Easter cross

   This is another digi stamp from La Pashe taken from their CD ROM 'The next big thing'. I coloured it using Promarkers , dusted it with distress ink and matted it onto gold mirri card and white card. The sentiment from the same sheet was also dusted with distress ink and matted onto gold mirri card. The flowers, from Wild Orchid were coloured using Promarkers before attaching them to the card.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   Dream Valley - easter
   Cute Card Thursday - easter
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - easter
   Sweet Pea Stampers - distress
   Catch the Bug - anything goes
   The Paper Shelter - easter time
   Scrapbook stamp Society - anything goes
   Crafting From the Heart - anything goes/easter theme
   Fantastic Tuesday - anything goes
   Sweet Stampin - easter
   Lacy Sunshine - add flowers
   Crafting Musketeers - monochrome
   Bunny Zoe's Crafts - monochrome

Easter bunny

   I was experimenting with a computer graphics program and this bright yellow paper was one of the results. I think it is cheerful and springlike, so decided to use it as the background for this twisted easel card. The black peel offs around the edge I feel really bring the colour to life.
   The main image is a digi stamp from La Pashe and I coloured is using Promarkers and distress ink. It was then matted onto mirri card before fixing it the the card. The happy Easter is die cut from mirri card using tattered lace dies.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   Dream Valley - easter
   Crafting With Dragonflies - easter
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - easter
   The Squirrel and the Fox - all creatures great and small
   Crafting From the Heart - anything goes/easter theme
   Animal Friends - spring/easter
   Sweet Stampin - easter
   Sweet Stamps - easter
   Open Minded Crafting - animal antics

Birthday tea

   I wanted to make a bright, bold coloured card for a young child, so I chose to use the three primary colours - blue, red and yellow - and glitter card.
   I folded the card to make an easel card and attached paper from Papermania that I have had for some time to the front of the card and the base. I used two pieces for the front to allow the card to fold easily.
   The digi stamp from Melgen's Designs was coloured using Promarkers, cut out using a Spellbinders grand scalloped circle die and the upper part dusted with distress ink. This was matted and layered onto glitter silk core'dinations cardstock and core couture core'dinations cardstock, both having been cut out with scalloped circle dies. This was then stuck to the lower front fold of the easel card.
   The easel stop was made by matting and layering glitter silk and core couture core'dinations cardstock onto white card, all cut using Spellbinders scalloped oval dies, and attached to the base using foam pads.
The sentiment was cut from core'dinations cardstock using tattered lace dies.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   Ooh La La Creations - for a child
   Inky Impressions - fold it
   Allsorts - no flowers
   Stamping Sensations - use those dies and/or punchers
   The Crazy Challenge - bling it up
   Imagination Crafts - anything goes
   Love to Create - anything goes for kids
   Catch the Bug - anything goes
   Scrapebook Stamp Society - anything goes
   Scribble and Scrap - anything goes
   Meljens Designs - 4th anniversary

Bluebells

   I have had the stamps from Elusive Images, now Chocolate baroque, for some time. When I look back at my first use of them I wonder how I could have been satisfied with the resulting card - so there has been some improvement in both layout and colouring!
   I matted bluebell coloured paper onto white card and edged it with thin strips of green peel offs. The border of repeated mini bluebells was coloured using Promarkers. I then dusted the lower half with distress ink before matting it onto green spotted core'dinations cardstock..
   The main image was also coloured using Promarkers and the edges dusted with distress ink. I then went round the edges with the ink pad. I cut out a piece of the spotted core'dinations cardstock the same size as this image and fixed this at an angle on the card. I then attached the border and then the main image was attached with foam pads so that it mirrored the green square.
   The butterfly, from the same set of stamps was attached using glue gel. Finally I finished the card with a sentiment cut from core'dinations cardstock using tattered lace dies.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   Eureka Stamps - spring flowers
   Crafty Catz - spring time
   Penny Black and More - blossoms and blooms
   Stampin With the Dragon - spring time
   Sweet Pea Stamps - distress
   Digi Designs - welcome spring
   Loves Rubber Stamps - anything goes
   Ribbon Girl - spring
   One Stitch at a Time - flowers

Upside down

   I find it hard to resist the Lili of the Valley stamps and this one called Annabel - upside down is one from their latest set. I can just picture each of my grand daughters attempting this. I have coloured it using Promarkers and matted it onto mirri card cut using a Spellbinders floral oval die. Around the edge of the card I have used strips of happy birthday peel offs.

   I wish to enter this card into the following challenge:
   Ooh La La - for a child
   Crafting When You Can - for a child
   I Love Promarkers - clean and simple
   Brown Sugar - clean and simple
   Addicted to Stamps and More - clean and simple
   Lili of the Valley - birthday card

Waterlilies

   The theme this week for the Creative Corner Challenge is April showers bring May flowers and we want you to use either water or flowers on your creation. With the warm weather that we are now experiencing bringing all different flowering seasons together I thought waterlilies seemed the appropriate choice and I’m sure my young grand daughter would appreciate the mice!

    I found some previously printed paper of waterlilies and thought it would make a suitable border for this image. I fixed it to cerise core’dinations cardstock and attached wine coloured ribbon to either side of it. The whole was then matted and layered with darker core’dinations cardstock and white card.

    The image from Joanna Sheen’s House Mouse Designs rubber stamps was coloured using Promarkers and matted onto wine mirri card. I fixed it to the card with foam pads. I then added a bow, gems and a sentiment to the lower ribbon.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

   Crafting When We Can - for a child

   Incy Wincy Designs - tic tac toe (gems, free, pink)

   Papertake Weekly - anything goes

   Fantastic Tuesday - use a patterned paper

   Open Minded Crafting - animal antics

Bunny fun

   Here is card for one of my grandson's, although I might save it for my son as I can remember him doing this and encouraging his younger sister to do likewise, not that either of them ended up flat on the floor as one of these rabbits has done.
   I sanded blue core'dinations cardstock and after matting it on to white card used gold peel offs as a border. The image is from Joanna Sheen's Happy Hoppers set of House Mouse stamps and was coloured using Promarkers. I then matted it onto blue mirri card which had been cut out using a Spellbinders lattice rectangle die. This was then matted onto whitewash core'dinations cardstock so that it showed through the lattice work. I stamped, coloured and cut out the prostrate rabbit and attached it with glue gel to the lower corner of the main image. Finally I die cut the sentiment from gold mirri card using tattered lace dies.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   Ooh La La Creations - for a child
   I Love Promarkers - clean and simple
   House Mouse and Friends - anything masculine
   Allsorts - use those dies
   Crafty Catz - anything goes
   Papertake Weekly - anything goes
   Sweet Pea Stampers - distress
   Loves Rubber Stamps - anything goes
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Scrapbook Stamp Society - anything goes
   Scribble and Scrap - anything goes
   Crafty Creations - blue and yellow
   OpenMinded Crafting - animal antics