A blooper and some Easter cards using leftover bits...

 

This is my blooper card. I had fully intended for the DSP to be on the left side of the card front and the feather to be positioned downward. I adhered the black mat to my card base, and without checking how my card was placed on my work bench, I quickly glued on the DSP and the feather. When I picked the card up and really looked at it, I realized the opening had been facing left. Arrrrrgh! 

Rather than tossing it and starting over, I decided to just go with it. I heat embossed the sentiment, making SURE that my card opened on the right when I did it. 

I decided to share this card over on the NBUS blog. Darnell has invited all of us to share our "blooper" cards there in honor of April Fool's Day. Also, the feather I used on this card is actually NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff). A couple of feathers like this were given to me, and this is the first time I used one of them.

I stamped a sentiment on the inside and called it done.

This card was donated to the thrift store, so we'll see if it sells.

I had made several Easter cards using this nice lavendar plaid DSP. I cut a fancy aperture out of each of them which was not used to finish the card. I decided to use them to make even more Easter cards, and this is one of them.

Happy Easter was stamped with a very old wooden stamp. The banner was popped up with foam tape.

The dragonfly is a pretty sticker from Dollar Tree. It has a couple of different layers, giving it some nice dimension. It is popped up on foam squares (under the wings), as is the plaid die-cut.

A few lavendar gems added some sparkle.

I added a leftover strip of the lavendar plaid to the inside, along with a stamped sentiment.

For this card, I did a bit of inking around the circular die-cut, then added a die-cut bunny and some foliage. I popped up the plaid circle, but glued the sentiment banner directly to the card front.

I used Nuvo drops for the bunny's nose and eyes and a colored pencil to add a little pink to his ears.

The green flower was a random sticker in my stash.

On the inside of this card, I added two stamped sentiments and a tiny plaid bunny.

For this card, I cut a piece of DSP that was 4" X 4" and cut it in half diagonally. Then I applied each half to my card front as you see in the photo above. Once that was done, I added a strip of plain purple cardstock so that it slightly overlapped each triangle.

The butterfly on this one is a really old fabric butterfly that I've had in my stash for years. I ran across a couple packs of them when I was looking for something else. I definitely need to use them up!

The sentiment was glued directly onto the polka-dot circle and a few gems were added.

I had an extra computer-generated sentiment panel in my Easter stash, so I used it in this card.

It felt really good to use up these extra die-cut pieces. Now if I could only make a dent in the mountainous pile of bits leftover from making other cards!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl