Bunnies and Pine

For last week's OSA layout challenge with an Easter theme, I decided to use the Whispering Rabbits stamp from Art Neko as my main image. In keeping with the layout design, I stamped the bunnies in black ink on an oval cut-out. The entire image wouldn't fit inside the oval, so I inked only part of the stamp. The bunnies create a great image left perfectly plain in black and white, but I added a little very pale color with pencils (pink shading on the bunnies and greens on the pine and grass). I edged the oval with a faint touch of pink, then mounted it to a rose colored panel layered with gold. In my stash of washi papers, I found a very springy cherry-blossom design, and chose a section of the page that would enclose the bunnies in flowers. I cut a panel to fit the folded cardstock, attached it to a pink panel and then to the card. I cut a strip of the rose colored cardstock the width of the decorated panels, and attached it horizontally. I then added two gold, scalloped rub-on strips and layered the bunny panel over it.

Hippity Hop.....

This card uses bunnies from our Fox and Bunnies sheet and a background from our Washi Papers collection. The bunnies were stamped on a scrap of water color paper and a damp brush was used with water color pencils to color in the bunnies, sky and grass. This piece was trimmed and layered on black and then mustard cs, which was then layered on the bunny washi paper and finally layered on mustard cs blank card, landscape orientation. Japanese papers often reflect prints that are used on kimono fabrics. As the kimono are constructed from strips of cloth that run vertically from the bottom in the front to the bottom in the back, with no shoulder seam, patterns are usually printed so that they will have motifs that are both right side up on the front and upside down on the back and upside down on the front and right side up on the back. This sometimes requires playing a bit with the larger sheet of paper to find the right section to trim off for a background.

Bunnies

This is a very simple card that takes a classic image and repurposes it as an Easter card. Stamp Hiroshige Moon Viewing Rabbits in black ink, and emboss with either clear or detail black embossing powder if you like. Sponge gold and red inks to color the moon, and add color to the landscape with pastels. I trimmed the image into a rectangle, then cut around the moon so it is partially outside the frame and edged the entire image with black ink. The bunny frame is then layered onto purchased scrapbook paper, gold, and black cardstocks. Adding another panel with a springtime washi design completes the design. The washi panel is backed with black and attached to folded white cardstock.