An Easter Challenge

Good morning everyone.  I just realized that I hadn't done my post for today's challenge at Charisma Cardz, so I am a wee bit late and I'll make this a quick one.  Today we are looking for Easter projects, and I made a bookmark for my granddaughter.

Here I have used an image from Crafty Sentiments, called Toby in bag.  It was a freebie image given out last year, and I like how I was able to use so many bright spring colours.   It's coloured with copics, cut out with a Nestie die and then edged with stickles.  I've used a MS punch for the lace edge, and minimal embellishments.....as they would not likely stand up to much use.

This week's generous sponsors are:

(6 individual digis of the winnners choice)

and

(£10 Voucher)

We do hope to see your entry this week, and be sure to check out the rest of my teamies' projects for some great inspiration!

Now for some challenges....and even more great ideas.

Lexi's Creations - #61 Easter

Oldie but a Goodie Challenge - EASTER WISHES

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - #125 Spring is in the Air

2 Sisters Challenge - #84 Spring is in the Air

Sweet Stampin -Anything Goes

Sentimental Sundays - #95 Easter or Spring

Creative Card Crew - #7 Spring

Top Tip Tuesday - #73 Easter or/and Animals

Crafty Sentiments - Easter

The Paper Shelter - Easter

Aud Sentiments - #51 Easter PaperPlay Challenges - #13 Easter

Spring stamping..

Good morning everyone.  Spring is definitely here now....it's raining!  I'm sure we are needing it, as the winter provided hardly any snow, and I would much rather have the rain.  We've been rather spoiled this winter, and that gave me one less thing to worry about.

Today's card is a quickie......as you can see there is no colouring.  I found some pretty scrapbook paper in my stash, added some different stamps that I haven't used for a while and remembered some butterflies that I had cut out many moons ago.  Makes for a pretty card that will slip easily into the mail, and it didn't take me half a day to finish!

Stamps used:  

BoHoBlossoms from My Favourite Things, 

and Flourishes V2 from Stampology.

Some inspirational challenges that I'll be entering:

Incy Wincy Designs - Things with Wings

Totally Stampalicious - Purple, Turquoise and Green

Tuesday Throwdown - #90 spring cleaning

The Stamping Boutique - #30 CAS

Little Red Wagon - #125 Clean and Simple

Flutter By Wednesday - #195 Open challenge

Crafts and Me Challenges - #76 Light Airy Spring Colours

PaperPlay Challenges - #12 Spring Colours

Cute Card Thursday - #209 Anything Goes

Stampin for the Weekend - #6 Anything Goes

The Stampman Challenges - Bingo (green, flowers and swirls)

Summer's coming....or maybe it's here!

Welcome to another beautiful day!  Our daytime temperatures are going to be in the 70's again today.....unbelievable for March, but I'll take it.  We had a dream winter this year, with hardly any snow or really cold temperatures.  I'm sure it's because I bought snow tires this year, and a bag of salt to put by the front door.  It must work like insurance, or preventative medicine.

So how about a card that fits the weather?  This is an image from The Stamping Bazaar, and a great image for a little guy.  I've kept it very simple with no extra embellishments, just some stickles and layering with my Nestie Labels Eight die.  The middle layer uses the same paper as the background, but I added some distress inks to give it an watery look.

Thanks for visiting, and with luck you are having some great weather too!  Enjoy!

A few challenges to inspire you:

Totally Papercrafts - #108 Male Card

Polka Doodles - #11 Animal or Bird

Birthday Sundaes - Animal Birthday Card

The Stamping Boutique - #30 CAS

Papertake Weekly - Bingo (die cuts, free, glitter)

Crafty Ribbons - #15 Birthday

2 Sisters Challenge- #83 Spots n Dots

Sundays with Crissy - #27 Animals

Bearly Mine Challenges - #27 Dots