Is It Spring Yet?

Cold, wet, and weary of the winter weather. Even the house seems to have stayed chilly, despite having the heating on. Or is it that I'm just tired? I do know that I would like to see the start of some better weather.  Maybe 2013 is going to be a year where we get temperatures above 15degrees C in the summer months. I can dream can't I?
To lift my mood, I went for some bright sunshine colours. Yellow that heralds the daffs showing off, and acid green of new sprouted leaves and pale gold of the spring sun.
What did I do with these colours?

Stepping into spring with this gorgeous image called Spring Goddess by Rick St Dennis.
The sketch used as my inspiration is from My Time To Craft challenges.

The BP is a digi from Bearly Mine with yellow and white roses printed onto pearlised paper . The flowers are home made ribbon roses mounted onto paper flowers from do-crafts and surrounded with little seed pearls before a light dusting of  gold glamour dust. A TH die cut flower as the mount for the sentiment, stamped in green onto yellow card - also dusted with gold.

Some embossed white pearlised card and yellow lace. Lengths of the same lace and ribbon from one of the  roses were used to embellish the steps, mounted onto pearlised deep green.

The image was coloured with promarkers with just a touch here and there of glittery gel pen.

I'd like to enter this into the challenges at
My Time to Craft - Their Sketch
I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes
Bearly Mine - Tic Tac Toe - four in a row - Lots of Layers, pearls, stamped the sentiment, Lace. Hopefully the senti counts
Sweet Stamps - Pearls and Lace

The Duck Pond Card Kit

"Helllloooo" out there. I'm doing a spot of advertising for a dear friend - Yep. See that drowning duck over on the left at the top - click on it and go see what Karen has in store. I make a few cards and many of you do to. This kit is a great way to try out some new papers etc.
Last month I did a marathon card making session for The Duck. This month is the same - some more cards with a bit of a difference. I don't often do run of the mill cards as many will know by now although the odd one will squeeze it's way in occassionally. Last week was the turn of a shabby chic, vintage card, today ......well --- you see ......




The fan template can be downloaded from here
c/o Judy Headrick. (This is a great way of using up scraps. No special iris folding paper used and still effective.) She also does some cutwork templates although this is done using one of my own. The "Fan-tastic" sentiment is also a freebie from TLC. The stamped image is a freebie from docrafts this month.

I am entering this card into the My Time To Craft challenge this week - they want to see Handbags on a project.

So as you see, no more pennies spent out. If I were to cost out each card, based on what I had left from last months kit ...about 50-75p a card. Where else can you get such value?
Stay tuned for more later in the week....