Happy Easter Card with Katelyn Grosart

Hey Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. Easter is only 13 days away and I have been busy making some Easter projects. Today's project is a Easter Card perfect to give to that special someone in your life. You'll want to read below as I share with you how to recreate my Happy Easter Card at home.

To start, cut a Delicate Lace Element into three pieces. You'll need to apply two coats of white gesso to two of the delicate lace element pieces.

Next you'll need the Happy Easter Welded Words piece. Apply two coats of Victorian Velvet Distress Paint to the word. 

The last chipboard piece you'll need is the Summer Frame. Apply a coat of Tinned Peas Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics paint to the frame.

Next you'll need some patterned paper, I used the Mintay Papers collection - 7th Heaven. Cut the light pink patterned paper piece to 4 3/4" x 4 3/4". Place the Chicken Wire Stencil overtop of the patterned paper piece and use a palette knife to spread Transparent Texture Paste through the stencil. Remove stencil. Once the texture paste has dried, tear a bit of the paper down in the top right side of the patterned paper. Tear a bit of the paper up in the bottom left side of the patterned paper. Distress the edges of the paper. Ink the edges of the paper using Gathered Twigs Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

 Cut the blue/floral patterned paper piece to 5 1/4" x 5 1/4". Tear a bit of the paper down in the top left side of the patterned paper. Tear a bit of the paper up in the bottom right side of the patterned paper. Distress the edges of the paper. Ink the edges of the paper using Gathered Twigs Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

 Cut the pink/floral patterned paper piece to 5" x 5". Distress the edges of the paper. Ink the edges of the paper using Gathered Twigs Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

You'll need four white tulips, two white carnations, four small white roses, five medium dark pink roses and nine small pink roses.

The last element you need is a piece of white lace that measures 5" long.

Adhere the lace to the right hand side of the blue/floral patterned paper. Adhere the blue/floral patterned paper to the pink/floral patterned paper.

Adhere one of the delicate lace elements in behind the top torn side of the pink patterned paper. Adhere the other delicate lace elements in behind the bottom torn side of the pink patterned paper. 

Adhere the summer frame to the middle of the pink patterned paper. Adhere the Happy Easter sentiment to the middle of the summer frame. 

In the bottom right hand side of the frame and sentiment, adhere one white carnation, two white tulips, two medium dark pink roses, six small pink roses and two small white roses.

In the top left hand side of the summer frame and sentiment, adhere one white carnation, two white tulips, three medium dark pink roses, three small pink roses and two small white roses.

To finish off the card, cut a cardbase that measures 5 1/2" x 11", score at 5 1/2". Adhere the cardfront to the cardbase.

Here are a few closeup images of the finish Happy Easter Card.

Here's the finished Happy Easter Card.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Happy Easter Welded Words

- Summer Frame

- Delicate Lace Element

-  Chicken Wire Stencil

-  White Carnations

- White Tulips

- 10mm Roses: White and Pink

- 15mm Roses: Dark Pink

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Oxide Ink - Gathered Twigs, Distress Paint - Victorian Velvet and Blending Tool with Foam

- Ranger Ink: Palette Knife and Texture Paste - Transparent

- DecoArt: White Gesso

- PaperArtsy: Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics - Tinned Peas

- Mintay: 7th Heaven - MT-7TH-05, MT-7TH-03 and MT-7TH-02

- Misc: White cardstock and White Lace

Until Next Time!

- Katelyn

Easter Tag with Erin Quiding-Sampson

Hello everyone, Happy second day of Spring!!

Today I’m sharing my Easter Tag. I had so much fun creating this, and I hope you like it too. I tried out a new (to me) technique by applying Foil to my paper and chipboard using Tombow Multi Liquid Glue. It worked amazingly well! I put a small amount of Tombow directly onto my non-stick, craft mat and just daubed my Happy Easter chipboard piece directly into it. I made sure it was well covered then set it aside to get tacky. After it became tacky, I applied my foil sheet directly to the chipboard and rubbed with a spatula, making sure it was all foiled.

I then painted my bunny chipboard piece with Cinnamon Brown acrylic paint and allowed it to dry.

I cut out several papers in pastel shades and patterns. I distressed and added antique linen distress ink to the edges of each layer. I applied the glue with my finger randomly around each piece of card stock and layered the foil over. It was easily transferred and created super cool distressing.

I glued down all the papers leaving the edges free to add bits of paper and embellishments later. I glued down my chipboard and added some buttons and flowers in matching colours. I Finished it all off by giving it a little spray of gesso splatters and added a bow and different fibers to the top of the tag.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Products Used:

- Happy Easter Welded Words

- Sm. Bunnies

Other Products Used:

- Tombow: Mono Multi Liquid Glue

- Thermo-Web: Deco foil in Lilac

- Ranger Ink for Tim Holtz: Distress Ink - Antique Linen

- DecoArt Acrylic Paint: Cinnamon Brown

- Paper Flowers

- Ribbons and fibers

- Buttons

- Various papers

- Gesso

I love the way this turned out and I’m thinking about what I can foil this way next.

Have a happy Easter!

Erin

Giant Embossed Easter Egg by Karen Bearse

Karen Bearse is back on the blog today to share a fabulous Easter Project for you and to give you some inspiration for our current challenge, which you can find all of the details here.

With the Easter Bunny readying his eggs I thought I would get in the act.

This project was surprisingly pretty quick to make. I covered a plastic jumbo egg using

embossed metal foil and acrylic paint. Markers quickly covered the pretty maple leaves, while Glimmer Glam added some shine & shimmer. A touch of metallic copper paint to distress was all that was needed to finish the leaves off. I carefully glued my leaves to the egg using Glossy Accents and some constant pressure. I have to say I was a bit surprised they stuck on so well. Using the beautiful Easter sentiment and various spring colors of embossing powder seemed a good way to make my title. Sadly the egg is not solid chocolate but that means I have a decoration I can pull out next year. I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend!

Southern Ridge Chippies Used:

- Happy Easter Welded Word

- Maple Branch

 Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog. Each month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

Thanks for joining me!!

-Karen

Happy Easter Wood Tray with Katelyn Grosart

Katelyn here, I'm back on the blog today featuring a Mixed Media  "Happy Easter"  Wood Tray. With our Monthly Challenge being all about Easter, it gave me the perfect amount of inspiration for my piece. Have you joined in in our Monthly Challenge yet? If not, you still have time to add your link to your piece. To view all the details about the Monthly Challenge and how to enter, head over here. With that, I'm excited to share my "Happy Easter" Wood Tray and how I created it, so that you can create it at home.

To start my wood tray, I applied a thin layer of White Gesso randomly over the entire wood tray. Once the White Gesso dried, I painted a layer of Blush Paint from Paper Artsy over the entire wood tray. Before the pink paint dried, I took a piece of paper towel and removed some of the pink paint to show some of the Gesso.  Once the pink paint dried, I placed my chicken wire stencil over top of the entire wood tray and blended Worn Lipstick over top of the stencil. To dry my stencil image, I dried it with a heat tool. Once the stencil image was dry, I took my blending tool and foam and went around the edges of the tray with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. Once the ink was on the edges, I sprinkled Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder around the edges and then heat embossed them. 

Next it was time to liven up my Leafy Branches and Small Bunny  so I covered them in three layers of  Walnut Stain Distress Paint. 

The last piece I wanted to liven up was the Happy Easter Welded Words so I covered the word in three layers of Worn Lipstick Distress Paint. Once the Worn Lipstick Distress Paint was dry, I applied a layer of Versmark and then covered the word with Ultra Thick Embossing Powder in Clear. Once the word was covered with embossing powder, I embossed it with my heat tool. 

The last piece I prepped for my tray was a small white doily which I inked the edges with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink.

Some finishing touches for my layout included adding a variety of pink and white roses as well as white tulips and white flowers. I also attached the ribbon to the wood tray before attaching the doily. The last two elements in the bottom right floral bunch was the crystal hat pins and the pink flowers.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Happy Easter Welded Words

- Sm Bunnies

- Leafy Branches

-40mm White Roses

-40mm Pink Roses

-White Tulips

-White Flowers

Other Supplies Used:

-Ranger/Dina Wakley: Paint Brushes & White Gesso

-Ranger/Tim Holtz: Distress Ink: Worn Lipstick & Vintage Photo , Distress Paint: Worn Lipstick & Walnut Stain

-Ranger: Ultra Thick Embossing Powder - Clear

-Prima Marketing: Wooden Trays

-Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder

-Teresa Collins: Ali's Pins

-Bo Bunny: Small Doilies

- May Arts Ribbon: Pink Flower Ribbon

- Hug a Bug Seam Binding Ribbon: Pink

- Crafter's Workshop Stencil: Chicken Wire

- Paper Artsy Paint: Blush

-Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko: VersaMark

Thanks for taking the time to check out my "Happy Easter" Wood Tray. Make sure that you enter our Monthly Challenge! We can't wait to see what you enter!

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn