Spring Is Here . . . at the Crafty Gals Corner

It's time for another challenge with us at the

Crafty Gals Corner

This week we are letting our creative juices flow with

Challenge #188 - Spring Is Here!
( Make a Spring or Easter Project )

Crafty Gals Corner Challenges are bi-weekly.
Each crafter may only submit 3 projects per challenge.

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The sponsors for this challenge are:

Fabrika Fantasy

Prize ~ 3 Digital Images

Fred, She Said Digital Designs

Prize ~ $10 Gift Certificate

The Paper Nest Dolls

Prize ~ 3 Digital Images

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Today I have used the Daisies & LadyBugs digital stamp set from Fred She Said, one of our generous sponsors this week, to make some daisy filled Spring cards.
I have to confess that this is an absolutely fabulous set of images, both as digital stamps and pre-coloured images that can be combined together.  The pre-coloured images are a real bonus when your body doesn't let you colour, so I thoroughly enjoyed fussy cutting a field of flowers to make my cards.

My first card uses the beautiful pre-coloured image panel.
I printed the panel several times, using one layer to make the 5" x 7" card panel, the others were fussy cut.  I popped the fussy cut elements with foam and layered them together over the image panel to give lots of dimension.

Here are a couple of shots showing the dimension of the popped fussy cut layers.
If you click on the image you will be able to see more detail.

Next comes my field of daisies with a cheery "hello" to welcome Spring.

It's a pop up box card.
It has lots of dimension when open and folds flat for mailing.

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the card base (details below), my Fiskars grass border punch to cut the grassy panels on the bridges on the inside of the card and my Sizzix Big Shot to cut the Paper Smooches "hello" die.  To cut a long story short, I opened the images and cut file on my Silhouette Studio design mat. enlarged the card base to 11 1/2", so that it would just fit on my cutting mat, then sized the pre-coloured images to fit each panel, printed on cardstock, cut the panels with my Cameo.  I printed extra images from the card panels so that I could fussy cut the layers and pop them in place with foam for extra dimension.  I also took the single daisy image, duplicated, then mirrored, then made multiple copies in a variety of sizes, so that I had a lot of different daisies to fill my card.  I got pretty distracted while cutting my daisies and ladybugs and ended up cutting enough for several cards, even after using all these here in the pop up box card.  I went around the edges of each piece with Memento Tuxedo Black Dual Tip marker to give them a neat finish, instead of showing the white core of the cardstock.  I needed support for the daisy stems and the acetate I use to make shaker cards is pretty flimsy, so I stretched my stash and trimmed the packaging from a pair of Big Shot cutting pads to make narrow strips.  I adhered the daisies to the acetate strips, so they were well supported to stand tall but still a little flexible to "float" around.  I made three "bridges" to go inside the card, punched a 12" strip of grass and trimmed it down to cover the front of each bridge and inside the front of the card.  I adhered a variety of daisies to each grassy strip then adhered them in place ... it was pretty fiddly but well worth the effort.  I die cut five of the "hello" words and layered them together before adhering to the front panel.

This fancy fold card folds flat for mailing.

As with my first card, the daisies and ladybugs on the flaps and back panel were layered with foam for extra dimension.  The sentiment really popped when the five layers with adhered together.

Here are some more photos of the open pop up box card
... the flowers and dimension make me feel happy :)

The patterned paper around the base makes it look like a basket filled with flowers.

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NOW it's YOUR turn!

I hope that I have inspired you to get creative
and look forward to seeing your projects fill the gallery for

Challenge #188 - Spring Is Here!
( Make a Spring or Easter Project )

at the Crafty Gals Corner

Crafty Gals Corner Challenges are bi-weekly.
Each crafter may only submit 3 projects per challenge.

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*** INGREDIENTS ***

Fred She Said - digital stamp - Daisies & LadyBugs

American Crafts - 12x12 white textured cardstock

A Bit More Time To Craft - Checkout Digital Paper Set - Checkout 27

Silhouette Cameo

Silhouette Design Store - Design ID #183256

Frog Box card by Lori Whitlock

Sizzix Big Shot

Paper Smooches - Hello Words Dies

Fiskars - Grass Border Punch
Memento Tuxedo Black Dual Tip marker

acetate strips - to support the daisy flowers

foam squares - to add dimension the the flowers and ladybugs

Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the sentiment and
the acetate strips to the flower stems

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Sending a big Thank You to Fred She Said for supplying the digital stamp I used today and for being a sponsor for Challenge #188 - Spring Is Here! at the Crafty Gals Corner.

    

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I am going to enter my
pop up box card

in the following challenges:

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A Bit More Time To Craft - Challenge #88 - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - #223 Any Sentiment Except "Happy Birthday"

CCC Digi Creations - Challenge #101 – For The Girls

Crafter’s Castle - March Challenge #15 – Anything Goes option: Use Glitter

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog - March Anything Goes Challenge #61

Crafty Friends Challenge Blog - Challenge 106 - Spring (Use Spring Colours)

Cut It Up Challenge Blog - Challenge 170 – Flowers

Pile It On - Challenge #152 - Your Favorite Color and/or Rainbow

my favourite colour today is blue - lots of blue sky and blue accents on the flowers ... when I look at my card it has touches of most colours of the rainbow, just missing violet, perhaps I should add a purple butterfly :)
(I confess, it's usually green as it's part of nearly every project I make, it works perfectly with every colour of the rainbow ... and I could not resist adding four rows of neatly trimmed green grass to the middle of my card)

Tuesday Throwdown - Tuesday Throwdown #428 – Pastel Colors

The Crafty Addicts Challenge Blog - Challenge 58 – Anything Goes

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