...Say hello to Nestie Friendly Easter Eggs!!

Kicking off the samples for the March 1st release are samples for one of the new sets releasing next Monday 1st March.

The new set is called Nestie Eggs - geddit, nest eggs??? lol, I can hear you groaning! lol

Anyhow, it's a very special Easter Egg set that has been designed to fit the new Spellbinders Easter eggs dies, a special, limited Edition die set that you can only get from Spellbinders for a short while!! So quick, snap em up.

I thought about doing a limited edition stamp set for this but the egg shapes are so simple to trim out that these will be a standard issue set just like all my others!!! For Nestie junkies like myself the dies will be a lovely compliment but they are not necessary to use this set.

This first card features the largest egg stamp in the set, I previewed a piece of the stamp this morning on my blog, scroll down to see. This large egg lends itself well to different styles, it looks sort of vintage shabby that you can see on this a card, but I can't wait to silver emboss it on rich dark blue and add some wee blingy diamonds to those little intersections between the squares, Faberge style!!!

I stamped the egg in clear versamark onto cream card and then heat embossed in clear embossing powder. Then I sponged the egg all over with Antique Linen Distress ink, then again with Tea Dye distress ink, and finally round the outside edges in Walnut Stain distress ink (all Tim Holtz) - love those inks!!

The clear embossing resists the ink and you get a beautifully detailed egg design standing out gorgeously in cream against the dark background, yum, chocolate egg!

I trimmed this egg out by hand a little way out from the edge of the stamped image, this is what it would look like if you cut it out with the corresponding die. I didn't use my die because it is currently in the cargo hold of an aeroplane speeding towards Ireland as we speak!! LOL, despite pre-ordering from two separate online stores a month ago, they still haven't arrived! lol, That'll teach me, next time I'm ordering direct from Spellbinders!!!

So now you're wondering how on earth I know that these will fit the Spellbinders dies, and I'll tell you. I have magical powers. LOL. No, actually, I managed to get the information I needed to enable me to draw up the stamps to fit. S'all I'm sayin...for now...



So, once the big egg was trimmed out and mounted onto the card front with dimensionals it was time to make that delicious wee label.

No prizes for guessing that's another Spellbinders shape, yep It's labels 3, such a pretty shape. I used stamps from another new set releasing Monday, Vintage Labels No.3. I used a dotty frame to stamp a border around the precut shape. I used to stamp and then cut out but Joan Bardee came up with what I think is an easier way. She cuts the shape first and then uses lo-tack tape to hold the shape to the work surface while stamping, because we're using clear stamps we can perfectly position the frame on the die cut shape.

This is an especially handy way to do it if you intend to heat emboss with powder as I did here.

Once the heat embossed dots were cool I went back and stamped again with another label stamp right on top of the dots. Because the dots are clear embossed, they resist the ink and the result was a pretty vintage style frame with cream accent dots. I sponged with all the shades of distress inks mentioned before.

The sentiment is one of two included in the new Nestie Eggs stamp set, A wee cream bow and some vintage style lace finished it off nicely. I love how this turned out!!


Today's other card features a wee speckled egg. Doesn't this just take you back to when you were tiny, finding those wee blue speckled eggs in the back yard!!

I inked up the egg with a pale ink such as pink or blue and then just ran a Memento Rich cocoa dew drop ink pad around the very edge of the inked stamp before stamping. I love the little soft outline this gives.

I stamped six eggs and just finished the card very simply with a little piercing and a teeny tiny bow!


Check back tomorrow, the DT girls and I will be showing more new release goodness!!

Hope it tickles!

And don't forget, if you haven't already seen them pop over to Julia's and Lisa's and Bonnie's today!!