Sunday 6 February 2011

Springtime romance

Morning all , hope all in the UK are surviving the wind rain and snow, and those elsewhere hope the weather is being favourable to you all too.

My card this morning will hopefully cheer everyone up as I have gone with the springtime flower colours suggested by Daring card makers and the flowers of violets and primroses which are apparently the flowers of February. This one I made for no one in particular and simply for the try at the colour blending challenge at Make it colourful.

I used one of my LOTV stamps , wish I could afford more as they are just so cute and decided that I would use some of the ribbon flowers I'd been playing at making too.

There is also a colour challenge of blending blue and purples at make it colourful so I actually remembered to make a not of which Promarkers I used, well the blues and purples anyway, so the hat I used Prussian blue,royal blue and purple. The dress I used bluebell lilac and lavender and the shoes violet and bluebell.I know Zoe gave a tip to use purples as shadows but the dress I actually did in reverse and used Bluebell for the shades.The yellow underskirt and flowers I used primrose and buttermilk and leaf green.

The ribbon flowers I made using a tutorial on RRR from before Christmas, sorry not sure of the exact link.
I put everything on a pearlised lilac card and did some dry embossing around the edge to form a frame. The ribbon is recycled from a bought card and the mirri card from my scraps box.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Make it colourful-blend purples and blues
Crafters companion-romance
For Fun challenges-spring or winter, definitely SPRING
Fresh brewed coffee-anniversary, think this would make a fab anniversary or engagement card
Tander teaser-share the love
Creative inspirations-layout
LOTV-romancedaring cardmakers-flower inspiration
Marks finest papers-handmade flowers
Sweet stampin-spring flowers
Allsorts-love,love,love
Crafty calendar-love and romance


27 comments:

Kathy said...

Thanks for taking part in this week's February's Flowers of the Month challenge fromThe Daring Cardmakers. The rosette flowers in violet and primrose shades look lovely

Zoe said...

Awesome Julye! Her hat is absolutely fabulous! To me it looks like her hat is reflecting purple from from the flowers and it really looks brilliant. Thanks so much for taking on our challenge this week! Hugs xxoo

Cards By MI said...

Really sweet card with lovely colours. Thanks for playing with us over at For Fun this week.
Love n hugs
Marie

sallysbitz2 said...

Lovely card & great handmade flowers.

Thanks for joining us @ For Fun Challenges.

hugs sally x
sallysbitz.blogspot.com

Stampin'Piper said...

Great card, this image is so cute!

Thanks so much for joining us at Creative Inspirations Wednesday Challenges.

Hugs Tanja

Vicki Dutcher said...

Fun fun flowers! Thanks for playing with Speedy's Friends!

redwasher1 said...

Love those gorgeous flowers!!!
Thanks for sharing it with us at Speedy's Friends.

debby4000 said...

Adorable, beautiful card.
luv
Debby

sue law said...

I love the colours you got in the little girls hat, they are really rich! Love your ribbon flowers too!

Thanks for joining in again with the Tanda Teaser!
Sue
x

Unknown said...

Really pretty...love her hat, too!!...Good blending!:)

Nice to see that tease of spring!;)

xo, Krista

Anonymous said...

Beautiful card, Julye! Love how you've combined the blue and purple on her hat! Thanks for joining us at Make It Colourful! hugs, Angela

Helen Dooley said...

Love this- WAY cute! Thanks for playing along on For Fun. Good Luck!

Kathy and Lucky said...

This is a beautiful and sweet card, just like spring! Thanks for playing along with Fresh Brewed Challenges.

Debs said...

Beautiful card Julye - I adore the LOTV images and this one is gorgeous.
Thanks for sharing the love with us at Allsorts this week.
Good luck.
Debs xx

Mona Evy said...

Lovely card! Thanks for joining us over at Creative Inspirations Wednesday's Challenge Blog!

Karen (TLgirl353) said...

Very nice card with fab flowers. Thank you for playing along with Speedy's Friends!

Christine said...

Great flowers. I love the lilac ones you made. Thanks for joining us at For Fun Challenges.

Vicky said...

Hi hun this is a really pretty card I love the image & the colour is gorgeous hun.
Thankyou soooo much for following me but thankyou more for your comments they really do mean a lot to me. Do you know it meant a lot knowing someone really understands I didnt know about your son so its cool we have more than crafting in common. Does that sound right? I hope so lol. Take care hunni & I will be back to visit you regular.

Big hugs Vicky xxx

Saskia said...

Beautiful card! Great to see your work at Freshly Brewed Challenges! Thanks for joining us and good luck!

Sweet greetings, Saskia :)

Jenni said...

Fabulous image and love the colours you've used! Thanks so much for joining in with the Crafty Calendar challenge this month.
Jenni x

Jeanette (Forest Ranger) said...

Beautiful! I love your color choices and the darling image!

Thank you for participating in this week's Fresh Brewed Challenge!

Lindsey said...

What a sweet card! Love the image and flowers and the embossing looks fab!
Thanks for joining us at Sweet Stampin this week x

Lynda said...

Lovely card - Thanks for joining in with Daring Cardmakers.

Lynda xxx

Joanne (jojot) said...

aren't they sweet???.....thanks for playing with Speedy's Friends

scotspanda said...

awww what a gorgeous image, so sweet

thanks so much for joining in with our Love Love Love theme this week at Allsorts

hugs

Amanda xx

Embley Veronica said...

Great job on the handmade flowers! Thanks for participating in this week's For Fun Challenge. Your site is lovely!

Heather D. ~ Fresh Brewed Designs said...

EEK!! How cute is this! LOVE the shimmery paper and the coloring of your adorable image. Those flowers are stunning.

Thanks for playing along at the Fresh Brewed Designs Month Long Prize challenge for February!