OWH Bunny Hop

Welcome to the Operation Write Home Bunny Hop!!!! I'm soooo glad you could join us!

If you are arriving here from Cheryl's blog, you hopping down the bunny trail beautifully! If this is your first stop, please go back to the beginning - the OWH Hero blog.

Before I share my card, I want to remind you that the deadline for Easter/Resurrection Day cards is March 18th, and the Mother's Day deadline is March 31st. So I hope you find lots of inspiration today and create some awesome cards for our heroes!

Also, I want to make sure you know about a very cool new feature at OWH. If you go to the main site, you'll see a tab toward the right called "Free Stuff" and if you scroll down, there's a place to order your own free unmounted red rubber Operation Write Home stamp to use on the back of the cards you make & donate to OWH! Stamping your cards before sending them to the shippers will save them a lot of time and work. Be sure to follow the guidelines HERE for packing up your donated cards.

Now, on to the card:
Wanting to avoid the association of bunnies with Resurrection Sunday (a topic for a later post), I was hesitant to make the traditional "Easter Bunny" card for this hop. But after thinking on it further, I realized that there is no reason to let not so subtle pagan associations spoil my special love for bunnies. Between my mom and me, we have a healthy collection of rabbit decor. And one particular stuffed animal bunny will always be a treasure to me because of a very special childhood memory with my dear dad, who is often a source of inspiration for my OWH cards, since he is my favorite veteran. And that's when I remembered that this stamp, "A Little Hug" by Sugar Nellie artist Leanne Ellis, has been in my stash far too long without some inky love. So I decided to do a seasonal card centered on love.


I paired the image, colored with Copics, with some gorgeous papers from Basic Grey's Capella collection. I just love the soft greens, blues, pale yellow and soft salmon colors in this line, with a balance mix of warm taupes and cool greys - the perfect winter-into-spring palette, at least in my book. A multi-part chipboard flower, tiny pearls, satin ribbon and white lace (which for me totally evokes white garden pickets) are the finishing touches.


Your next hop stop is Shelly at http://shellyrharris.blogspot.com! Have fun!

Before you go, I do have some BLOG CANDY to give away, but I am having trouble loading the picture. I'll keep working on it. In the meantime, please leave a comment to be entered into the drawing!