Easter is a great time to send handcrafted cards to your friends and family, especially when you think of it in time to make them! This year, we have a grandbaby coming any day now. I’ve been a bit focused on that and realized sometime last week that I didn’t have any Easter cards to send or for me to use in my stamp classes. Not good.
Welcome to InKing Royalty’s March Blog Hop! During this year’s blog hops, we are having fun with our stamping favorites – our favorite themes for seasonal cards and projects. This month’s projects feature Flowers & Fauna, a brilliant starting point for so many projects. We are excited to share our creations with you today! After you read my post, I hope you’ll hop over to the next person on the list at the base of this post.
Coloring DSP
In order to make lots of Easter cards you will need a pretty but repeatable design. Brian King had posted recently a card where he had colored the background portion of the True Love Designer Series Paper that provide a start.
True Love DSP is all Black and White designs with three of them perfect for this technique. Chose a variety of Stampin Blends colors to make each card different, yet the same.
Once colored it determine a design for the rest of the card that really lets the background shine. Word Wishes Dies includes many Holiday dies, including Easter. The Coordinating stamp set A Wish for Everything provided the Happy and those along with a die-cut flower, a strip of cardstock, and some Matte Black dots it’s ready to go.
InKing Royalty Blog Hop Line Up
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you’ll hop along to the next stop on the blog hop, Pam Morris at Tap Tap Stamp. There’s lots of inspiration to be found in this group – and you don’t want to miss it!
Thank you for hopping along with us. If you get stuck during the Blog Hop, please use this line-up as a guide:- Brian King at Stamp with Brian
- Candy Ford at Stamp Candy
- Rachel Brumley at Artistic Designs by Rachel
- Sheryl Sharp at Sharp Notes by Sheryl
- Jackie Beers at Blue Line Stamping
- Renae Novak at Blessed by Cards
- Joanne Brown at The Inky Dragon
- Julie DiMatteo at The Paper Pixie
- Sue Jackson at Just Peachy Stamping
- Lynn Kolcun at Avery’s Owlery
- Pam Morris at Tap Tap Stamp
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These are all so pretty no matter which color! Thanks for sharing the idea.
Thanks Jackie, I blame it on Brian….lol
I love these, Lynn! The colors you’ve used are perfect for a beautiful Easter card! ♥
Thanks Brian for the inspiration to just color the background.
You have inspired my to color. Love your cards.
It’s always a great day to color
Lynn, this is so awesome! What a fun way to change the look of designer series paper!
Thanks for sharing all the various colors from this one sheet of DSP. Each one is gorgeous, as are your cards!
Well thank you Sue. I appreciate that.
Wow Lynn, totally awesome! You knocked this one out of the park! You go girl!!!
Awe thanks Renae
Lynn, I love how you’ve colored just the background of the DSP – it really makes those flowers pop out and they look so elegant!!
Thanks Joanne,
Your cards are beautiful and yet simple. Love how you colored the backgrounds in the DSP. I see we used the same DSP – great minds think alike! (ha, ha)
great minds Rachel!!
I totally would have colored the flowers! So clever to color the background. I love these!!!!
Thank Brian for that bit of cleverness. Thanks Pam
Pretty Easter colors, and that was a lot of coloring! Lovely cards!