Spring Into Spring!

Hello all - and a very warm welcome to my new followers! It's lovely to have you join me in my crafty corner of Blogland!  I hope you are all enjoying your weekend - and thankfully we have lovely sunshine here which lifts everyone's spirits.  My husband has been off to get some wood and is making me a new bird table/feeder today as my old birdtable is gradually collapsing.  The pond is full of frisky frogs (bit of tongue twister that!) who are up to no good with lots of singing to one another and a lot of splashing, and the pond is getting so full of frogspawn that it's starting to look like a tapioca pudding. And all the gorgeous little daffodils are bursting open - they've withstood the rain, snow, wind and frost - but I have to admit that they struggle a bit to cope with big fat dog feet wandering across them. I bet when Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud  gazing at daffodils, they hadn't been trampled over by a pudding of a dog.....

Anyway, all the signs are that SPRING is on it's way - finally.  And that is the theme for the new challenge over at the Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog - and I'm thrilled to say that yours truly is a Guest Design Team member for April! Woo hoo!  Excited isn't the word!  So here is my contribution - but do go and see all the fabulous inspiration for 'Spring into Spring' from the JS DT!

I've used a gorgeous House Mouse stamp - 'Sunflower' - and coloured them with promarkers and flexmarkers and added little 'pearls' to the flowers with a pearl pen

The backing paper is from Nitwits at LOTV, with an embossed panel using CraftsToo embossing folder. The image is mounted on a Spellbinders 'floral oval' with one of the smaller die cuts in the corner.  I've added some scrummy Joanna Sheen spotty ribbon and flowers from WOC. The die cut leaves are Poppystamps 'meadow leaf' - with some lace and pearl trim from stash. 

And inside I've added a 'pocket' so that a note, gift voucher or, perhaps more appropriately for Spring, some flower seeds! 

Hope you like it! And hope that it feels like Spring is on it's way wherever you are! 

So do pop over to the Joanna Sheen Challenge - and join in! 

Back soon,

Kim x 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:-

BrokenBoxStock - spring

Brown Sugar challenge - spring

Dilly Beans challenge - spring

SimplyCreateToo - animals

WagsnWhiskers - spring

Allsorts challenge - spring has sprung

Hanna & Friends - spring

Crafts and Me - spring flowers

Divas by Design - spring colours