Spring Has Sprung

Hi everyone and happy Wednesday,

Today's card I made to participate in the "Follow the Recipe" challenge (FTR #7) on the Catered Crop blog. This concept looked like fun and so I decided to give it a try. Here's the card that I came up with:

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Here's the FTR #7 recipe:

• Pattern Paper – Plaids or Stripes
• Colors – Spring, pastel colors
• Stamps – bunny rabbits, flowers (especially violets)
• Color Mediums – Copic markers, printer's ink (yep, it's a digital image)
• Embellishments – pearls, ribbon, felt, flowers
• Tools – Circle, lace, doily, flower, or curly flourish punches or die cuts
• Techniques – highlighting around an image, handmade or rolled flower embellishments, tying bows
• Theme – Spring, Easter, Birthday
• Shapes – Circles, lace and doilies, curly flourishes.

The rules say to use any of the ingredients to make a project or card and I was able to use most in mine. Here are the supplies I used at each element:

Patterned paper:  Basic Grey Koshi flowers and plaid
Card stock colors: TE pastels
Stamps: Amber Ink bunny and TE Favorite Peeps
Color Mediums: Copics, printed digi stamp, SU bravo burgundy ink
Embellishments: Zva pink pearls, Kaiser rhinestones, sewing machine, felt rolled flowers
Tools: lace doily from TE, big scalloped Nestie, Die-namics rolled flower die, TE background die
Techniques: felt rolled flowers, ribbon "leaves"
Theme: Easter/Spring
Shapes: circles, doily
Other supplies: the Big Shot, dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by,
Colleen

Happy Easter and SFYTT for March

One more quick post this evening.

I remembered that it was the first Saturday of the month, and that means another Sketch For You To Try over at Jen's blog. I thought this looked like a really fun layout to work with, and I did quite enjoy it. I didn't have any Amber Ink stamps, so I went to take a look at their site, and purchased one of the digi stamps to work with. This cute little bunny is called Love Bunny-Flowered and she reminded me of spring.

I printed her out onto some SU whisper white CS, colored her with Copics and cut her out. I used some dimensionals to pop her up over the grass I made with the Die-namics grass die.

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Supplies

Stamps: Love Bunny-Flowered Digi by Amber Ink

Card stock: SU brilliant blue, pear pizzazz, and whisper white

Patterned paper: Feelin' Groovy by Doodlebug

Ink: Copics and SU brilliant blue

Other: SU glitter brads, SU embossing folder, SU oval punch, Die-namics grass die, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

That's all from me today but I'll be back tomorrow with more. Thanks for stopping by,

Colleen