Easter Bunnies: Part 1

Two of my Easter cards needed to be in the mail yesterday. Since my grandchildren definitely do not read my blog, I thought I’d share them while some of the Easter challenges are live. These cards are proof that I don’t always take weeks, months, and sometimes a year to use the products I love enough to order. These Honeycomb Bunnies from The Greetery were irresitable in last month’s release. I have to restrain myself from buying all the different varieties in the Honeycomb line.

First off is Hannah’s card. I borrowed a friend’s Stitched Scallops die, also from The Greetery and found a My Favorite Things pack of gingham papers, Gingham Galore, to use as the background. The bunny was die cut from my palest gray cardstock, Soft Stone, from Papertrey Ink. All the detail pieces came from my scrap boxes. I used stamps from the Honeycomb Basics as well as Honeycomb Spring. 

I added a spring from The Greetery’s Wildflower Mix for the embellishment. The tail was die cut twice from white and the top on raised up a bit for dimension. Here’s the bunny with the honeycomb opened up.

I struggle with holiday cards for my 13 year old grandson, who is now taller than I am. But I went ahead and made another version of the same bunny for him. When I made the Honeycomb Penguins for Christmas, he ended up putting it on his dresser which I took for a sign that it was fine with him. I intend to ask him after Easter what he thought of the card. 

The patterned paper was in an envelope with Easter die cuts and left-overs from previous Easters. I suspect it’s left over from my scrapbooking days. The die cut carrots were die cut at my friend’s house a year or two ago, and I’m not sure who made them. I was, however, delighted to find those in the envelope as well. This bunny was die cut from Papertrey Ink’s Rustic Cream cardstock. I added some dimension behind this bunny since the background was so busy. I did cut the patterned paper and the narrow orange frame with Gina K’s Master Layout #2.

The honeycomb on this bunny isn’t as bright yellow in real life.

Several of the Easter/Bunny challenges are also CAS challenges. Neither of these come close to being CAS. The Fourseason Challenge: Anything Spring and the Inspired By: Bunnies Challenge are super appropriate. The Four Seasons has a beautiful moodboard, but I didn’t add it here–there were no bunnies, but I saw some bunnies already in the gallery. I’m also sending this to Darnell’s I.D.E.A.S. gallery (this week is dies) and to her NBUS Gallery these bunnies are new but never used before!