Happy Easter Card with Katelyn Grosart

Hey Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. Easter is approaching quickly and for today's post I'm sharing with you my Happy Easter Card perfect to give this Easter. To create my card, I've used a variety of our Easter themed chipboard pieces. You'll want to read below as I share with you how to recreate my Happy Easter Card at home.

To start, you'll need the Happy Easter Welded Words. Apply two coats of Prima Marketing Art Alchemy Impasto Paint in Dusty Rose. 

Choose one of the butterflies from the Butterfly Mix package. Apply a coat of Emboss It Ink to the butterfly. Sprinkle Pastel Lilac over the entire surface of the butterfly. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.

Choose one egg from the Detailed Easter Eggs package and choose two eggs, one large and one medium from the Filagree Easter Eggs package. Apply Emboss It Ink to the detailed easter egg. Sprinkle Pastel Lilac Embossing Powder over the entire surface of the egg. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Apply Emboss It Ink to the medium easter egg. Sprinkle Pastel Pink Embossing Powder over the entire surface of the egg. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Apply Emboss It Ink to the large easter egg. Sprinkle Pastel Mint Embossing Powder over the entire surface of the egg. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. 

Next, you'll need the Rod Iron Frame. Apply two coats of Hickory Smoke Distress Paint to the frame.  

Take the Delicate Lace Cross out of the package. Apply two coats of White Gesso to the cross. 

Choose a variety of roses and flowers in white and pink as desired. You'll need a total of thirteen flowers. 

The last thing you need is two pieces of coordinating patterned paper. From one of the papers, die cut a 5 1/4" stitched square. From the other paper, die cut a 4 3/4" stitched square. Distress the edges of both papers. Ink the edges of both papers using Walnut Stain Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Adhere the 4 3/4" stitched square to the 5 1/4" stitched square.

Adhere the rod iron frame to the 5 1/4" square. Adhere the delicate lace cross to the middle of the frame. 

Adhere the three easter eggs as desired in the bottom right hand corner of the frame. 

Adhere the butterfly to the top left side of the cross. Adhere the Happy Easter sentiment to the middle left side of the cardfront.

In the top left corner of the Happy Easter sentiment, adhere two pink roses, one white rose, two white flowers and one pink flower as desired. 

In the bottom right corner of the Happy Easter sentiment, adhere two pink roses, three white rose and two white flowers as desired. 

To finish the card, cut a cardbase out of white cardstock that measures 5 1/4" x 10 1/2", score at 5 1/4". Adhere the cardfront to the cardbase.

Here are a few closeup photos of the finished card.

Here is the finished Happy Easter Card.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Rod Iron Frame

- Detailed Easter Eggs

- Filagree Easter Eggs

- Happy Easter Welded Words

- Butterfly Mix

- Delicate Lace Cross

- 10mm Roses: White and Pink

- 20mm Roses: White

- Pink and White Flowers

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Paint - Hickory Smoke, Distress Ink - Walnut Stain and Blending Tool with Foam

- Dina Wakley for Ranger Ink: White Gesso

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Dabber

- Prima Marketing Inc.: Art Alchemy - Impasto Paint: Dusty Rose

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Pastel Lilac Embossing Powder, Pastel Pink Embossing Powder and Pastel Mint Embossing Powder

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Stitched Squares

- Mintay Papers: Secret Place Collection

- Misc: White Cardstock

Thanks so much for joining my today!

- Katelyn

Beautiful Day Altered Spool with Karen Jiles

Hi there, 

It’s Karen sharing a “Beautiful Day” Altered Spool that I created with the Retro Bike and Birds and Branches Chipboard sets.  The chipboard sets were so easy to coordinate with this altered spool. This altered project is a great keepsake. The patterned paper and embellishments used were perfect. Take a peek at my tutorial below.

Step 1: Trim patterned paper down to the width of the core of the ribbon spool. I trimmed my paper down to 3x12.

Step 2: Reinforce edges of the patterned paper with coordinated stickers and distress edges with coordinated distress ink.

Step 3: Add 2 eyelets to each reinforced edge using a Cropadile.

Step 4: Attach patterned paper to spool using ribbon. Add metal Pull to patterned paper to securely wrap the patterned paper around the base of the spool.

Step 5: Adhere Vignette Finial pieces together and then adhere onto spool. Adhere flowers and leaves to the vignette finial pieces.

Step 6: Cut a bird from the Birds and Branches Chipboard set. Cut swirly pieces from the Border chipboard.

Step 7: Adhere the Retro Bike, Bird and Swirly chipboard to the spool using E6000.

Step 8: Add sentiment stickers to each wheel of the Retro Bike using 3D Tape.

Step 9: Tap on some gesso using a paintbrush and continue embellishing as desired.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Retro Bike

- Birds on Branches

- Chipboard Border

Other Supplies Used:

- Vintage Ribbon Spool

- Patterned Paper & Coordinating Stickers

- Eyelets

- Vignette Finial Pieces

- Flowers and Leaves

- Dyed Ribbon

- Time Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink

- Foambrush

- Paintbrush

- Scissors

- Gesso (White)

- Paintbrush

- E6000

- 3D Tape

- Hot Glue

- Heat Gun

- Cropadile

Thanks so much for visiting today!

Heart of Spring with Ruchi

Hello friends!! Ruchi here from Ruchi's Crafeteria and I'm back with my inspirational project.

Today I've created a Layout on chipboard using mixed media technique. Here it is...

I chose some bright colours for my projects. Picked SRTC Plain Heart Mix Package which is a set of hearts chipboards in different sizes. Applied used dryer sheet along with Prima Gel Medium. Put that aside for drying and heat embossed some SRTC chipboards- Foliage Pieces and Heart Scroll Cage.

When the base dried, created texture with the help of texture paste and stencil and applied different mists and metallic paints.

I did some stamping and arranged all the elements together.

Lastly added art stones, sequins, and sparkling dust to complete the look.

That’s it for today!! I hope you like my today's project. Don’t forget to check the SRTC shop for these chipboards and some other awesome designs.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Plain Heart Mix Package

- Heart Scroll Cages

- Foliage Pieces

Other Supplies Used:

- Prima Marketing Inc.: Stamps, Flowers, Gel Medium, White Gesso and Mini Art Stones

- Expressions Craft: Metallic Paints and Deco Stones

- Ranger Ink: Embossing Powder

- Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Big Chat sticker

- Stencil, sequins, fussy cut elements are from my stash

See ya next time.

Till then happy crafting!!

Ruchi

Easter Basket Card with Nancy Nickel

Hi, everyone!
It's Nancy here today with a fun Easter Basket Card,
using some fabulous items from Southern Ridge Trading Company!

This time I've combined the Detailed Easter Eggs, 
along with some Foliage Pieces.
I've also used the fun Basket Weave Stencil.

Here's my card:

Aren't the eggs gorgeous?

I knew that I wanted to create an Easter basket to put my eggs in.

I found a basket cut file, and adapted it to fit my 5 1/2" square card.

I cut the basket from yellow cardstock, 

and stenciled the design in a darker shade of yellow.

I wanted my basket to look full, so I traced around the chipboard eggs, 

and cut some eggs from pastel coloured cardstock.

I created a card base from the light yellow cardstock,

and added a background panel of very pale blue.

I wanted to give the basket some shape and dimension on the card.

I curled the shape with my fingers,

and then used adhesive along with foam tape to adhere it in place. 

I left some of the basket handle free, to add more dimension.

I coloured the chipboard pieces with various pastel shades of glitter glue:

yellow, turquoise, pink, and green.

They are so pretty and sparkly!

Once the chipboard was all dry, I added two of the eggs in place in the basket.
I tucked the cardstock eggs in behind, and added some foliage pieces.
I added the pink egg, along with one more foliage piece, outside the basket.
Finally, I added a pretty sheer bow to the basket handle.

 These eggs are so intricate and beautiful!

There are lots of ways to create an Easter project with them!

Southern Ridge Trading Company Products:

- Detailed Easter Eggs 

  - Foliage Pieces

 - Basket Weave Stencil

Other Materials Used:

- AC Cardstock

- Basket Cut File - Easter Egg Treat Basket

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Scattered Straw Distress Ink

- Glitter Glue: Yellow, Turquoise, Pink, and Green

- Celebrate It Ribbon

* * * * *

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

I'll be back soon with more creative fun!

* * * * *

Dream Card with Katelyn Grosart

Hey Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. Today, I'm sharing with you my Dream Card perfect to add to give to that someone in your life who needs an extra special note to brighten their day. To create my card, I've used a variety of our popular frames, foliage and word chipboard pieces. You'll want to read below as I share with you how to recreate my Dream Card at home.

To start, you'll need the Leafy Frame. Apply two coats of Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic Paint - Black to the frame. 

Next you'll need one of the Butterflies from the Butterfly Swirl Combo. Note: My butterfly is slightly different and no longer in stock, so that is why you'll need to choose one from the Butterfly Swirl Combo. Apply two coats of Impasto Paint - Crimson to the butterfly. 

Take out both Abstract Corner from the package. Apply Emboss It Ink to each corner. Sprinkle Molten Dimensions - White Wonder Embossing Powder over the entire surface of each corner. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. 

Next, you'll need the Dream Fun Word. Apply Emboss It Ink to the word. Sprinkle Molten Dimensions - White Wonder Embossing Powder over the entire surface of the word. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. 

From the Pussy Willows, cut four pieces off the branches. Apply two coats of Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic Paint - Evergreen to the pussy willow pieces. 

From the Fern Leaf Foliage package, you'll need two of them. Apply two coats of Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic Paint - Evergreen to the fern pieces. Once the paint has dried, rub Pine Needles Distress Crayon along the top of the ferns.

You'll need six magenta roses, four turquoise roses, one large white rose and five white roses. 

Choose two pieces of patterned paper from Nicole Wright Designs - Media Assemblage package. Die cut a 4" stitched rectangle out of one of the papers. Die cut a 4 1/2" stitched rectangle out of the other patterned paper. Distress the edges of the rectangles. Ink the edges of the rectangles using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Adhere the 4" stitched rectangle to the 4 1/2" stitched rectangle. Adhere one of the corners to the bottom right corner of the 4" rectangle. Adhere the other corner to the top left corner of the 4" rectangle.

Adhere the leafy frame overtop of the corners on the 4" rectangle. Adhere two of the pussy willow pieces to the top left corner of the leafy frame. Adhere the other two pussy willow pieces to the bottom right corner of the leafy frame. 

Foam square the butterfly to the middle of the 4" rectangle. Adhere the Dream word to the middle of the butterfly. 

Adhere the two fern pieces to the bottom portion of the Dream word.

In the middle of the ferns, adhere one white rose, two magenta roses and two turquoise roses.

In the bottom right corner of the leafy frame, adhere three white roses, two magenta roses and two turquoise roses. In the top left corner of the leafy frame, adhere three white roses, two magenta roses and two turquoise roses.

To finish the card, cut a cardbase out of white cardstock that measures 5 3/4" x 9", score at 4 1/2". Adhere the cardfront to the cardbase.

Here are a few closeup photos of the finished card.

Here is the finished Dream Card.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Abstract Corner

- Leafy Frame

- Butterfly Swirl Combo

- Dream Fun Word

- Fern Leaf Foliage

- Pussy Willows

- Roses: 10mm - Turquoise, Magenta and White

- Roses: 20mm - White

Other Supplies Used:

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Black Soot, Distress Crayon - Pine Needles and Blending Tool with Foam

- Dina Wakley for Ranger Ink: Heavy Body Acrylic Paint - Evergreen and Black

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Dabber

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Eileen Hull Molten Dimensions - White Wonder Embossing Powder

- Prima Marketing Inc.: Impasto Paint - Crimson

- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Stitched Rectangles

- Wild Whisper Design: Nicole Wright Design - Media Assemblage

- Misc: White Cardstock

Thanks so much for joining my today!

- Katelyn