Wednesday 14 May 2014

Spring Is In The Air

A bright spring card for a lovely sunny morning!


I love these words, they come from a fabulous stamp set from IndigoBlu called Nottingham Lace and they are stamped in Versafine and embossed with clear powder on a Spellbinders circle die highlighted with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink.  The scallop circle is also Spellbinders.  The background embossing is done with a free embossing folder that came with a magazine.  The flower edge punch is Martha Stewart. Roses are Wild Orchid Crafts and the little corners on the top corners are made with Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers ATC and Corners Die.  I dotted Stardust Stickles on the roses for a bit of sparkle.  I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

IndigoBlu - More than Words
That's Crafty - Spring is in the Air
A Little Bit Crafty - Flower Power
Scrapology - Freebies (embossing folder)

All these challenges are fab fun and have wonderful Design teams and are definitely worth you popping over and having a look and maybe joining in too!

I have to apologise again for being very bad at my visits to everyone.  My hubby and I are both still struggling with our health which is making everything very difficult.  Thank goodness for crafting to keep me sane although I can't manage to do very much of it at the moment! It cheers me up loads when you come to visit though - thank you so much!  Have a lovely day, whatever you do.  Take care.  Christine xx

16 comments:

Craftin Suzie (Susan Wykes) said...

A beautiful card Chris. Love the warm colours and lovely sentiment. Sorry to see you are still both under the weather. Hope you both pick up soon, sending hugs Susan xx

Redanne said...

Your card is so beautiful Chris and the sentiment is lovely! So sorry to hear that you and your hubby are struggling with your health, I understand only too well how difficult things can be, but thank goodness we have our craft to turn to. Sending you healing hugs... Anne xx

Linda said...

Lovely card, Thank you for entering the Scrapology Challenge.
Hope you get better soon x

Unknown said...

Thanks for taking the time to enter the IndigoBlu challenge and good luck
P xx

Jester said...

Such a decorative and vibrant card; definitely spring-like. I love the quote too. It always makes me smile.
Don't feel bad about not visiting, although it is always appreciated when you do. No pressure! Hope you both feel somewhat better soon. Jx

Sue said...

Stunning card Chris and I love that sentiment hope you and hubby are feeling much better soon lots of huggles Sue xxx

Shaz in Oz.CalligraphyCards said...

ah Chris adore this card .. wonderful embossing folder that - great match up and so cheery... am with you on not getting around much have had to curtail blogging.. and so appreciate you took time to pop over and to watch the video too .. will try and embed it tomorrow..hopefully.
Be well both you and hubby .. praying for you in it, Shaz in Oz.x

Anita in France said...

Such a pretty card, Chris, with so much wonderful texture and yes, a lovely sentiment! Do hope the health issues you and DH are having ease very soon! Anita :)

Karen leonard said...

Super pretty card, thank you for entering it in the Scrapology challenge. Karen x

Clare with paint in her hair said...

So pretty! Love the background

Thanks for entering the IndigoBlu challenge
Clare

Nikki K said...

Hi Chris, thank you for joining in the Indigoblu challenge this month, this is such a pretty, sunny card. Good luck!
Nikki K.
xx

Nikki K said...

Hi Chris, thank you for joining in the Indigoblu challenge this month, this is such a pretty, sunny card. Good luck!
Nikki K.
xx

Jenny Marples said...

So sorry to hear you are both not so good right now. It's not easy when your health gets in the way of everything and I hope you get through this spell soon.
Such an elegant card. Thanks for joining us at IndigoBlu. Jenny x

Unknown said...

lovely make thank you for join in our challenge x x x

Princess Judy Palmer said...

Very pretty! Nice warm colors. I like the look of the glitter on the flowers.

Craftin Suzie (Susan Wykes) said...

Hi Chris - me again! Just to thank you for sharing this beautiful card with us at A Little Bit Crafty - good luck! Susan x