My spring daughter

Today is my darling daughter's birthday and the first day of spring. What a double celebration. It's the vernal equinox when the number of daylight hours is the same as the same as those of darkness. This means that from tomorrow will will have more daylight than darkness, what a glorious thought. My daughter sent me these gorgeous spring flowers for Mother's day on Sunday and they smell as spring like as they look.

I have been playing with my Inktense pencils for the first time. I made a box for these recently which I showed in this post  . I decided that one of my stamping Bella images would be a great image to use. 

I used a couple of different colourways and I was really pleased with my first dab-lings. You use water with them and they are almost like painting with inks. The effect is of water colouring....I really like them and a little goes a long way. You can see how much colour I got from just outlining the blue dress.

 As always I was overseen by my crafty helper Billy who checked everything with a sniff.

 I fussy cut them all out

I really liked the colours of one on the far left so I chose to use this for her birthday card.

I made a brayered background using acrylic paints as the base card.

I then put my creative hat on and came up with this card. It is very apt for my very sassy daughter who will no doubt be raising a glass of bubbly with her Hb today. 

 The brayered background really gives some great texture

I added a few gems for some bling and some bright sunny ribbon too.
I also made another version of this card for my Etsy shop..you can see it here where it is for sale.

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

Fashionable stamping Springtime 
Country view crafts anything goes
Crafty ribbons anything goes with ribbon
Papertake weekly Happy anything
Little Claire's Springtime
The Ribbon Girl Green
Simon says stamp Wednesday Spring mood board inspiration I was inspired by the yellow ribbon from the chocolate egg and the blues and yellows of the sweet little blue tit
Whimsy stamps use a diecut mine is the lovely Memory box bow
Cute card Thursday spring fever
Fussy and Fancy girlie
Coffee chocolate and cards something yummy to eat or drink
Crafty Catz no designer papers
Art with heart go green
The Artistic stamper spring is coming


Another weekend looms, how quickly the month is flashing by. Next weekend is the last in the month.

Thanks for all your lovely comments and good wishes for our family celebrations, March is certainly a busy month for us. April should be more mellow. The sun is shining this afternoon and it really does feel like spring is finally here.
I would  like to warmly welcome my latest followers, it's great to see you joining me on my creative journey. I hope you enjoy the journey.

Have a crafty weekend,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x