One Buck Bunny Easter Card

Early February I attended the stamp show in Columbia, SC and since I was going to SC anyways I made a stop in Greenville, SC at the ReCraft Creative Reuse Center store where they sell craft supplies that are new or gently used that have been donated to them. This is the store I bought the Distress Oxide ink pads still in sealed packages. Once I picked out the ink pads I looked through the other supplies they sold and I found this Layered Bunny die set from Simon Says Stamp:

This die set was $1.00 and the Simon Says seal was still on the back of the packaging so I do not think it had ever been used. I did look it up online and it sells for $19.99 so paying only a buck for this layered bunny die was a good deal! Used him on my Easter cards:

For this card I cut and scored light blue card stock for the base, scored at the top. Cut a piece of green card stock for the card front. For the white decorated front I cut out the Frantic Stamper die "Star Quilt Card Panel" die. (Frantic Stamper is going out of business but has a lot of her own designs/brands still for sale). With those all cut out I set them aside. 

Cut a piece of plain white card stock to fit behind the Star Quilt Panel. I ink blended light green ink at the bottom of this piece with light blue ink from the green ink up to the top of the panel with it being a little darker blue at the top. Used liquid glue to put the decorated panel onto the ink blended piece. Set it aside to dry.

For the bunny I die cut that out of white card stock and used gray ink to sponge the edges of that. Cut out scrap pink card stock for the ears. I also cut out his base face die piece from a darker gray card stock and that gave me the base for his face which is for his eyes. Used a pink marker for the nose. Assembled him with liquid glue.

The flower die set used for the flowers and greenery is the "Layered Posies" die set from IO Stamps (which is Impression Obsession and they closed their doors late last year). I used scraps for the flowers and the greenery. For the two carrots next to the bunny I used the carrots die set also from IO Stamps and orange card stock and I sponged the edges of the carrots using a dauber and orange ink. The carrot tops are scrap green card stock and I sponged those with a darker green ink. Used liquid glue to put the flowers/carrots together. 

Assembled the card base with layers and then added the flowers with greenery and the carrots on the lower edge of the card. Put the assembled bunny on the card front using foam tape for dimension. I added a few extra flowers on both sides of the bunny. For the greeting "Happy Easter!" I used an old cling stamp set from North Coast Creations "Easter Basket".  (They used to be affiliated with Our Daily Bread which is now Divinity Designs). I stamped it onto scrap white card stock and used a banner die from the stash to cut that out and put it on the card front using foam tape. 

The bunny die is very easy to work with because all the dies in this set are on one piece of metal so one pass through the machine cuts out all the pieces. These dies also emboss the lines for placement of the belly, feet, face, ears and lining things up is very easy. Cute bunny for a buck and glad I was able to put him to use on this Easter card!