Spring time happy day

Looking through my container of cuts and images that I usually do and then change my mind, I was able to make a few cards quickly since all I had to do was pair items together. I love to clean up my "hold" items and accomplish sweet cards and mini albums as well!

The background embossing I believe was a Sizzix or was it a Cuttlebug folder from my friend Sue....
The image is from Stampin Up "ears sending you a happy day!" so cute. It was stamped on watercolor paper.
The three flowers were punched and rhinestones (light blue) added to the center to blend in with the layer behind the bunny image.

Since here in MA, it's spring one day and winter the next this week. I thought I would send this to my daughter in college. It was 70 on Monday and 30 today!

Happy Spring

Well in a couple weeks we'll have Spring and here in New England we can't wait for the clocks to change and the days to be longer.

This card will be mailed in a couple weeks to commemorate that!

I embosed the white base card stock with the lovely flower embossing folder by Sizzix SU, layer and raised the cute bike with the basket and the teeny bunny!
Click the picture for a better view.
Using the same color ink as the paper, I used my blending pen to add the pink to the center.
The bike etc were also colored using my blender pen and ink from ink pads. I'm getting the hang of it!

Sign of Spring

This morning I was driving down one of our roads along the way I saw these two swans! Luckily I had my camera and snapped a few pics. Today reached close to 70 here in MA.
I came home, printed the pic and did this layout.
Flowers, title and swirls were used from the Accent Essentials and Cutting Up Cricut cartridges
Flowers are 2 1/2 and 1 1/5, swirls are 1 1/2 font is 1"
Entered this in a few challenges
One at Frosted Designs you had to use flowers
The Pink Elephant - anything spring
And also at Crafty Catz and All Sorts - also spring theme
EDITED: So sorry I forgot to list the whole reason for the layout - I followed at Practical Scrappers - it was a great layout to showcase the pic.

SPRING - LO using 52 weeks sketch #30

Over at 52 Sketches...52 Weeks"this week sketch has a lot of layers.


So I used a paper pack that seem to fit in with the group of pictures I had taken this past spring in our yard.



Layers:
Base was 12 x 12"
then 10 x 10"
then 8 x 8"
The strip with the 5 pics is cut at 5 x 12"
Accent pieces were 2 x 11" and 2 x 5"
Chipboard - sorry lost name of packages.
Paper from Paper Pizazz

More pop-up/spring up cards

I enjoyed making the pop-up spring-up cards in the previous post, I thought I would make these for Kristen and her friends (Lauren/Kristen/Jennie/Marie) that are also in college. (Hope to mail them today)

Directions are in the previous post.
I used the Cuddle Bug embossing folders for the accents and some Martha Stewart ribbon on the orange/blue swirl cards. I struggled with putting a sentiment on the cover - as I thought it would have made it too crowded. Instead I wrote in the back.here is a close up of a couple of them.

Hi - two Hedgehogs card - spring inner sentiments

here is a close up of the card
here is the inners, you cut a circle into a spiral. Adhere one end to the top and the other to the bottom. Add you accents to the spring.