Monday 6 April 2015

Happy Easter from Crafty Boots

A while ago I won a guest DT spot at Crafty Boots and today is the day it as gone live :)  Now some of the girls there were surprised to find I'm such a "young" crafter (not in years but in time I've been doing this).  I've only been really blogging and making cards properly since August 2014.



The theme is an Easter one and I debated for a while which image to use.  I finally decided on Easter Basket Image 35 from Oddball Art.

I've coloured the image with ProMarkers in pastels, cut it out with a Spellbinders Die and edged it with distress ink to make it stand out from the backing paper.

Design papers (which have all been edged with distress ink to make the layers stand out) are from Lili of the Valley.  The sentiment is also from Lili of the Valley from one of their stamp sets.

I wanted a spring flower cascading border effect to top left corner around the sentiment.  To do this I've used flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and Live and Love Crafts.  I've also added flowers to the bottom left and to the left of the basket.

To finish off the card I'e used some tiny brass butterflies charms to add to the spring feel and some pearlised self adhesive gems.

I hope you all like my guest DT card for Crafty Boots and have given you some inspiration
Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges
Just Inspirational - Easter
Creative Knockouts - Die Cut / Punch Frenzy
Crating with an Attitude - Challenge 2
Crafty Catz - Happy Easter
Robyns Fetish - Pastel Colours
The Ribbon Girl - Pastel Colours
Paradise of Stamps - With a Charm
Allsorts - Easter



11 comments:

Desire Fourie said...

Andrea this is pure Easter delight. Loving the pastel colouring. Wishing you a blessed Easter.
Hugs
Desíre
{Doing Life – my personal blog}

Cat's sCrap said...

What a beautiful card ! Lovely butterflies ! It's successful !
Thanks for your participation to Paradise of Stamps.

Hugs from France.
Catherine.

Lady Bug Stampers said...

Beautiful card love the basket and the butterflies they are always my favorite.
Thanks for joining us at Just Inspirational Challenges this week.
Linda K. DT

Dee's Craft Room said...

I love this card, the image is beautifully coloured and your design so delicate. Thank you for joining us at Crafty Boots Challenges.

Dionne

Unknown said...

Hi Andrea,
I love your card! It is really pretty! The colors are perfect for Easter!
Thanks for joining us over at Just Inspirational Challenge!
Hugs
Sandra (DT)

Sherry said...

Gorgeous Card .. Thanxx For Playing With Us This Week @ The Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog This Week .. Good Luck
Sherry @ Rf DT

NickScrapShack said...

What a beautiful basket! Love your colouring!!!
Thank you for playing along with our AG challenge at Crafty Catz this weeek. Good luck!
Nick

Anonymous said...

Your card is beautiful! The image is amazing and your coloration skills are awesome! I love the card and I hope your Easter was as beautiful as this card is :)
Thanks for playing with us at Creative Knockouts!
Jessa

Anonymous said...

Your card is beautiful! The image is amazing and your coloration skills are awesome! I love the card and I hope your Easter was as beautiful as this card is :)
Thanks for playing with us at Creative Knockouts!
Jessa

Cathy P said...

This is such a beautiful card, Andrea. Love the image and your coloring. Thanks for playing along with our "Die Cut/Punch Frenzy" Challenge at Creative Knockouts. Cathy xx

Anonymous said...

Hello, A lovely project. A lovely style. Thank you for joining us this Month. Crafting With An Attiude Good luck. We would love to see you again for our next challenge.
Chrissy (Challenge Blog Owner)
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