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Easter cards made yesterday at Sandy's workshop!

At Sandy's Stampin' Up! workshop yesterday we made Easter cards. One of the cards featured the Tab Punch basket!

To make the basket you will need 4 punches:

Tab Punch from the Spring mini catalog
Small Oval Punch
Large Oval Punch
1/16 Circle Punch

You will need the Wonderful Weaves stamp set to make the basket weaves.



First punch out your tab, stamp your basket weaves. Now punch your small oval punch and position your large oval punch directly over the hole left when you punched out the small oval. That is your basket handle.

Now take your small oval punch and punch out some eggs. Insert and adhere to inside of basket.

Use your 1/16 circle punch to make 2 holes and poke brads through!

That's it! How fun!

Make Peeps at home! (off topic)

I found this link to a recipe for Peeps. I don't particularily like peeps myself, but I thought it was cool you can make 'em at home for fun.

Peep Recipe

Beauuachtai na feile padraig

This blog post is brought to you by the rubber stamp makers at Scottish Borders Stamping! They work hard so that you can enjoy some of the best Irish rubber stamps this side of the pond!



Scottish Borders Stamping is a small family business located in Houston, Texas. It is owned by Joyce, a native Scot, English husband Nigel, Russian adopted children Yelena and Artiom, Texan Labrador/Shepherd, Porsche and wee Mercedes (Labrador/Bull terrier/Collie mix). View "Meet the Gang" to see their photo!

I've been blessed to be chosen for the SBS Design Team and I'd like to share an article and video tutorial I wrote for the St. Patrick's Special Edition over at Craft Critique!



CONTEST!
The FIRST PERSON who can tell me what the title of this post means, I will mail you both of the cards featured in this post! Reply with your answers in the comments of this post! Hint: Perhaps you will find the answer at the Scottish Borders Stamping website!!

Want to see a little Celtic stamp art?

You'll have to pop on back to my wee blog here on Saturday.

But before ya do, make sure ya pour yourself a glass of ale or maybe make Irish Breakfast tea for yourself and you'll enjoy the St. Patrick's day treat I have in store for you even more!

If no ale and Irish Breakfast tea is to be found in your wee home, you may make do with a Shamrock Shake... but only as a last resort!

Blogger RAK from Teresa Shaw!

How did Teresa Shaw know I love flowers and the Monet style? The scrapbook paper Teresa chose for this breathtaking RAK reminds me of my favorite artist. I could stare at this card for simply hours on end!



Real chocolate brown ric rac adorns this tri-fold pocket card. Three bitty primas are on the inside card and of course, there is a gigantic prima mulberry flower on the front too!

Thanks so much Teresa.

Blogger RAK from Lauri Rybarczyk!

Purple and pretty, blogger Lauri Rybarczyk shows what can be done with a Cuttlebug and some glitter.




Check out the stylish scrapbook paper too! Love the pocket, Lauri! Thanks!

Blogger RAK from Lori Tecler!

Lori's card arrived a few days ago. With the death of my grams, I've been behind in posting to my blog.



Blogger Lori Tecler's cheerful card in primary colors touched my heart upon opening it. The card was a breath of freshness and sunshine in a week that has not been the best in my life.

Thank you Lori. It is beautiful.

Looks like cardstock, Feels like silk!

Today is the Fabric Carnival over at the Craft Critique. I participated with a tutorial all about Fabric Stiffener!





All of the Chocolate Brown layers on this card above are actually stone-washed silk! Cool, huh?

I Love you, Gramma!

My grams died today. May God welcome her to her new home in heaven.

Blogger RAK from Beate Johns!

Layers are the name of the game on this card mailed to me by Beate Johns! Check out these colors and shapes! It is hard to tell from the photo, but the "Friend" saying floats above the cardstock on a sheet of acetate held at the top right corner with a black brad and also secured at the punched round flower element which sits at the top of the acetate. Very Very cool design!



Thanks Beate!

Blogger RAK from Debbie Seyer!

This is a pretty color combination on this card I received from Debbie Seyer! She combined Tempting Turquoise, Cool Caribbean, Pretty in Pink and Always Artichoke. The pale pink really pops when combined with these darker colors!

My kitty decided she wanted to get in on the photo session...

Blogger RAK from Allison Fillo

This card came in a package along with chocolate candies! It is from Allison Fillo! She knows I like cats, and as you can see here, Sunshine likes Allison's card! She stepped in front of the camera as I was taking the photograph.

Thanks Allison! The candies were yum!

Blogger RAK from Terri Thill!

Look at the pretty card made by blogger Terri Thill that I recieved in my mailbox! Terri created this card with the Iris Twist technique! How easy is that? I love her choice of colors and how she offset the focal image with the additional layer underneath.



Thank you Terri!

Yeah, yeah yeah...

I know what you want to know.... why aren't I posting?

Well, busy busy.

Job change at work, events to prepare for, more workshops, kits to prepare, Design team art to create, and this week I need to prepare my first Craft Critique write-up.

I have some cards to post tonight, tho... so come back later..