Sunday 9 April 2023

Sending Easter Sunshine


Hi everyone, Happy Easter! Hope you all have a wonderful day whatever you're doing.

This month's FB ATC swap for Visible Image is on the theme Something Beginning With S, so I immediately thought of spring! There are also extra brownie points for incorporating several "S's" so mine are spring, sunshine, stamping, stencilling, script, sentiment and sparkle (and I also forgot that I had included smooshing!!). I actually made a set of 3 ATC's so I would have a couple of extra ones to trade separately, and here they are.


I created a smooshed background with two colours of green Distress Oxide ink, then stamped some script stamping in green and applied some soft stencilling in grey. I stamped my daffodil images onto separate card and heat embossed, coloured with Posca sparkle pens, then fussy cut and placed on the ATC's. Before attaching them I placed and stamped my sentiment, and also stamped a little "grungy" splat on each one.Finally I edged each ATC with black pen, and matted onto black card stock.

Here is a close up of the one I traded for the VI swap.


Stamps: Visible Image Golden Daffodils, Sketched Tulips;
Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Hickory Smoke); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Verdant); Posca Sparkle pens (yellow, orange).

Challenges I would like to enter:

Four Seasons (April) - Anything Spring Goes
Little Red Wagon #699 - Spring or Fall?
My Time To Craft #505 - Easter Flowers or Spring Flowers
Path of Positivity #111 - Anything Goes Positive with option Inspired by Literature

(Wordsworth’s famous poem:

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.)

Paper Funday #52 - Anything Goes with option Flower Power
Try It On Tuesday - Hello Spring
Word Art Wednesday #589/590 - Anything Goes (4th entry)

I'm hoping that the weather will be sufficiently spring-like today to get outside for a nice long Easter walk ... will make me feel less guilty about tucking into an Easter egg later!

Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs, 

19 comments:

crafty-stamper said...
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crafty-stamper said...

Great ATC set,love the daffodils and great background.Sun out here at the moment but very cold-enjoy your Easter egg.
Carol x

Gina's Cards said...

Such a beautiful set of ATCs. Love the spring colours and gorgeous daffodils. Thank you for sharing with us at Creative Inspirations, good luck.
Hugs
Gina xx

brenda said...

Happy Easter to you as well Pauline and what better way to celebrate than with Daffodils.

B x

Donna Walls said...

Lovely ATC's, I love the daffodils! Thanks for sharing with us at the Paper Funday Challenge.
Donna xx
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Sarn said...

Happy Easter!
Love these cheerful Spring daff ATCs xx

ScrappyHorses said...

Such pretty ATC's with the sunshine theme and those lovely daffodils! Beautiful texture and color! Great pieces inspired by Wordsworth's poem! Thanks for sharing with us at PoP! ~Katrina

Viv said...

A real pretty Spring set of ATC's Pauline! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Try It On Tuesday. x

Alyson Mayo said...

Love the flowers and the sentiment - great background as well. Thanks for sharing with us at MTTC :)

Melanie Hungerford said...

Those are gorgeous, love the way you used so may things for the S challenge! Thanks for playing along with us at the Paper Funday Challenge!

Ellibelle said...

A beautiful trio of ATC's here Pauline! You've done so well including so many "s" for the Visible Image challenge! And, oh, how I love that quote by Wordsworth! In fact I've been on the hunt for the Penny Black stamp with that quote, checking eBay daily. I even emailed PB to ask if they'd consider re-releasing that stamp but sadly they did not reply :(
Hope you had a wonderful Easter with lots of sunshine.
So nice to see you joining in at Four Seasons challenge!

Imke said...

Thanks for entering our "Spring or Fall" Challenge @ Little Red Wagon with this lovely card, Pauline. We hope to see you back again soon.

Imke ~ "MY CRAFTY PLACE"

Lorraine said...

Gorgeous ATCs Pauline, love the pretty daffodils
Lorraine x

Linby said...

You have really embraced ATCs - these are so pretty and colourful.

Rainey's Craft Room said...

Lovely Daffodils and a wonderful Spring feel to these ATC's.
Lorraine

Darlene said...

Oh Pauline, these are just BEAUTIFUL!! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Four Seasons Challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back again soon.

Darlene
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Let's Art Journal said...

Such beautiful cards! Loving those big daffodil, they sing spring 😊. Thanks so much for joining in the fun at Try it on Tuesday! Hugs, Jo x

Mrs.B said...

A lovely set of ATCs, love the Spring theme. Gorgeous fresh colours and I love the daffodil image.
Thanks for sharing at Try it on Tuesday.
Avril x

Karen Letchworth said...

What a lovely floral set, Pauline. Great job and so many perfect details. Thanks so much for sharing with us at The Four Seasons Challenge. We really appreciate you and the art you share in our challenges.
Blessings,
Karen L, DT