Easter Bunny cards for Country View Crafts with Tim Holtz dies

Fun with Hippity Hop dies

April's challenge at CVC FB Challenge page is 

Easter - Eggs, Chicks or Bunnies

I chose these gorgeous bunnies and had fun with them. The rabbits were cut from a previously dipped piece of media paper and cut using the vault hippity hop dies. I used distress inks to give a suggestion of clothes and die cut the bows and butterflies for decoration.

The background was made using the scallop stencil with the dry watercolour pencils and stencil and the monoprinting technique. I also had some lightly dipped and splattered card that I cut for the panel and I added some stencilling.

Finally I put the cards together using 49&Market papers and snippets.

xxx

Supplies

Tim Holtz stencil - Shifter scallop, Mini Sparkle Fade set #62,    https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-layering-stencils-523-c.asp

Tim Holtz dies - Vault Hippity Hop.                                                                https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-152-c.asp

Tim Holtz stamps - Ledger Script, Field Notes                                        https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-stamps-by-stampers-anonymous-193-c.asp

Tim Holtz distress inks - Fired Brick, Salvaged Patina, Bundled Sage, Squeezed Lemonade, MustardSeed, Ground Espresso                                                          https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/distress-ink-pads-1907-c.asp

Tim Holtz distress oxides - Salvaged Patins, Faded Jeans                    https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/distress-oxide-ink-pads-1908-c.asp 

Tim Holtz watercolour pencils - Peeled Paint, Wild Honey, Mustard Seed, Evergreen Bough  https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-distress-watercolor-pencils-1598-c.asp

Tim Holtz Ephemera Pack Snippets - Curator, Number Strips                                https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-idea-ology-102-c.asp

49& Market - Paper pack                                                                          https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/49-and-market---botanical-buzz-1824-c.asp

Watercolour Sketchbook - snowflake collage - Hello Winter

Using Tim Holtz distress inks and watercolor pencils for a distressed watercolour background.

I have been wanting to use my watercolour sketchbook again for a while but a holiday, family weekend, illness and then Christmas and then more medical problems have got in the way. But here we are weeks later enjoying a bit of experimentation time using distress inks and distress watercolor pencils to create this snowflake collage.(Not quite 'welcoming winter' we've had some severe frosts after the new year)

1. Use distress inks to blend colours lightly in the middle, darker round the edges randomly.

2. Use distress watercolor pencils rubbed onto stamp block and spritzed with water to create puddles and stamp it onto the page to create more depth,interest and movement. Spritz water droplets on and pull with some kitchen roll. Blend picket fence DI in top left and centre to try to create a cloudier looking area.

3. Heat emboss snowflakes and splatter blue distress spritz and white paint.

Add some text ....

.... and splatter more blue and white if needed.

Gather together collage elements etc.

Put together.

Supplies

TH - Distress inks - chipped sapphire, tumbled glass, ground espresso, gathered twigs, brushed corduroy, picket fence, stormy sky

TH - Distress Watercolor Pencils - uncharted mariner, mermaid lagoon, gathered twigs, ground espresso

TH - Stamps - Scribble Woodland, Weathered Winter, Letter to Santa (text), 

TH - distress Spritz - Uncharted Mariner

TH - Sizzix dies - Paper Snowflakes Mini

Embossing powders - Ranger - Seafoam White, Ranger Wendy Vecchi - Sky Blue, Cornflower Blue

Miscellaneous - white acrylic paint