Deco squares and Tags

I made these both for a swap... the fall tags were cut with my cricut. It made it super-easy to make layered tags and to cut tiny leaves! The Christmas tags are diecuts.

Testing! And Easter Eggs

I've tried to set this blog so that anyone can leave me a comment... but a few people have said that it wasn't an option for them or it wouldn't work? I just tweaked the comment settings so could you do me a big favour and leave me a comment on this entry - I want to see whether it actually works! I don't just want to be able to get comments from people who have blogger blogs...

And now here's some goodies for you... yesterday I sat down and made some hearts and easter eggs for a swap.

First the hearts... I cut the shapes with the colluzzle and stamped around the edges with small hearts and flowers. I love those two stamps because they're small enough that they're really delicate. Then I did the romantic quotes. I was going to stamp directly onto the cardstock but there wasn't enough contrast, so I put them on white textured cardstock instead. I matted the top on on some bright pink paper that was the same colour as my background ink, and trimmed the bottom one out. Lastly, I cut some hearts with my cricut - it was hard to cut the purple ones because they're on fairly thin patterned paper. I had to cut a dozen hearts to get five good ones! It's much easier to cut cardstock - paper tears!

And then I decorated my Easter eggs. I wanted to use my cute bunny stamp... so I stamped it and coloured it with my new markers (I got some double-ended artist's markers on clearance for 25c each! They didn't have a lot of colours but I bought every 'light' colour they had...) Then I matted it on some metallic green cardstock. I really wanted to incorporate the carrot paper but it was just too much of a good thing, so I trimmed out a single carrot for the bunny.
Then I made the second egg with the same metallic cardstock in a different colour. I wanted to make it look bright and cheerful and stripy... so I cut the paper and matted it, and finished the egg off with a sequin 'bling'. Isn't that easter bunny cute?

Cards from Swap Items

It's time to restock the card supply for our churches' card ministry, and making them from scratch is currently difficult for me, so I dug into my basket of swap items to find some nice decorations. The main elements on all of these cards were received in scrapbooking swaps from various groups. I added brads, decoration, stamps etc to finish the cards as the mood took me. Eleven cards later I haven't even made a dent in the basket!