Bug Brats Easter 01

 

It is the start of a new month and I am back with my DT hat on for 

The Freebie/Progressive Challenge at The Outlawz.

As long as you made a card with the March freebie you will automatically get the April image free. It is a fabulous way to use images from artists you many not have used before. Also sometimes the image is completely different to something you would normally use. It has been a good way for me to stretch my creativity and take me out of my comfort zone. 

I would highly recommend anyone who is not already taking part to jump in and have a go. We are a really friendly bunch at The Outlawz.

This month we are sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps

We have been given this image Bug Brats Easter 01 to play with. Easter cards are not something I tend to make very often but this is such a cute image. I am sure we all know a little girl who loves to dress up.

I coloured the image using a combination of Promarkers and pencils and then fussy cut with my favourite Fiskars embroidery scissors. They have short blades and are perfect for precision cutting. I popped the image up on thin foam pads.

The card base is a sheet of A4 card and I covered this with the green spotty paper. The glittery Easter egg paper is from the Spring Drop First Editions paper pad. I added a layer of pink gingham underneath. The image has been layered onto a stripy paper in pastel shades and I added the pale pink mat underneath.

The sentiment is from Scrap N Fonts. They don't seem to be around anymore which is a shame as they did loads of printables and sentiments which I have used over the years.

The 2 little fat chicks are from Birdie Brown. I was gutted when she stopped making digis as she had so many cute ones. She did however go on to design rubber stamps for some big companies so happy to see she is still designing.

Finally the banner is an old pre-printed banner from Let's Make Cards magazine. I used to subscribe to it many years ago and there are so many elements I still have that are used in cards to this day. Some bits were really good, some not so much. I was never into the cut and paste style of cardmaking that this seemed to do, always more interested in doing my own thing and not copying other cards. The banner was too big for the card so I did some careful trimming and used some small brads to join the sections together.

I hope we will see you enter our challenge at The Outlawz and look forward to seeing the entries using this image.

Card Details -

Size - A5

Digital Images - Bug Brats Easter 01 (Bugaboo Stamps) Chubby Chick 01 & 03 (Birdie Brown RETIRED)

Digital Sentiment - Scrap N Fonts (RETIRED)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers & Arteza Pencils

Paper - Spring Drop First Edition Pad (Dovecraft)

Embellishments - Brads

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• 2 Sisters on The Blog - #49 Flag / Banner or your card
• 613 Avenue Create - #3 Anything Goes
• A Place to Start - 3 Pick A Shape (Triangles & Rectangles)
• Allsorts - #617/618 Anything Goes
• Alphabet Challenge - Z is for Zoology
• As You Like It - Favourite Springtime Critter is fluffy chicks (I love how they are a fumbly when they stumble around and follow their parents in a line)
• Aud Sentiments - #271 Animals and a sentiment
• Cardz TV - #137 Anything Goes
• CD Sunday Plus - #57 - Anything Goes with a Digital
• Colour Crazy Challenge - #11 Anything Goes with Colouring
• Crafting Happiness - #90 Bunnies / Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper
• Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers - #204 Anything Goes
• Cute Card Thursday - #680 Anything Goes
• Digi Choosday - #13 Anything Goes
• Digi Doodle Studios - #37 Include an Animal
• Gem of A Challenge - #7 Anything Goes
• House That Stamps Built - #DCC M321 Going Green
• House That Stamps Built - #M2421 Anything Goes
• I Love Promarkers - #432 Anything Goes
• Jan’s Digi Stamps - Anything Goes
• Krafty Chicks - #553 Stamp Act
• Lemon Shortbread - #142 Anything Goes
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #154 Anything Goes
• Love To Scrap - #144 Spring
• Make My Monday - #145 Easter or Spring
• Make The Cards Challenge - #10 Include the colours from the swatch
• Moving Along With The Times - #129 Animals or Birds
• Passion For Markers - #585 Something beginning with B (bunny ears, banner, brads, blossoms butterfly, brown, blue)
• Pearly Sparkles - #61 Animals/Birds/insects
• Penny’s Challenge - #492 Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - #13 Anything Goes
• Scrapping4fun Challenges - #187 Easter
• Scribbles Designs Challenge - #98 Spring Fling
• Sheepski Designs - #49 Animal Magic
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - Easter / Spring
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes
• Sisterhood of Crafters - Easter / Spring
• Stamps & Fun = Creativity - #386 Spring or Easter
• Sweet Stampers - #54 Easter or Spring
• The Crafting Challenge - Anything Goes / Easter
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
• Try It On Tuesday - Hello Spring
• Uniko Challenge - #64 Signs of Spring / Easter
• Word Art Wednesday - #485-486 Anything Goes