Foxy Dad-isms

Hello again!  Shanna here from Caffeinated Craftiness again to share a fabulous Father's Day card using The Rabbit Hole Design's slightly cranky, under-caffeinated, just waking up Caffeinated Fox! I really wanted to use this guy for a Father's Day card for my husband, and the Sassy Sentiments paired perfectly with him for a "dad-ism" card.  My favorite is "Here, hold my beer".  I picked my favorites and stamped directly onto my coffee sleeve after dry embossing with a striped folder.  Sooo many to pick from, but I narrowed it down to the 4 that reminded me most of him. 

The coffee-shaped card was die-cut, then after fussy cutting my Caffeinated Fox, I mounted him directly onto the sleeve so he can slide off and the card can open.  He was watercolored using my Zig real brush markers on Canson Mixed Media paper. I chose to paper-piece his robe with a small print I had in my scraps though, I like how it looks like a pattered fabric! Add "#1 Dad" to the mug and Voila! I plan on inserting a gift card or two inside for a sweet little gift from me and the kids.  That along with his favorite meal, and we will have a successful Father's Day in the books!

Well, that's all for today.. Guest Designing for The Rabbit Hole Designs has been a ton of fun this month for such a fresh, fun company...Thanks for stopping by!  If you would like to follow along with my caffeinated adventures, stop by my blog here and say hi!

Egg Hunt with Easter Bounty

Hey crafty friends, it's Amanda and today I've got a really fun card for you. Have you seen the new Easter Bounty stamp set yet? It's got a pair of adorable bunnies and a bunch of Easter eggs to use for building a scene. I thought it would be fun to build my scene in 3D on top of an Easter basket box card.

I started by stamping and embossing my bunnies and eggs. I knew the back of my images would be visible, so I didn't want to use Copic markers to color them, as they bleed through. I also wanted soft colors for spring. So I grabbed my water-based markers and a blender pen to color them in. Instead of coloring directly on the paper, I scribbled color onto an acrylic block and picked it up with my blender pen. This allowed me to watercolor the images and get a nice variation in color for highlights and shading.  Once my images were colored and dry, I cut them out with my ScanNCut.
 
I knew that I wanted to add a lot of flowers to the scene as well, so I pulled out some tiny dimensional paper flowers from my stash. They started out white, but I sprayed them with some diluted liquid watercolors to turn them pink and coral. Next I die cut the pieces for my box, the grass struts, some greenery to glue the flowers to, and the pieces for the banner. To decorate the front of the basket, I cut thin strips of pastel cardstock and weaved them in.

Before I assembled the box, I stamped a sentiment from the Easter Bounty set on the back panel. Then I glued the box pieces together, adding the handle and grass struts. I assembled my banner and wrote "egg hunt" on the pennants, then I glued it to the handle. I tucked the bunnies and eggs in place and adhered them with glue or foam tape, for extra dimension. Then I glued the flowers and greenery in place to fill up the scene, but not hide my stamped images. As a finishing touch, I popped an egg up with foam tape on the back, near my sentiment.

I love how this card turned out! From every angle you can see something new. Plus, it folds flat and fits into an A6 envelope; perfect for mailing. I don't usually mail out many Easter cards, but there are a few special people on my list that I try to let know I'm thinking of them. Who will you be sending cards to this spring? Anyone egg-stra special? Let me know in the comments below and thanks for hopping by!

Seas the Day

Hello everyone and welcome to The Rabbit Hole Designs,

Heather here and I am sharing a new card with you today using our Sofishticated Clear Stamps.  I wanted to try something a little different so I picked out three colors I would not normally use and grabbed some white card stock and got to work.  I started by taking a piece of white card stock cut to 4" by 4" and using my home made wreath builder laid it into my stamping platform. I then took the large reef image and stamped it with Shabby Shutters Distress Oxide, I rotated the paper four times then moved onto the starfish image.  I stamped the starfish in Milled Lavender Distress Oxide Ink four times also and cleaned the stamp and then took the little sea snail and stamped him in Scattered Straw Distress Oxide Ink.  After I was done I decided it needed a little more, so I took three of the bubbles and stamped them in Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink around the images to fill in.  Then I took the sentiment lined it up in the center and stamped it in black ink.... and I hated it.  So I got creative, inked up a small piece of scrap paper with the Milled Lavender and when it was dry I stamped the sentiment with Versmark Ink and , cut it out and placed it on top.  I liked that so much better and no one will ever know about the oops underneath.....  Then a cut another piece of white card stock to 4 1/2" by 4 1/2" and using the Scattered Straw inked up the edges to match the front.  I then put the wreath layer onto the Scattered Straw layer and then put the whole thing onto a top folding white card base cut to 5" by 5"
So in the end I really liked how it turned out and am so glad I stretched my creative wings and tried something new.I know sometimes when your crafty mojo is on vacation just giving it a jump strat is so helpful, so will try this again in the future.

Don't forget we have some amazing new products that were released on March 1 so go on over to the shop and check them out. 

Sea you all soon!

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