Sixth Street Sundries

Emily Midgett

bunnies

Vintage Easter Bunnies with Simon Says Stamp!

This post was sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. Thanks, Simon! *I have gathered links to all of the products used at the bottom of the post for your convenience, using affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Thank you for shopping with my links! I truly appreciate your support for my work!*

Hi friends! We’ve had a super busy week this week. Not only is it Easter, but my littlest boys turn 6 tomorrow! We’ve been prepping and celebrating amongst our house renovations, so I am a little later in sharing a few Easter proejcts that I’ve prepared using the new Simon Says Stamp In My Heart release! (Click HERE to see the entire new release!) The Vintage Bunnies stamp set was actually part of the limited edition Easter kit, which has now sold out, but luckily, the folks at Simon Says Stamp are always looking to make your shopping experience exciting, and so make it possible for you to purchase the individual products even after the kits have sold out. I have a vintage pastel Easter card to share with you today, a bit outside of my typical color palette with the bold black and white accompanied by some pale pastels. Let’s get started with the details on my project!

The new Vintage Bunnies stamp set features a plethora of springtime and Easter imagery, containing plenty of details and shading so that coloring is simplified or not even necessary, depending on the technique used! I decided to add some super subtle pastel marker coloring to the images after stamping them using Simon Says Stamp Intense Black ink. I selected a few super pale pastel shades along with a pale gray marker so that I could add some subtle color to the images, almost like when they colorized black and white movies using chalk! I used OLO Markers to add these pale colors, juxtaposing the crisp, intense black lines with those pale springtime colors.

After I had finished coloring the images, I used the coordinating dies to die cut all of the images. I also decided to add a little garden of pink tulips on the card front, providing a springy background for my basket, bunny, and chick die cuts. I stamped the tulips at various heights on my white card front, again with Intense Black ink, then added some simple pale pink and minty green coloring. I arranged the bunny and basket on the card front, nestling them amongst the tulips and adhering them with a single and double layer of thin foam adhesive to add extra dimension.

For the greeting, I stamped three separate sentiment stamps from the Vintage Bunnies stamp set, die cutting the Easter sentiment with its coordinating die and trimming the other two using my guillotine trimmer. I added the sentiments to the cluster of colored images using more foam adhesive, then snuggled my chick die amongst the greetings, creating a visual ping pong down the front of the card. I trimmed off the bottom of the A2 card panel, then tucked a strip of Simon Says Stamp So Very Black cardstock and a thinner strip of white glitter cardstock to add some additional textural variety on the card front. Finally, I added a smattering of Bubblegum Pawsitively Dazzling Gems to add some pastel sparkle to the card!

Well, that’s all for my project today! I can’t believe Easter is almost here… and that my little boys are six! They were born right at the beginning of Covid, and it simultaneously doesn’t feel possible that they are already six but also that it has been some of the longest years ever, ha! I hope that if you’re preparing for Easter celebrations this weekend, your plans are cooperating and you enjoy the family time that Easter can bring! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Ear-Resistibly Cute with New Simon Says Stamp + SALE!

This post was sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. Thanks, Simon!

Hi friends! Today, I have a fun and colorful shaker card to share with you using some new springtime goodies from the Simon Says Stamp Rain or Shine release! I can’t resist a shaker card, and the sweet little bunnies from the new Ear-Resistibly Cute stamp set were perfectly paired with the new Cottontail Embellishment Mix to create a sweet flat shaker card. Let’s get started with the details!

*I have gathered links to all of the products used at the bottom of the post for your convenience, using affiliate links. Thank you for shopping with my links! I truly appreciate your support for my work!*

To start, I stamped two of the bunnies from the new Ear-Resistibly Cute stamp set using Rainbow Splash Black ink, which is compatible with alcohol markers. I used OLO Markers to color the bunnies, adding pink bows and bowtie to the bunnies along with some pink cheeks. How cute are they?! After I had finished coloring the images, I used the coordinating dies to die cut them, and I just love how detailed and closely cropped to the images the dies are.

To create the background, I pulled out the new Argyle Builder Stencil. Whenever I think of springtime and Easter fashion, pastel argyle immediately comes to mind in the form of sweater vests on my toddlers. I thought that the preppy bows and bowtie lent themselves perfectly to some argyle, completing the preppy imagery of the card! I blended the layered Argyle Builder Stencil with Butter, Rose, and Gingerbread Pawsitively Saturated Ink to create this sweet background pattern, then trimmed it down, then used some leftover stamp packaging and Tear-rifically Tacky Tape to create my clear shaker sleeve. I filled the shaker with Cottontail Embellishment Mix, which worked beautifully with the pale butter yellow on the argyle pattern.

I mounted the shaker panel to the center of a coordinating bright pink A2 card front, creating a bright pink frame around my focal point. I popped up the colored bunny die cuts and coordinating sentiment from Ear-Resistibly Cute with some thin foam adhesive squares, making the shaker card almost flat and thus much simpler to mail!

Just a reminder: this fabulous birthday sale ends today, on 3/30/25 at 11:59! You can save 23% off your entire Simon Says Stamp branded purchase by entering code BDAY23 at checkout! Simon literally has one of the largest catalogs of products that I’ve seen, and it’s a great time to stock up on things at a discount, things you maybe forget about until later, like ink refills, blending brushes (the Rainbow Splash blending brushes are SO soft and perfect!), the Craft Tacky Mats, and so much more! It’s a great sale that doesn’t come around very often, so be sure to take advantage!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Simon Says Stamp Favorite Things Release- Now Available!

This post was sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. Thanks, Simon!

Hi friends! Simon Says Stamp has released their newest collection filled with the sweetest, loveliest springtime imagery, perfect for creating those Easter and springtime projects! The new Favorite Things release features darling bunnies, adorable chicks, flowers, butterflies, and so many other images that are perfect for use with your springtime projects. I have been on a creative spree using soft pastel inks, and I’ve paired the adorable new Blessings At Easter stamp set with the gorgeous Pastel Pigment Inks from Simon Says Stamp. Let’s get started with the details on my project!

*I have gathered links to all of the products used at the bottom of the post for your convenience, using affiliate links. Thank you for shopping with my links! I truly appreciate your support for my work!*

I love the beautifully detailed images in the new Blessings At Easter stamp set, featuring solid silhouette images with simple, elegant floral negative cutouts within the stamped images. I started my card by creating a panel of custom patterned paper using the Easter egg images, as well as some of the standalone floral images. I stamped the eggs first, as they were the largest images, rotating the paper and the stamps to create a continuous random pattern throughout the entire panel. After stamping the large images on the panel using Pastel Pink ink, I stamped the next largest images using Pastel Blue ink, finally adding some individual foliage stamps using Pastel Green ink, filling in the blank spaces and creating a continuous pattern.

After I had created the stamped background, I decided to stamp a few more images for a focal point, embellishing them a bit further by adding some embossing powder to add some shimmer and shine. I stamped the bunny, flowers, and foliage using the same Pastel Blue, Pink, and Green inks that I used for the card front, this time adding an additional stamped layer of embossing powder and some Iridescent Blue Embossing Powder. This simple additional step helps the shiny, iridescent images stand out against the matte stamped background.

After I had finished stamping and embossing all of the images, I used the Pastel Pink Pigment Ink (say that 3 times fast!) and Iridescent Blue Embossing Powder to create the sentiment pieces, stamping them first with Pink Pigment Ink, again with embossing ink, then adding the Iridescent Blue Embossing Powder. Once the embossing powder was completely set, I die cut the sentiments with their coordinating dies. I love stamping custom patterned paper, but sometimes the patterns can get so busy that they detract from the focal point images, so to help the shiny bunny and flowers stand out a bit more, I layered a 3.75″ x 5″ panel of Simon Says Stamp Vellum over the top of the patterned background before arranging all of the die cuts. I popped up the bunny and sentiment pieces with foam adhesive, then tucked the foliage behind the bunny and flipped the entire vellum panel over to add adhesive behind the solid die cuts. Finally, I added a few Bubblegum Pawsitively Dazzling Gems and some of the new Simon Says Stamp Iridescent White Cord in a pretty bow. This cord is going to be a staple in my craft room, for sure; it doesn’t fray and adds the perfect amount of texture and iridescent shine to my project!!

Well, that’s all for my project today. You can check out the entire new Favorite Things release HERE. Don’t forget to come back later this week for the two-day Favorite Things Blog Hop to see oodles of fabulous inspiration! Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a marvelous day!