Stretch your supplies

When is a bird feeder, not a bird feeder?  I soon as I saw this die ideas popped into my head!

I used parts from the Lawn Fawn build-a-bird feeder to create these cards.

 Boba tea! For the cup rim, I used my trimmer to cut a thin strip of cardstock and ran it through my paper crimper then flattened it out. The straw is just a strip of patterned paper.

 

An Easter bonnet! (or a sun hat) 

A lantern! For the bottom of the lantern, I trimmed down each side of the base of the bird feeder and shorted the bottom. I used the layered top piece and trimmed the top off at the detail line.

 

And UFOs!! I used the top layer both right side up and upside down! Add some glittery enamel dots. The second UFO had a 'glass' top cut with a small oval die out of vellum. I used the bird legs to make my little alien with a couple tiny googly eyes.

Cute Easter cards and mushrooms

Lawn Fawn stamps. I color with pencils and then blend with an alcohol marker in a matching color or lighter or just blender.

 

This card was made with embossing folders.

 

This cute card was also made with embossing folders (mushroom house seen and background grass/flowers). I stamped the bee, snail, and gnome and fussy-cut then mounted on pop dots.

bee, snail, and sentiment Kaleidoscope Creations stamps

 

Some Easter cards

 The sheep cards were made from one of my stamp sets but using the word Easter from another stamp. I used a pre-made card base for it that I embossed.

sheep & sentiment - Kaleidoscope Creations Stamps

Spring cards

I made these cards as part of a challenge to do a 'monoprint' which was basically transferring ink from one item to another. In this case I used a die-cut which was inked, spritzed with water, and pressed onto another piece of paper.
I'm entering this into the Kat Scrappiness January challenge

3 more cards

based on sketches from the July, September, and November 2015 issues of SG Create

A couple of cards

Here are a couple of cards I made recently. One was for a challenge to make a Valentine's card using stamps from another holiday and non-traditional colors (i.e. not all pink/red/white). My MIL wanted me to make her a card for a baby shower (gift) so this is what I came up with. I flocked the peeking bunny.