Spring Carrot Shaker

Hello crafty friends, June here! Today I’m sharing one of the cards I made using the new Easter release. It’s not an Easter card though, there’s lots of fun products included that can be used for all types of spring related cards. One of my favorites is the Carrot Shaker, which might be meant for an Easter bunny themed card, but it works so well for a normal spring card aswel! 

I cut out my carrot pieces from colored cardstock and did some light ink shading to give it some dimension. I wanted a bit of texture as well, so I splattered some white thinned out acrylic paint on my pieces. I filled my shaker with a combination of the Hippity Hop Mix and the Spring Flowers Mix. I got a bit nitpicky and carefully selected the shaker bits I wanted, because I wanted to keep the color scheme as minimal as I could. 

Okay now, this is the part I’m so excited for! All stencils in this release are totally up my alley, but the Watercolor Oval and Watercolor Rectangle take the cake. These can be used to create a simple watercolor-like color blend in the background, but I wanted to go even further and add a pattern to the shaped window. 

I used both the oval and the Springtime Borders on top of each other to create a pattern that matches my theme. I used 4 stencil total for this as there are 2 layering stencils in the Springtime Borders pack, and both an oval window AND its negative space in the Watercolor Oval pack. It was so much fun seeing this come together! I love layering stencils, but sometimes they’re just a bit too distracting for a full background. I love how I was able to add a green border around my pattern this way so the pattern didn’t take up my entire background panel. I feel like this opens up an entire world for me and I can’t wait to revisit the layering stencils from older releases to do something similar.

To finish up my background, and making it a bit more textured, I added white gel pen details on the pattern and white and green splatters on the border. I used the largest Stitched Torn Rectangle to cut it out because I thought it matched the jagged edges of the stencil really well. I added one of the spring themed sentiments from the Easter Greetings on top of my carrot to finish my card.

And that’s it for today! I just can’t say enough good things about this release. I would’ve never thought an Easter release would be so right up my alley, but here we are! Something about all these new products gets me so ready for springtime!