Sprinkle Joy, Plant Kindness, Harvest Love

Well today I was excused from babysitting duties as the littlest one is not very well and dad is home looking after them... so I found some time to make my 'garden' card for the CAS Watercolour March challenge.  I do enjoy using parts of stamps to create a picture and this one has four stamps - birdbath, hollyhocks, grass, daisies, and I formed them around so when I watercoloured my garden scene I could create a path.  Then I used my stitched dies to cut the opening for a frame and the larger die I used with my tan mat to emboss the stitch lines to add more 'frame'.  Lastly I stamped my sentiment and used foam tape to mount it as well as the frame.  I am also posting to The Flower Challenge #18  Anything Goes.  
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Happy Easter

This wicker basket has been in my stash for a very long time... today it has become my Easter Egg Basket... I stamped it in brown and clear embossed onto beige card and fussy cut it.  Then I used an oval and a round die to cut my spotty eggs from hand made paper.  My background panel is a piece of designer paper and I stamped on my sentiment, and used foam tape to arrange my basket and eggs.  I am Inspired by the soft coloured speckled eggs at Just Add Ink #400 challenge and am also posting to Simon Say Monday challenge - Easter /Spring and Simon Says Wednesday challenge - Easter.
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Simon Says: Easter/Spring Inspiration

Simon Says: Easter Inspired

Wishing You the Happiest of Birthdays

Finishing off some WIPs today, not sure why we do this but I do have quite a few half completed projects.  So finally my bird card comes together with a DOX background and stamped sentiment to finish....does anyone else have trouble photographing Distress Oxides - none of mine are true colours because my bird and background both have lots more lime green in them.  I am playing along with Shopping Our Stash SOS#345 - Put a Bird On It. Also helping Time Out Challenges celebrate their 4th birthday - with challenge #105 - I'm inspired to make a Birthday card.
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SOS #345 - Put A Bird On It

Challenge #105 our 4th Birthday!

Happy Easter

Darn it all, I've just missed posting my card to the House Mouse and Friends challenge HMFMC #261 - got sidetracked in my garden this morning...and you wouldn't believe it, got the card finished then somehow my camera was in video mode and I couldn't get it off, so ended up using my phone and emailing to myself.... well it does happen.
PS - you wouldn't believe it but in all the rush I was trying to post my card to #260 challenge of course it's closed, so my card made it by a few minutes.
I didn't have any 'bunnies' for my card so cut a silhouette for a border inspired by a catalogue border I'd seen. Then used an oval and round die to cut my egg base and covered it with foil wrapper from last years egg, added a strip of washi tape and a bow, then balanced my house mouse friend on top. To finish I added my stamped sentiment.
I am also playing along with Addicted to Stamps and More - Holiday challenge #283.
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HMFMC #261 Anything Goes/ Option "Bunnies"

Another pic, using my camera and showing the border I used as inspiration

Happy Birthday

I found some "after baby-sitting girls" time to water colour this image I had in my already stamped stash and chose to use the palette at Power Poppy's Hues to Use this week..  I always find then the problem of mounting my image panel to 'show it off'... and after some digging I found this grey spotted DP, that worked with a pink embossed panel with the pinks in the image. I framed the spotty panel with a fine black border and also the image in grey.  To finish I stamped my sentiment and attached it with foam tape.
I am also playing along at Watercooler Wednesday WWC161 -  Helen's All About Occasions challenge and to The Flower Challenge #1 - Anything Goes.
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May Your Day Sparkle..

 This card has certainly met the inspiration from Shopping Our Stash challenge SOS#344 - National Dress Day.... I've really dug into my stash and out with an old 'dress' stamp for my image - it's so old I was a bit worried I wouldn't get an image with the rubber hardening up, but it worked and I gave it a lovely lift with some water colouring and micro beads - from my stash. I die cut my stamped panel with a cutout scallop die and used pinky mauve card to frame it, onto a purple background and white card. To finish I stamped my sentiment and die cut it, sponged the edges and used foam tape to attach it.  Then I found these gorgeous shiny satin flowers I have been hoarding for a looong time and used foam tape to arrange them.  I am playing along at Just Add Ink #399 - Just Add Water - I water coloured using Distress Ink, and also to Southern Girls Challenge - Pop It Up - popped up my sentiment and flowers.

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SOS #344: National Dress Day

Pop it up with Team Trace