April Showers bring May Flowers

It is definitely April Showers this week as the weather forecast is looking particularly gloomy- the school run today involved the car and multiple umbrellas!

This week's challenge at H2H is April Showers- and for me it conjures up images of flowers that will be blossoming after the rain.

I pulled out a half-created layout featuring flowers and the retired Penelope Paper Packet. I especially love the combination of stamped and fussy cut images, and so i created a cluster focal point with flowers using this technique. I sponged the centre of the stamped flower with Lagoon ink for extra contrast and stamped the sentiment in Black and Lagoon ink to make the word friend stand out.

Here is the completed layout- notice the subtle floral touches in the paper (yay for Zip Strips) and the triple matting of the photo to make it stand out.



The finishing touches were some washi tape and glitter gems, and now I have a layout showcasing one of my favourite pictures of me and my friend Amy.

Four Flowers for Mum

This week at Heart 2 Heart Challenges we are looking for the number 4! Four photos, four embellishments, the number 4- how you interpret this is up to you!

I decided to create a card using four colours and four flowers for Mother's Day.

The flowers on the bottom were cut from the Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge, and the top flowers are from the Springtime Wishes stamp set. I also added four flamingo dots, one for the centre of each flower.



This card features four colours- Pixie, Pomegranate, Pear and White Daisy. The Pear paper is from the Penelope Paper Packet, which is a spring themed packet but goes well with this theme.

Lastlyt, I used the sentiment from My Mother, which I love as there is the NZ spelling available as well as the US spelling.

How will you interpret this week's challenge? We would love for you to join us!

Washi-ing you a Merry Christmas!

I know it is only April, but I have a very meager stash of Christmas cards and so it is always a good idea to play along with Merry Monday to get my Christmas cards sent out. I am also playing along with a colour challenge, sketch challenge and a washi challenge!

Here is my finished card, made using some mini Christmas tree tags. I added washi behind one of the trees, and stamped a sentiment in New England Ivy on some patterned Pear paper.



The green triangles added a little bit of bling, but I wanted to keep this card simple to make the sentiment and washi tree stand out.

I am now back into a Christmas card mood, and so I look forward to creating some more cards with a Christmas theme in the coming weeks!