Bird Blessings

I had a few false starts last week with my DT project for Time Out Challenge #259 Birds of a Feather so I had one or two little birds left over!  

This little bird (Poppy Stamps Nordic Bird) was one of them!  I had made it up in Spring Colours so decided to make an Easter card for one of my sons.  

The background panel was an experiment with a background die (Poppy Stamps Double Diamond Lattice) and a rubber mat.  I quite liked the effect so cut it down with my guillotine to fit a card front.

I added a branch (Spellbinders Cherry Blossoms) and some leaves (Greetery Hey Cupcake).   I then built a nest using Gummiapan Witch Hazel branches cut into thirds and piled on top of each other and speckled some eggs (Poppy Stamps Whittle Chickens) with a fine point marker.

I had made the bird from snippets of a pale blue card stock and couldn't find any more of it - not even enough for this Easter sentiment (The Greetery)!  But this slightly deeper blue tones in well enough IMO and I also used it for the card base.   I bought the Easter sentiment last year and had almost forgotten I had it!  I spelt out "BLESSINGS" with this Tiny Gummiapan alphabet set.

I'd like to enter the following challenges

NBUS Challenge #60 - the bird and Easter sentiment die were NBUS;

The Card Concept #205 which has this lovely spring inspiration;

The Four Seasons March 2024 Challenge with this pretty inspiration;

The Triple B (Birds/Blooms/Butterflies) Challenge with this inspiration;

Traumfabrik #126  which has the film Chicken Run as it's inspiration but anything Easter Egg related will do a long as it's not a bunny;

AAA Card Challenges #261 - Spring Colours;

Inspire Me #530 - Happy Easter;

Krafty Chicks Challenge #708 CAS;

Papercraft Challenges #104 - Easter;

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Easter/Spring!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you go away a little inspired!  Your visits and comments are always a joy and always appreciated!  And if you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and how to find you!

Kate

 

Brushtroked Butterfly

 

If you read my post yesterday, you'll know I had a spare green and gold butterfly that hadn't worked out.  I decided to do something with it today instead of sticking it in a box where it probably won't see the light of day for a loooong time.  

I started out making a sympathy card and thought I'd go through my very much neglected embossing folders collection for some background texture.  I chose what I thought was a very unremarkable NBUS embossing folder which turned out to be quite lovely when I actually embossed a panel with it.  It's from Sizzix and I think it's called Sparkling but I bought it sooo long ago I doubt it still exists.  My eye was instantly drawn to the small crosses in the pattern which I thought would work rather well for Easter!  And as a butterfly is also a symbol of being reborn, I decided on an Easter sentiment instead!  

I'd like to enter the following challenges

Triple B (Birds, Butterflies and Blooms) Challenge March Challenge (their very first one)!

NBUS Challenge #48 - both the butterfly and ambossing folders are NBUS

Color Hues Challenge #59 

Double D Challenges who have this brilliant mood board - 

I drew mine from the bottom left photo - the door with the gold letterbox and the texture of the old wall

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

who are back after a well-deserved break!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you go away a little inspired!  Your visits and comments are always a joy and always appreciated!  And if you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and how to find you!

Kate

Easter egg Hunt

 

I made this card quickly to send to my son for Easter.  I thought I could cut corners by using funky foam instead of a few layers of card stock to build up the eggs.  Unfortunately with the stitched borders on these eggs, this leaves an indent in the funky foam so lining up the image meant the funky foam could still be seen so I had to trim some of the foam which made it a little messy.  Definitely not one of my better cards but I'm sure my son will love it and appreciate the work that went into it.

 I decided on this sentiment from A Good Egg from Waltzing Mouse Stamps because he's been a bit down lately with all the bad news on Covid-19 - he's a very sociable person and the isolation has been tougher on him than most.  The sentiment actually was one long sentiment and I'm afraid I performed a little surgery on it to break it up into two lines - I can always join it up again later.  

I'd like to say I added that yellow egg to brighten up the card a bit but you as fellow card makers know a cover up when you see one - turns out Versafine ink takes a fair while to dry!  

I'm entering this card in the following challenges

Cuttlebug Mania - Put a Bunny on it;

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Easter;

Make My Monday Challenge #145 - Easter or Spring;

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies March Challenge;

As You See it Challenge #246 - Easter Thoughts

My thoughts this Easter go to my two older sons who won't be here for Easter.  Today I've organised their deliveries of chocolate.  On Easter Sunday I'll be having an Easter egg Hunt in the garden with our youngest.  My thoughts will also be with my choir friends who I would normally sing with on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  I miss them terribly but am too afraid of risking my husband's and youngest son's health to join them.  Masks may provide enough protection but then again, this is an incredibly contagious virus and a deadly one for some.  

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed your visit.  If you leave a comment, I’ll be over the moon!  I’ll also know you were here, so I can check out what you’ve been up to and we can get better acquainted!

Kate

Easter Bunny

This wintry weather was really getting me down so I decided to break out my new WMS Folk Art stamp sets today and I made a little easter card for the one expat family in our village that hadn't left Luxembourg to head "home" for Easter.
I just let the card take shape by itself, starting with the beautiful WMS Folk Art Labels 25 stamped on a small piece of kraft card I had in my scraps with Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder.
I coloured the detail with some very old Tombow Markers (over 10 years old and still going strong !!!)
I then stamped the Easter greeting from WMS Compact Sentiments and embossed with WOW Tickled Pink embossing powder,  I then stamped the little bunny from WMS A Good Egg and embossed with Clearsnap Pistachio.
I mounted this on  Spellbinders Petite Scallop Circle cut from a scrap of pink card, and a Spellbinders Splendid Circle cut from a scrap of pale green vellum.  As I had no more kraft card I stamped the WMS Cabin Plaid background on a piece of white card using Raspberry Adirondack Ink, which I distressed with a little Weathered Wood DI, and mounted this on a Zeeman pale blue square card base.
Then the fun really began.  I stamped a flower from the Label 25 set in white embossing powder on some pink card.  I decided to make it a little bigger and add some more colour, so I broke out the WMS Folk Art Medallion set.  I stamped one of the flower parts and embossed in Pistachio.  I then added a flower surround and embossed in Pistachio.  Finally I added some little flowers in the empty spaces using pistachio and white for the centres.
I was only playing around so I didn't try very hard to line up the flowers so don't look too hard.  Even so I liked it so much I used it as an envelope seal.
Next time I'm going to try using white card and embossing with white, Pistachio and Tickled Pink.  The possibilities of this set are huge.  I loooooove it!