Welcome Spring

Hi Crafty Friends,
The Delightful Challenges team is officially welcoming spring by making that our challenge this week. My image is Strawberry Barnaby from Digital Delights by Louby Loo.

This strawberry paper is from my stash, I knew I'd find the perfect image to go with it.  I inked the punched flowers to mimic those in the patterned paper.  The bee is a stamp I bought quite awhile back.  It came with the bee body.  It's called Skittle Bee from Pez-a-Doodles.  I used a 3-D gel pen after stamping the image.  Barnaby is colored with Copics with Wink of Stella glitter added to the wings.
Our challenge this week is sponsored by A $15 store certificate is the prize.   Link your Welcome Spring project to our challenge blog, HERE, for a chance to win.
Thanks for stopping by and Welcome Spring!

A Blast from the Past

While I'm busy prioritizing my next set of projects, I thought I'd share a few cards that I made right after I got my Cricut Expression in September, 2009.  Things have sure changed since I started scrapping with my Baby Bug on the dining room table two years ago. Last year I moved to the desk in one of the spare bedrooms and emptied a closet that was all shelving. I sure filled that up quickly.  Now, the entire room is filled, and I do mean filled, with all things scrappy. 
I'm glad I took pictures of my cards.  I can see my progress as a cardmaker and I have something to share with you :).

This was a sketch for Raq's card challenge.  I think that Accent Essentials snowflake is my all time favorite. I used the Divine Swirls Cuttlebug emboosing folder then inked with silver.  The stems are handcut.

Our Cricut Card Fairy Commander moved into a new home.  This was her welcome home card.  I love the Stretch Your Imagination bird house.  The bee and its trail is a Pez-a-doodle stamp and skittle.  The flowers are Walk in My Garden.

The monkey is stamped betweet two SYI trees.  The "coconuts" are skittles that I colored (they are light green) by shaking the clear ones in a baggy with a few drops of alcohol ink and then letting them dry.

Thanks for traveling down memory lane with me.

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Larelyn