Marching on through March

Wow the weather has certainly taken a step up here and we have enjoyed milder temperatures and daylight. Thanks for all you birthday wishes to my DD on my last post, I passed them on to her. She had a lovely day being spoilt  by her dear Hb.

 This was the gorgeous sunshine in my garden over the weekend and I noticed that my flowering currant has sneaked into flower....it must have happened in the last week as the buds were shut tight last weekend.

 I also noticed that my magnolia is starting to open up its buds too. Although this is such a short lasting flowering tree it is one of my favourites and gives me so much pleasure in my tiny garden.

 There is a house near mine which has a much bigger magnolia and I snapped a couple of shots on my way home from work.

When these buds break open fully this will be glorious.

All the trees are budding, these sights make my heart skip a beat. Sticky buds will reveal new horse chestnut leaves very soon...

and the cherry trees are also coming into flower

Inspired by the sunshine and blossoms I reached for one of my Lavinia fairy stamps for today's card. I made the background with some Bister pigments. I will be back with a post on my newest crafting play soon, they are water reactive and are just amazing to play with.  I used blue for the backing card and green and yellow to colour the paper flower which started life completely white. I added some corrugated card behind the flower for some texture

 and a huge yummy shiny gem in the centre. This is so pretty  in real life.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Lavinia add some gems
Country view crafts anything goes
Little Claire's Springtime
The Artistic stamper spring is coming
Cute card Thursday spring fever
Fussy and Fancy girlie
Crafty Catz no designer papers
Crafty Card Makers spring has sprung
Crafty boots spring
Fashionable stamping favourite go to stamp I have many favourite stamps but this fairy is one of my favourites when I'm looking for a not too cute fairy image. I think she works well on this card
That's Crafty wings and things
Inspiration Journal spring blooms
Craft stamper take it make it stamp, anything goes
Mixed Media World anything goes

 I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Are any of you watching Poldark on a Sunday evening? We only tend to watch TV on Saturday and Sunday evenings and this is BBC at its best. I watched the original Poldark in the 1970s, this version is as good and Aidan Turner as Ross is just delicious ;0) For those of you outside the UK keep an eye out for the series; if you are fans of BBC costume/period dramas you will absolute love it. I also love Cornwall, such beautiful countryside and coast and this shows the area so well. My Hb is not a fan of Downton Abbey, which I also love, but even he agreed that Poldark is very watchable. Roll on next Sunday.......

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x