Hoppy Easter Card and Finding Inspiration

Where do you find inspiration? Inspiration is defined as the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative. I find inspiration in patterns on clothing as well as everyday items. The card I am sharing was inspired by 3 little, gold bunnies I purchased at Target for my Spring decorating.

Aren’t they so sweet? I thought it would be fun to create an Easter card incorporating a gold bunny. Here is the card I designed.

Card Recipe:

I started by stamping the bunnies from Tim Holtz’s Spring Shadows with embossing ink and then sprinkled GinaK Fine Detail embossing powder. I heat set and fussy cut one of the bunnies. I love how they turned out.

Die Cutting:

Next, I die cut some greenery using Sizzix Holiday Brushstroke die set. I die cut some items out of Bonsai green card stock and some from Cougar White Smooth card stock. I ink blended Ranger Peeled Paint Distress Oxide onto the white die cuts.

I die cut an oval from Spellbinders Infinity Punch and Pierce Plate out of Cougar 80# White Smooth card stock. I wanted to add a bit more gold to my card, so I decided to stitch through the center holes on the die cut using gold thread. This was the perfect amount of shine and tied in nicely with the gold, embossed bunny.

I cut a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ panel from Cougar 80# white Smooth card stock. I carefully laid out all of the element in order to see where I should stamp the sentiment. Then, I stamped the sentiment from Spellbinders Gnome Drive Sentiment stamp set toward the bottom of the panel. I also decided to add a bit of ink blending behind the oval. This card stock is so smooth and easy to ink!

Next, I added dimensional, foam square adhesive to the back of the oval and placed it on the card, adhered the greenery and finally, the bunny. I added a few foam squares to the head portion of the bunny so that he had stability and lined up with the popped up oval.

Lastly, I adhered the decorated panel to a Cougar A2 card base.

I love all of the dimension and am very pleased with how this turned out. I would love to know if you like it and I’d also like to know where you find your inspiration.