Prima botanical

Prima botanical is the name of the background paper I've used for this Easter card, the sentiment stamp is Papermania inked with memento rich cocoa and the flowers were from Create and Craft. The butterfly stamp is one of my favourites - swirling wings by Lindsay Mason - with just a few little pearls added to match the organza and pearls flowers.

This is for:

Totally papercrafts 155: hope for spring
Sentimental Sundays 143: flowers, flowers and more flowers
Perfect sentiments 67: floral fantasia
Ruby's rainbow 48: in the garden
Kreativer Bastel 16: pearls
Bunny Zoe February: flowers & pearls
Take a word: wings
City crafter 148: wings
Alphabet: A for anything with wings
Allways something creative: with wings
A and t 22: butterflies
Card mania 15: fairies or butterflies
Whoopsi Daisy: add a sentiment
Craft us crazy 37: show us your favourites - one of my favourite stamps
Happy campers 11: use a favourite stamp
Natalie and Amy 6: something old & something new - old: paper/stamp; new: flowers
Cute card Thursday 257: simplify
Going grey with Scrap-creations: go green
Totally gorjuss 172: happy
Party time Tuesday 109: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
613 avenue create 8: anything goes
The pink elephant 188: anything goes
My grafico: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 6: anything goes
Make it Monday 129
Inspire me Fridays 97
52 card pickup 2.8

Happy Easter

Today I made a start on making Easter cards - need to make a lot before my charity sale Saturday week - managed to make six today and this is the first one. I dug out some very old K & Co papers - this one is taken from the 'daffodil' pad, mounted on to a card blank with a ready cut fancy edge (got some of these at Hobbycraft when I had a 25% off voucher - wish I'd bought more) distressed with shabby shutters DI. The decoupaged paper flowers are Docrafts (bought last year and not used then). Sentiment (from a Forever Friends set of stamps) inked with memento rich cocoa.

Easter inspired by Cupcake inspirations 199:

This is for:

A card a day facebook
Delicious doodles 24: flowers for spring
Totally papercrafts 155: hope for spring
Stamp and create February: spring is coming
Sentimental Sundays 143: flowers, flowers and more flowers
Perfect sentiments 67: floral fantasia
Ruby's rainbow 48: in the garden
Whoopsi Daisy: add a sentiment
Totally gorjuss 172: happy
Natalie & Amy 6: something old & something new - old: paper/flowers; new: fancy card blank
Party time Tuesday 109: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
613 avenue create 8: anything goes
The pink elephant 188: anything goes
My grafico: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 6: anything goes
Make it Monday 129
Inspire me Fridays 97
52 card pickup 2.8

Time for Christmas pud ...

... not really - although I do have two Christmas puddings in the freezer that I made last Christmas. I don't actually like it - can only eat it if it's plastered with some cointreau or brandy butter and lots of sauce or custard. Anyway, I digress ...

This card is a quick on based on the sketch for Holly Jolly this week (I hope I haven't deviated from the sketch too much):

This is also for Sandra's Rudolph Day for February and a late one for Sunday's with Santa facebook week 7: food (yay! I'm up to date now).

The background card, topper and sentiment are from a Hunkydory kit with just the addition of a piece of Paper Cellar glittered ribbon.

This was one of those 'difficult to get a photo on a dull day' cards! I tried and tried and this was the best I could manage without bits being obliterated by the glare of the flash.

This is also for:

Flourishes timeless Tuesday 209: all that glitters
Glitter n sparkle 21: bling it on
Dream valley 51: ribbon and bling