BBTB2 - April Showers

Happy Monday!!!

Have you been getting as much rain as

I have this Spring?!?!

Fitting enough for our BBTB2 challenge

for the week :)

April Showers!

We want to see Umbrellas on your projects :)

I used the April Showers cartridge for this

umbrella cut and it is sized at 3 1/2.

All my papers were from my scrap bin,

but I am pretty sure the b/g paper is My Mind's Eye.

I used some Enamel Dots from Michael's and

the sentiment is from Studio G.

I hope you will join us this week over at

BBTB2!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

Spring is in the Air - FCCB Challenge #153

Are you ready for another challenge over at FCCB?  The Design Team has come up with some amazing inspiration for you to play along with us for the "Spring is in the Air" challenge.  All you need to do is use a kite or a balloon on your project.  I am so anxious for spring to get here, we had a taste of it last week, but now it's cold again - BOOOO!  I need WARMTH!  Anyway, this is what I came up with for the challenge - "let's go fly a kite..." The kite is cut from Designer's Calendar, and I popped it up with some dimensionals.  I tied baker's twine for the bows on the tail.  The clouds and flowers are cut from April Showers, the grass is cut from Plantin Schoolbook.  I used dimensionals on the clouds and the first two layers of the grass hoping to get a better sense of depth.  The sentiment was just printed out on my computer, I didn't have an actual stamp with that saying.  I hope Spring gets here soon :)

Back in the Craft Room

Oh Boy! I was on hiatus for a while, but am now back in the craft room. I stopped looking at blogs and everything for a month, don't know why, maybe just needed a little bit of a break. Now it's May and Mother's Day is this week, so I think that's what got me motivated again. I was excited about making cards for my mom and mother-in-law, and knew that there would be some challenges that would help me with some ideas. I will be giving this card to my mom (hopefully she won't be looking at my blog before Sunday), and it also fulfills the challenge Fantabulous Cricut Challenge issued of using 3 flowers on your project. The flowers are from April Showers.

Creative Time For Me Challenge

I think this is the first time I have done a challenge from Creative Time For Me. We were supposed to use the Walk in My Garden cart, but unfortunately that is another cart I do not own...yet. If we didn't have that cart we were just supposed to use a flower image of some sort. I used April Showers for the flower pot and ran it through the Cuttlebug with Swiss Dots. The flowers are from George. I absolutely love these flowers - they make me happy!

FCCB - Weather Forecast

So, another challenge. I love them, I admit. Our challenge was to create a project featuring any season of our choice. Well, I love Spring, and am excited for the warmer weather. We actually got a taste of high 50's these last couple of days, but now another storm in on it's way and will be dropping to the 30's again. Boo Hoo. Anyway, I not only love Spring because of the warmer weather, I love it because of the beauty. The flowers and tree blossoms, I love it. So I thought I would create a "beautiful" scene with an appropriate sentiment at the top. All the images are from April Showers and the tree I put through the Cuttlebug with D'vine Swirls.

My Pink Stamper Challenge

I was happy to see a new video and challenge on My Pink Stamper. Robyn challenged us to create something that makes us happy or something springy. I am excited for spring, I love the spring flowers and the fun colors - it all makes me happy. So I created a card that represents that. I used Simply Charmed for the flower and April Showers for the "Spring Fever".

Paper Cutz Challenge

Okay, so I tooootalllly improvised for this challenge. We were to make a valentine card without using any hearts. I have two new cartridges, April Showers and Simply Charmed, and I love both of them. I think the squirrel is absolutely adorable from April Showers, so I wanted to use him and then the phrase "Nuts for You" came to mind. So I went through my carts to see if I had anything resembling acorns that I could work with, and I found the strawberry from Simply Charmed. It looked close enough, so I played around with how to make it look the most like a nut. I think it turned out okay. I was hesitant to show this card to my husband because I wasn't sure if I wanted to give it to him, but I wanted his opinion - he thought it was pretty great. I hope you like it!

Anything Goes Butterfly Challenge

I was able to use my new April Showers cartridge again for this challenge. I am really having fun with the different layering on that cart. Anyway, the challenge was to use butterflies and I thought I would make a fun "Thank You" card. If you would like to participate in the challenge go to http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.com/. Have a great day!

More Than Favors Color Challenge

Okay, so this card is for the More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday Challenge. I liked this challenge because it was a challenge for me. We needed to use the colors Yellow, Blue, and White and I rarely use those colors. But when I thought of blue and yellow a bird immediately popped into my head. I was super excited to use my new cartridge April Showers too. Please visit the More Than Favors blog, there are some fun things going on over there http://morethanfavors.blogspot.com/ .