A Basketful of Eggs!

Happy Good Friday to you all!

I hope you are all well and getting prepared for the Easter weekend ahead!  I have this card to show you today that I put together yesterday afternoon.  This sweet CC Designs image is one I received from Christine in a RAK.  I coloured her with my copics - I treated myself to 10 new colours yesterday too - Wallacks have a fabulous Spring sale on right now and copics are priced at an unbelievable $5.99!!!  I got some beautiful shades of blue and those are the colours I used to colour her dress in.

Papers are from a K&Co stack and the sketch is this weeks Mojo Monday sketch challenge.  I added a thin strip of blue velvet ribbon with some sheer polka dot ribbon over the top.  The bow was made with the bow-easy.  I added stickles to her eggs and a pale blue gem on the middle panel.  Cute Card Thursday's challenge is 'So Egg-citing' so I will enter this card in there too!

Thanks for your visit today - I always enjoy seeing you here!  I hope I get a chance to get my fingers inky although we are forecast stunning weather - up to 27oc so we have lots of outdoor activities planned for the weekend!  Maybe I'll actually be able to do the kids' easter egg hunt outside this year - that'll be a first!!!

Enjoy your day everyone!

Hugs,

Danielle x

Thank you, thank you .....

Hello there!

Today I have this card using the Mojo Monday sketch this week. My gorgeous My Mind's Eye papers arrived in the mail this week from Nikki at Bunny-Zoe's crafts (thanks Nikki, I love them)!!! This Magnolia image was already coloured up and the colours matched a treat with these fabulous papers. My flower ensemble is using a range of flowers from my stash and the MS oak leaf punch. The sentiment is from My Sentiments Exactly and the ribbon is from stash too. I used Old Paper distress ink which I sponged on the circle before gluing Tilda down.

It's a soggy wet day here in Ottawa - I've had a busy day though with friends by stopping for lunch as they were passing through town on their way back home from PEI. Hopefully I'll get a chance to play a little later. I got a gorgeous new christmas stamp from Sunshine Designs which I want to ink up. Also, Popcorn the Bear was in my parcel from Nikki ...... lots of new things to play with and I don't know where to begin, ha ha!!

Thanks for your visit today. I hope you're all enjoying a beautiful day and I hope to blog hop and catch up on some commenting!

Mojo Monday - Tilda with Lilacs

Happy Monday everyone!

Well, I hope you're not too over-stuffed with chocolate and Easter goodies from the long weekend!  I had some time to craft this afternoon and I loved the Mojo Monday sketch for today. I have been asked by a local group of Pathfinders/Guides to come in and give a cardmaking class to a dozen 10 year old girls at the end of April.  I will be focusing the card on Mother's Day so I thought I would take this simple and effective sketch and make it the card for their craft night! It gives them a really pretty image to colour and cut out and a chance to play with a cuttlebug embossing folder.  I'm really looking forward to it.

So the card is pretty straightforward - I used my Distress Inks to colour Tilda and added highlights with my clear Sakura pen and white gel pen.  My trusty staples like the MS border punch and nestabilities add great touches to the card.  I adore this lilac gingham ribbon and the sentiment is stamped and punched out with the SU! word window punch.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a much appreciated comment!  I hope to blog hop a bit later and catch up on some commenting!  Have a great night!

Hugs,

Danielle x

Mojo Monday & Cupcake Craft Challenges

Good Friday morning all!

Well, the sun is shining on a bright blue sky here this morning - at long last!!  I managed to do a couple more challenge cards and I decided to pull out a long neglected favourite stamp of mine this ever so cute Starlight, Starbright bunny from Stamps Happen.  I used the sketch over on Mojo Monday.  I coloured with my Distress Inks and Tombow markers.  I'm not particularly happy with the way the sentiment came out - it's actually horizontal on 2 lines so I inked and stamped a couple of words at a time to make in fit on that size panel.  A bit labour intensive and it was hard to get it looking even, but ah well, it'll have to do!  I think it's a perfect sentiment for the card. I'm putting an edit in here - I keep looking at the card and those dewdrops have come out in the photo looking really red - they are not IRL - they match the pink hues of the card really nicely!!!

This second card I did for the Cupcake Craft challenges - folds.  You had to create a card/project with at least 2 folds in it.  I made this - I'm not even sure what you would call this card - a flower/petal card?  I used a sweet summer Tilda for this card and coloured her with my copics.  For the 'flaps' I used a circle punch which I had trimmed in half then adhered it and doodled around the edges.  Tilda is glued to a length of satin ribbon which slips over the card.  The inside I took a square of violet paper and used up a piece of scrap paper where I adhered some punches leaves and a flower.  The sentiment and words are from The Stamp Barn.  The sentiment reads "A true friend warms you by her presence, trusts you with her secrets and remembers you in her prayers".

Thanks for your visit today - I hope you like what I posted!  My boys are getting VERY excited and counting down the sleeps 'til the Easter Bunny comes - my youngest boy is such a chocaholic he can barely contain his excitement!!  Have a great day all!

Hugs,

Danielle x