Cards of Easters Past

As I have done for all of the other holidays I regularly make cards for, here are my cards from my Easters past:

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011's card is already on my blog, so you can find that post HERE.

 

So there they are! I like being able to go on my blog and use it as a resource to remember what I've done for past holidays. I also love seeing how my girls have grown into beautiful young ladies. Hope you enjoyed the cards, too! 

Easter Card 2012

Well it's still technically April, so I wanted to post my Easter Card I made for this year before the month is over. I also want to post my past Easter cards as a resource for me, so hopefully I'll get to that before the weekend ends.

Here is my VERY SIMPLE Easter card 2012:

On the front, a Spring-y photo of my girls ticket cornered

& orchid baker's twined (from Scrappy Moms)

On the inside, I have a strip from the front photo that

had to be cut off. The font is FZ Script 15 Italic.

So simple, huh? Life's been a bit hectic lately but I still wanted to send a card out, so simple was key.

The photo was taken on a beautiful day in March when my daughters and I went on a photo journey at our local arboretum. The three of us were so busy just snapping away and enjoying God's beauty. Yes, the original intent was for me to take Easter photos of my girls during this visit. But much to my delight, my daughters took just as many photos with their camera and iPod as I did. We had such a great time that we re-joined as members of the arboretum. I can't live in Colorado right now, so I guess I have to pay for God's Beauty for now! :)

Here are a few of my photos from that day:

Ahh, just looking at these again makes me remember that unseasonably warm and fun day. It was such a nice treat! God is GOOD.

Have a wonderful remainder to your weekend!

Decorating Easter Cookies!

HE IS RISEN!!
I hope you all had a very nice Easter! Mine was pretty good, but I do admit I was pretty tired all day. Thanks to TX Scrapper Mom's lovely Easter Cookies post from Friday, I had this bug to make Easter cookies of our own with my daughters last night. My youngest helped with the baking of the Pillsbury® Funfetti cookies and then left us for the TV. My oldest stuck with me, though, as she is into baking. By the time we got the hang of decorating with the royal icing, the night was over! And with having to still put together the girls' baskets and eggs for their egg hunt, I ended up going to bed waaaay too late. But we had a lot of fun with these cookies, so I don't regret that time we spent together. Did I mention that the cookies taste really good, too? Yep, that added to their worth!! I placed half of them into Easter goodie bags and gave them to family today at our Easter luncheon.

I hope to get to some crafting this week, so hopefully I will get more posts in soon.

Have a productive and crafty week!

Easter Card 2011

As promised, here is my Easter card that I quickly whipped up last weekend and sent out to close family and friends this past Monday:

Supplies:

• Homemade portraits of my girls and our "Easter Bunny," Snuggles
• Stampin' Up Well Scripted Stamp Set "Happy Easter"
• Stampin' Up Watercolor Trio Stamp Set flowers and butterflies
• Stampin' Up Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise and Old Olive ink/markers
• Martha Stewart Punch
• Crystal Stickles

This is not my favorite Easter card that I've done, but I like it's simplicity. And I'm just so happy that I finally got them done! I've never gotten this close to a holiday before I don't think- yikes! And to think Mother's Day is only 2 1/2 weeks away- double yikes!!

I hope you all have a beautiful Easter celebration this weekend!

Easter Tags

Time is just "hopping" by! I can't believe Easter is this weekend!

Here are some tags I made for gifts to the kids in my family:

I squeaked by with getting my Easter cards done on Sunday night and then mailed off yesterday - phew! That is so unlike me! I will post my card tomorrow.

Have a good Wednesday, my fellow crafters! See you again tomorrow (which is almost today already - yikes)!