A Baby Horse and an Easter Bunny

A twofer with animals today!

For Simply Clean and Simple, the theme is Baby Animals.  And AAA Cards is "Zoo or Animals".

I sponged Distress inks onto cs, and then stamped the horses (using my MISTI to get a good strong silhouette image).  I trimmed the panel with a hemstitch square die and layered over pink cs.  My sister's riding coach is having a baby girl so she asked me to make a horse-themed card for her to take to the baby shower.

Then for two Easter challenges - Double D and Festive Friday.  The Festive Friday elements I used are pastel colours, rabbit, Easter eggs, and Easter greeting.

I stamped the eggs from the old SU Nature Walk set in pastel shades of blue and then fussy cut them.  I arranged them on focal panel and then inked and spritzed some pastel green leaves around them, and sponged in some pastel blue in the spaces.  The rabbit is die cut from a leftover scrap of pale brown/beige smooshing.  I sat him on the biggest of the eggs and added a small sentiment.

  

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Lavinia horses, SU sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Mowed Lawn, Faded Jeans, Spun Sugar, and Wild Honey
Paper - white, pink, and cream cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Spellbinders hemstitch square die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - SU Nature Walk and SU sentiment
Ink - various pastel greens, blues, beige Distress inks
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Charlie & Paulchen rabbit die

Horse, Foal, and Three Shades of Green

For one of my sister's birthday at the end of the month:

I really love a recent Eileen Godwin technique for creating a geometric background with stencilling over it.  See her video here for instructions.

I used three different green Distress inks and sponged them away from a straight edged spreader, turning the spreader each time for a different angle.  Once it was dry, I laid a leaf stencil over it and stencilled with one of the greens.  And once that was dry, I put it in my MISTI and stamped the Lavinia horse and foal image and the sentiment.  Trimmed the panel, bordered with black, and popped up on fun foam.

I'm linking it up with the following challenges:

Seize the Birthday "Three Shades of Green"

Less is More "Baby"

Just Us Girls "Animals"
 

 

Supplies:
Stamps - Lavinia horse and foal, SSS sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne;  Distress Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters
Paper - white and black cs
Size - A2
Accessories - homemade leaf stencil, fun foam