It’s so blinking cold here
in the UK. I really don’t think anyone has sent Mother Nature the memo that it
is now almost Mid April, it should be a bit warmer and all the pretty flowers
should now be in bloom.
It’s a good job that our
intrepid gardener Jane is great at drawing or else we would have nothing pretty
to look at, at least we can colour them in if nothing else J
Today I have used this fabulous image Cowslip
from Janey’s
Digi Designs and of course I have had to colour it in yellows with a spot
of orange, they are my fave Spring colours afterall.
I have used my Promarkers and
Flexmarkers to colour the image and this is quite large as it is an A5 card. I
try to make smaller ones but don’t seem to manage it very often. It does
however mean that you get to see these lovely blooms in all their glory.
I have used Sketch 235
from Clean & Simple
Stamping for the layout. I had already coloured the image and as soon as I
saw the layout I knew it would be perfect to showcase it, however I do not
normally do CAS so really struggled with leaving so much white space. It was
very hard for me not to add something I can tell you! I chose some sage green
cardstock for the base of the card and to use for layering and then went in
search of a nice yellow paper for the main cardstock. I came upon this lovely
glittery tallow damask from the Family Ties First Edition pad by Dovecraft and
declared it to be the winner. It is fairly subtle so enhanced the yellow
flowers and pretty glitter stops it from looking too bare.
The sentiment is part of a free digistamp
from Michelle
Perkett’s blog. She is very generous in giving away special blog freebies
as well as full digi’s that are for sale on her Etsy store.
Janey’s Cowslip image can be purchased
from the Etsy store. For inspiration please pop over to the blog and Facebook page where our very talented designers
will be regularly showcasing these amazing images. There are cards featured which
are from customers who have purchased the stamps too which must be an amazing feeling
for Jane to see her images being used to create some fabulous cards.
Materials
Used in this card are as follows:-
Card Size – A5
Paper – Family Ties First Editions
pad by Dovecraft
I would
like to enter this card into the following challenges (in
Alphabetical Order):-
- A & T Challenge - #23 Flowers
- A Creative Need – Spring celebrations
- Artistic Inspirations – #36 Anything Goes
- CDAC Anything Goes – Any Handmade Craft
- Clean & Simple Stamping - #235 Sketch for layout
- Crafting By Designs – Spring Flowers
- Crafts 4 Eternity – #118 Sweet Spring
- Creative Inspirations Paint – Spring Colours
- Digi Haven – Spring
- Di’s Digi Designs – Flower Frenzy
- Diva’s By Design – Flowers
- Going Grey With Scrap Creations – Flower Power
- Happy Campers - #14 Flower Power
- Hobbycutz Challenge – #3 CAS Card
- House of Gilli - #51 Anything Goes with Flowers and/or Ribbons
- House That Stamps Built – DCC410 CAS
- Joanna Sheen – Spring Into Spring
- Ladybug Crafts – Spring
- My Graphico – #148 Anything Goes
- My Sheri Crafts - #107 Spring Has Sprung
- QKR Stampede – #33 April Showers
- Outlawz Friday Copic & Promarker – CPC040513 April Showers
- Pink Elephant - #194 Spring Colours
- Scrappy Frogs – Spring
- Simon Says Stamp – April Flowers or Spring Showers
- Wags ‘n Whiskers - #101 April Showers/Spring
- Word Art Wednesday - #75 Anything Goes
18 comments:
Lovely CAS card! Love the background paper! Thank You for entering our challenge this week at Hobbycutz! Hugs Kobie
FAB! FAB! FAB! And look what's happened...Mother Nature has finally got the memo & spring's coming...Woop! Woop! xx
great card! Love how springy it looks!
Love your gorgeous card.
luv
Debby
Beautiful card! Love the pretty image and designer paper! Thanks for joining the challenge at Wags 'n Whiskers!
Gorgeous card Mandy, I like the floral image and the colours, Thanks for joining in with us at Digi Haven, Good Luck.
Kevin xx
I just love your card layout. Thanks so much for joining us at HobbyCutz
Hugz
Kim
I just love your card layout. Thanks so much for joining us at HobbyCutz
Hugz
Kim
Fabulous card! Thanks for joining us at Crafts 4 Eternity this week hugs x
Smashing card and thank you for joining us with the Hobbycutz challenge
Kathyk
Thanks so much for sharing your sweet spring card with us @ My Sheri Crafts biweekly challenge!!! Hope spring finds it way to your area soon!
Fantastic - I hope you'll link up at 52 Card Pickup this week!
http://www.oldbackporch.com/2013/04/52-card-pickup-215.html
Very pretty and springy Mandy! Love the bright yellows. Thank you so much for playing the CDAC ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGES
~Deb~
CDAC DT Member
A Look Through My Eyes
Mandy your card is such a pretty celebration of spring! Thanks so much for sharing it with us in the A Creative Need challenge!
Very pretty!LOVE yellow!! Thanks for participating in our QKR STAMPEDE challenge!! Hope to see you again next week!
~DEANNE~
Beautiful card! Love the fresh yellow and green color combo! :) Thank you for participating in our "April Showers/Spring Flowers" challenge over at the Simon Says Stamp challenge blog this week! xx
Very pretty - thanks for sharing it with us at Crafting by Designs!
Doris :)
Lovely CAS card, gorgeous image and I love your paper! Thanks for joining us at Joanna Sheen.
Natx
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