Today a Blessed Easter

Here in London we are enjoying really sunny weather. It is just gorgeous but it leaves us at the weekend. This is a shame as our local Community are veg box building all weekend-still it is meant to be dry so lots of tea will keep us going. I am going to take my camera with me so I can share with you my DIY skills!!

Today my Easter card is a bit different than the last few days as it focuses on the real meaning of Easter and a cross is the main feature. I wanted to make it a plain layout with the cross being prominent. I did add my own twist with a contemporary shaped cross in funky colours.

I like the earthy brown colour mixed with the pink and green. I added the gems just because it seemed to balance the card.

Well enjoy the sun whilst it lasts and have a fun day x

I am going to enter this into the following 'Easter' Challenges:
Fab n Funky
Crafty Sentiments
scrap-creations

The cross is a Dotted Daisy Design and the sentiment is a Lindsay Stamp Stuff design both can be found at mygrafico.com

Eggstra Special Easter Wishes!

Just popping in quickly with another Easter card to share with you.

Today I have used the same wooden stamp but different colours, papers and and cute sentiment form mygrafico
This time I coloured the stamp with 'pink carnation' and 'yellow' promakers, inked the edges with 'wild plum' Ranger ink and added some ribbon from my stash.

I really love these bright and cheerful Easter colours-hope you do too!

I will enter this into the following 'Easter' challenges:

Dream Valley
My Sheri Crafts
Lexis creations

Enjoy the sun today. I think I will be off for a walk in the park today.

Easter Wishes

I have finally got around to making a few Easter cards.

Here is one I made earlier today, like yesterday, all cheery spring colours-hope you smile:

The little Easter eggs are a wooden rubber stamp but I am not sure where it is from as it was given to me as a pressie. I haven't used promakers that much recently but found it quite relaxing today colouring these cute little eggs. I used the colours 'grass' and 'orchid'-yes that really is meant to be lilac but on a background of yellow it appears like milk chocolate, so appropriate for Easter! The sentiment is from Desert Diva. A few splashes of some yummy lilac ribbon and Easter card number 1 done!

I am entering this into the Twisted Sketches challenge this week, the twist being 'green'.
I will also enter it into the Easter challenges at Moving Along With The Times and Crafty Boots

April Showers!

Now spring is really here. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the flowers are blooming. The colours of Spring are all around us.

But don't forget that 'April Showers' will always surprise us so don't forget to carry your umbrella so nothing will stop you from singing and dancing as the 'raindrops keep falling on your head' (I know corny but I hope it made you smile!!)

And to celebrate Spring I have made the 'April' topper for our kitchen calendar. Full of cheerful spring colours.

Gosh I thought you could see the sentiment from the photo but it doesn't seem to have come out so well......so it says 'Raindrops keep falling on my head'.

I am hoping these bright colours will make me smile everyday of April!
This umbrella digi image is from Anji's Antics.

I will be entering this into the following challenges:
Sassy Cheryls 'think Spring'
Creative Stamp Friends -Spring
crafts and me Spring colours

Mums

This week my Mum has been staying with me helping out whilst I have had a few hospital appointments. Her support and love is something that I feel very special to have. So what better way to show her this than to make a card for her.

I loved this sentiment as I feel it is so true-if you can't quite see it from the photo it says-'Mums are like buttons. They hold things together'-see what I mean!

Mum had mentioned how she liked a card I had made that was black and pink so I went for these colours added a few buttons held together with black and white bakers twine.

I will be entering this into the following challenges:

Cas-ual Fridays -to use black and pastels
Ribbon carousel -to use bakers twine
Fab n Funky -in honour of Mums


The sentiment is from pink petticoat

Thinking of you

Yippee the weekend is here. Hope you all have a fun time planned with plenty of chilling involved!

I decided I needed to make a few 'thinking of you' cards to add to my collection. I haven't used my animal print paper for a while and I love the way it mixes so well with the jute twine and Kraft card. I felt I wanted to add a striking splash of colour and this button was perfect. I was admiring Nancy's card (check it out by clicking on her name) and she mentioned it was My Time Made Easy 's 1 year anniversary so I followed their sketch challenge for the occasion.

And here is my card:

The sentiment is from Wild Rose Studio and the animal print is from Kanban Crafts.

I will also enter this into the 'thinking of you' challenge at Scrap book Sisters .

Enjoy the weekend x

Mum's Day

I know it is a few days early but I made my Mum a small gift for Mother's day on Sunday and wanted to share this with you.
I used the gift box tutorial by Sheryl here. It is the same one I used for my husband's Valentine's chocolate surprise here. This time I just changed the colours and added a die cut flower, gems, ribbons and pearls. I used this week colour combo at Colourq.

The front of the box looks like this:

And the back:

And I am now off to buy some chocs to fill it with!

I will be entering this into the challenges at:
Colourq (colour combo)
Allsorts (say it with flowers)
Mums Craft Shop (Mums the word)

Have a good day x