Carrot Treat Boxes

 This year for Eastern I decided to give the kids something a little different than the regular Easter Baskets.  We always have the egg hunt here but by the time they get here they have already received their baskets filled with goodies.  I saw these cute baskets over at Taylor Expressions and decided to make some.

I made five of them but forgot to take a final picture, so I snapped these on their way home.  

Here they are almost finished waiting for the little rabbit to be glued on. I glued the carrot top on, filled them with goodies and tied them together with some twine.

I used the Take Two stencil from Taylor Expressions.  It is one sheet with two different stencils.  I just cut it in half and used one on the berry baskets and one on the carrots.  The die for the carrots is called Carrot Treat Box.  I decided to add a little bunny and put a google eye and glue a puff ball on for the tail with the Impression Obsession Die and put a wobble on it so it wiggled around.  I love how they turned out.  

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Nancy

Foiled Easter Cards

Well, I hope everyone had a blessed Easter.  This year it came so early it was a rush to get everything done.  Since I had my foiling machine set up I decided to make some more cards with the poly-glaze sheets I had purchased from Gina K.  They had little bunnies and eggs on them which I thought were so cute!  I concentrated on using two foil colors - purple and gold.  

These were made with the purple foil layered on a piece of SU's Gorgeous Grape CS.  The dark purple card was made with the negative piece of foil.  Absolutely no waste which I love.

I decided to use an old bunny die I had and mount it on a wobble to make it wiggle and some twine to dress them up. 

The sentiment is from SU's Easter Bunny stamp set. An oldie but goodie! The next three cards are made with the gold foil.

It was hard to take a picture of the negative gold card but I loved how it turned out layered on a piece of SU's Gold Brushed CS.

I used the same sentiment stamp but in gold ink and the bunny was in the gold CS as well.

I was so pleased with my first attempt with foiling.  I will definitely have to watch some more videos and see what other techniques I can do with the foiling.  The family was here for the day and we enjoyed watching Jennifer and Juan looking for eggs.  I'm sure everyone read about the earthquake we had yesterday.  We were in the kitchen eating breakfast and the house started to shake.  Everything was rattling but fortunately nothing broke.  It took us a minute to realize what was happening as we don't get many earthquakes here.  I started to call the family to check on them as Jennifer's house is only a few miles from the epic center.  They were shook up but all was well.  Margaret was at the hospital where she works on the 5th floor and the building started swaying a bit.  Checked with Rachel and Sarah and they felt it too but were OK.  We had a few after shocks later in the day but nothing like in the morning.  This tremor was definitely not like what's happening in Taiwan.  We were lucky.

I entered this post over at - NBUS Challenge #61 and Four Seasons April 2024 - Anything Goes Spring.

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Nancy

Birthday Card for Sarah

 I have been thinking for awhile about getting into foiling but had been putting it off until Gina K designed her own foiling machine called the Fuse.  She made it so tempting with all the extra goodies that came along with it and of course the first offering the machine was PURPLE!!  I couldn't resist anymore, so out came the gift cards I had received for Christmas.

I started playing around with it yesterday and came up with this card for Sarah's birthday.  The base card is white with a layer of SU's Raspberry bliss.  The main focal layer is what they call a Poly-Glaze sheet.  I received so many different ones plus foils in the package, so I decided to use this one for her birthday card.  One thing I like about foiling is after you foil one of these sheets you can use the negative sheet on a piece of toner paper and foil for a second run.  For this card, I decided to use the first foil because you couldn't see the sentiment that well on the negative piece with everything colored.  I could have also colored/blended  the design but decided not to because of the same reason.  It is hard to tell on the picture, but there is a beautiful sparkling shine from the foil I used.  The Happy Birthday is a die from SU.

The inside sentiment is from the SU stamp set Happy Birthday Gorgeous.  There are so many different things one can do with this system.  I am working on some Easter cards so we will see how it goes.

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Nancy

St. Patrick's Day Cards

 It is hard to believe that March is almost half over!  It was a beautiful day in PA with temps in the high 60's!  We traveled to Lancaster and had a wonderful lunch with friends that are moving to Tennessee.  The weather was perfect for a drive in the country.  I always make cards for this holiday and this year is no exception.

These were made with the stamp set/die from an older kit that I had purchased from Gina K a few years ago.  I used it that year to make this card. 

I used SU's Old Olive CS for my base card with and Basic White for my layer.  

For my inside sentiment, I used one of my old wood stamps that I have had for years!  I loved how these cards turned out.

I entered this post over at - Double D Challenges.

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Nancy

Congratulations Card for Jennifer

 Jennifer has done so well in school again this year, so I decided to make a card for her and send with some $$$ for getting on the Honor Roll again

Looking through my stash. I found some Gold Glimmer CS from SU which I used for my base card.  I used the Fireworks Stencil from Hedgehog Hollow with my Encore Gold Ink from SU.  I decided to use SU's Botanicals for You in black and wondered if I should have stamped it first but decided to go with it and stamped over the gold.  It's hard to see but the gold ink actually came through the black ink and looks pretty neat.  I then put some star gems on the fireworks.  

For my inside sentiment, I used the same SU stamp set and stenciled a smaller fireworks in the corner.  I really liked how this turned out and of course Jennifer liked what was included inside!! LOL!

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Nancy

Gift Bags for Valentine's Day

 I almost forgot to post these adorable gift bags that I made and put in the goodie bags for the kids for Valentine's Day.

These came out so cute!  These smaller bags are made especially for gift cards!

The dies are from Concord & 9th.  The set also has a larger bag that will fit an A2 card which I'm sure I will be using in the future.  I used some left over Valentine DSP scraps I had on hand.  The dies have different handles you can use along with a stamp set of sentiments. Notice the pansy candy that Rachel and I found at the Vermont Country Store.  All their candy is yummy!!

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Nancy

Red Heart Valentine's Day Card

 Today's post is the last Valentine Card I made.  This is another die set that I saw Jennifer McGuire demonstrate.  It was a new release also from Concord & 9th.  I think they really did a fantastic job on this release.  I always wonder how they come up with all these great stamp sets and dies!

This set is call the Enchanted heart dies.  I used some of the other smaller hearts on previous cards.  

I used white CS for my CB and SU's Real Red CS for my layer.  I used Gina K's Love die and cut it out in Gold paper.  I used one of these cards for Joe's Valentine.

For my inside sentiment, I used SU's stamp set Heart to Heart again and glued some of the negative hearts from the front die. Our friend sent us a similar card but instead of red CS she used glimmer paper and it was gorgeous!  I'm happy to say that our weather is supposed to warm up the next few weeks so goodbye snow!!

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Nancy