Easter NBUS and some very old stash

It was my turn to design two cards and make up 10 kits for the other member  of Langley Stampers Club.

For my first card, I decided to design an Easter card and had great fun making up the kits. The stripey paper is eons old. So old that I cannot even remember when I bought it. I think it may be from the first papercraft garage sale I attended...where 12 x 12 DP was 20 sheets for $1.00 I must say it felt great to use it up!

This scrapbook page size works well for card kits as it only takes 3 sheets to cut it down into twelve 6x6 pieces for the kits. I also had a package of Michaels cheap yellow cardstock on hand. This was bought before I actually made cards...before I learned that it is too flimsy in weight and can easily cut through when it is embossed.

We very carefully embossed this pale yellow paper with a Darice Cherry Blossom folder, taking care to only run it forward  through the Big Shot once. Rolling it through again backwards, seems to increase the odds of cracking the pattern through the cardstock. I like to open the folder and sort of flex one of the single bottom edges till the paper starts to release on its own. That way you have the whole bottom  edge released, sometimes even released to half way up the folder. Less chance of cracking that way.

We used a Memory Box grass die gto hide the joined papers,  and then pop dotted my NBUS  Memory Box Fuzzy Bunnies on top. I bought this die on an amazing sale...just $2.00 Yay!

Luckily, I had  two Michaels $1.00 bin stamps that were Easter themed and best of all they were NBUS.  Well,  I am pretty sure they both were NBUS. The sentiment stamp is for sure! I used Brilliance Orchid ink to stamp them both and then die cut the bunny with a Spellbinders Big Scalloped Ovals die. The sentiment was cut with a  Taylored Expressions Banner Thinlets banner die. A few pink rhinestones on the blossoms and this card was done.
Recipe
Hand cut card
Envelope for stash
Cardstock - from my stash
DP - stripey paper is VOS (very old stash)
EF - Darice Cherry Blossom
Dies = Spellbinder Big Scalloped Ovals; Memory Box Fuzzy Bunnies; Memory Box Grass border
Bling = pink rhinestones


PS
If anyone knows how to avoid cutting through the cardstock when you emboss, let me know. I just read on Pinterest that if you finely mist the card with 50% water and 50% rubbing alcohol  that it softens the fibers and there is less chance of cracking. Will try that next time.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
 I cut the grass from green snippets left over from making hills on another card. The bunnies were cut from very small pink snippets and I cut extras for each person so as to use up all the teensy bits.