Challenge #190 April Showers

Hello and welcome back everyone!  Here in Oregon the pollen is horrendous.  I sound like I have the horrible flu that went around this year.  Coughing, sneezing, snorting and I can't quit blowing my nose.  Gosh, I have only 3-4 more months of this stuff.  But for some happy news, I have a great project to share from some amazing sponsors.  Here we go...

CUT AS A BUTTON STAMPS

Prize~3 Digital Images

Sheep Ski Designs

Prize~3 Digital Images

Colour of Love
Prize~3 Digital Images

What a wonderful group of sponsor(s) for our April Showers challenge.  Just a quick note, Colour of Love was formerly named Lacy Sunshine.  Same great digi's just a name change.  Show some love everyone!

Now on to my creation for this challenge.  Not feeling quite up to snuff, this is a large card for me.  6x8 inches this week (I confess, I colored the image and it was to big for a 6x6 card.  Just didn't have it in me to color the image again)  So here it is...

I have had this paper forever!  It finally paid off to have kept it all this time.
This is the envelope for the big card.

My images is from Colour of Love.  She is called Rory's Spring Flowers.

The inside says, When life gives you rainy days, wear cute boots and
jump in the puddles!  The little gal with the umbrella is from Dearie Dolls.

The back

That's all I've got for this fortnights challenge.  Now next week I will have a new company and a new challenge to share.  So you'all come back now!

Bright Blessings, 

Challenge #189 Easter is on it's way!

It's that time again!  I am so excited to bring you another challenge from Crafty Gals Corner Challenges. This fortnight the theme is EASTER IS ON IT'S WAY!!!  This should be a fairly easy challenge to get your linkz hooked up.  I sure hope you can play along.  Let's see who our fabulous sponsor(s) are for the next two weeks...

Crafty Sentiments Designs

 Prize~3 Digital Images

The Cutting Cafe

Prize~2 Sets

Polkadoodles

Prize~3 Digital Stamps

Wow! These sponsor(s) are very impressive and the prizes aren't to shabby either (IMHO).  Go show some love gang!!

This week I am working with The Egg Wreath from The Cutting Cafe.  What a wonderful file.  I had a lot of fun with this file.  I hadn't done any paper piecing in a long time so this is the process I used for my creation.  Heavy picture tutorial ahead...

 I started out just coloring the eggs.  Had a light bulb
moment and decided to paper piece the eggs.

First thing I had to do was cut apart all the eggs.

Here is how I cut them apart.

I used Judikins Gold Embossing powder
for the polka dotted eggs.

I also used Ranger Perfect Medium Bullet
Embossing Pen.  This worked great to color
the dots on the eggs.

Just the process of embossing.

Here is how it turned out.

I found this little box at St. Vinnies on one of
my many trips.  It's like a treasure hunt!

The box was the perfect size to hole my
Washi Tape rolls. So I picked out 2 rolls for
each eggs.

Here is a red one.

Here is a green one.

I now have two washi tape eggs.

So far so good!

I decided to make the bunny fuzzy.  So here is the
felt scraps I dug out of my sewing stuff.

I used my beading hemp cord for
bunnies whiskers.

The bow middle is lime green glitter paper.
The actual bow is silver mirrored paper.

A little yellow felt nose, glued on whiskers and
my little bunny face is complete.

Here is the completed wreath.

Just a little closer picture.

I next decided to make a bag to put the wreath on.  I visited the freebies from Dreaming Tree Svg's. This is the link.  I used some Bazzel cardstock embossed with lighter green dots to construct the Mini Daisy Tote Bag.  So here is the final project...

I put spring paper from my stash for the
background of the wreath.

This is the beauty shot.  The eggs were made by my daughter in 4th grade.
(~some 30 years ago)

I hope you have enjoyed my picture tutorial.  Now I just have to learn how to use the video camera my girls gave me.  I just might have a video sometime in the next century!

Bright Blessings until next time,