TRHD May Inspiration Hop-Day 2

It is day 2 of new release inspiration blog hop and giveaway at The Rabbit Hole Designs!  For my card, I'm featuring two new products.  The first new product is the stamp set is Otter Play, illustrated by Agota Pop.  There are also some cute otters in the stamp set but this time I choose to go with the vacationing crab.  I feel like him exactly right now because it is April 25 and we've got snow falling.  All I can think of is going somewhere warm for vacation 😁

The background is made using the new Making Waves stencil.  This stencil has different wave patterns on all four sides, which I think is amazing.  No other stencils that I have are like that.  I used three of the four sides and several blues to create a wavy background. I made another card where I blotted  white pigment ink over some of the waves for a little bit of ocean foam but that card is for another day. 😜

The for the sand, I used a brown card stock and stamped on some sandy texture with a stamp I had in my stash.  

The crab and the vacation sign are colored with Caran D'Anche Pablo pencils, which are quickly becoming my favorite.  

 Here is the list of blogs that you can check out to find more inspiration from this stamp set!

The Rabbit Hole Designs

Erin <<You are here

Tracy S.

Amanda

Deana

 The Rabbit Hole Designs is hosting a giveaway to celebrate this new release.  Here are the details! 

GIVEAWAYS:

To celebrate the May 2023 release, The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away two savings vouchers; one to a lucky Instagram follower and one to a lucky Facebook Fan Page follower.

The winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on the Instagram post, and tagging friends, and also from commenting on the Fan Page post. So make sure to head on over to Instagram and the Fanpage, look for the giveaway post. Must comment by 11:59 pm PST 04-27-2023

@therabbitholedesignsllc

and look for the post at

The Rabbit Hole Designs Fan Page

Winners will be contacted via DM for the Instagram winner and announced in the Facebook

Fan Page for the Fan Page follower winner on 04-28-2023

TRHD May Inspiration Hop-Day 1

Hello! Welcome to day 1 of the inspiration hop for the new release at The Rabbit Hole Designs! The release this month includes some really adorable stamps and a super cool stencil. Today I'm featuring a card that I made using the Lovely Lilies stamp set with coordinating dies, illustrated by Kelly Taylor. 
For the background, I used the Back Alley stencil (an older stencil from The Rabbit Hole Designs) and inked some brown ink onto a light brown cardstock. I stamped the sentiment, also from the Lovely Lilies stamp set, directly onto the background.


I colored the lily with oranges and yellows from my new colored pencils set, Caran D'Anche Pablo. This was my first time using them and, although I will always love my Prisma pencils, these are definitely giving them some competition. They were super easy to use, the colors are bright, and blended quite well. Pablo pencils have a harder lead than Prismacolors so it was a little easier to get details, especially around the stamen of the flowers.


I mounted the lily onto a yellow circle bordered with

a darker brown and added a few rhinestones for some shine.  

Inspiration Hop Line Up

The Rabbit Hole Designs
Lauren
Jenn
Erin <<You are here
Amy
Essie
Jessica
Amanda
Lydia
Kelly T
Dawn W
Mindy E
Bobbi H
Deana


Now for the fun stuff!  The Rabbit Hole Designs is hosting a giveaway to celebrate this new release.  Here are the details! 

GIVEAWAYS:

To celebrate the May 2023 release, The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away two savings vouchers; one to a lucky Instagram follower and one to a lucky Facebook Fan Page follower.

The winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on the Instagram post, and tagging friends, and also from commenting on the Fan Page post. So make sure to head on over to Instagram and the Fanpage, look for the giveaway post. Must comment by 11:59 pm PST 04-27-2023

@therabbitholedesignsllc

and look for the post at

The Rabbit Hole Designs Fan Page

Winners will be contacted via DM for the Instagram winner and announced in the Facebook

Fan Page for the Fan Page follower winner on 04-28-2023

Halloween Crafts All Year 'Round #3

 Hello!  Today marks a new challenge at Halloween Crafts All Year 'Round and I'm excited to be joining them as a guest designer for this current challenge.  I love Halloween and I think its fun to pull out some Halloween stamps right around the time that most people are finishing up with easter cards.  

For my card, I used a fun monster stamp and colored him with alcohol markers.  I added a little frame around him for some dimension and a halloween themed paper in the back ground.  

The Halloween Crafts all Year 'Round is a fairly new challenge so I'd love it if you joined the challenge and shared it with your crafty friends!  Challenge details and design team inspiration can be found on the blog.

Get Creative #120

 The new challenge at Get Creative Challenges is underway and the theme is Springtime Blues.  I've posted cards made with this Gnome Matter What stamp set from Simon Says Stamp before but I keep going back to it.  I guess that means I like it 😆 I colored the gnome with alcohol markers and stamped the sentiment in a dark blue. After I already had the card front made, I realized that it would have been cuter if I'd made the center part of the card into a shaker. THEN I realized that I still had the brand new A2 Acetate Shaker sheets from the Rabbit Hole Design sitting on my desk from the project I was working on earlier.  It is so fast to turn any A2 card front into a shaker!  I finished it by adding a blue sequin mix. 

I hope you'll join us at Get Creative Challenges for the challenge this month!  Challenge details and design team inspiration can be found at the Get Creative Challenges blog. 

Once Upon a Time # 9

 I can't believe it is April already and we are finally moving into some spring weather!  As always, the beginning of the month brings the start of a new challenge at Once Upon a Time Challenge Blog.  If you haven't heard of this challenge before, it is super fun and I love it.  The theme every month is a different children's book.  The challenge is to make a card (or other craft project) that is inspired by the current book cover.  I think the reason I love this challenge so much is because my kids are all too old for me to read bedtime stories to anymore and the books in this challenge are often very nostalgic for me.  This month the book is Corduroy by Don Freeman and was originally written in 1968.  I can't even begin to guess how many times I've read this book to my all three of my kids.  I think there was probably a time when I barely needed the words because it was committed to my memory.  

I decided to mimic the cover of the book by using a bear dressed in green and with a red background.  The bear stamp and sentiment are both from The Stamps of Life, although they came from two different stamp sets.

I hope you'll join us this month for the challenge at Once Upon a Time Challenge Blog!  Challenge details and design team inspiration can be found on the blog.