Spring Blooming

This stunning image is a freebie from Tortagialli. I just love the happy smiley sunshine and coloured it in my favourite bright colours of oranges and yellow. It just makes me smile so much and I have to be honest I may not give it away. Would you believe that for about 6 years our living room and dining room were decorated in pretty much colours, a bright but rich coloured orange on the bottom and a mustard yellow on the top. After many years of living in rented accommodation or with relative I needed to put my own mark on our house so we had bright colours. It did however make it look cosy and dark so we changes to more neutral creams & browns a couple of years ago. OMG, I have turned into my parents LOL.

I used a sketch from Going Grey with Scrap Creations for the layout and picked my papers. The base card is a sheet of A4 textured so it makes a large A5 card which is my favourite card size. The hibiscus paper and textures cardstock are DCWV as is the sentiment sticker. The stitched ribbon and bow are Papermania and the Candi dots are by Craftwork Cards. I love the little flowers that are on them.

We took my Mother in law out yesterday for her birthday treat and went for a posh cream tea dinner in Ludlow. It was the most glorious sunny day and it made me all smiley like the sunshine in this picture. We are going to see Adele in concert tonight an I am soooooo excited. We saw her 2 years ago and she was fabulous. I love singers with really strong voices and she can certainly sing live. I've got her new album on repeat in the car I loves it so much :)

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in alphabetical order):-

• Aud's Sentiments #26 - Anything Goes
• Crafty Ann's Challenge #38- Raise a Smile
• Cupcard Craft Challenges # 138 - Lots of Layers
• Cute Card Thursday #160 - Weather Inspired (Sunshine)
• Delicious Doodles #22 - Stitching (on Ribbon)
• Digital Tuesday #106 - Image of a woman
• Fresh Brewed Designs #42 - Cute & Sweet
• Fresh Brewed Designs - Flowers
• Going Grey With Scrap Creations #12 - Sketch for Layout
• Incy Wincy Designs #90 - Bold & Bright Colours
• Inky Impressions #13 - Flowers
• Karen's Doodles - Lots of Layers
• One Crazy Stamper - Flowers
• Pals Paper Arts #89 - Flowers
• Paper Crafting Journey #8 - Use a freebie (Digi Image)
• Paper Playtime #43 - Weather (sunshine)
• Pixie Dust Studios #70 - Include a Sentiment
• Secret Crafter #130 - Stitching on ribbon
• Shelly's Images TTT - Flowers and water
• Stamping Vacation - make a card for someone who has just planted a garden
• There's Magic in the Air - Green, yellow & orange colours
• Whoopsi Daisy - Anything Goes