Serendipity Stamps Blog

…is spring cards!    At least that’s what I keep telling myself.   (Today it’s snowing here in Missouri – again.   So far it looks like about 8″ piled up on the BBQ grill.   Won’t be needing THAT for a while!)   I’ve been sending lots of Easter cards your way the last couple of weeks so I thought I’d change it up a bit and throw in some cards here and there that show our new spring line of stamps.   Serendipity’s incredible design team just completed their February Challenge, which was – you guessed it – Spring!  The card below was created by Lynda Benden.    Lynda used our new Table For Two Cling Set 1200QCL.  Notice that cute awning she put over the table?   Lynda is so creative!

Here’s our other adorable chick stamp.   840E Chick With Tulip or the cling set 840QCL, which includes “Celebrate Each Day” and “Thinking of You”.  This first sample is an amazing diarama from Holly Craft.   The stamps she uses in addition to the Chick are Bunny Artist, Happy Easter, Easter Wreath Small, and Jeanie’s Easter Basket.

The next card is from Sue Eldred – she included the Easter Flower Corner with the chick. 

The next card is from Amy Cokley – it’s a whole parade of chicks!

In a month or so the farm supply stores around here will start stocking chicks.  I’m sure it’s not politically correct – even though I think they’ve stopping dying them different colors for Easter.   But I can’t help it – I love the chicks!   Our chickens are 2 years old now, and maybe we’ll re-stock with some new chicks this year.   But then we have to decide – more Buff Orpingtons and Araucana’s or something new and exotic like a Sumatra?   Oh decisions, decisions….Until then I’ll just have to make do with my little Serendipity Chicks.   Today we’re looking at 841E – Chick with Egg, also available in the cling set 841QCL, which includes “Cheep Cheep” and Jelly Beans. 

The first card is from Sue Eldred – she also used “Cheep Cheep” which is included in the 841QCL cling set.

The card below is from Lynda Benden.

And the last card is from Carolyn Hurst, who creatively combined the chick with 842F Easter Flower Corner.

And one more from Lynda Benden.

We have a bit of a twisted history with the Easter Bunny in our family.   My husband is a hunter – and bunnies are sometimes on his list of prey (but usually only as a last resort – if he just can’t find anything else to shoot, squirrels fall into a similar category).   ANYWAY – as the girls run around the yard hunting eggs, my husband yells threats that he’ll shoot that Easter Bunny for hiding all of the eggs we worked so hard dying!   But no one, not even my husband, would shoot a bunny as adorable as this little guy.   The Sleeping Bunny Cling Set – 983QCL includes a lovely Laura Ingalls Wilder quote.   Or you can get the same stamp individually – 983E – Sleeping Bunny.  As you can see, this stamp would be great for baby cards as well as Easter cards.

The card below was made by Lynda Benden.

The card below was made by Carolyn Hurst.  She also used 706D Happy Easter and if you look closely at the background you’ll shadow stamping of butterflies and Easter Eggs.  

The card below was made by Sue Eldred.  She also used 617B Thinking of You Small.

And last, but not least, is another card from Lynda Benden.

Here are three adorable cards made using  843H Easter Tree .  The cling set, 843QCL, come with the word stamp Happy Easter.

This first one is made by Jennifer Woodward.

The next is by Sue Eldred.

And last, but not least is one by Carolyn Hurst. 

Each year my family attends the Easter Vigil at our church.   It’s a beautiful candle-lit service held on Easter Eve.   We belong to the Episcopal Church, which is rich with traditions such as incense, bee’s wax candles, and beautiful vestments.    It’s a joyous service, followed by a big feast and party, complete with parishoner Bev Rogencamp’s traditional Lamb Cake!   And each year, after the Easter season of the church ends, those who wish to, may take home the Easter Lilies that have decorated the alter and plant them in our gardens.   The Cross With Lilies – 984F image is a beautiful rendition of these lilies.   The 984QCL Cling set comes with “He is Risen” and “Alleluiah”.   Below are two cards made with the Cross with Lilies image.  The first is by Carolyn Hurst and the second, by Yvonne Hagane.

The next card is another from Carolyn Hurst.

Easter is on April 4th this year.   So you still have lot’s of time to work on Easter cards.   But….I have lots of Easter Cards to show you, so I thought I’d go ahead and get started.   Several years ago a fellow stamper mentioned that she had a hard time finding Easter themed stamps.  Well you don’t have to tell me something twice (OK – some times you do, but not in this case).   Since then Serendipity Stamps has created dozens of stamps for Easter – both secular and non-secular.  And one of the most popular of all time is our set of Easter Eggs.    I worked with McGill Punches to create these stamps AND a punch to punch them out.   Eggs are NOT oval shaped – they’re EGG shaped.   You can get the stamps in the large size, which are approx. 2 1/8″ tall – these coordinate with the McGill Super Giant Egg Punch.   The small eggs are approx. 1 1/4″ tall (there is no coordinating punch for the small eggs).   The eggs are available mounted on a wood cube – but honestly, the best way to order them is unmounted or on cling cushion.   Use these links to see the  685QCL Easter Eggs Large Cling Set, the Super Giant Egg Punch, and 849QCL Easter Eggs Small Cling Set.  The Egg Punch is available in limited numbers so don’t wait too long to order!   Notice that one of the eggs is simply a speckled bird egg – which of course you can use all year long.   Now – the designs….

Easter Egg Paint Bucket by Kelli Richardson.

Easter Egg Duo by Sue Eldred

Easter Egg Happy Spring by Sue Eldred

Shrink Plastic Easter Egg Shaker by Amy Cokley

Small Easter Egg Card by Sue Eldred

I know, I know – the last quickie sale has been on the website for a month!    But this one won’t – it’ll be gone Monday Feb. 8th.   So what’s on sale you ask?  Our Heart Deco Cling set – 979QCL is 50% off – just $7.48.    This image is a great one for 3D layering!  Check out the cards below the set.

The card below was made by Sue Eldred using the Heart Deco image from 969QCL as well as 554E Be My Valentine.

The card below was made by Carolyn Hurst using the Heart Deco image from 969QCL  and 556E Hugs and Kisses.

I recently added the new spring line of stamps to the our shopping website – www.serendipitystamps.com.   To see them all just go to the New Stamps section.  To give you a little inspiration I’ve included two adorable cards created by the Serendipity Stamps Design Team.  Both of these cards were created using our new adorable Skunk – 1203G, which you can purchase as an individual stamp or as the cling set 1203QCL.    The set comes with both the skunk and the word stamp Scent With Love – 1204D. 

The first card was created by Kathie Bailey – wouldn’t this make a great Valentine’s Day card?.

And the second card was created by Amy Cokley.   These bright colors are just the thing for a day like today, when all I see out my window is white snow!

Oh – and did I say something about a Quickie Sale?   Just in time for a last minute Valentine – get our Heart Deco Cling Set – 969QCL for 50% off – just $7.28 (normally $14.95!).

OK – I admit it – this time of year you’re more likely to find me knitting than stamping.   That’s because all my stamping stuff is in the basement – and it’s about 50 degrees in the basement right now!   The other  night I went to “Knitting Night” at church.   Oh it was fun and so inspiring!   There were folks there just learning, folks like me who’ve been knitting for a few years, and there were a couple of ladies who are just plain amazing.    My friend Nina puzzled through a pattern I’ve had for over 10 yrs and have been too intimidated to try.   After an hour or so she’d worked it out and declared, of all things, that it was fun!   I have gotten lazy about my crafting.   If something is hard I just don’t try it.   My excuse is that there is just too much else in life that’s hard.   But that’s balony isn’t it?   Sure - taxes are hard, figuring out computer problems is hard, and so is raising 3 teenage daughters.   But knitting?   Stamping?   Cooking?   They’re not hard – they’re fun!  The card below was made by Sue Eldred using 478F – Yarn Basket.   Other knitting themed images are 759D Knitting and 850B – Hand Knit By (on the $ sale right now!).