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

Easter Daffodils

 We're home after our four days at the races, what a wonderful time we had, though sadly neither of us won enough to give up the day job:).  And how exciting for the Gold Cup to be won by a Lambourn horse (my home village) for the first time in over 10 years.

OK, back to cardmaking and at last Spring is here and the daffodils are in flower, which prompted me to make an Easter card using one of the Fred She Said Spring flower images, you can buy them here in the shop.  I've followed Sonjas' sketch at Spoonful of Sugar, adding some Basic Grey Sugar Rush papers, a touch of embossing and some yellow ribbon.

My card is for the following challenges:
Spoonful of Sugar - sketch
Stamping with the Dragon - bring on Spring
Wags 'n' Whiskers - Spring
Charisma Cardz - to die for (2 ovals and a deckle edged rectangle used)

Creative Cottage - Spring has sprung
Scrapbook Sisters - Spring flowers
Sweet Stamps - think Spring

A Papertake Puppy Pile

Here's another card from my weekend of Phindy's Place cardmaking, this is a new image called Puppy Pile., which made the perfect Christmas card for my Mum.  I carried on using up my Basic Grey Jovial pad and based my card on Dawn's great sketch at Papertake Weekly.  I've printed and coloured the image twice to decoupage the puppies . The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and the border is made with a Martha Stewart punch given to me by my blogging friend Val.

 

My card is for the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - sketch

Delightful Sketches - new beginnings - what could be more delightful than new puppies?

Creative Cottage - untraditional Christmas

A Cool Yule

I've a friend who loves everything purple and the several non-traditional Christmas colour challenges around inspired me to make a purplicious card for Morag.  I started with one of Fred, She Said's pre-coloured Christmas wreaths.  Now I love to colour but sometimes, especially when there are a lot of Christmas cards to get finished, it's great to have the work done for me:).   I added in a pre-coloured Chickadee, again from Fred, She Said that I mounted on Pinflair glue on my cut out wreath.

The main card is white pearlescent that I embossed and then Distress Inked and the smaller embossed circle is Bazzill Card.  It's hard to see but I added holographic clear embossing powder to the bird and to the berries.

I'm entering my card for the following challenges:
Cards Patterns - sketch
Fresh Brewed Designs - winter/Christmas
Creative Cottage Challenge - untraditional Christmas
Crazy4Challenges - circles
Scrappy Frogs- Merry Christmas
Crafty Sentiments - Christmas

A Place to Pause

I have completely fallen for the new image from Phindy's Place, called A Place to Pause, very beautiful, very serene.  I found it didn't need much colouring, I made the stained glass windows as vibrant as I could and added Glossy Accents to them and to the lamps on the bridge.

I saw some lovely cards on sale with notched corners but was too stingy to buy them :), so I've used a small circle punch to make my own version, measuring out on the back and marking lightly with a pencil.  I like the effect, what do you think?  The DPs are Magnolia ones that I bought last year and loved so much I didn't use them.  I've since decided this is a daft idea, stroke them, love them, then USE them is what I should do!  I've added a Craftwork Cards sentiment, some snowflakes and sprigs of leaves cut with my new MS border punch.  And that's it, pretty simple.
My card is for the following challenges:
Sketch Saturday - sketch
A Spoonful of Sugar - snow/snowflakes
ABC Christmas - winter wonderland
Creative Cottage Challenge - someone special at Christmas
ABC Challenge - H is for Holidays
Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
Sassy Studio Designs - anything goes
Paper Sundaes - let it snow