I Spy With My Little Eye #25

Hi everyone, it’s the third Wednesday in the month again, which means that it’s time for another I Spy With My Little Eye... challenge over at Ellibelle's Corner.  Thanks so much to everyone who joined in last time - please do check over on Ellie’s blog to see if you are one of our top picks. 

I chose the challenge theme this month, and it is

I Spy With My Little Eye 

*** April Showers / May Flowers ***

Please do pop over to Ellie's blog to see her fab creation and link up your entries here.

This month we are delighted to again welcome two guest designers - Carrianne and Lia - so please click on their names to visit their blogs and see their fabulous creations.

Here’s my card for the challenge. I decided to go with a floral theme, and that I would allude to the concept of April showers with the wellingtons! It also gave me opportunity to play with my lovely Tracy Evans primula stamp which I bought a while ago but haven’t inked up until now, as I was inspired by the primulas currently in our front garden. 

I have a confession to make … only after I made this card and posted it did I realise that although the background, shading and details are different, the basic concept of wellies and primula is the same as Ellie’s “I Spy” card from last month… I have had an incredibly busy and quite stressful few weeks so the memory of Ellie’s lovely card from last month had completely gone from my mind … (it may also be an age thing as my memory isn’t the best!). Sadly I didn’t have time to make another one but Ellie was lovely about it when I told her of my mistake .. so let’s just say this is a tribute to her gorgeous card.

I created a smooshed ink background on white card with Distress Oxide inks, then stamped the background leaf on the left using 2nd generation and a mixture of Avocado and Shady Lane VFC. I stamped the wellingtons onto separate card, shaded with DOX then fussy cut and set aside. I stamped the primula twice onto card snippets and coloured with Zig pens, topped with Wink of Stella on the flowers, then fussy cut out. I added a little more background stamping on the right in Bali Blue, then attached the wellingtons and flowers. I added a couple more background stamped words, a little bee and hare, then stamped the main sentiment onto separate card, cut out and attached. I edged the finished piece with black marker pen then matted onto yellow card stock and card blank.

I  actually made a bit of an oopsie with this card … I decided last minute to add some shadow shading underneath the wellies with a grey Zig pen, blended out with a water brush. Unfortunately the brush was sparkly (no, I don’t know why!!) so my shadow ended up sparkly which I don’t think happens in nature! ☺️ I got so distracted by this sparkly shadow that I then forgot to “ground “ my bunny, which I only realised after I had photographed the card… I’ve rectified that now!

Stamps: Tracy Evans Boutique Designs TE31 Nature’s Beauty, TE32 Alpha Florals; AALL & Create #370 The Great Outdoors, #449 Through the Meadows, #756 Miniatures; Lavinia Heartfelt Verses;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Twisted Citron, Salvaged Patina, Tumbled Glass,Bundled Sage); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Morning Mist, Avocado, Shady Lane, Bali Blue); Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolour pens; Stabilo pencil (white); Posca pen (white); Wink of Stella (clear).

Challenges I would like to enter:

As You Like It - Favourite Cute or Floral (and why)

(I just love flowers, especially in springtime as they really lift my mood)

Craft Rocket #124 - Layer It Up

Double D - Springtime Flowers

Four Seasons (April) - Spring

Heart’s Quest Celebrations of Love #4 2025 - Spring Season

Fab ‘n’ Funky #614 - Think Spring

Moving Along With the Times #177 - Spring Flowers

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies #2515 - Anything Goes

Snippets Playground #504 - Use Snippets

(I used snippets for the base layer, stamped wellies and primula, sentiment & yellow mat)

Word Art Wednesday #694/695 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

The I Spy Challenge will end on the Sunday before the next challenge starts at 23:59 US Central Time - so this time that is Sunday May 18th, and the next challenge will begin on Wednesday May 21st.

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,