Joy Comes In The Morning

Well hello everyone!!!

Welcome to a new season - SPRING. Lets hope that the weather starts to give us spring temperatures!! Wouldn't that be great!!! Flowers are starting to bloom and the grass is turning green - all awesome signs of spring!!

Since we are in the beginnings of spring, I thought I'd celebrate with a card with a tulip image. Creative Moments challenge #211 has started and ArtsyStamper happens to be the sponsor. 

I really love tulips and this image caught my eye. The tulip is in the Early Spring Beauty set over at the  ArtsyStamper's Etsy shop. Perfect for the start of the spring season.

For my card:

I made a braided edge on the fold side of the base card and added glitter to the braids. Then I used strips of left over scraps to cover a panel for the front of the card. Love doing this to use some pretty scraps I've been holding on to forever.(I have a hard time throwing paper scraps away.) After I adhered the strips on to the panel, I used a glue pen to trace the lines between the strips and then covered the glue with glitter. I am sure this is not showing up on the photo, but that glitter really makes the strips stand out. I colored the tulip with colored pencils and used gamsol to shade the petals on the tulip. I cut the tulip onto an oval shape and added a glitter accent to the oval and attached it to the card panel and added the panel to the card front.

I added a sentiment with a glittered border to the card front and the card is ready to be sent out.

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps: Digital - The Artsystamper - Tulip (in the Early Spring Beauty digital set)  Paper/Card Stock: All papers are DP Dies Used: Spellbinders Ovals Accessories: PrismaColor Colored pencils,  Gamsol, Glitter Paper, Glitter, Quickie Glue Pen, Double Sided tape

I am submitting my card to the following challenges:

• CD Sunday Plus-  #56 Anything Goes  (#18)
• Dare 2B Artzy Challenges - (March) Anything Goes (#67)
• Dragonfly Dreams - (March) Anything Goes (#76)
• The Corrosive Challenges -  Always Anything Goes (#88)
• A Bit More Time to Craft  #136 - Always Anything Goes (#89)
• A Perfect Time To Craft  Always Anything Goes (#354)
• Ching-chou Kuik Digital Stamps  March - Easter or Floral (#29)
• Classic Design  Challenge  Always Anything Goes (#305)
• Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper  March - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper (#363)
• Love to Craft -  #56 - Always Anything Goes (#217)
• QKR Stampede  #416 - Always Anything Goes (#53)
• The Creative Crafters  #38 - Always Anything Goes (#45)

Hope you were inspired to use some scraps that you are hanging on to. They really make some great looking cards.

I hope that every one is staying safe (get your shots and wear a mask) and I appreciate all the support you give by visiting and/or submitting to the Creative Moments challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great week and I will be back soon.

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #03 15 March - 2021

 It's the start of the next challenge over at 

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #03

March 14 through  April 12, 2021

My DT Project is using 

Love in Paris

Come along and join in this great DT Challenge, opened to any DT in the World. 

To be eligible, you just have to be on any DT.

You can enter any image and any project.

Enter our Current Challenge HERE!

Our wonderful Sponsor for World Wide is the lovely  Julia Spiri.

Please support Julia Spiri and visit her Store HERE!

 Come along and join Julia Spiri's Facebook Group
"Stamps by Julia Spiri"
You can join Facebook Group HERE! 

Subscribe to Julia's You Tube  - Here 

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SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Digi - Julia Spiri - Love in Paris Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Dark Green CS, Red CS, Blue CS Dies Used: Rubbernecker - Clouds Accessories: Staedler Watercolor Crayons, Prismacolor Pencils, Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers, Watercolor Brush

Challenges Entered:

• Dare 2B Artzy Challenges - (March) Anything Goes   (#51)
• Jan’s Digi Stamps Challenges - MAR - ANYTHING GOES (#88)
• Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges ) #2111 ANYTHING GOES (#17)
• Creative Fingers -  No. 203 (W2 of 2)  -  ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES  (#157)

Thanks for stopping by today.

Have a great week.

Thinking of You

Welcome Back,

I thought I'd pop in to share a fun design (kind of new to me)  and its really easy to make. 

I've seen it called the  Corner Angle Pop Up Card and I saw this somewhere online, so I thought I'd make a few .

I recently received stamps, dies and papers from Heartfelt Creations, and the February release has daffodils and hyacinth flowers in the release. Perfect for  spring cards and I think spring flower cards are perfect to get us out of the winter doldrums and into thoughts of spring.

The spray of daffodils was perfect for this card design. Perfect for that folded corner. BTW, I made this card into a 5"X7" card

Here is my card:

(closed)

open
inside view

Just 24 days til spring - yahoo!!!

I am ready for spring. 

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps: Rubber Stamps - Heartfelt Creations - Delightful Daffodil & Hyacinth, Delightful Daffodil Spray Dies: Circle Dies - Spellbinders; Heartfelt Creations - Delightful Daffodil & Hyacinth, Delightful Daffodil Spray, Stairway Gardens (Part of the centerpiece die) Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Purple CS; Heartfelt Creations - Delightful Daffodil Collection CS Ink: VersaFine Clair - Morning Mist; Ranger - Distress Oxide Fossilized Amber; Memento - Lilac Posies, Lulu Lvender,Bamboo Leaves, Northern Pine Accessories: Flat Backed Pearls; Art Glitter Glue

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Addicted to Stamps and More, - Any Occasion (W2 of 2) (#98)
• Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday  - Hearts or flowers (#66)
• House That Stamps Built - Anything Goes (#2)
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes (#50)
• Sisterhood of Crafters - Anything Goes  (#8)
• A Bit More Time to Craft #134 - Always Anything Goes (#132)
• A Perfect Time To Craft - Always Anything Goes (#335)
• Classic Design  Challenge  Always Anything Goes (#309)
• Crafts Galore Encore - Always Anything Goes (#176)
• DL.Art Linky Challenge - Always Anything Goes (#99)
• Mix It Up Challenge #46 - Anything Goes + Fancy Fold (#62)
• QKR Stampede  #414 - Always Anything Goes (#64)

Well that's it for now

I will be back soon

Thanks for stopping in today

Just For You

 Hello Everyone!!

Hope all is well with you all.

It's time for the 2nd Creative Moments challenge for February

Creative Moments is a bi monthly challenge blog
and the challenges begin on the 7th and 22nd of each month.
 I will be participating in the challenges on the 22nd of each month. 

The theme is Anything Goes 

The sponsor for this challenge is 

The Paper Shelter

The Paper Shelter has a lot of beautiful
 and oh so creative, digital images and digital papers.

I am using a digital image 

from the Peaceful Easter set

Here is my finished card

Here is a view from a higher angle

I made a wreath card
and placed the branches over the purple circle(wreath section)

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps: Digital  - The Paper Shelter - Peaceful Easter Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Purple CS, DP Dies Used:  Spellbinders - Circle  Accessories:  Memory Box - Woodland Branch (old die)

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Angie's Digital Stamps -  (February) Anything Goes (#32)
• CD Sunday Plus -  #54 Anything Goes  (#15)
• The Corrosive Challenges  - Always Anything Goes (#76)
• We Love 2 Create  - #2 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes (Deadline February 26) (#52)
• A Gem of a Challenge  - #4 - Anything Goes (W2 of 2) (#94)
• Crafter's Castle -  February - Anything Goes (#113)
• Di's Digis Designs Shaped Cards (no squares) (W1 of 2) (#4)

I hope that every one of you is staying safe and I appreciate all the support you give by visiting and/or submitting to the Creative Moments challenge.

Have a great week and I will be back soon.