Well I don't know whether it was the
Joanna Sheen special programme last Sunday with all the new Messy Rabbit products or it was thinking about the
Pink Elephant Easter Blog Hop, but something made me go all Eastery!!!
I really enjoyed making this card using the sketch at the
Sketch and Stash Challenge blog. Due to my main image being quite large I decided to use the sketch to create a large size (8" x 8" ) card. In this challenge the idea is that you use the sketch and a new craft item - my new items are the cute little basket which is from the Whiff of Joy Spring stamp set and the lovely yellow patterned paper by Kanban.
I particularly chose these papers to fit in with the inspirational photo on the
Cupcake Challenge this week where we were given a photo of a vase of yellow flowers and asked to create something using that as our inspiration.
One of my aims this year is to do something for the complete alphabet at the
ABC challenge site. Well as their challenge is to make a card for a child I think the inclusion of Messy Rabbit (although he's not just for children - he's for big kids like me too!) makes this card fit the bill.
Cute Card Thursday have the theme of Animal Magic and I think Messy is definitely magic. I just love that look on his face saying 'Hmmm are all these eggs for me? I'd actually rather have carrots!'
Another Animal challenge is at
Charisma Cards where you can feature any animal including dinosaurs.
On the
Joanna Sheen forum we have a monthly challenge and this month the theme is handmade paper flowers.
My flowers are made using my Wizard flower die and then to give them texture I use the good old Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder and then fastened the two flowers together using a white brad.
At
No Time To Stamp they are fed up of the cold and asked crafters to enter cards that would remind them that Spring was on the way. To me yellow flowers are so evocative of Spring so I'm pretty sure my card will help with their 'cabin fever'.
At the
Cuttlebug Spot Nilda asks everyone to put bows on their creations - my ribbon is threaded through the lattice border made using a Cuttlebug border die and finished with bow.
Wow eight challenges in one card - mind you it is a big card - think that puts me right up there in the record book with Ann Whitfield! Hmmmmmmm would it be cheating to enter it for the Pink Elephant challenge of using a die cut and ribbon? I think it might be so I'll stick at eight and take the rest of the week off!!!
A little while ago I bought some tiny note books with the most awful cheap looking pictures on the covers. I thought they would be just great for altering. This is the first one I've got round to doing. Not much space to be creative on such a tiny cover, but I managed to fit one of the beautiful images from the Whiff of Joy spring stamp set, a ribbon and a couple of tiny gems in each corner.
The challenge at Roses on Paper at the moment is to make a quilt card. As I was sorting out my craft stuff recently (well okay ransacking things to try and find something I thought I had) I found a Hot of the Press book on quilted cards. A book that I have had ages and not used because it seemed a shame to pull out any of the papers.
Well I don't know whether it was the Joanna Sheen special programme last Sunday with all the new Messy Rabbit products or it was thinking about the Pink Elephant Easter Blog Hop, but something made me go all Eastery!!!
