Colour Q Challenge #183

 

Arielle really came up with a challenging combo this week.  I really struggled to come up with a scrapbook page.  But as I was preparing for the Easter Bunny's visit a few night's ago, I tried out the combo and was really pleased with the result.

 

 

So I found this cute design in the Silhouette store and used my handy Cameo to cut it out in Calypso Coral and Blushing Bride.

 

 

Little did I know that assembling this poor thing took about an hour, and I made 2 of them.

Then I added the Daffodil Delight ribbon on top to bring in the colour, and add a bit to the plain old handle.

 

I made the tag using My Digital Studio.  This brought in the final 2 colours from the palette. 

 

Toss in some easter grass and a few eggs and you're ready for Easter morning.

 

 

Hope your easter was as fun as ours was!

Thanks for stopping by.

Stampin' Royalty Challenge Number 120

 

We have a cool sketch for you over at Stampin' Royalty this week.  Hop on over and check out the fabulous samples from the wonderful design team.  We had a lot of fun with our annual family Easter Egg Hunt at the park.    Teagan is showing off her goodies in this adorable photo.  I used the stamp image from Eggceptional Easter.  I thought the cute little Easter Bunny in a dress kind of echoed the photo. 

Colour Q Challenge #127

 We have a fantastic Colour Challenge for you today over at the Colour Q.  I made this page featuring the Sale-a-bration downloads for My Digital Studio from Stampin' Up!  I have to admit that these colours did not immediately make me think of Easter, but when I found these photos from Easter last year, I started scrappin' and here's what I came up with.  The layout is a sketch from Pagemaps. 

Leadership Display Samples - Take THIRTEEN

This is one of my favourite samples for Leadership Displays.  I made a cute little Easter basket using the petal cone die.  I stamped using Pool Party and Wysteria Wonder paper and ribbon. 

I stamped colour on colour for a more subtle effect.  The edges were made with the scallop trip border punch and the crimper.  This gives the paper even pleats and allows for a nice border around rounded edges.

I added an antique brad and some words from the Tiny Tags set.  A tiny strip of Flirtatious DSP on the handle jazzed things up nicely.

Stampin Royalty Challenge #13

It's always interesting to see where people get their inspiration. I was really stumped by this challenge as I don't have many SU Easter Stamps. I don't send out Easter cards myself, so I've never had much need to buy them. This 2 page layout was CASE'd from a layout in this months Creating Keepsakes magazine.

The first thing that caught my eye was the colour. Well SU doesn't sell cardstock in a pastel turquoise - kind of a sea foam green. So I pulled out my In Colours and layered vellum over Bermuda Bay and voila! Sea Foam green cardstock. You can see how uneven it looks in the corners of the 2 page layout above. The next challenge was to find pastel colours that worked with this and made the page look springlike and Easter-y. I went through my stash and came up with Orchid Opulence, Barely Banana, Apricot Appeal, Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery, and Bashful Blue. Next I used the Ovals die for the Big Shot to make the eggs. The larger ovals were simple enough, but the smaller ovals (photos) needed a bit of playing around. I had to fiddle a bit to line up the pictures exactly right and after a bit of trial and error, these are the ones that worked.

Then I wanted to add a strip of striped DSP to the top of the photos. I didn't have any paper from SU that was apropriate so I decided to make my own. I cut lots of narrow strips of paper and then stuck them down on a piece of whisper white with sticky tape. Then I trimmed both sides to make a narrow stip. The above photo shows this detail a bit. I then used my scallop trim border punch to make trim out of whisper white cardstock. I attached the white to the bottom of the photos and the striped "paper" to the top. I finished off the photos with 2 ribbons. Certainly Celery for the top and Soft Suede for the bottom. Finally I made the title with MDS and printed it out on Whisper White cardstock.