Happy Hydrangea Mother's Day

I love hydrangeas, as does my mother.  Mother's day is next Sunday here in the US, so it's time to make mom a card. I have had this Happy Hydrangea set from PTI for a long time, and I have never shown it any ink.  In an effort of trying to use some of my stash that has been neglected, I checked out this week's Shopping Our Stash Challenge. This week's challenge is "Opposite Day" - to make something that's opposite your usual style.  So I pulled out my Happy Hydrangea set, and some PTI inks and went to work.  I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch #184 for the layout of my card.  I have been leaning toward Clean & Simple for quite a while - I don't use a lot of layers.  This card has 5  layers, and through it is still rather CAS, that number of layers are not my usual.

After stamping the hydrangea panel, I added a little Platinum Stickles to give my hydrangeas a little sparkle.  Not sure that I love the different sizes of stitching on the rectangle vs the fishtail die cuts,   but I decided to leave them as is and call it a card.

The Pink Elephant Challenge this week is Anything Goes, so I am posting this card to their gallery as well.

Thanks so much for stopping in today. Have a great one!

Spring

This week's theme over at AAA Cards is:
The colors of Springtime are bright and fun, fair and delicate. 

All shades of Lovely. 

Have fun and keep it CAS.

Spring finally seems to be arriving, so I was inspired to pull out my Paper Smooches Blossoming Buds images.  I embossed them on vellum with lime green EP, and colored them on the back of the vellum with Copics.  This is the first time I have tried this technique and I love the way it yields such a soft look.

 Please head over to the AAA Cards Blog to see the wonderful work of the AAA Cards DT and show them some love.  Get your craft on, and join us for the challenge!

My layout was inspired by this week's wonderful Freshly Made Sketch.

I am also linking to this week's The Pink Elephant - Use Pastel Colors on your project.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Easter Joy

Time for another CAS challenge over at AAA Cards and this time the theme is Easter Colors.  Remember, AAA Cards are alway CAS.  Please go on over for a look and play along.  Here is my take:

I had these wonderful Memory Box egg dies in my stash - more "Never Before Used Schtuff", so I dragged them out along with some DP that has been sitting for a while, to make this card.  The sentiment is from a Verve set I have had for a long while as well.  I dressed it up with some satin ribbon and called it a card! I debated whether to color the word "JOY", but I left it alone, and I am good with that.

Since I was digging deep into my stash for this one, I just had to send this over to Darnell Krauss's NBUS Challenge:

Also entering in ColourQ 284:

The Pink Elephant Inspiration Challenge:

And Just Us Girls Challenge:

Thank you for your visit.  Hope it is getting springy where you are.  Still pretty cold here in the northeast.  Hope springs eternal...

Joyous Easter

I found this adorable Easter confetti and of course, I had to make a shaker card with it.  I was inspired by the following challenges to come up with this fun creation:

 Click HERE to go to this week's FUSION Challenge. I used the sketch and (Easter) Celebration inspiration.

 Click HERE to get to this week's ATCAS Challenge.  These Paper Smooches images are terribly cute.

Click HERE to get to this week's The Pink Elephant Inspiration Challenge - Eggs and chicks and bunnies...

Click HERE to get to this week's Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge - Anything Goes.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I always appreciate your visit and your comments.