Personal Challenge Week 9

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Hello my friends!

I sure hope you're all having a great weekend. I am having a nice busy weekend so far and so much fun crafting away in my craft room. I was able to get a lot of things accomplished and I'm feeling good about it! I'm sure you can all relate to how good it feels when we tackle that forever long "to-do" list! LOL

 

Okay so Kellie and I are on week 9 of our personal challenge and this week I challenged us to create a Spring themed card using a die cut. So here is what I came up with:

 

My card is a standard A2 size and the cardstock I used is Bazzill. I layered a black mat onto my white card base and on top of that, I layered a piece of Recollections lavender patterned paper. I'll start with my cute adorable image, Mikayla Ann. She is a digi stamp from the Cutting Cafe. I printed her out and colored her in using copics E00, E02 and E51 for her skin. I used Y12, Y18 and Y19 for her hair and colored in one of the easter eggs in the grass using Y18. Her dress  and socks were colored in using BV08, BV11 and BV13 while her shoes were colored in using C5 and C8. I then decided to color the easter egg she was holding in R81 and R83. I used G07 and G09 to color in the grass and her eyes. Then I used R24 to color the bow around the egg she's holding and also on the small cracked open egg in the grass. To give the image some sparkle, I added some rock candy stickles to the eggs and bows.

The cute little bunnies came from the new stamp set Happy Easter by Lawn Fawn. I colored them in using copics BV23, C5, RV02(ears) and I added some B000 around the inside of the tails. Then that cute little bee... aaahh... well that bee is also from Lawn Fawn and comes from the stamp set, Gnome Sweet Gnome. I colored the bee in using Y18, B000(wings) and 100. I also stamped the bee trail from that same stamp set. After I colored and cut out the stamps, I put them on foam adhesive and then decided to build a Springy/Easter scene. I used my momento summer skies ink and a cloud template to create the look of the sky and clouds on a beautiful spring day. Once I got the look I was going for, I took the "sky" paper and cut it out using my Spellbinder's Labels Ten Dies. I also cut out some beautiful glittery purple fabric out of the same die to build my main layers. I used some faux stitching in black, around the inside of the "sky" layer to give some added texture. I then adhered all my stamped pieces up on foam tape to the main layer. To finish off the card front, I cut out a journal tag from the Papertrey Ink's Journal Tabs Dies and inked around it using tea dye distress ink and then stamped the sentiment "Do the bunny Hop, hop, hop hop!" in momento tuxedo black ink. The sentiment stamp is from Cardz TV's Easter Punnies stamp set. It still needed a little something so I added some purple Royal Jewels from the Royal Castle Shoppe. Below is a peek at the inside which uses the sentiment, "Have an Eggs-tra special Easter!" also from the Cardz TV Stamp set "Easter Punnies" and uses another egg that I had cut out, colored and popped up.

 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

 

LawnScaping Challenge 54
Paper Playtime's "Use a Bee" Ch 6
LMM Happy Easter Challenge
Craftin Desert Divas Linky Party

I hope you have enjoyed my card today and I sure hope you stop by Kellie's Blog to see what she created for our week 9's personal challenge!
Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!!

 

Congrats!

Hi friends, TGIF!!! This week has truly flown by. I don't know about ya'll but I'm so glad it's Friday! I have a light load this weekend so I anticipate creating in my craft room! Well as promised, I have another card for you today. I am entering this card in the Lawnscaping Challenge #32, Stamp a Scene challenge.

My card is a standard A2 card on white bazzill cardstock. I cut another piece of the white cardstock out at 4 x 5 1/4 and used my copics to make the background. The copics I used for this card are RV06, B52, YG06 and E07. I stamped out little banner flags from Dilly Dally stamp set by Making Memories and colored them in using the same copics that I made the background with and then using the same stamp set, I stamped the letters onto each flag spelling the word "Congrats".  I ran some twine that I got from the Twinery through a tiny hole on each banner flag that I made with my hole piercer and then tied a bow and added it to the top.

I stamped the cute whimsical unicorn and critter from Lawn Fawn's Critters Ever After stamp set, coloring them using the same copics and adding dots using my colorless blender. The critters as well as the banner are all on dimensionals for some more dimension. I added some black and white Washi tape to my edges. I like how the black/white tape frames the card. I finished the card off with some pink fluffy trim and some lime green trim from Webster's Pages. I am also entering this card in the Cardz TV Design Team Challenge #8.

Well that's my card for today, hope you have a great weekend and thank you for stopping by!

Supplies:
Paper: Bazzill
Stamps: Lawn Fawn (Critter's ever after), Making Memories (Dilly Dally)
Twine: The Twinery
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black
Washi Tape
Trim: Webster's Pages
Copics: RV06, B52, YG06, E07