Easter tidings

Easter is one of my favourite times of year - hope and expectancy for the rest of the year, spring flowers in bloom, warmth in the air and perfectly shaped and irresistibly tactile Easter eggs :)

I hope everyone had a good Easter Sunday - after a big lunch I still had room to feast on chocolate and the simnel cake I'd made on good Friday :)




My dear friend Emma has some fabulous bog candy on offer at the moment - she's celebrating her blog's 1st anniversary, if you don't have her on your favourites list you should have!! She's one of the most original crafters I know, and a wonderful friend to boot!





Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful Bank Holiday Monday!
Kate x

Happy Easter

A very Happy Easter to you! Just a quick post before I rush off to cook lunch to share a few Easter bit and bobs...

This is the card and matching basket I made for my mum, of course it's filled with choccolate eggs :)





The card:




Recipe:

Stamps - Amuse
Card - Real Red/So Saffron/Cosmo Cricket paper
Other - Real Red ribbon/white gel pen/oval nestabilities/Oval punches/Copic Sketch markers
Template - PTI

And to match the Easter card from my previous post I made an Easter basket, filled with nuts this time. Here they are together:




Wishing you a very happy Easter Sunday... and plenty of chocolate!!

Kate x

Easter picnic

I hope everyone had a lovely Easter weekend! Anyone else happy not to eat chocolate for a few days??!!

This is the card and little gift I gave to my dear dad for Easter. He's not a big chocolate fan so I bought some spiced nuts and packaged them up with a card to match. These seem to be my go-to male colours - Cream, Bashful Blue and Chocolate Chip.

The stamp is a Lockhart image, coloured with Copics - for the bag I cut him out and used him as a tag. Background paper on the card is Kraft paper from the Level 1 hostess 6 x 6 paper pack.

Yesterday (which was a Bank Holiday here in the UK) my best friend Ashley, her husband and their beautiful baby girl came to visit - Ashley and I shared a house at university, then lived together in London for years. Now we live 5 hours away from each other so time together is very precious!

Thankfully we had a glorious sunny day so we went out and had lovely picnic - I love this picture Ashley took of me and Sophie!!


Hope everyone has a great week, thanks for visiting!

Kate x

chocolate heaven

I baked these yummy brownie cupcakes this morning - yep, they're officially yummy!

Wishing all my visitors a very happy, relaxing and chocolate-laden Easter! And Passover wishes to those who celebrate it too.

Thanks for visiting!

Kate x

Easter Wishes

This is an Easter card and little gift for my dear mum. She has a strong faith which has helped her through some tough times so these beautiful crosses from Serendipity Stamps seemed a great choice. Plus they were super fun to colour!

The template for the rounded box in on SplitCoastStampers - fun and very easy to make. I filled it with Lindt chocolate eggs (I picked all the aqua ones from the pack as they co-ordinated the best with the project - believe me!)

Hope everyone is winding down to the long weekend - it's miserable weather here so fingers crossed that changes for Easter!

Thanks for visiting today!

Recipe:

Stamps - Serendipity/Seasonal Wishes (SU)
Ink - Memento black
Card - Cameo Coral/So Saffron
Paper - So Saffron DSP (SU)
Other - Copic Markers/Oval nestablities/Crafter's Tool Kit

Easter chick

Today's Inspiration and Themes Challenge over at In Love With Stamping is to create a project with an Easter theme - for all the stamps I own, I don't seem to have many specific Easter stamps but then I remembered this little bird from the Fun and Fast Notes set.

I masked off the matching sentiment, coloured him (or is it a her?!) with Copics and cut the image with circle nestabilites for the card and oval nestabilities for the basket.







I got the instructions for the basket from Jennifer's blog. Cardstock is Old Olive, I used the scallop border punch to make the scallops on the handle, added some So Saffron DSP and some of the yummy new Bashful Blue striped ribbon.

Speaking of yummy does anyone manage to make chocolate Easter gifts without nibbling on some of the contents??!! (Not me!)

Thanks for visiting!

Recipe:
(All supplies Stampin' Up! unless otherwise stated)

Stamps - Fun and Fast Notes/Seasonal Wishes (sentiments)
Cardstock - Whisper White/Old Olive/So Saffron
Papers - Old Olive/So Saffron
Other - Circle and Oval Nestabilities, ribbon tag die (Spellbinder)/scallop edge punch/Copic markers/Bashful Blue brads/Bashful Blue striped ribbon