Easter SPARKS

This week there is an inspiration photograph at the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge blog:

I took away from this the squareness of the image, the white framing an off-white, and the cluster of images in the bottom-right corner. 

A little happy Easter card for my husb. The chicks, heart and exclamation mark are from Woofers and Tweeters (the exclamation mark is the upside-down 'i' from 'i dig you') and the 'happy' is one half of 'happy bird-day' from Birthday Buddies. I coloured in the chicks with an ink dauber! This is going into Simon Says Stamp's Anything Goes challenge, as well.
Happy Easter! 

Supplies: white & Stampin' Up naturals ivory cardstock, Woofers and Tweeters & Birthday Buddies stamps, Memento tuxedo black, dandelion, tangelo & Stampin' Up real red inks, Stampin' Up ticket corner punch

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Easter at Crafty Creations Challenges

It's almost Easter (hello, long weekend) and at Crafty Creations Challenges, we're looking for those Easter projects you are making. I needed another Easter card, so the timing was perfect for me! 

Is that bunny in his shades not the coolest? I was so happy when the little sunglasses stamp (I don't know if that's what it's meant to be, but it worked for me) was a perfect fit for this rabbit. I scored the red panel to look like brick and popped the cool dude bunny.
I'm really happy with this card -- but wait till you see what the rest of the design team created! After you've been inspired, show us your Easter creation! We have a great prize from My Mum's Craft Shop for a lucky winner, too. 

Supplies: white & Stampin' Up ruby red cardstock, vellum, Echo Park Sweet Summertime Blue Sky patterned paper, Rubber Stampede Bunny Face & Paper Smooches Jive Turkey stamps, Memories black & Versafine onyx black inks, clear embossing powder, watercolour pencils, 3/4" square punch, Twinery Caribbean twine, Fiskars glue dot

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Spring Flowers

So it's not exactly spring, but it doesn't totally feel like winter anymore, so that's something, right? And my cards are definitely leaning to spring more than winter these days. Case in point:

Tulips are so spring. I embossed these in white before watercolouring the background in distress inks. Then I coordinated the colours (because I never think to pick the papers first) with a couple of Plumeria patterned papers. A few rounded corners softened the overall design, and I have a springtime card. (I actually had a matching gift bag, too, but of course used it before I remembered to photograph it.) 
This card is popping into some springtime challenges! Simon Says Stamp and Addicted to CAS, as well as A Blog Named Hero's freestyle challenge and My Graphico's anything goes challenge.

Supplies: white cardstock, Basic Grey Plumeria patterned papers, Hero Arts newsprint tulip stamp, Colorbox frost white, tumbled glass & peeled paint distress inks, WOW white embossing powder, Creative Memories corner-rounding punch, dimensionals











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Friday Friends with {Easter} Flair

TGIF! I think my sincerest hope for you on this first Friday of spring is... that it is or will be spring where you are soon! (I know, it's opposite below the Equator. Believe me, my readership there is small. :P) Perhaps because it continues to be so wintry in my backyard, I am in the mood to make spring cards. So today's Unity Friends with Flair card has spring colours, tulips, and will be one of my Easter cards:

I didn't think I'd be able to use the colour inspiration for this month's Unity {be inspired} Challenge, (so many!!!) but then Sizzix was nice enough to offer this free patterned paper download! It seemed to capture the spirit of the colours quite nicely. I also used the current card sketch. 
Since it's both a spring and an Easter card, I will be adding it to Simon Says Stamp's current challenge as well. And look! The patterned paper qualifies me for the current Moxie Fab World chevron challenge, too. 
If you're looking for some inspiration this weekend, be sure to check out all the Friends with Flair entries! 

                                         

Supplies: white, Bazzill basics melon & Stampin Up certainly celery cardstock, Sizzix digital patterned paper, Unity stamps (Giving it all Meaning, sentiment from Sweet Paper Pals; tulips unknown), Memento bamboo leaves & Versamark inks, WOW white embossing powder, Laurentien markers, Spellbinders tulips border die, Twinery Caribbean twine, unknown flower brad, dimensionals

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SPARKS for Easter

This week the challenge at Paper Smooches SPARKS is a colour one. While it's called "Fiesta", I immediately thought, "Easter"! Possibly because I need a couple of Easter cards, but anyway... 
After playing around with a few ideas, I ended up taking my layout inspiration from this card I added to Pinterest a few days ago. 

How cute are these little chicks? I didn't have quite the right sentiment, so I printed this one on the computer. I traced over it with my clear sparkle marker for a little extra fun. I like that this is a card that will work for just about anyone!
And I almost forgot! I'm linking this up to Simon Says Stamp's latest challenge, for Easter or spring cards. 

Supplies: white & Stampin' Up garden green cardstock, Paper Smooches Woofers & Tweeters stamp, Memento dandelion, caneloupe & tangelo inks, atyou Spica clear glitter marker, EK Success 1 1/4" square & Marvy Uchida corner-rounding punches, pop-dot tape

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Growing in Unity: Winner Time!

Thanks so much for visiting and saying such nice things last week while I was the Growing in Unity girl! Time to pick one comment to see who gets two Itty Bitty stamps of her choice. Day of the week:

From Thursday's comments: 

Congratulations, Gaylynn! Good luck narrowing your choices down to just two, though. :D 
Thanks again to everyone for coming to visit my blog last week! I hope you'll drop by again sometime. 

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