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May 28, 2015

Blog Design Team: Bunnies Aren’t Just for Easter

Today, Blog Team Designer Julia Stainton is thinking outside the box with a very sweet, cute card that shows how to it’s possible to use ‘holiday’ supplies year-round. Check it out below!

Plus, to help you think outside the box, we’re giving away at $25 Gift Certificate to the TE Store! Read on for more details…

And now, let’s hear from Julia about her project…

Easter may be long past, but you don’t have to put away those darling
bunny stamps and dies! Have you ever thought of using them other ways?
Recently I needed a baby card and was going through my stash of stamps
and dies for inspiration. Being a serious Beatrix Potter fan, I loved
dressing my sweet babies in little jammies and onesies with Peter Rabbit
on them. When I saw the Hippity Hop die set it brought back wonderful
memories and thought it would be fun to create my baby card with a
darling little bunny as the theme.

I love layering patterned
papers and die cuts. The largest die cut layer is cut using the Circles
Cutting Plate. To make it smaller, I just trimmed off the edges to the
size I wanted. While I love using the full cutting plate, sometimes it’s
nice to change things up a little and cut it down. The next two layers
are die-cut using the Build A Tag 3 die set from some pretty patterned paper.
The mix of prints are so pretty and are soft and delicate for a baby
card design. The main color I chose for this card was pink as this
card is making it’s way to celebrate the arrival of a new baby girl.

The
bow at the top of the project is created from a long rectangle cut from
Aqua Mist Wool Felt. It is simply folded back and forth to form a bow
shape and then tied with twine. I adore adding in embellishments and
this was the perfect place.

I didn’t have a baby
sentiment stamp in my possession, so I ended up using a simple “Best Wishes”
sentiment from the Daisy Bouquet stamp set. When buying stamps, it’s
always good to have a few generic sentiments on hand to fit most
occasions and the Taylored Expressions bouquet stamps have lots of great
sentiments like this.

Don’t forget to think outside the box with
the stamps and dies you already own! You’ll find there is always more
than one way to use them! 

Thanks so much, Julia, for sharing this sweet baby card! Be sure to check out Julia’s blog, Belle Papier to see more of her lovely projects. Have a joyful day!

Let’s have a giveaway! Enter below for your chance to win a $25 Gift Certificate to the TE Store!

How to Enter: Leave a comment below telling us about your earliest childhood memory by Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 11:59 pm PST.
We’ll choose one lucky winner at random to win a $25 Gift Certificate to the TE Store! We’ll announce the winner here on the TE Blog next week. Good
luck!

  • Bonnie Russell

    Great card! and for thinking of the different ways to use your dies. It helps to get ideas on how to use the dies you have in a new way.
    Bonnie R.

  • Paulette S

    I love timeless products, Julia, that will do double duty and typically, that is how I shop and choose what to purchase. Unless, I have extra money to spend any way I want or win and gift card and then I will shop for the holiday coming up and get something I don't have yet. Which might be wierd. LOL Great baby card. Earliest memory…hmmm…probably 3 years old…my favorite thing to do was push my tricycle up the driveway (a steep gravel incline) and free wheel back down with my feet up in the air because the pedals went too fast for them! I also would ride my bike on the car port over the water hose because it was fun and bumpy, I rode over to the screen door and tried to open it to tell mama something, and my bike tipped and I cut my forehead on a huge pickling jar. How about getting my arm caught in the roller on the washing machine, even though mama told me not to put my hand in the rollers! Or touching the clothes iron, even though Mama told me it was Hot! Or Don't park your horse on the heater grate. He never rolled again and I loved riding him!! LOL It was a traumatic year! Don't isn't in my vocabulary. Thanks, Paulette S.
    craftqueen417 at yahoo dot com
    https://paulettesprettypapercrafts dot wordpress dot com

  • Angela

    My earliest childhood memory is of seeing my Grandma and Grandpa get off an airplane. They had gone to Spain. I was so glad to see them. I remember it very vividly!

  • D-

    My earliest childhood memory was visiting my Grandma and Grandpa's house. They kept a wooden chest full of toys and things for us to play with when we went there. One year, when I was grown, my Grandma gave me the chest. Minus the toys. Sadly they were long gone.
    Crafty hugs,
    Dawn
    DesignsByDragonfly.blogspot

  • Taunya Butler

    Awesome card with wonderful details – love it!!! My earliest childhood memory is not being able to sleep one night and going to find my dad at work at his drawing table – he pulled me on his lap and sang me a little country song – It started " I love little baby ducks" – I have since found out that it is sung by Tom T Hall and that he was one of my dad's favorite singers!!!

  • Denise Bryant

    Darling card! Love the layering and that sweet bunny!
    Earliest memory…. hmmm. can't think of one thing in particular, but I do have special photos of me at a theme park that took awhile for me to place where it was taken. It was Disneyland in its early years! I was born the same year the park opened, so I was probably only about 3 or 4 at the time. And to this day, Disneyland still holds all the magic for me as it did then.

  • Jean Bullock

    My earliest childhood memory was when I was a tiny baby in my bassinet. I remember the sides of the bassinet. My eyes were closed but not all the way closed so I could see the shadowy images of two people. One was my mother. I know this because I remember hearing her tell the other person "She's sleeping." That's the earliest memory I have.

  • Robin B.

    I think I was in kindergarten and I remember a group of us would play hanging games on the monkey bars. One time I lost my grip and fell, I didn't break anything but I bit my tongue and I remember it bleeding a lot but I didn't need stitches.

  • Gregsgirl's crafty corner

    I was in kindergarten sitting on the floor singing songs and when I stood up I had ants in my pants – literally!!!! I remember I had white panties on under my dress and when I stood up I had a few ants on me, I wasn't scared I started laughing. Needless to say my mom took me home and I never went back to that Kindergarten haha.

  • Shona Chambers

    Blimey, that's a long time ago……I do remember (and my Mum confirms) that when I was around 2yrs old they gave me a kitten for Xmas in a baby pram. I picked it up by the neck and carried it around before they realised and rescued it (thankfully not injured). Tuppence and I were the best of friends and a few years later when my Mum took me and my brother to Australia for 4 weeks (to visit family) Tuppence sat at the gate waiting for me to come back. He wouldn't eat or drink and eventually he had to be put down because no one could ease his missing me. So sad…….

  • Camille L

    What a sweet and adorable card!
    I barely remember my childhood memories, but the one that I'll never forget is that I received a puppy as a gift when I started to go to the nursery school.

  • SHartl

    The funny thing is that I don't have any memories of childhood until I was about 4! I remember playing at preschool with my friends and pretending that we were characters in a TV show. I also remember our first pet, a sweet kitty named Tina.
    Speaking of pets, we also had rabbits when I got a bit older so these bunny dies are really sweet to see!

  • Sherry Butcher

    early childhood my grandfather raised rabbits. Loved to "help" take care of them. Thanks for sharing.

  • Amy C.

    Earliest childhood memory…wow, probably lots of fun times with my grandma!

  • Miriam Prantner

    What a sweet card! Loving all those great layers!

  • Ruby N

    One of my earliest childhood memories is on VHS! LOL it's shortly after we came to the U.S. and it's just a typical day in our lives…my dad even recorded us going on a car ride! Too cute!

  • Gloria

    I remember sitting on the curb, at about 4 years old, fishing down the sewer using a string on the end of a stick with a safety pin attached. I actually enjoyed my childhood.

  • Julie Ann

    My earliest memory I can remember was going to my Grandparents house for the weekend once. We played and went to the park then went for icecream. Ahhh the simplier times.

  • loulou

    Now this is stretching back into the Jurassic, but my first memories are of sitting in a little blow up pool in our Kingswood backyard with my baby sister and our neighbours. My little sister is only 18 months younger so I don't really have memories of her until I was nearly 4. But Mum always said when my sister was really sick as a baby and in hospital and I was about 2yrs old that I wanted the light on while I slept because I was afraid the white coats had taken my sister away and would never return her. Before that and ever since I have loved total pitch blackness at bedtime.

  • StampNK

    My earliest childhood memory is of my youngest sister coming home from the hospital as a newborn. I was 5 years old and I remember thinking that her face looked red and squashed and that she cried too much! I wasn't very impressed, to say the least. We are now great friends as adults but all I could think of her at the time was that I wished she'd leave!!
    These bunny dies and the cards are just adorable and so fun for spring!

  • Maye M.L

    You are getting us to look back in time! Memories are a bit fuzzy at times, especially when I am tired like today. There is a fond memory that while not the earliest, is great. It includes my mom taking me to buy school supplies, and us having "grown-up" lunches at a restaurant. Enchanting!
    Love this card. This charming bunny and papers are perfect for this season of new arrivals among several of our friends. Thanks for the inspiration.
    Cheers

  • Larissa Heskett

    I was a HUGE FAN of my Baby Sister when my Parents brought her home from the Hospital!! I would help my mom and I just WATCHED and LEARNED soaking up EVERY little thing I could!! When she was about 9 months old (I was 2 1/2) I finally decided I had WAITED LONG enough and I was going to give her a Baby!! I sat her in the Middle of the Living Room floor while my mom was around the corner folding clothes and grabbed the WHOLE ENTIRE bottle of Baby Shampoo!! I removed the ENTIRE LID and just poured it over her as she sat on the Living Room Floor (carpet)!! She started to Scream and I was like what is gong on!!?? My mom came running in and she just couldn't believe her eye!! She did pause to take a couple Pictures though and too this day it is still a UN conversation!! My Sister thinks its CRAZY that mom stopped to take a Picture especially when you can tell by the Photo that she was REALLY UPSET!! =) HAHAHAHAHA I LOVE old Pictures/Memories/Stories and the Pictures that go along with them!! Such a SWEET Card!! I LOVE the Design!! THANKS SO MUCH for sharing and have a Fabulous Week!! =)

  • Linda Carson

    Adorable card! One of my earliest memories is going to a store and buying 3 huge dips of ice cream on one cone for 10 cents!! That was memorable for a little girl!!

  • Cynthia Clark

    I love bunnies and their fluffy tails!

  • Mary Decker

    You are a classy lady with very classy work! The colors you chose are heavenly. I sure do love the little rabbit and the sentiment. I envision its recipient getting a big smile on her face. And when her daughter is older and can see the card that was made for her, she will be so appreciative!

    Great work, great blog. You are an artist!

  • Eva Wierzbinski

    One of my favorite memories is: in the summer, after taking a bath and putting on crisp cotton pajamas, I would sit on the front porch with my father and people watch. It was just the 2 of us on the porch ( my brother and sisters were inside with my mother) . It was peaceful and a beautiful memory I will never forget.

  • Christine Kosmak

    One of my earliest memories was of going with my father to take my brother lunch when he started school. My brothers lunch consisted of a pie, doughnut and a bottle of coke! My brother promptly ate the doughnut first!! I also remember having a tantrum because I wanted to stay at the school with my brother!! (my brother was 18 months older than me and died after having a brain bleed in March). Some other memories around the same time are of going out to the back yard and pulling carrots out of the ground and washing them under the tap and crunching on the juicy fresh carrots!! There are a couple of others but this comment would be too long!! This is a gorgeously creative card and I will have to see what ideas I can come up with too!! Thanks for the chance of winning a little to spend on TE for my stash!!

  • Michele Henderson

    I just LOVE your sweet bunny card! One of my earliest memories was watching the very first moon landing with my parents when I was about 3 years old. I remember seeing it on TV and hearing my dad telling me Look, it's Neil Armstrong! Later, I could name all the astronauts and facts about the moon mission! My parents were so proud!

  • Merritt

    riding in a booster seat in the car.

  • Ruthie

    I agree that bunnies should be out more than just Easter. Beautiful card! When ever I moved and needed to pack my bunny collection up, I would poke holes in the paper so they could breath! Silly me!!

    My earliest memory is when my Mom baked she always let me lick the spoon and bowl! Yummy!! Thanks for a chance to win !

  • ionabunny

    Love that sweet little bunny. Not so good on memories. I do remember investigating a post card stand and suddenly they were all over the floor. I had to hide behind my dad's legs to get away from the irate shop owner. No wonder I remember that!! Hugz

  • MCgal

    I remember running around the house laughing and my parents chasing me. My mom catches me, holds my arm tightly and a big flash. For some reason they wanted a picture of me at 2 years old. You can see her arm in the picture. I guess this was the only way they could take my picture.

  • irisesther54

    I don't have very many memories of my childhood. It was a long time ago. I do remember my kindergarten teacher. I really loved her.

  • Ruth Dupchen

    I remember the day my Mother told me that she was going to have a baby. She told me that I was going to have a little brother or sister to play with. I was so excited! I can still see that day in my head. I even remember the clothes that I was wearing and exactly what I was doing when she told me. It was a boy and I loved taking care of him. To this day I have a special bond with him. I was almost 4 years old.

  • Jean

    Wow – this is gorgeous! Absolutely love all the layers and details. I have a twin sister who seems to remember many more of our childhood details than I do. I remember hitting her in the nose with a shovel in the winter. We were helping and she kept backing up and when I swung the shovel, she was tight behind me.

    Thanks for the inspiration!

  • Amy A

    I remember my first day of Kindergarten….My mom walked me up to the class holding my hand. I Look at the room full of kids, to her, back to the room. I Say "Ok….Bye Mommy!!" and scamper off to play with the kids. But I look back and my mom is in tears, so I run back over to her. Nudge her down to my level and whisper, "It's ok Mommy, you can have me back later!" Kiss her cheek and rush off again. :o)

  • Melissa F

    Super sweet baby card, love it! One of my earliest memories is reading in the comfy chair with my dad, I can still smell his after shave though he has been gone for many years now.

  • Darla

    One of my earliest childhood memories was being in the hospital with pneumonia when I was 2!

  • Gina Furman

    Such an adorable card! Love the fluffy tail! My earliest memory is from when I was about 3, watching my Mom walk down the aisle at her wedding. I wanted to see her after she went past, so I leaned out…and fell into the aisle. Now THAT got some attention! lol

  • Aartje

    Love the cute bunnie. It remembers me my grandfather. He had some bunnies and sometimes we could play with them. We sit on the grass and love them. They are so sweet and soft.
    Hugs Aartje

  • Jennifer

    Cute card! My earliest memory is getting lost a the movie theater because I wanted to see Snow White but couldn't, so I wandered off in protest!

  • D. Suzanne Cox

    I remember being in Kindergarten and being chosen to be in the Christmas program (as an angel!) The entire school participated, but
    you were only in it once. The wings and halo seemed HUGE!

  • Stephanie

    I remember I had the biggest bycicle in Kindergarden! And although I was only 3 years old and among the youngest (the oldest were 6), my PINK (of course!) bike -which I got from the neighbour's girl when she grew ou of it- was GIGANTIC in comparison to all other bikes in Kindergarden & I loved it so much! Needless to say that I couldn't even hop on it without my dad lifting me up, but I could ride it! ? yours, Steph
    http://www.CraftedBySteph.blogspot.com

  • Martha

    My earliest childhood memory is my great grandparents 75th wedding anniversary celebration. I was about three. They seemed so old to me! There was a beautifully decorated cake. All their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren were there. It was 62 years ago, and I remember it like yesterday.

  • Mary-Anne V

    Wow my earliest childhood memory was my old house where I lived when I was 4-5 years old…I remember playing in the yard and learning how to tie my shoe laces. gorgeous card..love how you used bunnies in this new way.

  • Mutzy Mia

    I remember riding my tricycle with a glass jar of sand on the back. Didn't get far before the jar fell off and broke and sand went everywhere. I remember getting in trouble for it and I think there was also a cut involved from trying to pick up the broken glass and not understanding how sharp it can be! Thanks for the chance to win.

  • Carey Nusbaum

    I remember playing with my Papaw on the living room floor with my new chalkboard. I just loved him so much! I was almost 6 when he died. It was the first time I saw my Dad cry. I kept asking my Mom when Papaw was going to wake up. I know this is a sad, but he was my world and vice versa. Plus, my name was his mother's maiden name, as well as his middle name. I miss Papaw very much, but he is always in my heart! Thank you for the giveaway!

  • Tona

    What a sweet card!
    My earliest memory…that's a tough one. I remember not liking to lay on a hard mat to take a nap in kindergarten, (yes, that was a long time ago 😉

  • Princess Judy Palmer

    I love bunnies and agree that they are perfect for any occasion!

    My earliest childhood memory is very frightening–being left in an iron crib in a dimly lit hall and a lady in a white uniform and cap walking away from me. It sounds like I was in a hospital, oddly enough I never asked about it. For a fun memory I remember time spent with my two best friends when I was pre-kindergarten age. They were much older than me-6th graders? junior high? and one time they walked me up to their school and showed me around. I was so impressed to be in the big kids' school.

  • D.Ann

    Sweet… especially with that cotton tail!
    My earliest memory is of looking waaayyy up at mountains of donuts that my grandmother was making, stacked high on the countertop.

  • Mrs. GraceWorks

    I remember jumping in the lake as a little girl – maybe 3 or 4? I thought I'd like to go swimming like the "big kids" (my older brothers and sisters) and I didn't know why everyone was so upset with me when they had to jump in after me. I didn't even realize they had rescued me!! LOL!!

    Thanks for the chance!

    Tricia

  • KT Fit Kitty

    I love bunnies all year 'round too! As for earliest childhood memory, most of mine are bad – very rough childhood – and I'd rather not think about it again. I'm sure there were some happy moments but I can't remember any.

  • Mel

    Eating potato chips on my first bus ride to Columbia. I was probably about 2 and a half.

  • Theresa

    Great card, Julia. Very soft and pretty! My earliest childhood memory is of the lights on the Christmas tree. Way back then, we had the "sugared" lights with all of the beautiful colors. Love those lights!

  • ScrapaDiddle

    This release rocks! Earliest memory was going to the local pool to learn how to swim. Still love to swim now! The cards your team is making are wonderful!

  • Mary

    I love the way that you used the Build a tag 3 on your card. The possibilities are endless with that die. What a lovely card. 🙂

    Mary from NH

  • Sue D

    sweet card. Earliest childhood memory is loving the play kitchen at Kindergarten.

  • Beverly Perdue

    My earliest childhood memory was when I was 5 or 6. My sister and I would hear the ice cream truck coming through our neighborhood and would run to get the blue elephant bank. We would start shaking it hard to get 12 cents to buy two ice creams. That is a precious memory!

  • Laraine R

    Cute card! I remember as a kid the birthday parties would have with family!

  • inkspell

    I remember that my mom will buy us a new dress for my little sister and me, like every week, so we can go to church with a new dress on Sundays! Nice right?…Gina F

  • Christina Hor

    I grew up living in a refugee camp in Thailand from age 5 until 9 before the government approved our sponsorship by my uncle to come to the U.S. So my early childhood was 360 degree opposite of what my friends grew up knowing. I didn't know what running water, electricity, TV or that kids get to have their birthday celebrated since that was only been done for grown ups only to celebrate long life. So on my first day in the U.S. (Illinois) in our new home, I was mesmerized by the lights and the TV. I remembered climbing up on the bathroom sink countertop and staring right up at the wall light as I flap the light switch on and off and later on just sat up closed to the TV screen for hours until my mom pulled me away. These things were like magic to me and a privilege.

  • Rebecca Ednie

    I remember sitting in a cart in the mall when I was two. I remember asking my mom if we could go look at the pet store. I even remember the little pink outfit I was wearing.

  • Lisa K

    I remember walking to town when I was 4 or 5. No body was home and I was dropped off by the school bus; they were supposed to take me to Grandma's house. So, I remembered the way. I had to rest on a rock and that is where my Mom found me. I love the card Julia made. I need to take her advice and think outside of the box and see what my stamps and dies and create.

  • Liz Gessner McAllister

    My first memory is very vague. I was sitting on a back wooden porch with a brown railing and my brothers were playing in the stone driveway. It was a rental house and that is my only memory from before I was 4~ Not very exciting!

  • Nancy

    My birthday is January 2, and my earliest memory is celebrating my birthday on New Year's day with hats, noisemakers, and of course my mom's homemade pound cake!

  • Louise

    My earliest memory was being in a playpen in the living room as my Mom was giving my older sister piano lessons. (She's 8 years older.) The playpen was from the 1950's and wood. I remember trying to escape by pushing the floor pad aside, pulling the floor board up and weaseling under and out. God bless her! She had her hands full with me!

  • Lynn Gauthier

    I remember one Christmas after we opened presents, my Mom took me by the hand and we walked out in the garage. She told me that she thought Santa dropped one of my presents and Lo and Behold, there on the floor of the garage was a package of underwear. Boy, did I ever believe in Santa. And, I sure miss my Mom!
    Lovely, lovely card with so much scrumptious details. So very nicely done! Thanks for sharing with us!

  • Mandee Teel

    I remember reading Beatrix Potter, and also watching the cartoons as a child. I too adored that little rabbit family! 🙂 This card is absolutely beautiful! Thank you for the chance to win!

  • Gramma Dee

    My childhood was a L O N G time ago! I remember a circle skirt someone had given me as a hand me down. It was too big for me: went all the way to my ankles. But I loved it! Would put it on and go outside to dance, twirling around and watching the skirt swirl out around me. My mom decided that if I liked the skirt so much, she would cut it down to size and rehem it. A lot of work I am sure. But I never really loved the skirt so much after that 🙁

  • ionabunny

    Congrats Stephanie. Hugz

  • grammypat

    Congrats Stephanie !!

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