I have no Easter stamps. I'm not sure why, but I don't. I headed to my pictures because I thought I had pictures of the girls coloring Easter eggs last year....but I must not have printed them. (insert sad face.) I did however find a picture of all of the cousins taken last Easter Sunday. I knew exactly what I wanted to do with the page.....sort of. Take a look:
I really wanted to make Easter eggs for the page, but I didn't want to use my oval punch with card stock. In order to give them a "dyed" look, I headed to the bathroom with my reinkers, a small plastic container, and my punched Whisper White ovals. I dropped a couple of drops of ink into the container, added a small amount amount of water, stirred, and then dipped in my ovals. After about the fourth one, I wondered if water color paper would have been better, but the ovals were punched and I think they look fine. I used the following colors from left to right: Melon Mambo, Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Rich Razzleberry, and Old Olive. You can tell that the colors became very muted. I used the Broadsheet Alphabet for the letters on the egg. For some reason, it gives me that fancy Easter feeling. I stamped using Whisper White craft ink and then heat embossed with White embossing powder. I did it this way to give it that crayon on Easter egg look. I threaded them with our Hemp Twine, only because I thought I had to much white going on.
This is where I got stuck. Everything I did around the photo took away from my eggs I was so excited about, so I just went for a "plain" background. Since the egg colors were muted, I thought Peach Parfait would work for a base and added a scalloped edge on each side. I found a retired chipboard 7 and used my white craft ink to ink it up. I used the Just Perfect alphabet set and Chocolate Chip ink to stamp "easter" and prayed that I didn't mess it up too terribly...I think it looks fine. On the other side I created a little bunny with some punches.
So while I have no Easter stamp sets, I think I made a fabulous Easter page!
and I'd have to second that!! FABULOUS Easter page Bobbie! LOVE those little eggs and before I looked closer, thought they said Bunnies, lol! :) Great trick for coloring your eggs too. Thanks for playing along this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments! ps. I don't have any Easter sets either... wink!
ReplyDeleteBobbie I love this page and that little bunny is absolutely adorable! Thanks so much for playing with us at Hand Stamped Sentiments this week!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great page, nice bright colors and the egg banner...so cute!! I'm loving all of your layouts!!! I can't wait to see more! Easter is one of those holidays that I love, but never buy sets for either. I did, however get the a la carte stamp from the mini. Happy Easter to you and your kiddies and thanks for joining us at Hand Stamped Sentiments. ;)
ReplyDeletePerfect background to show off your eggs and photo! You used the perfect Easter colors. Thanks so much for playing at Hand Stamped Sentiments.
ReplyDeleteThis is so neat! I didn't have any Easter stamps either and you sure didn't need them! I LOVE your eggs, that was an amazing idea and the punch bunny is too cute! Thanks for playing at HSS!
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