No April fool here

Good morning. Happy 1st April or April Fool's day. There is never any chance of fooling me as it is my birthday today. Yes seriously. My Hb has the day off and we are heading out to enjoy a birthday lunch and potter and perhaps a meal out tonight as well. 

It is also time for our newest challenge over at Country View. For April we have a nice easy theme of Spring/Easter. We look forward to seeing lots of lovely spring inspired creations.

You can enter our April 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 design team projects for April I decided to make my Easter tags which I make every year for my big and little babies.

Today I will share the first tag, the second will be coming up on 13th April. 

This is what I got up to.
 I make tags for my big and small children for their Easter bags and this one is for Jack who will be 2 on Easter Day. He adores birds and so I knew I had to made a bird based tag for him. The birds around here are certainly paring up. I spotted these 2 sweethearts down at the ponds.

First I made a tree lined setting.
I added twisted citron and squeezed lemonade oxides to make my tag base.
I got out my small tag sized Tim Holtz stencils.

 I took his tree stencil and added vintage photo oxide

I also added some blue leaves with broken china distress ink using his leaf stencil.

I added some bird remnant rubs

I also altered a die cut from my favourite Tim Bird branch Bigz die, sadly long discontinued using paints and a little crackle. 

I finished off with some butterflies from his butterfly frenzy die.

Here is my finished tag.

with some close ups

and one final shot

I hope to see lots of you joining in the fun..the details again are here.

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

Pixie's snippets playground #349

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Alphabet challenge A is for animals

Crafty Catz 1/3 anything goes

Uniko 1/3 Spring/Easter

Polkadoodles anything creative/mixed media

Crafty friends 3/3 spring

My 2nd tag for CVC will be on 13th April.

This is the link again for our April challenge. 

 

I have second post coming up in an hour as being Monday it is also time for my
Visible Image DT Monday make...busy busy!

       Back very soon!

Bye for now,

Jane x