Good morning lovely makers and creators! How is everyone on this fine day?
Today is the first day of a 5 day break for me! woop! There are some definite perks to working for the Church and a full Easter Weekend is one of them - I haven't had one of them since I was at school!
Anyway, I'm rambling and shall stop and tell you all about this weeks lovely challenge over at Crafty Catz. This weeks theme has been set by the lovely Dianne and she would like to see you make something with Swirls and Pearls!
We are sponsored this week by Redonkulous Designs who are offering our lucky winner 16000 Redonkulous Reward Points which is the equivalent of 2 to 4 digi products.
We were very kindly given some images to use for this weeks challenge, but sadly I spent most of last week and the start of this week battling with a bad head/bad back and general fatigue and was unable to come up with a card using one of their lovely images.
Instead, I have this card to share with you which fits the theme:
Using my new favourite shaped cards - love them! I then hand cut Craft Creations Christmas Scrolls paper as a backing, added raffia in a sort of bow and then mounted a double oval in the centre using light brown Kraft paper and white card. I then used Sizzix leaf dies to cut the branches of the cherry blossom and two sizes of woodware punches for the blossoms themselves. The butterflies are MS and covered with my ever trusty stickles stardust to give them a shine, pearls in the flower centres and finished with a lettering cut from memory box letter dies in the centre.
So there we have it. I hope you like it, I was really pleased with the outcome and I hope my friend who will shortly be receiving it does too.
Do stop by the challenge blog to see the rest of the teams lovely creations and why not join us this week?
I would also like to enter this into Simon Says challenge this week of Anything Goes and CRAFT challenge blog theme of Mothers Day/Female
Until next time, happy crafting!
Good morning Naomi and happy Easter week-end, good your having some time off, those headaches can be horrendous,my daughter suffers them...so try and have a good rest...
ReplyDeleteYour card is so sweet and I am sure whoever recieves it will love it..xx
gorgeous card Naomi - hope you're feeling better? I'm sure a few days break will help!
ReplyDeleteKim x
This if a fab little card just love it. Take care and happy Easter
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card hun and thank you for popping by mine and leaving such a sweet comment...means a lot!!
ReplyDeletehugs and xxx
Gemma
Gorgeous card Naomi love the colour's and hope you are feeling better soon and have a lovely weekend and Happy Easter
ReplyDeleteHugs Dianne xx :)
Great card Naomi. Happy Easter. Hugs Nina
ReplyDeleteLove your CAS card, what gorgeous colours
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining us at Simon Says Challenge this week
Happy Easter. Have a lovely break.
Hugs
Jo x
love this sweetie so different and elegant too have a happy easter hugs sassyxx
ReplyDeleteHi Naomi...what a gorgeous creation hunny, enjoy your 5 days off and have a lovely BH weekend.
ReplyDeletehugs carol x
beautiful stylish card naomi.i love the pretty blossom :D
ReplyDeletexx coops xx
Such a beautiful card Naomi, love the raffia and branch swirl, very elegant in deed, hope your are having a wonderful Easter weekend xx
ReplyDeleteThis is so pretty. Love the clean and elegant look of this card. And the soft colours. Wow!
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend!