Welcome Spring with these 5 Beautiful Handmade Cards

Spring has sprung. Enjoy some colorful card ideas and inspiration from the design team.

 

 

 

1. Easter Basket Card

Kristin @ Paper Creations by Kristin

 

Kristin took a very simple card design and gave it some real "wow". She'll tell you how she did that and added a weave to the basket.

 

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Easter Basket Card

 

 

 

2. Tulips are better than one!

Mike @ DeZinesbyEM

 

On top of creating a beautiful card with the best color combo ever, Mike also shares great info on inking and shading the edges of your paper piecing. Check it out.

 

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Tulips A2 Card

 

 

 

 

3. Elegant Vintage Layered Card

Els @ The Art of Els Schutte

 

The new Vintage Layered Card with an Oval Frame was the base for Els to add her antique print and Heartfelt floral arrangement. A light touch of inking along the cream edges of the card layer add to the vintage look of her gorgeous card.

 

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Vintage Card with Oval Frame

 

 

 

4. Spring Showers

Cyndy @ Cyndy G. Time Made for Me

 

Spring showers, rainboots and puddles. This shape card is so versatile and can be used as a thank you card, get well card or a welcome spring card.

 

svg files used:The Rainboot Shape Card

 

 

 

 

 

5. Nothing says spring like tulips...or meecies swinging from tulips!

Sue @ Sue's Stamping Stuff

 

Sue used one of the many card bases available at My Scrap Chick, as her background for the House Mouse stamped image.

 

svg file used for card baseLattice Square Card Base

 

 

 

 

6. "Bee Happy" Honeycomb Card

Shirley @ Scrappy Sam Designs

 

The honeycomb layers in the this bundle make great card backgrounds, especially for the honeybee themes.

 

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Honeycomb Bee Card Bundle

Bee Greetings Printable PDF

 

 

 

 

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Pretty Tote Bags and Paper Tassels

Mike from our design team made up some Trendy Tote Bags to give as birthday gifts this month. He added his own beautiful touch with paper tassels strung on the tote's handles.

 I loved this classy touch he added to these so I made a cutting file for the Pretty Paper Tassels. 

Be sure to visit Mike @ DeZinesbyEM for a lot more info plus really helpful tips on shading with ink cubes and a "special" handy blending tool.

 

"Photo Tutorial for Pretty Paper Tassels"

After cutting out the parts for the tassel cut a small strip of twine or cord and glue the ends to beginning of the tassel cutout.

Begin rolling the tassel tightly around the cord. When you get to the end of rolling the strip use a small bit of glue to hold it closed. With your fingers you can gently fluff out the tassel ends to give them a bit of a curve.



Glue one end of the top decorative strip to the tassel
and wrap it around tightly letting it overlap onto itself.



Finish wrapping it around and glue the other end down. You can also use washi tape or ribbons in place of this strip.



When all glue is set and completely dried you can use the Paper Tassel as embellishment on various craft projects, like adding it to a paper purse or totebag like Mike did. These would be great to have for graduation projects too using school colors.

Pretty Paper Tassels

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Easter Inspiration with the Design Team - Part 2

Country Village House becomes an
Easter Gift Box.



 

These 3 Country Village House Boxes can be used for so many reasons and seasons. Mike's Easter House is all decked out in sequins and I see lots of little milk chocolate Easter eggs in the box there. This will make a great gift.

Mike always shares good tips and how-to's on his blog so you might enjoy reading more about his project here at DezignsbyEM

 

 

 

Happy Easter display using the Pop-Up Letters.

What I think is especially clever and cute is how Alma used the Bunny Feet Box in place of the letter "A". Alma was a creative part of our team last year and she has more photos of this Easter greeting on her facebook page at MyCraftasticSide. 

Svg files used: The Pop-Up Letters and Bunny Feet Box

 

 

The Cross Gift Box

The Cross Gift Box with it's Easter  Lily is a favorite for Easter,
as well as confirmation and baptisms.
Our new design team member Marlene created the box on the top left before she joined our team and you can see more photos on her blog at Scrappin Cookie.

 

 

Christi @ Scrapping for Tranquility added lace for ribbon and beads to her Cross Box to give it a vintage look. The perfect keepsake Easter box.

 

 Christi @ S

 

 

 

Girl Bunny Hat Box

This Girl Bunny Hat Box is the cutest frilly Easter Bunny I've ever seen. Shirley added lacey trim, ribbon bows and flowers to make her bunny oh so cute. 

Svg Files used:  Bunny Hat Box


  

 

 

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Easter Inspiration with the Design Team - Part 1

Oh Oh! There are Bunnies in the Carrot Patch.

Can you imagine how tickled some grandkids would be to get these bunnies/carrots as an Easter gift from Grandma? That's a large part of the focus of Shirley's papercrafting...her grandkids. And I can imagine how special and loved that makes them feel. My grandkids all live hundreds of miles in opposite directions but maybe papercrafting cards and special treats more often like "bunnies in the carrot patch" would shorten the miles between us. You simply have to read Shirley's blog post at Scrappy Sam Designs, these little guys are just too cute.

 

Svg Files used> Carrot Patch Box and Chubby Bunnies 

 

 

 

Bunny Lollipop Holder

Sue bought pastel tootsie pops and matched them to her polka dot stash of papers. She took her big batch of Easter treats to work and shared them with her co-workers.

 

Svg Files used>  Bunny Lollipop Holder

 

 

 

Spring Chick In Umbrella Easel Card

 "Chick in Umbrella Easel Card" is new this season at MyScrapChick and we love how our new Design Team member Mike choose the perfect colors and patterns for his project. He happily shares his tips and tricks for making this sweet card really stand, so check his blog at dezignsbyem.

 

Svg Files used> Chick in Umbrella Easel Card

 

 

 

 

 Carrot Easter Basket with

Kristin's carrot basket is filled with tall bunny topped treats. She found adorable peas and carrot candies, put them into tall thin baggies and added the printed bunny to the top.

 Designer Kristin at Paper Creations by Kristin

Svg Files used> Spring Baskets Trio
Spring Bunnies Print and Cut

 

 

 

 

 Bunny's Tophat Box

Julie  is on a roll with all her Easter creations. That includes this treat box using the Bunny Tophat with his birdie and paper bow. The hat lifts off so you can fill it up with candy goodies. Julie's Creations-From My Heart to Yours.

 

 

Svg Files used> Bunny Top Hat Box

 

 

 

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