Aqua and white

I had been wanting to play along with the Ribbon Girl blog as soon as I saw the colour theme for the month of March: aqua and white. I love that colour combination, it reminds me of warm and sunny days. As usual, I found it hard to find time to play along until the last minute, though.

Materials used:

New scalloped square die from LifeStyle Crafts

Ribbon from the sale at Crafter's Companion

PP from Papermania

Leaf and flower die from Marianne Design
Core'dination cardstock for leaf and flower (flower is sanded)

Button die from Joy!Crafts

Sentiment stamp from Ladybug Crafts Ink

Broken china distress ink from Ranger

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Marianne's Design Divas - Spring into Spring
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - #179 Shaped card
Totally Gorjuss - #125 Swirly Whirly!
Craft Your Passion - #103 Monochromatic
Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Spring is in the air

With temperatures of about 17/18 °C spring has really arrived here on Crete. All the more reason to create a spring card. The word art is a digital image that I downloaded as a freebie at Paulette's blog, Create with TLC. I had already printed out both a large version and this small one, so all I had to do was find some matching papers (First Edition, Birdsong collection). I had also punched out the flowers from scraps ages ago.

The inspiration for this card came from this week's sketch over at Tuesday Morning Sketches and the inspiration photo from the Paper Sundaes blog. 

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches - Sketch #138 (see above)

Paper Sundaes - #112 Photo inspiration (see above)

Crafty Catz - #125 Spring is in the air

DYSU - #64 Plaid

PaperPlay - Spring colours

Cute Card Thursday - #209 Anything goes

Crafts and me - #76 Light airy spring colours

Tuesday Throwdown - #90 Spring cleaning (i.e. use your stash)

Simply Create Too - #9 It's spring?

Crafter's Companion - #22 Spring

Natural Noel

When I saw this gorgeous inpiration picture over at the Jingle Belles blog, I just knew I had to play along.

This seemed like a perfect opportunity to use a Chrissie embroidery stencil from Joy!crafts that I had received as a birthday present well over a year ago. So last weekend, I did all the embroidering. That is, after I had coloured some white cardstock with a Spectrum Noir pen, because I did not have any CS in the right colour, even though I was convinced I had some.

When I went looking for the PP I wanted to use, it finally dawned on me that I should have been looking for the few sheets of Bazzill CS that I bought last year. If you look closely, you will see that the card itself is a shade lighter than my topper. Anyway, the PP is BoBunny, the lace is Marianne Design and the sentiment is a peel-off.