Happy Easter & Your Challenge Projects

 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that you all are having a lovely Easter weekend with your family, ours has been really quiet as the girls have been working and the park stays open every day except Christmas day, so no days off for them this weekend.  We had a very early start yesterday, we were up and out for 6am to get to Heathrow for 7.30am, we made it in time Becca & Adam were waiting for us,  we did have a laugh though, Adam was explaining how long the flight had taken and how confusing it was that they set off on Friday evening at 7pm and their combined flight times were 16 hours but it had taken then 48 hours (in his mind), he said its going to be tiring as we are back at work tomorrow,  so I said "oh that was bad planning,  going back in on a busy Easter Sunday "  he said "No its Bank Holiday Monday tomorrow "  we said no it is 100 % Saturday today, he looked at us in disbelief,  then checked his phone and you could see the moment it clicked, Becca said we totally believed it was Sunday today, we arranged to pick up Benji on Sunday,  so I'm not sure where he'll be today, after a couple of phone calls they were sorted and were excited that they had an excited that they had an extra day off.  They were ao excited to tell us all about their holiday, so many gorgeous photos to look at too.

Not much planned today,  Roast Lamb later on, for 5 of us, hope to do a bit in  garden too.  

Lets look at your Challenge cards so far....

Your Challenge Projects 

Janet

Janet kindly shared a couple of 'throw back ' cards for inspiration this week as she still hasn't had the energy to get back to her craft desk.  

I have my fingers tightly crossed that you feel up to getting back in there my lovely.   Thank you so much for taking time to search for cards to inspire us my lovely XXX 

Karen 

Karen's Description:

Here’s a challenge card 

I found a couple of sheets of Topsy Turvy card - remember that? And used Sue W die and embossing folder.

I do remember Topsy Turvy card,  I didn't have any though, I'm surprised you have any left !  I love that colour though 😍  Such a useful die, so easily changed to feminine card by change of colour too, I might look out for that embossing folder,  I love the style of the stars,  you could use it for so many occasions.  

Thank you for taking part Karen XXX 

Lilian 

Lilian's Description: 

Here is my card for this week:

I used a Lavinia stencil, inked with pear pizzazz and bundled sage.

Stamps are all stampin up : high tide, little bird    Butterfly basics, fern   An open heart , bird.

Stamped with black ink. Coloured with my new pens.

Wow Lilian that background is stunning,  you would think it was patterned paper, created with the stencil and pear pizzazz ink!  That stamped bird is one of my favourites as is the fern stamp you ha e used around the bird.  Your new pens have coloured that bird perfectly.

Thank you so much for taking part XXX 

Maria

Maria's Description: 

1.  Dies and Flowers used from SW. Stamp from stash.

2   and 3. Circles dies cut in half and then laid back in a different

     shape. Idea from Pinterest .Card 2 got a smudge of course so 

     a couple of little flowers helped me out 

4.  This is a card I saw from a Stamp Creative Magazine when

     using post it notes to make the different areas to stamp in.

     I followed it some but also did my own bits, not sure I like that...

Oh Maria you have been busy, what an amazing collection of cards, I love them all, especially the last one, its so different,  such a clever idea,  I  definitely going to have a go at it, thank you for inspiring me my lovely friend. 

Thank you for supporting the challenge too XXX

Sonia

Sonia's Description:  

Card 1:  I used the foil background from our day crafting together, using one of your dies ☺️ Added some Lavinia star stamps, and the sentiment stamp from KaiserCraft.

Card  2: I used a brush stroke stamp from Gummiapan for the background adding the star stamps from SugarPea designs. The ‘You’ die and ‘Rock’ stamp are also SugarPea. The guitar die is from  Britannia and stamped sentiments from The Stamp Market.

Card 3 & 4:  Inspired by you 😍 I’ve used the Gummiapan brushstroke stamp, and added foiled sentiments from Spellbinders. The gold sentiment on the white card, foiled on vellum, had quite a bit of under foiling, but I really liked the distress look of it 😊

Omg!! What an amazing collection of cards Sonia, you are so inspirational,  your cards are all so different despite the fact that have same basic stamp set, I'd never have thought that was the brushstrokes behind the guitar,  what a brilliant background!  I love the last two cards, particularly the Kraft one, those foiled vellum sentiments work so well, the fact that the under foiled one looks 'distressed' makes it fit brilliantly on that card, I would have probably binned it. But on that card it looks like it was designed that way.

Thank you so much for 4 amazing cards XXX

Sue

Sue's Description:  

A quick card made using a Stampin up punch and one of their gorgeous wood dsp. The stamped sentiment is from Honey Doo crafts I believe xx

Oh Sue, it turned out great, you must be so pleased with it,  now I have that label punch out of the cupboard I will use it myself,  I forgot how much i liked the shape!  Tidying things away isn't a helpful thing at times!!  I need everything on display.  Thank you so much my lovely XXX 

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Ladies thank you so much for the incredible gallery above ❤

I hope that you all have an amazing Sunday, 

Love and hugs to all,

Sandra                                                                    xxxxxx