Admittedly, I haven't been feeling very crafty lately, I think most of it stems from my primary computer still not being fixed (it decided to catch a virus and has been at the 'doctor's for a week now)...I'm hoping I will get it back tomorrow. I feel a little lost without my computer and although I have all my files saved nicely on my new external hard drive...it's just not the same. I saw Taylor's sketch for her Friday Cupcake challenge and thought it looked great and might help me out of my funk.
I picked some paper I had left over from my Easter cards last year and chose the bunny from 
Unity's Easter Blessings set which I had yet to ink up. I realized I have 3 Easter bunny stamps, all the same picture (bunny from behind) by 3 different companies, ...I just think it's too cute to pass up! They're all different sizes, so it does come in handy. I inked in Cat's Eye Platinum and added some fun flock to the tail. Some dew drops finished it off, and it's actually exactly like the sketch layout for once!
Unity's Easter Blessings set which I had yet to ink up. I realized I have 3 Easter bunny stamps, all the same picture (bunny from behind) by 3 different companies, ...I just think it's too cute to pass up! They're all different sizes, so it does come in handy. I inked in Cat's Eye Platinum and added some fun flock to the tail. Some dew drops finished it off, and it's actually exactly like the sketch layout for once!I still think this card is missing something, but I'm not sure what. I don't have a sentiment stamped on the outside, and might leave it for the inside of the card...but it looks a little bare. Any suggestions?
I'm going to apologize now for the dark picture; since I don't have my primary computer back yet, I also don't have a very good photo editing program where I can play with the lighting.
A few weeks ago I told you about a new rule I made for myself. I tend to drift to black and white for many of my cards, so if I make a B&W card, my rule says I have to make one with lots of colour. Since I've been feeling like some of my mojo is gone, I decided to work backwards. My bunny card was full of colour, so I went to my comfort zone of B&W to find my mojo. I saw this next layout in a magazine and have had this card idea in my head for about a week.
I picked my favourite GinaK stamp set and my favourite stamp- the cocktail dress. I've made a few cards with this stamp and tended to stamp polka dots on the dress, but I wanted the Rhinestone adhesive to really stand out, so I left the dress plain white. A wide satin white ribbon tied around my favourite flocked DP finishes it off. It looks pretty close to the card I had in my head, so I'm quite happy.
Just a quick post today, I'm also mourning the loss of my MS Live Writer program on my computer; I hadn't been blogging long before my friend Julie told me about it, but now I miss it dearly and posting right into Blogger is driving me a bit mad.
*fingers crossed my computer comes back to me tomorrow and everything will be right in the world again*
Happy Sunday!
Ciao for now,
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