Getting ready for Easter

I have mentioned that I love PTI stamps and everything they offer..well over a year ago, one of the designers came up with a mason jar idea and sketched out several jar 'toppers' along with things to place inside the jar...like daisies, marbles, paint brushes, silverware, then they came up with "Fall Jar Fillers, which included stamps for Thanksgiving and halloween...such as a broom with boots...pumpkins with leaves, candy corn and sticks for those yummy caramel apples or pumpkin candies...and lots of sentiments, too!  They were not done with this Friendship Jar series...next came the Holiday Fillers with candy canes, snowmen, marhsmallows, sugar star cookies, snowflakes and peppermint candies...and again lots of sentiments.   We were not to be disappointed when the next series came out that included such stamps for Valentines and Easter...since valentines is passed, I have made a few cards for Easter...here are a couple of them.  Again, I have used some sketches so that I could also use my sewing machine...and I love the dies, so I used several of them on each card.

Those cute little Easter Eggs are from this Spring Jar Fillers set..

Friendship Jar and the Flutter by Friends...

I love the Friendship Jar stamp set...I think I have mentioned that before...it comes with a die for the jar and a die for the lid, and then it also has a die for decorative toppers you might put around the ring of the jar...but for this card, I just used the jar...without the lid...and my other favorite stamp set (well, let's face it, I have a lot of favorite sets that I just love..) is Flutter by Friends...so I put a little butterfly and some flowers and a stem inside the jar...but...one "friend" escaped...and then another little friend (the snail) is coming to check things out..the inside of the card reads:  are the joy of life.  So true...Friends are the joy of life and these two little flutter by friends will soon be out playing tag with each other...

Friendship Jar fillers

I am anxiously awaiting my new stamp set from PTI...Friendship Jar Spring fillers set...it is loaded with goodness to color...valentines (I know a little late on that this year!) but more flowers...crocus or tulips...and then Easter goodies...like eggs...bunnies, sentiments...lots of wonderful little goodies to tuck into the jar and to practice coloring with those copics!


I just received some new copics and was very anxious to try my hand at coloring...these flowers were actually colored last summer...the bottom left flower was colored, cut and popped out on the card.  I was thinking this would be like giving a bouquet of flowers to a friend...flowers cut from the yard.....will have to wait a few months for beauties like these to be blooming in the yard!