A Day For Play

Happy Saturday!! I hope you have fun plans for the weekend!! It's my turn to post on the Craftin Desert Divas blog and I have a springy card to share with you today featuring sentiments from Tara's Summer Lovin' stamp set!!

When I think of spring, I think of flowers, sunshine, butterflies and bike rides. I tried to recreate that feeling with this card :)

I used several dies to create the scene. The Gas Lamp Sign Die is from Die-Versions (have you seen the new April Back to Basics 2 release?? The new dies are gorgeous!! Click HERE to see what's new!!). The bike is from Marianne Designs, the grass is from My Creative Time and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

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The stitched flag die and sun are from Lil' Inker. Fun in the Sun is from Summer Lovin' as is...

...A Day For Play. For this one, I masked off the words to stamp it vertically. Look at all the fun sentiments and fonts on this set:

You can purchase this set, along with the Teenage Dream and Punny at the Craftin Desert Divas Shop. And we would love to see your projects using any of the three stamp sets in our Craftin Desert Divas Gallery.

I am entering this in the following challenges:

1. DL.Art - April Linky
2. Just B Creative Crazy - April Linky

Thanks so much for stopping by :)

Decorate to Celebrate #71 - Spring Decorations or Birthday

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Happy Wednesday!! I hope you are having a great week!! Can you believe tomorrow is the first day of Spring??!! It's still chilly here and the flowers haven't started peeking through yet, but the birds are chirping away :) Speaking of Spring...it's time for another fun challenge at Decorate to Celebrate, and for Challenge #71, we are asking you to create Spring Decorations or Birthday Party Decorations :)

For my spring project, I created a wall hanging. I picked up the frame at Goodwill for a couple of bucks. After removing the glass (and darn it, breaking it!!), it was covered with white acrylic paint and then lightly sanded when it was dry.

All of the papers are from Fancy Pants' Park Bench stack. The tags are all Spellbinders Labels 17 and all of the edges were sanded. I picked up the small clothes pins from Hobby Lobby and then cut strips of the paper to cover them. Believe it or not, I used my Cricut!! Poor thing was so dusty and feeling neglected :( The letters are from Gypsy Font and I welded them together with my Gypsy.

I used Spellbinders D-Lites One and Three, as well as tags from Nested Lacey Pennants. The circles were punched from the paper. The smaller tag is a Spellbinders Tags and Flags die. The sentiment is from a Tim Holtz Life's Possibilities stamp set.

The larger circles were cut with Spellbinders Standard Circles Small dies. The smaller ones were punched from the paper. The rosettes are Tim Holtz Mini Paper Rosettes dies. The butterflies are Spellbinders Fanciful Flight dies...cut in black cardstock for the base.

Spring was also cut from the Gypsy Font cartridge. The bird is a Spellbinders Bird Sanctuary die, and it was covered in glitter.

I am entering this in the following challenges:

1. DL.Art - March Linky
2. Every Day is an Occasion - March Linky
3. Just B Creative Crazy - March Linky
4. My Sheri Crafts #129 - Celebrate Spring
5. All Crafts Challenge - Anything But a Card
6. Make My Monday - Butterflies
7. Altered Eclectics - Anything Goes (Altered Picture Frame)

Now it's your turn!! Head on over to Decorate to Celebrate to see the amazing projects my talented design team sisters have created for today's challenge. Then link up your Spring or Birthday project...I can't wait to see what you create :)