March flutters in

Good grief  here we are in March...now wasn't Christmas just a few weeks ago...hmmm time rally marches on and here we are into the 3rd month of the year. Spring is just 3 weeks away now.
What wonderful weather we had for the end of February, let's hope March is not too chilly. At least the daffs are all in flower. I bought these alpine daffs at Wisley recently and they are so pretty.

I still have some on my kitchen side too.

It is time for my first design team card for the newest challenge over at Country View. For March our theme is "letters/numbers" and we would like to see letters and/or numbers taking up a prime position on your projects.

You can enter our March challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Remember that UK postage and packing is absolutely FREE! All the details for the challenge can be found here.

For my first project I decided to make a card using the new Visible Image mixed media stamps which Susan has on the website. Mother's Day is on the 31st of this month so it was also ideal to add to my stock of Mother's day cards at Dotty's Tea House. I have used "words" in my project with book pages and the "numbers" are on the butterfly wings of the stamps. I used the entwined butterfly stencil and blended distress inks onto my book page. 

I stamped the Visible Image butterflies from their  wings of change set *****(EDIT; I note that this set has sold out but if you put your email address in the box on the website Susan will email you when they are back in stock) on to white card, fussy cut them out and then added a little shading and a touch of bling with some Spectrum Noir glitter pen. 

I added some heart die cuts and stamped Mother's day sentiment onto the cloud.

Here is my finished card.

with a close up of these gorgeous butterflies. 

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

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Shopping our weekly stash 1/3 February I have gone with purple

The butterfly challenge B I have gone with burgundy. This is the colour of my small heart die and there is also burgundy in the mix of inks in my stenciling and my die cut doily heart. 

Time Out 1/3 unique I think our Mum's are so unique!

All the details for the challenge can be found here.

My 2nd DT post for Country View will be on 4 March.

Thanks so much for stopping by and for the kind comments you take the time to leave me. Let's hope that March is kind to us and even if it come in like a lion that it goes out like a lamb weather wise.

Back again at 3pm with my DT post for STAMPlorations as yes it is also the first Friday in the month!

Bye for now,

Jane x