Happy Easter....and another day crafting!

Hi All

Happy Easter! Hope you are all having a lovely day and haven't eaten too many easter eggs! We had no plans for the day (apart from tea at the in-laws later) so I decided to do a bit more crafting before I get back to work. Hubby decided to re-organise his DVD collection...enough said! Lol! I hope you enjoy looking at my creations!

My first card was definitely a challenge! I would like to enter it into the Winter Wonderland challenge and this week they would like you to make a card of a Christmas silhouette! I found this really tough as I couldn't find a stamp that I could make into a silhouette at first but I am happy with the final result. It isn't my normal style of card but I might have another go at a batch of these. It was really quick to make and looks quite modern! I might have a go at using different colours (not just black) to make some really funky Christmas cards.

My next card is for the Cute Card Thursday challenge which was 'No Text'. I had to be careful not to include any backing paper that had text on, as well as remembering not to put a sentiment on. I think this image of Tilda is so sweet. This would make a lovely festive notecard, I love the colours and the bit of sparkle with the ribbon.

My next card I would like to enter into the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which was to create a 'Happily Ever After' card (to tie in with the Royal Wedding this week!), something to do with love, a wedding or an anniversary. I struggled at first to find one of my Penny Black stamps that were suitable....I don't own any of the wedding or love sets...must put some on my wish list! I did find this gorgeous little image though and I think the little hedgehog is proposing to the bigger one using the flower in her hand. I thought it was cute anyway! I now need one of my friends to become engaged and I can send this card to them! I would also like to enter this card into the Sketch Saturday challenge. I really liked this sketch and I have used variations of it on a couple of the cards I have made. Definitely one that I will use again!

Over at Just Magnolia this week, the challenge is another great sketch. Again, one that I will definitely use again, in fact I have on another of my cards in this post! I used this opportunity to try to get ahead with some of my Christmas cards and have used this fabulous Santa Edwin image. He is a real cutie. I have also used some paper that I have had in my box for ages but haven't got a clue what make it is! The red paper contained words that you would hear Santa Claus saying himself like 'Naughty or nice' and 'Checking it Twice'. Must try and find it again as I think I have used most of it up now! I would also like to enter this card into the Papertake Weekly Challenge-this week you needed to use spots and stripes. I love this Christmas paper.....it is really festive but could be used all year round.

I absolutely love this image of Edwin and Tilda under the mistletoe. Only after I had completed this card did I realise that I'd forgotten to stick on the bench I'd stamped and coloured for them both to be sitting on! D'oh! Never mind....I'm sure noone will notice.....! I would like to enter this card into the Sparkle Creations Christmas Card Challenge. Again this was another sketch and one I will use again.

And my final card today is for the challenge over at A Spoonful of Sugar. The challenge this week was 'Let's Celebrate'. I have been itching to use my cupcake Tilda and Papermania Cupcake papers for a while now. I loved making this card, it is very pink and girly....just my kind of card!

That's it for now! I hope you enjoyed looking at my cards....I am hoping that I might be able to take part again next weekend as we have a long weekend again. Then it will probably be the Summer holidays before I can join in again....if I can join in before then I will do. I have really enjoyed getting back into my crafting this week and have loved joining in with all the challenges. Fingers crossed I can join in again really soon!

Thanks for looking.

Hugs

Arline

xx