Springtime Bunnies, Half a Dozen Eggs, Blooming Sketch Border and Pasture Grass by Jean Okimoto

A chocolate Springtime Bunny stops by with an Easter wish and a watercolored egg today. Hi, Jean Okimoto here, with another spring design and some quick tips too. We've moved so quickly thru our January release...Easter is less than three weeks away!

Stamp Blooming Sketch Border on the smoother side of watercolor paper with Memento Luxe Espresso Truffle. Emboss it with detail clear powder. Cut it with the 2.5" tall egg from the Half a Dozen Eggs set, then paint it with Peerless Watercolors.

Cut Pasture Grass from green cardstock. Paint scraps of watercolor paper with pink, yellow and violet - then cut little eggs using the die from the Springtime Bunnies Set. Attach the eggs (big and little) behind the grass. That's a lot easier than gluing the grass to the card, then trying to glue the eggs behind the grass.

Prep a scrap of cardstock from a Mocha Notecard with the embossing powder tool. Stamp the bunny with VersaMark and emboss it with detail white powder. Cut it with the matching die from the Springtime Bunnies Die Set.

Stamp the greeting on natural cardstock with Electric Purple Radiant Neon and emboss it with detail clear powder. It really is purple, but the embossing turned it into a pretty pink. Cut it with the smallest Pinpoint Rectangle Layer - then trim the excess cardstock with the inner edge of a larger rectangle.

Attach everything to a side-folded A-2 card of textured natural cardstock- use foam dots for the bunny. Add small iridescent sequins.

Here's an easy way to organize, store and use Peerless Watercolors . Find them at Birch Press Design - a cool, upscale online collection of beautifully functional products for dining, decorating, crafting and gift-giving. It's owned by Dave and Monica Brethauer, owners of Memory Box and Poppystamps. Their great design aesthetic is reflected at Birch Press too!

Use plastic divider boxes for storage, and as palettes - be sure they're sealed between each section so the colors won't flow into each other. Print the names on return address labels and attach them to a rectangle of watercolor paper that's divided into sections.

Place little blocks of the colors in each section and add a drop or two of water when you're ready to paint. You won't waste a bit of it - whatever you don't use with stays right there in its own section. Let it dry, and it'll be ready for your next project!

These containers come in different sizes and configurations. I use several of them because mine have 11 sections - I would have picked something larger - but I used what I had. If I had waited till I found the "perfect" containers, I would have forgotten what I had planned to do with them!

I'm not usually a super-organized label-er, but this really does save time - and it's handy for on-the-go projects too.

Special thanks to everyone from last week's Springtime Greetings and Birthday Wishes classes at Impress! Hope you liked the projects - and those yummy spring colors. See you again at the Asia Now class on Saturday the 12th for some contemporary Asian designs using silkscreened papers, dies and easy origami. "Easy" and "origami" are rarely used together - but it'll be easy...promise!

Thanks for visiting...see you again this evening.