Easter Blessings

 Happy first day of spring! Are things beginning to warm up for you?  We've had plenty of sunshine and blooms and I'm loving it! 

I had time to play with my paper flowers today, here's a card to share! The Paper Players has a clean and simple challenge and Ann asked us to feature a flower. 

I inked up the tulips and cherry blossoms using the Budding Beauties Spring stamp set and dies (The Greetery) in lovely pinks. Keeping my card simple, I placed them on a panel of pale gray striped paper with a layer of foam behind it for added dimension.

The sentiment and the inks that I used are from WPlus9 design. It made me happy to pull out supplies that I've had for awhile that need to be used more often! If you'd like to play along with the challenge, there's still plenty of time. I'm adding this to Tic Tac Toe challenge using the row: Pastel Colors, Flowers, Spring Theme. 

I hope you are having  a wonderful week. I appreciate the time you take to stop by so much. 

Be yourself

          Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

 

Inspired By: Spring Into Color

I love it when the spring brings gorgeous flowers, blooms and splashes of bright colors. That's just what we are featuring this week at our challenge, Inspired By. What I love even more is when there is a sentiment that describes the season perfectly! 

I found the perfect combination in the beautiful stamps from Penny Black called faith.hope.love, and Spring Day. Using my MISTI, I stamped the images on watercolor paper and used my Zig markers and a brush to add color to the images and the background. I didn't add spatters this time, but there are a few tiny dots to look like speckling on the eggs. 

Our challenge is calling for SPRING COLOR and I sure loved creating this card. 

We would love to have you play along too! It is always amazing to see how you are inspired. 

Thanks for you visit, I've enjoyed having you stop by. 

Be yourself

     Delight in your craft 

        Make something beautiful!

Freshly Made for Easter

How are you enjoying your Saturday? Hasn't it been a crazy week? 
I've loved having a good dose of sunshine outside and a bit of craftiness while inside today. Thought you'd like to see the result. 

I'm sharing my first card made for Easter using the WPlus9 set called He is Risen and my favorite spring colors of pink and apple green. I embossed the flowers and sentiment in white, and added color by sponging  Distress Oxide inks on the lily and the leaves. They are Cracked Pistachio, Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Twisted Citron and Fozzilized Amber. Fussy cutting the flowers and leaves I placed them on a panel of DSP from my stash. The card base was embellished with the Dotted Swirls Debossing Cover Die from Altenew.

A simple card inspired by Freshly Made Sketches to ease me into some quick stamping. Still elegant though, I think! Thanks so much for coming by and I hope you have a terrific day. 

Be yourself

     Delight in your craft 

        Make something beautiful!