What’s up, crafty peeps?  Jen here, with my first post for the Cat Pack.  I’m just so thrilled to be here playing with the fun and fabulous products in the March Release!

I’ve combined old and new with this first card, using the Rabbit & Wreath Digi/SVG and the Grassy Patches SVG.  First, I created a green, blue, and brown background using Distress Oxides, a gelli plate, and some background stamps.  I thought that would give my cut outs a little more character than just using colored paper or sponging ink on white cardstock.  The reason I went dark brown for my bunny was so I could use one of my all-time favorite Easter sentiments–a retired TCP sentiment–“Follow the bunny, he has the chocolate.”  But have you seen the “What’s invisible and smells like carrots?” sentiment in the Happy Easter Digi?  HA! I get a kick out of that one.

I had plenty of green background, so I found myself with some extra grassy patches–a perfect setting for this card:

Hmmm…this might be my new favorite Easter sentiment.  This card uses the Sugar, Sugar Digi and the Easter eggs from the Easter Eggs in Basket Cutable SVG. I thought that some foiled eggs would certainly look like small sugar-coated packages.  I arranged all the Easter eggs in Canvas Workspace to cut myself a stencil using my Brother ScanNCut.  Then I applied deco foil transfer gel through the stencil.  After it dried I ran it through my laminator with the Rainbow Shattered Glass deco foil.  I also used my ScanNCut to cut the bunny in the basket.

I have a thing about the leftover foil.  Every time I foil something, the leftover looks so appealing.  That led me straight to this next card:

I applied the leftover foil to a deco foil toner sheet.  When I cut the stencil, I couldn’t bring myself to throw out all the little Easter eggs.  I knew I saved them for a reason.  I colored all the eggs with my Spectrum Noir Markers and popped them up on the foiled background, shifting them all a bit, so that the black would give them a bit of a shadow.  I finished it by popping up the Happy Easter from the Happy Easter Digi.  And just like that, all my Easter cards are done–thanks to these very inspiring products!  I hope you’re inspired too!

Here are the products I used today:

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you!  I’ve certainly found my pot of gold today and you can too.  It’s Brenda here, sharing the darling Pot of Gold in a Box Cutable.  He’s not new, but the sentiment from Simple St. Paddy’s Digi  is new and available to download absolutely free!

Alma has a video here, that’s shows how to create this fun box card.  As you can see below, it folds flat to 5.25” x 6.75″ and even has white space to write on in back.

After the card was put together I added the sentiment to a Framed Up Cutable which was colored and size perfectly thanks to the versatility of the digi die.

I was super excited to see the cute new Happy Spring Digi Papers  and an old favorite from the past, the Rosette Cutable.

I put them together to create a card of support for Ukraine.  This card was created with Silhouette Design Studio (SDS) and I was excited to learn just how easy digital papers are to use.

The background was created by using the drawing tool to make a rectangle and the filling tool to add the Scrolls digital design.  The rosette was added and sized to about 2.5″ and filled with the orange gingham design.  The banner from the Rosette Cutable was added.  It was filled with sunflower digital paper from my stash to symbolize Ukraine. The sentiment was then typed  on the top layer.  A stem was added from Bee Gnomie and Friends Cutable.  The filling tool was used to make the stem a darker green.  Here’s what it looked like all laid out in SDS.  What a paper saver!

After this was printed and cut with the Silhouette. It was assembled as shown above.  The back panel was cut to size.  The rosette stem top was trimmed a bit by hand so it wouldn’t show beneath.  Here’ s another Alma video on making the rosette.

Thanks for looking, hope you give these fun new products a try and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

I hope you are enjoying our March Release! If you’ve been with us for awhile you’ll know that we are gradually moving some of our most popular products into digitals. What’s so great about this, is 1) Items never go out of stock 2) You get to make these items ANY size you wish (YES! It’s all about you 3) Great Price! ‘Nuff said.

One of my personal favorites was the Easy Rosette, so I had to bring it back as an .svg Cutable along with an updated Layered Ribbon Banner.

It’s great for making rosettes that are easy to put together and won’t pull apart. If you’ve ever made those strip rosettes, you know how frustrating it can be.

Our NEW layered Ribbon Banner makes it easy to embellish the Rosette or anything, really. Check out the video above where we use the Stacked Sentiments Digi. But, you don’t have to use a digi, you can use stamps, too.

And, after you check out the video, check out the rest of our March Release below. We’ve thrown in a couple of Freebies, as well.

Hey all! Happy Thursday! Cristena here and I hope that you are all having a good week! Today I am sharing with you a sweet little bunny chillin in his basket. The name of the set is Sugar Sugar Digital Stamp Set. I had a great time making this card, probably the longest I have done.

I LOVE this bunny just as I do all the rest of them. He is so very cute! I had to try and make grass inside of the basket as well. I was going to try to do crinkle grass for an Easter basket, but for some reason, I was going with the groove and followin the flow… chill just like the bunny haha!

I also love all the sentiments that came with this stamp set. It is really hard to choose one. I decided to wait to see who would be getting this card to put the sentiment over on the right side next to the blue egg. I like to leave myself options for the sentiment. If I decide not to give it to anyone… or I just decide it doesn’t need a sentiment, I can put another egg right there. But at least I am not stuck.

I LOVE the new Grassy Patches Cutable!! The way I color my cuts makes it looks so neat! I love it! I like that there are different sizes and everything. I put the longest ones on the outside and one of the shorter ones on the inside. I did overlap the small one on top of the longer ones to make it all blend together nice.

You can see a bit more of the basket in this photo, along with the one up top of just the bunny. I do get a lot of questions when I do baskets, so I thought I would answer it now for you. When I colored this I actually used the chisel tip of the Copic marker. I just drew straight lines.

The last thing I did was I added a few of the dew drops to give it a nice little bit of bling.

COPIC COLORS:

Bunny: E50, 51, 53, 55, R00, 01, 02
Pink: R81, 83, RV10, 00
Yellow:Y11, 13, 15
Blue: B00, 01, 02
Purple: BV04, 02, 01, 00
Grass: YG21, 23, 25, 97,  G24, 28
Basket: E31, 30, 35, 33

Distress Oxide Ink: Tumbled Glass for Clouds

Until next time friends, happy crafting!
Inky hugs,
Cristena

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