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Silhouette Shapes: Easter

Our new "Easter" shapes are available in the Silhouette store right now!  Here's a peek at a few of them - click HERE to see the entire collection!

New Digital Releases: Dino Friends and Dots & Stripes!

Dinosaurs have gone digital!  At least our dinos have!  Starting today, you can purchase our "Dino Friends" collection in digital format!  This collection includes 28 digital papers in jpg format and 141 decorative elements in .png format.

You can also opt to purchase each of the four kits individually.

Paper Pack #1:

Paper Pack #2:

Element Pack #1:

Element Pack #2:

In addition to our dino friends, you can now purchase these two gorgeous "Dots & Stripes" paper collections in digital format!

Dots & Stripes: Summer

Dots & Stripes: Travel

As a bonus, this weekend only, you can purchase each of these new collection kits at a discount!  Check them all out by clicking HERE!

Win It Before You Can Buy It: Happy Summer!

If you'd like a chance to win our brand new "Happy Summer" collection (before you can even buy it in stores), you need to click HERE to visit our facebook page!  Be sure to follow us while you're there so you won't miss any future giveaways!

One Buck Wednesday: Winter Wishes

Today during our digital "One Buck Wednesday" sale, download the digital Echo Park Paper "Winter Wishes Paper Pack #1” kit

and the "Winter Wishes Element Pack #1” kit for just $1.

These kits are available for just $1 until midnight EST tonight so be sure to download them before the sale ends! 

DIY Paper Crafted Easter Basket

 

Happy Spring! Jana Eubank here. The bunny will be hopping his way to our homes any day now, so I thought it would be fun to welcome his arrival by creating a sweet, little Easter basket using the darling Easter collection. The star of this project is the famous bunny himself! I used the Peter Cottontail Die Set and the Spring Pink/Brown Distressed Solid paper to create my pink bunny. He has such a big job to do every year, that I thought he could use a little support from our little chick friend in the Easter Basket. They make such a cute pair!

 

 

The basket is filled with eggs and a Carrot Treat Box that I cut using the Echo Park Silhouette Carrot Box Shape. I decorated the top with one of the Easter tags from the Ephemera Pack along with a sheer bow and a button tied with twine. This little box came together so quickly! I can't wait to create a basket full of them to give to my nieces for our Easter dinner this year!

 

 

I made the basket feel even more special by accenting the edge with a polka dot paper ruffle strip that I zig zag stitched on my sewing machine before adhering it. Won't it be pretty sitting out on my table this year? I love it! 

 

 

Happy Easter, Everyone!

 

PRODUCTS:

Easter Collection:

Easter Stripe patterned paper

Journaling Cards patterned paper

Easter Plaid patterned paper

Easter Ephemera Pack

Easter Element Stickers

Spring Pink/Brown Distressed Solid paper

Carta Bella Natural White Linen Designer Cardstock

Easter Peter Cottontail Designer Die Set

Jack and Jill Enamel Dots

Bundle of Joy New Addition Boy Decorative Brads

Echo Park Silhouette Shape Carrot Box #57566

Try These 8x8 Easter Layouts

Hey there Echo Park friends, Becki here, to share two 8x8 layouts. Easter isn't a holiday where I take a lot of photos. I usually have a handful of photos of the kids and their Easter goodies. When I don't have a lot of photos, I make smaller layouts. In this case, 8x8 was the perfect size for me.Before I put these layouts in albums I will keep them on display in my living room. I love using layouts as part of my home decor. 

 

This layout was so fun to create with the soft pastel colors. Framing the photo with so many fun elements from the Easter collection makes the photo pop. The stripe of patterned paper at the bottom grounds the photo and ties all the colors together.

 

The second layout has just as many fun details.

I really wanted to highlight the photo of both of my boys. I love the saying on the ephemera die cut below the photo about Easter being about spending time together. I framed that die cut with a tree sticker on the right and a tag and a bow on the left.

How many Easter photos do you take? What's your favorite way to document Easter memories?

Thanks for stopping by the Echo Park blog today!

 

Supplies:

Easter Journaling Cards Patterned Paper

Easter Stripe Patterned Paper

Field of Cottontails Patterned Paper

Easter Plaid Patterned Paper

Bunny Hop Patterned Paper

Easter Elements Sticker Sheet

Easter Ephemera

Echo Park Digital Items are ALL On Sale!

Click HERE to see ALL of our digital items!!

Our Designer Dies Cut More Than Paper!

Hello everyone! Kimberly here. Designer Dies make card making easy and fun! But did you know that you can cut other materials with your Designer Dies, more than just paper? By die cutting felt, this Easter bunny goes from cute to fantastic!

To create the bunny, I die cut brown felt with Designer Dies Chocolate Bunny Die Set. Felt cuts easily in a die cutting machine. I recommend finding 100% wool felt for the smoothest cutting. However, if you have something else in your stash, no problem! You may just need to turn your felt and die 45 degrees and pass it through your die cutting machine again. Designer Dies Chocolate Bunny Die Set also comes with the adorable bow. I cut pink gingham paper from the Spring 6x6 paper pad with that die.

The grass under the bunny came from Designer Dies Egg Hunt Die Set. The scale was perfect for my bunny. Before adhering the bunny and the grass down, I wove the bunny into the long blades of grass. It added some fabulous dimension! You can also see that I added some inking in the background; blue for the sky, green for the grass. It helped fill out the scene I was creating for the bunny.

The last part of my card was adding a sentiment. The word “celebrate” from Designer Stamps Happy Easter Stamp seemed like the perfect choice, but it was missing something. “Bunnies and Baskets” was an adorable set of words to add to “celebrate,” but there was no room. With my fuzzy felt bunny being the focus of my card, using only the word “bunnies” seemed like a great choice! Placing a post-it note over the rest of the sentiment, I inked up the word bunnies, removed the mask of post-it notes, and then stamped my word on the card.

Anyone else craving Easter candy?

Thanks for stopping by!

Kimberly Crawford

Supplies:
Designer Dies Chocolate Bunny Die Set
Designer Dies Easter Egg Hunt Die Set
Designer Stamps Happy Easter Stamp
Spring 6x6 paper
It’s a Boy Enamel Dots

One Buck Wednesday: Keepin' Cozy

Today during our digital "One Buck Wednesday" sale, download the digital Echo Park Paper "Keepin’ Cozy Paper Pack #2” kit

and the "Keepin’ Cozy Element Pack #2” kit for just $1.

These kits are available for just $1 until midnight EST tonight so be sure to download them before the sale ends! 

Spring Tussie Mussie Project Featuring Silhouette Shapes, Designer Dies, and Designer Stamps too!

Welcome Spring by hanging a candy-filled Tussie Mussie on your child's bedroom doorknob or on the front of your friend's front door! Or maybe you have a shelf or coat rack that is void of coats these days and could use a little happy color!  Hi, everyone! It's Jana Eubank. Growing up my mom and her friends always made May Day cones filled with treats and flowers to give to friends and neighbors. Ever since hearing her stories, I have always wanted to make my own ... but you don't have to wait until May to spread a little sunshine. I think anyone would love receiving a Spring Tussie Mussie ANY time!

 

I chose to use the tone-on-tone patterns from the Spring collection as the base of my cones. Next, I added patterned accent panels to the sides. It was so much fun picking and choosing the different paper combinations from the adorable Spring papers!

 

 

I wanted each cone to have it's own personality and had fun picking and coordinating the Spring Ephemera and Spring Element Stickers to decorate each one.

 

For the green Tussie Mussie, I created a rosette for the front panel using scalloped borders punched from the Sparkling Stripe patterned paper. To create the rosette, score in regular intervals along the border and then fold back and forth. Adhere the ends together and flatten the shape into a circle. Use hot glue to attach it to a punched cardstock circle base. Create the tails for the rosette by notching paper stripsfrom the Spring 6x6 paper pad. Now you are ready to decorate the front of the rosette!

 

I decorated mine by adding Spring die cut ephemera, manually die cut flowers and leaves (using Echo Park metal dies), and decorative brads. The top of the box is finished off with an adorable pink bow and ephemera tag.

 

The front of the yellow Tussie Mussie features a layered shape inspired and created from the Echo Park Award Ribbon Silhouette shape. I added the hot air balloon ephemera die cut circle and a sticker sentiment to the front. The balloon looks like it is floating in the sky among the die cut clouds created with the Under the Weather die.

 

 

I matted an element sticker with the Echo Park Stamp Silhouette shape for the front panel of the pink Tussie Mussie. I tied a bit of twine around the block and then added die cut flowers (Spring Flowers Die) and leaves (Fall Branch Die Set) as accents. The top is finished with an adorable die cut bow!

 

I can't wait to surprise my kids, friends, and family with these fun springtime treats!

 

PRODUCTS:

Spring Collection:

Sparkling Stripe patterned paper

Hello Spring patterned paper

Blooming Blossoms patterned paper

Beaming Butterflies patterned paper

Pink/Brown Distressed Solid paper

Blue/Green Distressed Solid paper

Yellow/Red Distressed Solid paper

Carta Bella Natural White Linen Designer Cardstock

Spring Element Stickers

Spring Ephemera Pack

Spring 6x6 Paper Pad

Bundle of Joy New Addition Girl Decorative Brads

Spring Flowers Die

Fall Branch Die Set

Under the Weather Die

Echo Park Silhouette shape - Echo Park Stamp #45091

Echo Park Silhouette shape - Award Ribbon #79194