Hi, crafty friends! This year’s summer collection from Purple Onion Designs, illustrated by Pei, is right around the corner. While we wait, I have a fun tag to share featuring the Sweet Bunny from last summer’s collection. I paired it with the Field background stamp from Holly Mabutas’ Lakewood collection from Purple Onion Designs, also from last year.

I stamped and masked my bunny, stamped the field background, then colored in my scene with Copics. I didn’t want an “all green” background, so I colored the bush and the tree with pink markers, I’m pretending they’re blooming. The fruit trees are in full bloom at the moment, so it was an easy decision. Once my coloring was complete, I used the largest die in the Stitched Traditional Tag STAX die set from My Favorite Things. This tag set doesn’t create holes in the tags, so I made my own and used a reinforcer from the Fold-up Tags die set, also from My Favorite Things, to give the hole a finished look. I stamped Hello from the Outliners sentiment set and summer from the Happy hello sentiment set, both in Parsley ink from Concord & 9th. I then slid a piece of ribbon through the hole and tied it using Cherry divine twine from Whisker Graphics with a strawberry charm attached. I used a black glaze pen for the eyes, and while this doesn’t usually show up very well in photos, in this one you can sort of see a reflection from the camera flash in one of the eyes, at least.

Very soft color palette for this one.