April Cookies - Take 2

As soon as I saw the Inspiration Photo for Challenge #115 over at If You Give a Crafter a Cookie , I immediately thought of the rabbit-shaped gift cards I recently saw at Starbucks. I love it when an idea pops into my head like that !!

I knew I wanted to create a scene for this card and these cute flowers and the sun from Unity Stamp Company's Susan K Weckesser's Create Your Day stamp set were absolutely perfect !! I had a gorgeous Spring day to take a picture of my card and I hope that you like it .

• On a pale blue card base, I placed a piece of blue striped paper from the  fun 6x6 paper pad by My Mind's Eye " Well, Hello "  .
• I used Memento Tuxedo Black ink to stamp the 3 flowers and the sun .
• The sun was paper-pieced with a yellow-checked pattern also from the Well,Hello paper pad.
• The flowers were colored with my Faber-Castell PITT Artist pens.
• A piece of blue/green patterned washi from Scotch was placed along the bottom of the blue-striped paper.
• The rabbit was adhered in the lower Left corner with double-sided removable tape so the recipient can use the gift card !!
• The Hello and bee are puffy stickers from Jen Hadfield for American Crafts.
• I placed a blue,pink and gold sequin on the card for a bit of shimmer.

Hop on over to the IF YOU GIVE A CRAFTER A COOKIE  blog to see the rest of the Design Team's projects. We hope you will be inspired to link up one of your own. This challenge runs from April 18 - May 1. Thank you all so much for stopping by my own little corner of the crafting world - Meticulosity. I greatly appreciate it and also the comments you make.

Debra Davison

March Cookies - Take 2

As we all head into warmer weather, what better than a Springtime theme for Cookie Challenge #90 over at the IF YOU GIVE A CRAFTER A COOKIE Challenge Blog !! Our inspiration photo is full of bunnies, chicks, ducks, eggs and fabulous spring colors . I had recently bought a couple 6x6 paper pads at Tuesday Morning and knew they would be perfect for a Spring-themed project. Our fabulous sponsor for this Challenge is Little Blue Button Stamps. 

I don't send many Easter cards or have many Easter stamps, but I did recently buy a few at the amazing Hobby Lobby clearance. I found wood-mounted stamps clearanced for $1 and $2 dollars so somehow they jumped into my cart. I do love wood-mounted stamps but have been trying to downsize recently to make my stash more manageable !! As usual, my card did not turn out like any of the ideas I had in my brain, But I am thrilled with it and now just need to decide who to send it to. 

Spring is in The Air

• Using  a piece of pale yellow Bazzill card stock, I made the card base.  
• The floral images were from a piece of Pebbles "Garden Party" paper . I cut off the 4th floral design in the bottom right corner and placed a piece of coordinating paper from the same pad in its place. 
• The Easter basket is a Mason-Row stamp from Hobby Lobby. I used Memories India Black Ink to stamp the basket onto Stardust White cardstock, as well as a few scraps of coordinating spring-colored paper.
• I cut out the basket and eggs, colored them with some favorite markers and then adhered them to a fussy-cut basket image. 
• I popped up the basket in the lower R corner of the card with Tombow foam tabs, then positioned a Tim Holtz Small Occasions sentiment above it.
• To complete the card, I placed 3 sequins above the sentiment and numerous rhinestones and pearls on the flowers.  
• All items were adhered with Tombow Adhesives -  both MONO Permanent Adhesive+ Runner and MONO Aqua Liquid Glue.

Take a look at my teammate's projects here and be inspired  by their Spring designs.  Each challenge is open for 2 weeks. Link up one of your own creations by April 4 for a chance at a prize from our sponsor this time, Little Blue Button Stamps. 

Thank you so much for visiting Meticulosity 

Debra Davison

MPC, Unity & an Easter Parade

Mountain Plains Crafters is celebrating National Craft Month with a Tag-a-Friend post on our Facebook Page. Our fabulous sponsor for this event is Unity Stamp Company. Be sure to "like" us, then go to the post with the beautiful woodgrain photo and Tag-a-Friend. One lucky person and their tagged friend will each win a grab bag of 25 Unity stamps !! Show Unity some love too by heading to their Unity FB page and "liking" them as well.

This event began Monday, March 23 at 0600 and ends Wednesday, March 25 at midnight ET. Our Design Team members will each be making an Easter project using something amazing by Unity Stamp Company. The 2 winners will be announced on our Mountain Plains Crafters Facebook page and also on our blog on Friday.

I will admit that I had a difficult time deciding on a project. 3 projects were started then set aside..I just wasn't feeling them, if you know what I mean. Then I came across a vintage photo that was exactly what I was looking for. It brought back memories of childhood Easters, shopping with my mom for the perfect pair of shoes. She was a seamstress and usually made my dress. She sometimes made herself a matching dress. But shoe shopping was always filled with anticipation and usually an ice-cream cone after our purchase. I really hope that you enjoy my card as much as I (finally) enjoyed making it !! I even remember wearing some of those Buster Brown shoes...

I combined 2 Unity Stamp Company sets -   Some Bunny Thinking of You   and also  SheArt Doodles ( which is on sale right now )... SheArt Doodles is a set of 7 border stamps that are some of my absolute favorites. How can you resist these stamps ??? I sure couldn't ... I placed some turquoise velvet ribbon down the left side of the card and highlighted  2 of the shoes with Ranger Glossy Accents. I "painted" the rabbit with Distress Rock Candy Crackle Paint after doing some coloring and then cutting it out. I paper-pieced some floral paper on the egg and also colored and paper-pieced the borders across the egg.

If you haven't already done it, head over to our Mountain Plains Crafters  Facebook page , "like" our page and  also Tag-a-Friend for a  chance at that fabulous Unity Grab bag..Comment here for a chance to win 2 Unity Itty Bitty stamps.... And as always, thank you for visiting Meticulosity and showing your support for my creativity ..