Fred She Said Spring Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Fred She Said Spring Blog Hop!  If you've come to my blog from Nancy's marvellous blog then you're in the right place, if you've just happened across the hop you're going to want to start at Tracey-Lynns' blog to be in with a chance to win.  We have an awesome prize for one lucky winner. The winner scoops THREE fabulous prizes: a $25 FSS Gift Certificate, a $25 CropStop Gift Certificate and 2 Digi Paper Sets from Bearly Mine Designs.  

I've got a sweet Spring card to show you that combines two Fred, She Said images sets.  The adorable Emma with her Frills On image comes with some flowers that can be used with her, but I have chosen to  add flowers from the Pink Blossoms kit, I LURVE these, they look like the big Nelly Moser type clematis blooms that come in Spring.  There's no DP on my card, the background is dry embossed with a wall folder, I've used my Martha Stewart wide punch on each side of pearlised white cardstock to create a trellis for the flowers and I added gems and pearls to the centres of the flowers. 

Before you move on to your next stop on the hop, the talented Marlena, you need to collect a word from my blog.  In case you haven't guessed, it's Fred!  Enjoy the hop and good luck with the draw:)

My card is also for the following challenges:

Little Miss Muffet - brads, gems or pearls 

The Rubber Cafe - embossing

Pals Paper Arts - embossing

Paper Sundaes - embossing

Stamp Insanity -punch it out

Creative Cottage - spring has sprung

Simon Says Stamp - Mother's Day or girlie (I've opted for girlie)

Papertake Weekly - it's a Mom thing or just be girlie

Delightful donkeys

 

We've had many pets over the years, but one that Geoff has always held out against is a donkey :(.  I think a donkey would look perfect alongside my Norwegian Fjord horse (and of course the Welsh pony) but hey, sometimes you can't get everything in life!  So of course I fell for the donkey image on the new Joann Sheen DVD by Glynn Williams and had to make a card with it!  There are special decoupage images on the CD but I simply printed out 3 times and made my own decoupage.  I followed the sketch at Pear Tree Designs, adding a leaf border cut with my new MS punch that I bought at the NEC.  The sentiment is a Personal Impressions stamp, DP is Papermania and I used my first ever MS punch to make a scalloped border underneath, I think it's called Baroque and it doesn't have the markings to line up that are on the current punches.  A piece of raffia and some green gems finished it off, hope you like my donkey card.

My card is for the following challenges:

Pear Tree Designs - sketch

Cards for Men - animals, I've kept it un-fussy and used raffia not a ribbon bow so it can be a man card

CD Sunday Challenge - the natural world

Craft Your Passion - 2 of anything (2 donkeys)

Lexi's Creations - anything goes

Crazy4Challenges - square cards

Raise the Bar - scallops and curves

Stamp Insanity -punch drunk - used 2 border punches

PS I have candy - do please join me and play along here