good use for scraps!! Chicks are on foam dots for dimension and I used a white gel pen on their eyes. Happy to get more use from scraps and more use of products/dies I already have in my stash....

Romantic Valentine Card

 Made this Valentine's Day card using a new die set from Scrapdivadesigns.com called Romantic Heart:

I used a doily die set from the stash from My Creative Time on the front of the card:

I used matte red foil card stock from the stash for the foiled heart layers:

For Valentine treat holders I used all dies and card stocks from the stash:

I used this older Spellbinders die set to make a box for Hershey nugget candies and I added washi tape from the stash to the top and bottom of each box:

Used a pizza box die set from PixiDust Designs from the stash for the pizza box and I made rosettes for the tops of the boxes:

Also used an old lollipop die set from My Favorite Things (MFT) for my Tootsie Pop holders:




Here is a photo of one of the treat bags I had made using bags from the stash and card stocks and dies from the stash:


Also a Valentine's Day joke from the radio:

Two guys, who do not know each other, stopped at the grocery store after work on Valentine's Day. They both headed over to the Valentine's Day floral display.... one guy says out loud:

"This is a lot of money to spend for something that is just going to die"

Other guy replies out loud:

"Yeah.... but she really likes flowers....."

Monday, February 2, 2026

Faux Ribbon Woven Easter Card

Had seen Holly on the YouTube channel for Karen Titus show her Faux Ribbon Woven card technique so I made a card for Easter using her inspiration and tips. Here is my Easter card:

Cash or stash -- all products I used for this card were in the stash so happy to get use out of more craft room items..... My card base is a peachy pink card stock. For my faux ribbon strip on the left side of the card front I followed Holly's instructions and I used a grid pattern. She used grid paper for her grid but I do not have any grid paper. I do have extra grid sheets I had bought at Staples long ago to make grid sheets for my Mistis so I have those on hand. Following her pattern I made a grid for this faux ribbon technique:

Using her instructions I wrote notes and I will keep those with the grid sheet so when I use this technique I will have all instructions with my grid:

Using pink card stock as my base I looked through my double sided card stock stash and found a small printed card stock with pink in it. I cut my strips as she instructed - I cut them 1/2" wide by 6" long and then I cut those in half so all my strips were 1/2" x 3". I put those on my 2" x 5 1/2" white ribbon base using my ATG. With that panel done I put the panel on a light pink base cut just a little wider than my ribbon base for the card front. Set this aside. 

As she does in her video one of her cards she used a paper doily and I have one left in my stash so I also used my white doily cut in half for my card front. Used a 3" circle punch and punched out a yellow gingham circle for the card front. To make this gingham print circle more sturdy I also punched out a white card stock scrap and put that behind the gingham circle using liquid glue. For the bunny I used this die set from my stash:

I cut him out of white card stock and assembled him sponging the edges of his pink ears and pink nose. I also cut out a second white card stock bunny to put my bunny on to make it sturdy. Using gray ink I sponged the edges of the bunny piece. For the eggs and carrot behind my bunny I used two dies from the stash from Impression Obsession/IO Stamps:

Both dies cut out multiples so I have extras for other projects. Used scraps to cut these dies out and used matching inks to sponge the edges of them all. For the card front I used the ATG to put my faux ribbon panel on the left card front over a paper doily I had cut in half and I put that on the right card front using liquid glue. With the panel and doily on the card front I put my gingham circle over both the doily and panel piece - I turned the circle so my gingham check would look like it is on the diagonal. I used thinner foam tape behind the bunny. I did not remove the foam tape backing yet as I laid the bunny onto the circle piece for placement while I used liquid glue to put my four eggs and one carrot where I wanted them to be behind the bunny. With those in place I removed the backing of my foam tape and placed the bunny in place on the gingham circle. 

For the greeting I used Prom Queen ink by Simon Hurley and this Easter stamp set:

North Coast was affiliated with Our Daily Bread Designs stamps and that company is now called Divinity Designs. I stamped the "Happy Easter!" on scrap white card stock using pink ink and I cut that out using a banner die set from Divinity Designs. Used a scrap of pink card stock to put the greeting on and put that sentiment strip across the front of the bunny using tear n tape. Added yellow gems from the stash. 

IRL you can see the dimension of the bunny being on foam strips but it does not show well in the photo of the finished card:

Fun ribbon technique. Altho I used double sided card stock you could easily use single sided papers that compliment each other as well.. Very easy technique to add to a card front and a good use of scraps and small pieces of card stock. Thanks to Holly for sharing her tips and pattern! 
 




Monday, January 26, 2026

Bunny Rosette Easter Embellishment

Used the KS Crafts Egg Rosette die set from their Jan 2026 release for these Easter embellishments:

Stash or cash - the KS Crafts Egg Rosette die set was the last die set I had bought from their Jan release. This egg rosette I made is the small one and it measures approx 3" high x 2 3/4" wide. For all my rosettes I used plaid printed card stock from the stash. Here is the die set:

I cut the two pieces and folded the rosette and used tear n tape to put the two strips together. I used hot glue to form the egg rosette:

As with all the rosettes I make I use my little tool I put together so I do not burn myself touching the hot glue - this is a sponge handle that I attached a circle from a brown craft mat to the bottom using E6000 adhesive and once I add the hot glue and press down the rosette into the glue I use the tool I made to press it all together and hold it until the hot glue cools:

With all the rosettes cut out, attached and formed, I then wanted to use sparkle tulle on the rosette. I used the KS Craft Eggs die set I just used for my Eggs and Ovals Easter card and I used one of the dies to trace the shape onto scrap white card stock and cut that out with scissors for a pattern piece so I could cut out the tulle to the egg shape. Here is the pattern pieces I cut out and I will keep with the die set for use again:

With the rosettes formed I hot glue two pieces of the sparkle tulle to the front of the rosettes and this will be behind the bunny. For the bunny I used a die set from the stash:


I cut all the bunnies out of white card stock, ears, nose, and cheeks were cut out of scrap pink card stocks. Black scraps were used for the eyes. I put all face pieces on bunny and I wanted the bunny to be sturdy so I cut out a second bunny from white card stock to adhere my bunny to. I used liquid glue to put the two bunny pieces together. Here are items I wanted to put on my rosettes:


The flower dies are from the bunny set I used and the carrot is a die from Impression Obsession/IO Stamps. I used all scraps to cut those out and used liquid glue to assemble them. When you make rosettes in any shape the highest part of the rosette is where the hot glue is that joins your pieces together to make the rosette shape. So to assemble this - I formed the rosettes, put the tulle pieces on the front of the rosette. Used liquid glue and put the carrot behind the bunny on the side. Behind the eyes of the bunny I put pop dots to level the bunny off since his body is over the hot glue where the rosette holds together and that is the high point of the rosette. Used hot glue to put the lower body of the bunny onto the rosette.

For the flowers I used liquid glue and put those onto the bunny and then used liquid glue to add the bow and crystal gem to dress the bunny up.... since this is not a circle rosette I want it to keep its' shape well so I used the Eggs die set again and cut out an egg using white card stock to go behind my rosette to make it sturdy:


The back of the rosette before egg backer added:

Used liquid glue to add this egg backer piece:


This backer piece will also be good when I attach this embellishment to a project and it also will keep the egg shaped rosette. Easy rosette to assemble and a fun embellishment for Easter:


Can easily add a sentiment strip or use them as is. Happy to also be able to use more card stock scraps on these as well. 

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Grid Valentine's Day Card

Here is the grid Valentine's Day card:

Stash or cash --- for this card I used a peach card stock base cut and scored at the top. For the grid card front I used the new PinkFresh "Refined Grid" cover plate die with matching stencils set that I bought in December. Here is a photo of the packaging for the stencils:


These stencils make a few patterns so the set is worth the price but remember you need to use their grid cover plate die with the stencils:


After I had the card stock base ready for the card I decided to use a creamy white card stock for my grid piece rather than a bright white card stock. I die cut out the grid cover plate from my creamy white card stock that was cut a bit larger than the cover plate die. Once that was cut out I stenciled the two hearts stencils onto the grid piece. This cover plate does not cut the grid piece out for your card front. To cut my stenciled grid piece to be used on my card front I used the Spellbinders Precision Layering Basics die set from my stash and cut my grid piece to the size I needed for my card front:


I used liquid glue and put the stenciled grid piece onto the front of the card stock base. For the greeting I used a die set from the stash from Karen Burniston:


I die cut the greeting out of glittered card stock for the card front. I wanted to put the greeting on a piece of vellum so I used a circle die set from Spellbinders from my stash and die cut out a circle. Used liquid glue to put the greeting onto the vellum. Then I added liquid glue behind the words on the greeting circle and put the circle onto the grid card front:


Added flat red hearts gems from the stash to the greeting piece. For the inside of this card I used this older stamp from the stash from Hampton Art (G) from Michaels:


I stamped this using red ink and then I used the stencil set and stenciled two hearts:


Easy card to stencil and put together but remember if you should use this grid die set that you have to trim your grid die piece to the size you want as that cover plate cuts only the grid and not the edges of the grid piece for your card front.







Saturday, January 24, 2026

Eggs and Ovals Easter Card

 Here is a photo of my Eggs and Ovals Easter Card I made for Easter:

Stash or cash -- For this card I recently bought a couple of die sets from the KSCrafts January 2026 release for Easter. I bought their Eggs die set which has a deckled edge egg dies as well as the stitched edge egg dies in the same set:


For this card I wanted to use the eggs die set as the base to my card using the largest deckled edge egg die in the die set for that. I cut and scored a piece of yellow card stock at the top and I put the deckled egg die over the top edge of the folded card to be run through the die cutting machine:

Once die cut I removed the egg die and opened the card base to show it was one piece with the die being placed just over the folded edge at the top for die cutting:

Using the second largest deckled egg edge die I cut out a piece of white card stock for the front of my card. Using a smaller stitched egg edge die from the die set I cut out a piece of yellow and white gingham checked card stock and I cut that at so the checks would be on the diagonal. I used liquid glue to put the checked piece onto the white piece and then put these onto the yellow card base. 

Here is the second die I bought from this release:

This is a layering bow die set and there are more bow dies on the back of this but not shown. I used solid and glittered card stock to cut out this bow and I assembled that and put it on the card base using liquid glue. Set this aside. 

For the "eggs and ovals" bunny..... I pulled out the Eggs die set from Spellbinders from my stash and using the third smallest die I cut out my bunny body - I did this twice so I would have an extra piece to put behind him to make him more sturdy:


Once his body was die cut I sponged the edges using gray ink. Using a smaller oval punch I punched out two ovals for his feet. Used another size oval and punch out two ovals for his ears. Used a small circle punch and punched out two pink circles for the pads on his feet. Used an old Marvy heart punch for his nose. Sponged the edges of the feet and ear ovals with gray ink and sponged all pink pieces using a light pink ink. Using a coloured pencil I added pink to his ears and used a light pink marker for the toes on his feet. Using liquid glue I put the pink pads on his feet and added the ears and his feet to the bunny. Used a fine black Sharpie marker for his mouth and his eyes. Once he was all assembled I then put the other oval body behind him using liquid glue and he was done.  Put him on the card front using pop dots for dimension:

For the inside of this card I used an older stamp from the stash from Inky Antics for my sentiment:

I stamped that onto white card stock and used a stitched edge egg die from the die set to cut that out:

This is a free standing card so I was happy about that as I wanted the card to be egg shaped rather than the normal rectangle cards I make. Happy to use the "Eggs and Ovals" bunny again as I had used him on other projects in the past and he is easy to assemble.  I put the bunny on my card front using pop dots for dimension and then added pink crystals from the stash for some sparkle on the card front.