Easter's on its way

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog!

Easter is fast approaching and the Easter Bunny is very busy getting ready with gathering all of those wonderful candies, eggs & toys for all little girls and boys.

I recently purchased the ultra-cute and gorgeous Blue Fern Studios Spring Parade collection!

I really loved the page Market Place and decided to just mimic the fabulously cute print on the page....

I made decorative eggs by cutting out the images from the May Vignettes page using my husband's drafting Ellipses stencil that he gave me for my scrapping : ). 

I used several things from my stash that seem to always be forgotten - ribbons, pearls & Flower Soft.

I fussy cut images, inked the edges and adhered the pieces with foam tape to give dimension.  

This piece is decorated with Flower Soft color Meadow and also the sweet Blue Fern Studios chipboard from the Layering Stem set.  I heat embossed this with their new and GORGEOUS Imagine Ink color Lavender Eggs for the flowering part and Grassy Knoll for the stems.

Adding Stickles Frosted Lace to the white bunny gave addition shine.

Two cut out eggs were placed beside these precious bunnies.

I couldn't resist fussy cutting this cute little girl carrying her sweet kitty in her straw hat.

  I made sure to place her at the egg booth so she could buy some beautiful decorated eggs from the rabbit. 

I added a few Wild Orchid Crafts mini Sweetheart Blossom flowers and some Lavender & Pale Green colored Flower Soft.

I began by adding a 'canopy' to the top of the page by punching a strip from the page May Vignettes. 

I adhered it with foam tape for extra dimension.

"Hanging eggs" were added

Here are close ups of each pretty egg:

The largest 'egg' is framed in Wycinanka Blueberry Swirls Frame.  

I first acrylic painted it with a mixture of Light Buttermilk & a touch of Butter Cream colors.  

I cut out the sweet little bunny with the pink neck bow and adhered it to the back of this frame.  

Then I added Want2Scrap baby purple pearls to some of the berries on the frame. 

Now all I need is a little girl to give this Easter layout to!

I have the perfect one in mind and hope to have it framed & ready at Easter for her!

Thanks so much for dropping by to view my Easter layout!  

Hope you can stop by again sometime, because with me you never know what you will see : ).

Have a wonderful week and an even better Easter Holiday!

Lisa : )

Products used:

Blue Fern Studios Spring Parade paper collection - 

for Main Layout page

for Hanging eggs & canopy

for fussy cuts

Blue Fern Studios Chipboard - 

used the center chipboard piece

Blue Fern Studios Imagine Ink Embossing Powder - 

Lavender Eggs

Grassy Knoll

Wycinanka cut out - 

Blueberry Swirls Little Frame

Flower Soft - 

Meadow

Lavender

Pale Green

Martha Stewart edge punch - 

Doily Lace

Wild Orchid Crafts flowers - 

Mixed Pastel Apple Blossoms

Mixed Pastel Mini Gardenia

Mini Pastel Mix Sweetheart Blossoms

Mini Purple/Lilac Sweetheart Blossoms

Stickles -

Frosted Lace

Michael's - pearls, ribbons, acrylic paint colors Lt. Buttermilk & Butter Cream
ColorBox Pigment inks - Lavender, Pink Sky, Raisin, Alpine, Grass, Abyss, Evergreen, Cyan, Creamy Brown
Want2Scrap - baby purple pearls

Best Friends

My BFF, Carmel, and I don't take photos together often enough.  

This photo was taken in early February at The Villa Italian Restaurant, 
in downtown Lake Charles (the city where we live).  
We showed up at the restaurant wearing the exact same colors!!! 

These little "coincidences" seem to happen very often with us. : )
(Note: Carmel is the gorgeous one on the left)

I created duplicate layouts so both Carmel and I could each have one.  I framed them ready for hanging.  

The only difference in the two layouts are the brick chipboard bits.  
I cut them as closely as possible.

This has been by far the most I have ever intently concentrated on a layout.   

Each one is virtually identical to the other. 

I began by stenciling small areas with white modeling paste.
Check out the layouts side by side with arrows noting the identical stenciled areas.

I later added more stenciling (identical of course) to the top area of the pages.

I chose the beautiful page Maçonnerie in the Blue Fern Studios Timeless collection.  

The roses are beautiful & I love the brick wall print (there's a brick wall behind us in our photo).

So, to accentuate the brick print, I used BFS chipboard Shabby Brick Bits.

I simply inked them in ColorBox Fluid Chalk ink Dark Brown and then randomly added a mix of 
"Express-O Yourself" & "Third Place" prills, adhering them with matte gel.

I die cut the piece behind the photo using the largest die from Spellbinders "Style Nouille" die set.

Here's a close up before it was adhered to the layout with the photo on it.

I fell in love with the design of this die!

The bottom left corner of this stunning paper has beautiful roses in burgundy tones.  

I fussy cut the corner piece from another page of the same paper, inked the edges in dark brown;
then adhered it with foam tape to add dimension and interest.  

A pretty arrangement with coordinating color tones using Wild Orchid Crafts flowers 

was placed above the dimensional cut piece.

I scanned the printed butterfly from the Maçonnerie page and cut out a couple of them to place on the layout.  I made them each a pair of antennae with 22 gauge black wire. 
They were placed on the page with foam dots for dimension.

The title is printed using the backside of page "Grand Sequel" in the BFS Memoires collection.

 The color of it is exactly what I wanted.  

I used Britannic Bold font for the word "BEST" and Freebooter Script font for the word "friends".   

The title was then cut using the smallest die in the gorgeous Spellbinders "Style Nouille" die set.  

The gorgeous corner chipboard pieces are Blue Fern Studios Symphony Corners 

that I heat embossed with their Imagine Ink color Garnet.

Here are a few close ups of the flower arrangements I designed.
Each also has Tattered Lace leaf die cuts in green and the smaller Meadow Leaves die in black.

The "42" represents the number of years that Carmel and I have been best friends. 

Imagine being blessed with a wonderful best friend that you trust unconditionally 
and have never even once gotten mad at each other....for 42 very strong years!!!  
Carmel is my Earth Angel because God knew I needed her in my life.

Adhered to the backside of each layout

Thanks so very much for stopping by!

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Lisa : )

Products used:

Blue Fern Studios papers - 

for main page & leaf die cuts

Backside for under the photo

Backside for the title

Blue Fern Studios chipboard - 

Shabby Brick Bits

Symphony Corners

Blue Fern Imagine Ink embossing powder - Garnet

Spellbinders Designer Series Art Nouveau "Style Nouille" die set by Stacey Caron Design -

Tattered Lace dies - 

Ornate Leaves

Meadow Leaves

Sizzix Big Shot - 

Wild Orchid Crafts flowers - 

Red Mix Sweetheart Blossoms

Earth Tone Wild Roses 30mm

Red Mix MINI Sweetheart Blossoms

Red Mix Cottage Roses 25mm

Earth Tone Cottage Roses 25mm

Red Mix Trellis Roses 35mm

StampersAnonymous-Tim Holtz stencil - Splatters

US Artquest prills - 

Express-O Yourself (Rock & Roll set)

Third Place (Bright Ideas set)

ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink - Dark Brown

Nightfall set

Liquitex Professional Mediums - Flexible Modeling Paste & Matte Gel
1/2" Circle Punch