A few fun pieces!

Howdy friends,

We are back from the big house hunting trip.  While I was SO excited to get home, I left behind my favorite person, Russ. Kind of a big bummer, but he will be home in just a few weeks to play here.  Yea! Thank you for all your sweet comments and emails.  They make me smile and honestly I needed them last week.  LOL!

Meanwhile, I wanted to show you a few fun projects we did this month in classes and clubs.  With Easter just a few short days away, I wanted to share a few last minute projects you can do, too!

Hopefully you have purchased these incredible Glassine Bags.  These are the large ones.  I just put a few candies inside the bag and folded the top.  I added the Shades of Spring DSP around the bag and stapled it.  To hide the staple I made a White Chocolate Bunny by embossing the Chocolate Bunny stamp with Clear EP using Very Vanilla ink stamped onto Very Vanilla cardstock.  Once the bunny was cut out I used a Sahara Sand ink pad and sponge around the inside of the bunny and the edges of the bunny.  I added a little Rhinestone eyeball for Mr. Bunny and Viola' you have a fun little Easter project. 

This picture  shows the Carrot Box that my customers made in my stamp camp this month.  The carrot is basically a triangle box.  For the top of the carrot I used a The Write Stuff DSP and trimmed it to 1/4" x 6".  Then once I had the paper secured inside the box, I curled each sheet with my Paper Piercer handle.  I added a few buttons for the top and then used the Chocolate Bunny again to make a tag.  This time I used a half back pearl for the eyeball.  Love the half back pearls.  You can find these in the AWESOME Pretties Kit that Stampin' Up! has. 

Okay, next up is one of my favorite projects.  It is RARE that I make a MAN card.  This month I had my club members make this card to learn a few layering techniques and "tearing."  While tearing paper may sound so "EASY" for some, others tend to FREAK out over it.  I was a FREAK and so I totally get it.  Tearing paper is a great way to add texture to your card.  I loves it now. 

So get Man-ly with Me:

I used lots of my favorite stamps for this card.  I used the Sense of Time stamp set for the main image.  This includes the clock, sentiment and circle thingies.  The background stamp is the French Filigree.  OH so pretty!!! Over the clock you can see I used the Very Vintage Wheel.  The clock was stamped using Basic Black craft pad and then embossed with Clear Embossing Powder then we cut the image out.  I love how cutting the clock image out made it pop more on the card. 

There ya go.  A little stampin' glimpse into my stamp room this month.  I still have a few other things on my agenda to show you with some Summer Mini Preview stamp sets.  I cannot wait to show you these.  So fun!!!!

I hope your week is bright and sunny!