Easter Wishes

While doing a little net surfing this past week, I came across this gorgeous card by Chat Wszelaki. I felt another CASE coming on but I wanted to use the color scheme I'd used for a Stampin' Addicts Blog Hop a while back – Pear Pizzazz, Baja Breeze, and Perfect Plum. Today I recreated Chat's gorgeous card, but with a couple of minor modifications to match supplies I happen to have in my craft room. I really like how it turned out, and I'll be sharing this one with my stampers as a card they can make at my Spring/Easter stamp camp coming up in April.

CASEing Shelli Gardner

Shelli Gardner, co-founder and CEO of Stampin' Up!, created a beautiful card that she shared with those who attended Leadership in January.  The card really caught my eye, so I knew I'd want to CASE it (Copy And Steal Everything) if I broke down and got the Easter Blossoms stamp set, which I finally did.  This week I played around with the card, trying to figure out what to do with the blossoms.  I tried white gel pen, Vanilla watercolor crayon, white watercolor pencil, using aquapainters, using blender pens... and finally settled on using a blender pen over the stamped image to add some colors to the blossoms.  I also added two mats - one behind the DSP, and the scalloped oval behind the sentiment (if you know me, you know I like to mat things - love those layers!).  If I were to do it again, I also might try doing the pennant border in Soft Suede instead of Crumb Cake.  This is one of the cards I'll be sharing with my stampers at my Spring/Easter stamp camp in April.