Thursday, 2 April 2026

C.R.A.F.T. #777 - Guest Designer


Hi everyone, I’m here again with another guest designer card for this fortnight’s C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - that’s twice on the trot! The theme for the next two weeks is 

*** Seasons / Weather / Anything Goes ***

The fabulous sponsor for this challenge is Polkadoodles 


.. who are offering a fab prize of 3 Digi images from their store.

The design team have made some gorgeous projects to inspire you, so please do visit the challenge blog to check them out, and to link up your own entries. 

Here is my card for the challenge - I decided to make a cheerful spring card, using a beautiful Tracy Evans spring floral stamp which I bought last year but hadn’t inked up until now. 


I took a snippet of white stamping card and stamped the focal flower, then stamped some coordinating script beneath it from an older large Tracy Evans stamp. I coloured the flowers and background with Zig pens , blending out the background with my Zig blending pen, then added Wink of Stella on the flower petals and white Posca spatters. I die cut a large frame from a snippet of green gingham paper, then cut my image snippet to size and attached behind the aperture. I stamped the sentiment onto separate card then die cut, edged with green ink and attached, and attached the finished panel to a card blank. I felt it still needed something else, so I retrieved an experimental coloured flower from the bin, fussy cut it out and attached in the top right corner. I then added a couple of stamped bunnies to finish and highlighted them with white pastel pencil.


Stamps: Tracy Evans Boutique Designs TE47 Wild and Free, TE32 Alpine Florals; AALL & Create #266 Daisy Elegance; Penny Back Spring Magic (2852C);
Media: Versafine Clair (Nocturne): Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolour pens; Lavinia Elements ink (Line Punch); Wink of Stella (clear); Posca pen (white); pastel pencil (white);
Papers: from my stash;
Tools: Hunkydory Moonstone Duo- Stitched square dies.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Beautiful Blossoms #39 - Anything Floral Goes (3rd entry)
Card Concept #225 - Spring Flowers (2nd entry)
Creative Moments #280 - Bunnies and Blooms (3rd entry)
Paper Players #779 - Tic Tac Toe

(Die cut / Flowers / Layers)

Papercraft #128 - Joy of Spring (3rd entry)
Passion for Markers #831 - Dies and/or Punches
Sparkles #198 - It’s Springtime! (3rd entry)
Sweet Stampin’ - Spring or Easter (2nd entry)
Word Art Wednesday #746/747 - Anything Goes 

Thanks very much to the C.R.A.F.T. challenge Design Team for asking me to be guest designer again this time.

Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,

18 comments:

Aquarius said...

Congratulations on the Guest Designer spot. A beautiful floral card in lovely Spring colours - love the hares in the corner - a great addition to the design.

Sheryl said...

A beautiful card Pauline. Thanks for joining us at GDT at CRAFT.
Hugs Sheryl CRAFT DT

Barb Finnical said...

This is such a gorgeous card, Pauline! What really stands out to me is how you put some of the flowers outside of the border. That gives it such a dimensional look. I also love all the little details like the white Posca dots and the bunnies in the corner. Lovely card all around! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Word Art Wednesday!

crafty-stamper said...

Congrats on your GDT spot, beautiful card and Spring flowers.
Carol x

Chris said...

Gorgeous spring card Pauline, great choice of images and colours perfect for the season. Congrats on your GDT spot.
Have a lovely weekend xx
Thanks for joining in at Sweet Stampin'.

Ellibelle said...

Such a beautiful creation, I'm not sure I have this particular stamp but love how you used it! And of course, the sentiment is a favorite of mine, though I haven't had a chance to use it this year.
Congrats on another guest DT spot at the Craft challenge, so well deserved!!

Christy Lynn said...

Very pretty card, Pauline! It can be challenging to use extra-large images in the limited space of a card front, but you made it work wonderfully. Thank you for playing along with us at The Paper Players.

Alyson Mayo said...

Beautiful flowers against the blue background. Thanks for sharing with us at Beautiful Blossoms :)

Wendy Nicola Jackson said...

An elegant beautiful design! Those bunnies are a sweet addition! Thanks for sharing your lovely Easter card with us at Sweet Stampin' xoxo

Karen Letchworth said...

This is such a gorgeous Spring card, Pauline. Congratulations on your Guest Design spot. You sure did a fabulous job of it. Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful creation with us at Word Art Wednesday. I appreciate all the amazing cards you share with us, and I hope you have a very blessed Easter.

Sarn said...

Fabulous Spring time card. Love the gingham and congrats on your GD position. xxx

Sarn said...

Back again to say thanks for coming to play in the Snippets Playground. See you in the treehouse later - after you finish the Easter Egg hunt! xxx

Di said...

What a wonderful splash of Spring this is Pauline! LOVE the flowers and the pretty gingham paper.
Hugs
Di xx

Kathyk said...

Congratulations on the GDT slot with this super card, well deserved

Kathyk

Mrs.B said...

Congrats on the GD spot. It's a lovely Spring themed card, gorgeous fresh colours and I love the addition of the little hares.
Avril xx

Dawn Phillips said...

This is fabulous. I love how you've created the 'outside the box' feel. Thanks for joining us at Sparkles Monthly Challenge. Love Dawn x

Linda's Relaxing Lair said...

Gorgeous card.

Marjeta said...

Super image an colors. I like little bunnies in the corner. Thanks for playing with us at Creative Moments.