Looks Like Spring

The challenge this week at Fantabulous Cricut is "Looks Like Spring" (Any springtime project).

Well, I love to garden and that's the first thing I think of when spring comes around. I can't wait to get outside, be in the sunshine and start my gardens. I like my floral gardens, they always bring me joy to look at the beautiful flowers, but I love the vegetable garden. It brings me back to when I was a kid with my Grandfather. He gardened every year...sting beans, tomatoes, onions, eggplant...just to name a few. Oh, happy memories! I miss him....

Finished Card: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Materials:
Cardstock: White, Two shades of Blue, Two shades of Orange, Green, Black, Red, Silver and Patterned Paper.
Cricut Cartridge Freshly Picked Tomato page 69 (Base, Shift Base, Layers Base and Words Base), Spade page 62 (Base and Shift Base), Rake page 60 (Base and Shift Base), Gloves 2 page 56 (Base), Flowers 5 (Pot) page 39 (Shift Base and Layers Base)
Cricut Design Studio (placement of paper and sizing)
Sizzix Embossing Folder Spring Flowers
Chalk: Charcoal and Red Orange (to give shadow)
Red Pigment Ink (on edge of tomato)
Brown Pigment Ink (to antique the silver on the spade and rake)
Mounting Tape
Computer  Sentiment

I hope that I may have inspired you to either make a spring card and/or get out there and try some gardening (plant something for me)...just imagine what you could do.....

Three Challenges ...One Card

Today I thought I would try to put three challenges into one card...first, here is my card: (It's hard to see on the photo but the sentiment reads: " Good Friends are like Stars...")

 and the inside: ("You don't always see them, but you know they are always there")

 The challenges are PaperCraft Star Challenge 30 (click here) Scraplift any project on any current PaperCraft Star Design Team Member's  Blogs; The Paper Variety (click here) Friendship Challenge! There is a quote to use or inspire and the last challenge is CropStop Challenge #4 (click here) Make a Good Impression! Use 2 different patterns of embossing.

For PaperCraft Star, I scraplifted Tracy's card from Challenge #29 (click here to see her card). I used the actual quote from The Paper Variety...although, I split it between the front and the inside. For CropStop, I used actually 3 different embossing folders and I wet embossed the star.

Finished Card: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Materials:
Cardstock: White, Two shades of Pink, Green and Patterned Paper
Sizzix Flower # 1
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Swiss Dots
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder D'Vine Swirls
Sizzix Embossing Folder Spring Flowers
Tim Holtz Distress Powder Peeled Paint (Green) (embossed a gold star to green)
Olive Green Chalk
White Sheer Ribbon
Queen and Co Pearls Grass Green Six Pearls Two Large, Two Medium and Two Small
Computer Printed Sentiment Basque 12 in Rose
Mounting Tape

Hope that you like this card. It was fun putting the three challenges together. 

We ended up getting at least 10 inches of snow. It's beautiful to look at, but.....well, the dogs like it...hahaha. Guess it's time to get back outside and shovel some more...woo hoo (not). The plows just finally came down our street...the driveway will be a mess again. Oh well....

Leave a comment...Thanks, I always love reading your thoughts. Take some time and do some crafting...imagine what you could do...