Friends & Flowers

CCMC Saturday Blog Hop – Easter Favors

March 12, 2016 By Connie | Leave a Comment

It’s time for the Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop! Our theme is Easter Favors this week! I can’t wait to see all the ideas!

I decided to use the Friends & Flowers Stamp set to make a cute little bunny for the front of my favor!

The Blushing Bride base is 2 x 11, scored at 1/2, 5-1/2 and 5-7/8″
On top is a 1-7/8 x 5-3/8″ piece of Birthday Bouquet Designer Paper.
The face and ears from Friends & Flowers were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black on Whisper White and punched with the 1-3/8″ Circle Punch and Festive Flower Builder Punch. The body was punched with the 1-3/4″ Circle Punch and the tail with the Blossom Bunch Punch from Whisper White cardstock.
The ears and checks were colored with the Blushing Bride Marker.
Happy Easter from Circle of Spring stamp set was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink in the center.
A bow was tied with the Mint Macaron/Black Baker’s Twine and added to the ear with a Mini Glue Dot.
The bunny was added to the front of a Lots of Label Framelit cut from Birthday Bouquet DSP with Stampin’ Dimensionals, then added to the front of the base with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To hold the favor closed, the medium flower from Blossom Bunch Punch was punched from Blushing Bride and the small flower from Mint Macaron cardstock, adhered together with Mini Glue Dots and added to the Mini Clothespin with Mini Glue Dots.

Here’s the inside. I found some of these chocolate crisp bunnies at the Dollar Tree Store…3 for $1 and they fit perfectly inside! I used a couple Mini Glue Dots to hold in place!

OK…isn’t that just the CUTEST??? Love it! Now continue onto to the Create with Connie and Mary website to find out more about our March and April Mini Sessions…we just opened March yesterday! Don’t miss out on all these GREAT ideas for only $8.95 per month! Here’s a sneak peek for March! After that, you’ll continue to Mary Brown’s blog, or back to Melissa Davies’ blog!

Saturday Blog Hop – Easter

March 5, 2016 By Connie | 3 Comments

Time for the Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop! Our theme this week is Easter cards! How fun! It will be here before you know it! I used Friends & Flowers and Layered Letters stamp sets again for my Easter Peeps card this week!

Here are the details:

The base is 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 So Saffron folded in half.
A 1-1/2 x 5-1/4 piece of Wildflower Fields designer paper (SAB) is adhered to the bottom of a 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Whisper White.
The peeps heads and ears from Friends & Flowers were stamped with Tuxedo Black Ink on Pink Pirouette, Pool Party and So Saffron, then punched with the 1-3/8″ Circle Punch and Festive Flower Punch. The bodies were punched with the 1-3/4″ Circle punch. They were adhered on the front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The ears and checks were highlighted with the Clear Wink of Stella brush.
PEEPS was spelled out with the Layered Letters Alphabet Set in Pink Pirouette, Pool Party and So Saffron Inks, then Happy Easter from the Easter Lamb was stamped with Tuxedo Black Ink on a 2″ wide piece of Whisper White, then punched with the Triple Banner Punch. It is adhered on the front under the heads with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

OK…continue around to our Create with Connie and Mary website to find out more about the NEW March Mini Session and SPRING BONUS, then on to Mary’s blog for her Easter Card or backwards to see Melissa’s blog!

SUOC143 Friends & Flowers

March 1, 2016 By Connie | 1 Comment

Welcome back to the next SUO Challenge featuring Easter projects! I couldn’t wait to break out my Friends & Flowers stamp set again and use the cute little bunny head and ears for my card. I also wished I had a current stamp that said something about “peeps”…but then made up my own with the Layered Letters Alphabet Set!

Here are the details:

The base is 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Pink Pirouette cardstock folded in half.
On top of the 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Whisper White, Peeps was stamped with the Layered Letters Alphabet set and Rose Red Ink.
Happy Easter was added above it from the Easter Lamb stamp with Tuxedo Black Ink.
Along the bottom is a 1-3/4 x 5-1/4 piece of English Garden Designer Paper
A piece of 1/8″ Silver Ribbon was placed across the scene.
The bunny head and ears were stamped with Tuxedo Black Ink on Pink Pirouette cardstock and punched with the 1-3/8″ Circle Punch and Festive Flower Builder Punch. The body of the Peeps is a 1-3/4 Circle punched from Pink Pirouette cardstock.
Some clear Wink of Stella highlights the inside of the ears and the cheeks!

OK…go ahead and check out the rest of the SUO Challenge Design Team to see what they did this time with the Easter Challenge!

CCMC Saturday Blog Hop – Bundle of Joy

February 27, 2016 By Connie | 4 Comments

It’s Saturday and time for the Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Design Team Blog Hop! Our theme this week is Bundle of Joy…some inspiration for those baby cards we all need to make once in a while! So here’s my card for this week!

The base is 4-1/4 x 11 Mint Macaron, folded in half.
A 4 x 5 piece of Birthday Bouquet Designer Paper was cut at an angle across the top and adhered to a 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Whisper White.
Pool Party Glimmer Paper was adhered across the seam and attached in the back.
Peek-a-Boo greeting from Suite Sayings was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black in the upper right corner.
The pea pod from Friends & Flowers stamp set was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black on Whisper White, watercolored with Mossy Meadow, Blushing Bride and Mint Macaron Markers and an AquaPainter, then punched with the Festive Flower Builder Punch.
A 2″ circle was punched from Soft Sky and embossed with the Elegant Dots Embossing Folder and adhered to a 2-3/8″ Scallop Circle punched from Mossy Meadow.
The pea pod was added to the center with a Stampin’ Dimensional and two vines stamped with Mossy Meadow Ink, cut out and added to the top of the pea pod. The entire element was placed on the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Punch two of the X images with the Festive Flower Builder Punch from Calypso Coral cardstock, glue together and place next to the pea pod. Add a Perfect White Accent to the middle.

I love how this turned out! OK…you can go backwards to see Melissa Davies’ baby creation, or continue on the Blog Hop with the next stop at Mary Brown to see her baby card!