Happy as a Bee on a Sunflower :)

Depression and low mood has completely kicked my arse this week so I have found myself wanting to create bright and happy things to try and snap myself out of it. I am so very, very tired and no matter how much sleep I have I can't seem to feel lively in any way. It is times like this I feel completely trapped and I am just so thankful for my cardmaking and my little craft room of joy.

It is week 3 of the progressive freebie challenge at Delightful Inspiration and Faith gave us a lovely row of flowers with a choice with and without the sentiment. I chose to go without and created a little scene with the flowers, a row of bees above them from Happileigh Scrappin' and a sentiment from TLC Creations. The image is coloured in with Promarkers in happy bright colours.

I used a sketch from Sketch & Stash for the layout and as my image is quite large I used an 8" scalloped edge card. The main paper is from a Dovecraft pad from the First Edition range. The other papers in oranges, yellow and brown are from a really old HOTP Citrus Cardmakers pack that I have from QVC, gotta be about 5 years old!!

I used a Fiskars punch on the yellow paper and added a chocolate suede ribbon on top with a Papermania ribbon bow and a red star gem centre. I added faux stitching to the edges of the orange strips to make them stand out better from the main background paper. The image is mounted onto 3d foam so it adds more dimension to it.

Around the edges of the card I have added loads of Craftwork Cards Candi. I had initially put all the flower patterned ones on there but it looked too much so changed it to a random colouring of one patterned one plain and I am a lot happier with how that looks.

Paul has just come home from work and said he loves my card :)

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size - 8" square scalloped edge

Image - Flower Row by Designed 2 Delight & Bees by Happileigh Scrappin'

Sketch - Sketch & Stash #68

Paper - Dovecraft & HOTP

Sentiment - TLC Creations

Embellishments - Candi from Craftwork Cards, Bow from Papermania, Suede Ribbon & star gem from stash

Tools - 3D Foam & Scissors, Promarkers, Fiskars Treading water punch

Techniques - punching, faux stitching

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

• · 2 Cute Rubber Stamps – Anything Goes
• · Aud’s Sentiments #35 – Anything Goes
• · Catch The Bug – Birds & Bees
• · Craft Garden – Bold Bright & Loud
• · Crafty Calendar – Hot Summer Colours
• · Crafty Sentiments – Ribbons & Bows
• · Delightful Inspiration - Free Image Challenge
• · Delightful Inspiration Saturday – Anything Goes
• · Digi Doodle Shop’s Best – Anything Goes
• · Digi's With Attitude! #32 - Anything Goes
• · Dream Valley Challenge #14 – Lemon, Lime & Orange
• · Fresh Brewed Designs #58 – Hot Colours
• · Hotspot #7 – Pantone Colours (Bamboo & Emberglow)
• · Inspiration Avenue – Sunflowers
• · Kich N Bleus #5 – Include Some Green
• · Make It Monday #51 – Link Up Party
• · One Crazy Stamper – Fun In The Sun
• · One Stop Craft Challenge #145 – Bold & Bright
• · Paper Crafting Journey #17 – Anything Goes
• · Paper Shelter #28 – Due Cuts & Punches
• · Patches of Pink – Link Up Party
• · Ribbon Girls #11 – Any project with ribbon on it
• · Scrapbook Sisters #49 – Flower, ribbon, gem
• · Scrappy Frogs – Bling
• · Secret Crafter #148 – Create a Scene (combined 3 separate digis)
• · Sew Many Challenges #65 – Summertime
• · Sisterhood of Crafters – Flower Powers
• · Sketch & Stash #68 - Layout of card
• · Stamp With Fun #125 – Summer
• · There’s Magic in The Air – Make a scene (combined 3 separate digis)
• · Tuesday Throwdown #63 – Dimension & Texture
• · Whimsie Doodles – Anything Goes
• · Whimsy Inspirations #3 – Anything Goes with a sentiment
• · Whoopsi Daisy – Summertime Fun