Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - Floral Happiness

If you are coming from Joy's blog, you are on the right track. If you are starting here, keep hopping and you will make a complete circle!

This is the stamp set for March:

I had a hard time with this stamp set. . . .

I didn't like just stamping the flowers in two colors. I'm way too out of the box for that.

So I tried to do inside the box and just stamp flowers with 2 different colors . . .

I didn't like the way it looked.

I tried St. Patrick Day colors:

What about doing some masking and talk about a technique:

OOOOOHHHHHH, the green on green looked great!  Making a bunch of flowers - Thanks A Bunch . . .

I was warming up to this until I put the detail stamp on top and it looked like CABBAGE PATCH!!

So out came the bunny stamp and Whala!   

Easter Card No. 1 for 2013! 

(I made the front flower and the bunny stand out from the card using foam squares).

 And the inside reads: Happy Easter to my peeps!

Hmmm . . . Maybe more color on the front:

Thanks for looking.  HOP over to Jill's blog to see what neat things she has made with this stamp set!

Shop for these and many more items on my website: Mary Eisen @ CTMH

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

March Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

Hippity Hop and Easter's on it's way!

You should be coming from Laurie Newton's Blog,

if not just keep hopping and you'll make a complete circle!

This month the stamp set is all about Bunnies! Just in time to get your Easter cards out early! 

The stamp set it called Sensational Season (D1454)

 I was running out of time to post all these pictures so I opted not to crop. 
You can click on the photos to enlarge.  Hope none are blurry!

The Left . . . .

. . . and the right page.

 The letters for Easter I sponged with Blush Ink (these are color ready peal and stick letters!)

I then used some of our older rub-ons and decorated down the center of each letter.

 I put a heart on the letters that spell EGG - it's located in the center of the letter -

hard to see - it's our cream rub-ons.

Here is Mommy Bunny and 2 baby bunnies with carrots. 

I used orange and sunflower yellow to color the carrots giving it a 2 tone color. 

I used two colors on the carrot leaves too - can you see it?

 The sign is raised with foam squares to make it stand out of the garden of lettuce.

 Here is a side view of the sign - see the foam.

 I see him as that naughty bunny caught in Mr. MacGreggor's Garden - isn't that a real story?  Can't remember the story's name - Peter Cottontail? Peter Rabbit? I used Bamboo Marker to color his body and went over the stamp's shading lines a few extra times to make it darker.

 The word Hunt has X's and O'x on the the letters with rub-ons.

I just need some journaling on the right page and I'm done!

Here is the letters prior to sponging.  I put them on wax paper so they come off and I don't accidentally sponge the other letters on the sheet.  I picked that up somewhere. . . .

Now off you go to Michelle Loncar's Blog!

Thanks for looking and leave messages as you go!  Don't forget you can purchase or earn this stamp set for free - just go to Mary Eisen's CTMH website to shop!

Happy Easter!

We did something new this year. We decorated a tree with Easter Eggs - ok, for the rest of the world that's old hat - but for me and my 3 year old, it was the neatest thing since sliced bread. She help me hot glue ribbon to the eggs and then we hung them on the tree before Daddy got home so he could be surprised.

Our neighbor told my daughter that he wanted a tree just like ours! She's pretty proud of her decorating!