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It's supposed to be spring, but some are having snow (again), and we've gotten up into the mid to upper 80's already. I think we went straight to summer here. For the In A Sweet Pea Dream challenge this round they want us to do a springtime card, and the Sweet Pea Stampers challenge is to use punches. I chose the Fall Masquerade Fairy by Caron Vinson, available from Sweet Pea Stamps, and colored her with teal and peach, which are the colors for Joan's card challenge this week. Joan also wanted us to add a butterfly and use something frilly. I have several tiny butterflies scattered on here, and my frilly is the gorgeous lace behind the image. This was left over from a dress I made my daughter 15+ years ago. I think I've about used it all now. The flowers were made with Nellie Snellen punches, spritzed with some glimmer spray I made, and German glass glitter was added to the centers.
In a Sweet Pea Dream - Spring.
Sweet Pea Stampers - Punches.
Joan's Gardens - Peach and teal, butterfly and something frilly.
Friday Sketchers - Sketch.
Stamps: Sweet Pea Stamps "Fall Masquerade Fairy" by Caron Vinson, Crafty Secrets "Bonjour Merci".
Paper: Bearly Mine Designs digi paper, The Paper, DCWV Mariposa.
Ink: Memento, Colorbox Queues.
Accessories: Stickles, Nellie Snellen flower and fern punches, German glass glitter, Spellbinders dies, MS butterfly punch, lace, seam binding, foam tape, corner punch.
This week at Joan's Gardens, Joan whipped up a pretty recipe for this week's card challenge - A thank you card with pink and green, stripes and scallops. I had this image already finished. It was a practice piece from a couple weeks back. The image is stamped on canvas with Stazon and then I colored it with Copics and Prismacolors. I cut around the image with deckle edge scissors, distressed with some ink. I cut out a scalloped rectangle then embossed it so it wouldn't look so blah. The sentiment is made with JustRite Trompe letters. The punch flowers have been in my stash for quite some. I ran them through my crimper a bunch of times to soften them up then shaped them a bit and added the starburst center.
Challenges
Joan's Gardens - Thank you card, pink and green, stripes, scallops.
Sketch Saturday - Nice sketch!
Paper Sundae - Embossing.
JustRite - Random Act of Kindness.
Stamps: Flourishes "Humming Along", JustRite Trompe alphabet.
Paper: HOTP, The Paper Studio.
Ink: Colorbox Queues, Distress Inks.
Accessories: Punch flowers, deckle scissors, Spellbinders scalloped rectangles and tag dies, Sizzix leaf die and embossing folder, SU! scallop border punch, ribbon, canvas, pearls.
This week over at Joan's Gardens, her challenge is to create a tag using something heavier than cardstock, use old and vintage looking colors, and add some stuff from our stash. I got some Grunge Paper about a month ago and hadn't used it yet, so I pulled it out to play and ended up making two. I cut the Grunge paper then sprayed them each with several different colors of Glimmer Mist. After drying, embossed them using two different folders. Added some flowers I made, some butterflies cut with MS punches, added the charms. Made the tiny pockets from stash paper and inserted a little card into that for writing on later.
