Welcome to the Sugar & Spice 4th Challenge

It's time for the Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge again!  The theme this time around is April Showers Brings May Flowers.  I decided to make a card for a shower I will be attending in May and the bride's theme is shabby chic with lots of pink.  I had a real challenge coming up with the layout on this one.  I really wanted to use my MFT umbrella die, but just couldn't bring it together.  In the end, I let the paper work for me.  My paper is from Paper House and called Beaches - it's a 6x6 mini pad. The paper behind the umbrella reminds me of raindrops on a stain-glassed window and I used the stripes to show rays of sunlight.  Hence April/May Showers are always followed by sunlight and pretty flowers.

I cut the solid umbrella in a yellow scrap from my stash and also the pink pieces layered on top. I chose to pop up the center of the umbrella and used 2-way tape on just the corner edges and top of umbrella giving it a 3D effect. I also added very thin ribbon on the edges of the background of the paper the umbrella is on.

The sentiment is also from the same die and stamp set.  I chose to stamp the sentiment with StazOn and back the banners with black card stock to make it pop even more. 

I stamped hearts verses rain drops and used stickles to sparkle them up. I applied a scalloped border cut from the same scraps of pink as the sentiment.  The die is from Sizzix long border die called Dots & Scallops. I layered all on the light blue background then applied it to the white card stock base.  In the end I was very pleased with the result. One hard lesson I really learned  is don't try and take photos out side on a windy day, it blew away and landed in my rock garden and damaged the one corner.  I fixed it the best I could and it will be usable.  I can smile about it now.

Once again thank you all for taking the time to entry Sugar and Spice Challenges.  We are very honoured to have Butterfly Reflections Ink sponsor our next challenge and I would like to thank her very much.

Design for Suger and Spice Challenge #3

Here we go again!!  Are we up for the 3rd Challenge for Sugar and Spice...I know I am.  This was a fun card to make.  I worked on adding some Easter Happiness to it. I hope you agree. I used DCWV Shimmer Matstock paper in pastel shades. My background was embossed with Sizzix Embossing Frame Design, then I hand cut an egg shape and embossed it with my Darice Cherry Blossom embossing folder.

  I hand painted the flowers with my watercolor pencils using pink, blue, yellow, dark and light greens.  I then sanded the surface lightly and rubbed with Tim Holtz distress Frayed Burlap ink to pop the flowers slightly.  I trimmed it with white lace, adhered it to the blue embossed layer, then applied it to a white card base.   My sentiment letters were stamped individually with versamark then I used Recollections ebony detail embossing powder. I felt there was too much white so I dotted with Zig Clean Color Real Brush paint pen in the same colors I used to paint my flowers on the egg. I popped the sentiment by layering darker green under it.

I choose to embellish with 2 white feathers and I made a bow with some leftover yellow ribbon and applied a rinestone butterfly. I hope I have inspired at least one person to go through your stash and see what your imagination can come up with.  Hope you will play along with us at Sugar and Spice Challenge!  The deadline is April 13th, 9pm (Pacific Time).

Thanks for dropping by!!!

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Sweet Sunday SSSC212

I am submitting this card as part of the Sweet Sunday Challenge.  I tried to stick to the sketch as closely as possible.

I found it very challenging to design a card using single layering, so in the end I decided to use pop ups on the top two stars.  My choice of paper was 6x6 My Minds Eye Lime Twist, all paper on the card is from this collection. Stars are cut from my new dies Shapez by Zyron.  PS got a great deal from Scrapbooking Made Simple 12 sets of dies under $50cdn. mailing included.  Check it out sometime, she has great deals changing all the time. Sentiment is stamped in black Brilliance ink, then I used lime glitter glue by Studio g to sparkle stars and sentiment layer.

I choose to set the layer on a black card base to really pop the whole card. I love the chevron pattern and my new star dies can't wait to use them again.

Thanks for the challenge!

Sugar and Spice Challenge #2

Hi, everyone!  This is my very first blog post.  My daughter helped me create my blog, so we could both participate in challenges together and I'm happy to say I have now been able to access it and learn how to update and hopefully be able to add my own updates.  Scrapping and diving are two of my passions, hence my blog title.  From time to time, you may see some underwater pics here.  But for now, I'd like to share my work for a newer challenge blog.  

The Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge was created to inspire and promote crafty fun through creating together.  The second challenge's theme is Mint Chocolate!  Create something using mint and chocolate (or brown).  I had to make a masculine card, so I put my thinking cap on and came up with this.  

I used an older sketch from My Favorite Things WSC - #58.  I liked how abstract this sketch was and thought it would work well. 

 The brown paper comes from an old Die Cuts With a View paper pad I had. And the mint paper came from DCWV Textured Cardstock - Brights long slim paper.  

I layered the Starform stickers to get the shadow effect for my sentiment.

Then I added the big white button with We R Memory Keepers baker's twine at one side of the banner.

Hope you will play along with us at the Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge!  The deadline is March 30th, 9 pm (PST).

Thanks for dropping by!

Leah