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Chocolate Easter Bunny Card

Easter Bunny Card Class, Card 1

Chocolate Easter Bunny Card

Spring is in the air and it is time to get ready for Easter. My Weekly Card Class From ME will help with that, by sharing ways to use the Easter Bunny Bundle, by Stampin’ Up!. Need more info on this class? Click here.

And with Easter on my mind, chocolate is not far behind.

I love chocolate. A lot. And so, I decided to take a fun spin on my first card and create a Chocolate Easter Bunny Card.

Chocolate Wrapped Rabbit

Easter Bunny Punch in use.

Since I am no stranger to chocolate, it made sense that I would need a foil wrapper for my bunny. I grabbed some aluminum foil for this job. The Easter Bunny Punch actually benefits from punching foil, I recommend punching this common kitchen product whenever your punch gets dull.

I also wanted a cute purple wrapper along with the foil liner for my chocolate bunny. Fresh Freesia is one of the sweetest purple tones! I had some retired Sale-A-Bration Designer Series Paper, Dainty Delight, that had the cutest polka dot pattern. So, I incorporated it into my Chocolate Easter Bunny Card!

When you use the Easter Bunny Punch without the coordinating stamp, you have the option to have your bunny face right or left. Sometimes you have to punch the “back” of your designer paper. Want to see how I put all these layers of bunny together? Check out my card class video here.

Elegant Borders Dies

Elegant Borders Dies.

With Stampin’ Up!’s new Online Exclusives products, there are a lot of great products to check out. Not to be missed are the Elegant Borders Dies. There are 4 amazing dies that will help you make gorgeous borders.

Of course I used one of them for my Chocolate Easter Bunny Card! I die cut White Cardstock to overlay against my purple print DSP. This way, the lacy details really show off their beauty!

Easter Bunny Stamp Set

While I relied on the Easter Bunny Punch for my Chocolate Easter Bunny focal point, I also got to do a little stamping using the Easter Bunny Stamp Set. I chose one of the sentiments from the stamp set and used it for some background stamping. To help me line up my words and keep them in the framework, I also used Masking Paper.

When I stamped the flower stamp, I linked 3 of the same image together in Memento Black Ink. Next, I used an assortment of Stampin’ Blends to do some quick coloring. The flowers add a nice touch to the top of this Chocolate Easter Bunny Card, don’t you think?

An Easter Treat For You

Just like the sentiment background says on the front of this card, there are treats here! While the Chocolate Easter Bunny on the outside implies a sweet treat, the inside of this card has a special gift card (or money) pocket within.

Get Your Easter Bunny Card Class From ME

This Chocolate Easter Bunny Card is just one card in my featured class this week. If you would like to see the video from my online class, click this link. For more details on what is in this week’s class from Maine and how to get yours, click here.

I will be sharing more cards from the Easter Bunny Card Class, as well as my bonus cards, as this week goes on. Be sure to check back here or follow me, The Maine Stamper, on FaceBook, for more cardmaking inspiration and ideas.

Easter Bunny Card Class

Easter Bunny Bundle

Your Weekly Card Class From ME

Welcome to your Easter Bunny Card Class! This week, I am using the Easter Bunny Bundle by Stampin’ Up!. This bundle is currently unavailable to purchase, because the Easter Bunny Punch is on backorder.

So why am I holding a weekly class based on product you can’t currently buy? First of all, it is the first day of spring. Bunnies seemed like the perfect subject.

And secondly, the Easter Bunny Bundle is making a come-back. It is scheduled to hop back in stock on May 15, which means it will also be a carry-over item from the January-April Mini Catalog into the new 2023-2024 Annual Catalog.

Sad we aren’t covering flowers this week? Check here to see my last class, which featured the Sentimental Park Bundle.

The Easter Bunny Stamp Set

The Easter Bunny Stamp Set is made up of 15 photopolymer stamps. But the best part about this stamp set really is the bunnies themselves. You get 3 of them, all in different adorable poses. One of the bunnies coordinates perfectly with the Easter Bunny Punch.

The Easter Bunny Punch

While the Easter Bunny Punch remains on backorder, there will be a day in the future for its return. In the meantime, you can always fussy cut the bunny image if you prefer. The lines of the stamp are simple ones without too many odd angles.

During my live card class, I shared how you can use the bunny punch so that the bunny faces in different directions when punching cardstock or designer series paper. You just need to punch the back of your DSP to get a bunny who faces left. Otherwise, stamp and punch (or just punch) to get a bunny that faces the right.

Live Card Making Class On Monday

Every Monday at 8pm EST, I am live with your weekly card making class on my FaceBook page, The Maine Stamper. I create 3 beautiful cards and share tips and techniques along the way. This class serves as your tutorial when you receive your card kits in the mail and need to put them together.

Get Your Card Kits For Free

Yes, FREE. You will receive 2 each of 3 card designs (for a total of 6 card kits!) when you place an order of $35+ (before tax and shipping) in my online stamping store using Host Code N9CGDQQW thru March 24, 2023. I will mail the card kits on the Monday following the live class.

Want more details about what is in these kits? Check my blog post here for more info.

Get A Bonus Gift For FREE Too!

When you bump your order to $50 (before tax and shipping), I will send you the card kits AND a full pack of the Opaque Adhesive Backed Gems that I used on my sample cards, for FREE. These great embellishments come in White. Fresh Freesia, Melon Mambo and Gorgeous Grape.

Your Card Class From ME Awaits

I hope you enjoy the Easter Bunny Card Class with my FaceBook Live Event on Monday, March 20 at 8pm EST. Please join me to see how easy it is to put your card kits together. If you miss the live, catch the replay on FaceBook or my YouTube Channel, The Maine Stamper.

I look forward to getting your weekly card kits from Maine in the mail to you. And I know you will be looking forward to receiving them and creating gorgeous works of paper crafted art!

Sentimental Park You Are Amazing Card

Sentimental Park Card Class, Card 3

Sentimental Park You Are Amazing Card

We are on to the last card from my Weekly Card Class From ME, featuring the Sentimental Park Bundle by Stampin’ Up!. I have had so much fun with the 2 bundles, Sentimental Park and Petal Park, from the Regency Park Suite over the last couple of weeks.

And I usually save the best card for last…but you can be the judge of that. Check out the first card from my Sentimental Park Card Class here. I would love to know which card is your favorite!

Soft Suede, Blackberry Bliss & Rich Razzleberry

Did you know that browns and purples go so nicely together? When I chose this particular piece of designer series paper from the Fancy Flora 6 x 6″ pack, I knew I wanted to use Soft Suede to coordinate. Besides the card base color, I added interest with a strip of Soft Suede that is torn and sponged with like color ink.

And with Soft Suede being the great neutral color that it is, I had a lot of choices to use with it.

In The end, Blackberry Bliss and Rich Razzleberry were the perfect pair! When I tried stamping the flower image with Blackberry Bliss Ink on Blackberry Bliss Cardstock…the result was not blissful. The image disappeared on my paper.

So, I brought in Rich Razzleberry Cardstock. I think during my live cardmaking demo I called this color Blackberry Bliss’s little sister or cousin. Check out my video here.

Color Swap Card!

Every Wednesday, on my FaceBook Group Page, Positive PaperCrafters, I have a feature called ‘Who Wore It Better Wednesday’. And I take a card that I recently made and create the same recipe, but in different colors. Then, everyone gets to vote for their favorite, or who they think “wore it better”.

My Sentimental Park You Are Amazing Card was my color swap choice. I chose another design from the Fancy Flora 6 x 6″ paper pack. And this time, my color choices were Soft Seafoam, Petal Pink and Calypso Coral.

Get Your Sentimental Park Card Class From ME

This Sentimental Park You Are Amazing Card is the last one in my featured class this week. If you would like to see the video from my online class, click this link. For more details on what is in this week’s class from Maine and how to get yours, click here.

I have enjoyed sharing cards from the Sentimental Park Card Class, as well as my bonus cards, during this week. Be sure to check back here or follow me, The Maine Stamper, on FaceBook, for more cardmaking inspiration and ideas. Another great card class is right around the corner!

Sentimental Park Thinking of You Card

Sentimental Park Card Class, Card 2

Sentimental Park Thinking of You Card

We are on to the next card from my Weekly Card Class From ME. And this week features the Sentimental Park Bundle by Stampin’ Up!. This stamp with coordinating dies bundle is part of the Regency Park Suite.

We have been exploring this suite quite extensively. Want to see how it all started? Click here.

And just like our first card from in this weeks class, I am using the Fancy Flora 6 x 6″ Designer Series Paper pack. I also used the same Night of Navy Bordered Ribbon, which is your FREE gift from me with a $50 order using my Host Code this week.

Need to see our first card? Click here for all the details!

Designer Series Paper Layout

Did you notice the grid of designer series paper on each of these Sentimental Park Thinking of You Cards? The layout is exactly the same, even though the patterns are opposites.

With the Fancy Flora 6 x 6″ DSP pack, you will find it so easy to make great card designs similar to mine. Just pick 2 patterns that coordinate nicely together (so easy, as previously mentioned!). And cut them at the same time to make rectangles to fill your card front.

Since you are cutting 2 papers together, you will be able to mix and match the designs like I did in my cards above. Not sure what sizes you need? When you get my weekly Card Kits From ME, you will get the card recipe too. Otherwise, cut some estimates based on your preferences!

Sentimental Park, So Sentimental

There is magic to these Sentimental Park Dies, and I shared the great details in my live cardmaking demo. Need to see it for yourself? Click here to watch.

When you use the larger floral edged sentiment style die, you will also be creating slits along 2 edges that will allow you to slide the plain, oblong stitched die into. How clever is this?!?

I stamped my Sentimental Park stamps, “thinking of” and “YOU” in Calypso Coral Ink for one card, and Night of Navy Ink for the other. These stamps are separate, which make using them quite simple.

Get Your Sentimental Park Card Class From ME

This Sentimental Park Thinking of You Card is just one card in my featured class this week. If you would like to see the video from my online class, click this link. For more details on what is in this week’s class from Maine and how to get yours, click here.

I will be sharing more cards from the Sentimental Park Card Class, as well as my bonus cards, as this week goes on. Be sure to check back here or follow me, The Maine Stamper, on FaceBook, for more cardmaking inspiration and ideas.

Another card with the same designer series paper layout! Aren’t the possibilities endless?

Sentimental Park Dear Friend Card

Sentimental Park Card Class, Card 1

Sentimental Park Dear Friend Card

Join me this week as I take a look at the Sentimental Park Bundle by Stampin’ Up!. It is all part of my Card Class From ME. If you missed the live video assembly of my card kits, check it out here.

Here we go with another flower stamp set and die set, you may be thinking. Didn’t we just cover something similar last week?

To begin, this new bundle in the January-April 2023 Mini Catalog is a lot different than what we used last week. The Sentimental Park Bundle is a part of the Regency Park Suite. That means there are a lot more products that coordinate with this bundle!

And to get more of the details on how awesome the previous bundle, Petal Park, is, check out my post for my thoughts on the stamp set and punch by clicking here.

Fancy Flora Designer Series Paper

Last week I used the Regency Park DSP to make my Petal Park cards. That paper is sold as a coordinating item with the Regency Park Suite. But you may know that I love to change things up!

Enter in the Fancy Flora DSP instead. It is featured in an entirely different suite of products. But, with Stampin’ Up!’s amazing coordination, any designer paper matches any stamps and dies. And this class proves it!

You will find that the Fancy Flora DSP works beautifully with Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Soft Succulent, Balmy Blue, Orchid Oasis and Fresh Freesia.

Radiating Stitches Dies

Let me tell you how much I love these brand new dies by Stampin’ Up!. I LOVE the Radiating Stitches Dies! And of course I had to use them on my Sentimental Park Dear Friend Card.

These new dies are just one of many great products released for the March 2023 Online Exclusives. Shop my store to see what else you may discover that you love too!

The largest die from this set is the perfect first mat layer on an A2 card front. It measures 4 x 5.25″. And while I focused on a lot of white for this card, imagine it in any color you choose.

Sentimental Park Dies

The other dies I used on this card from my Sentimental Park Card Class feature plain Basic White flowers, die cut and glued together. I didn’t stamp them or sponge them. They are clean and simple flowers for a big impact!

I also die cut the larger stem/leaves dies from Old Olive Cardstock. And again, I kept them plain. The only actual stamping I did on this card was on the sentiment piece. I chose the smaller of the stitched edged, flower detailed sentiment dies. See more on these dies here.

Get Your Sentimental Card Class From ME

This Sentimental Park Dear Friend Card is just one card in my featured class this week. If you would like to see the video from my online class, click this link. For more details on what is in this week’s class from Maine and how to get yours, click here.

I will be sharing more cards from the Sentimental Park Card Class, as well as my bonus cards, as this week goes on. Be sure to check back here or follow me, The Maine Stamper, on FaceBook, for more cardmaking inspiration and ideas.