Easter Haiku

For Easter this year, I am revisiting a project from a couple of years ago.

Easter Bunting

Retro Easter

A project from a few years ago ...

Take the initial letter from each word to spell out

Easter.

Each one inch squared tile is cut from a sheet of mountboard,

covered front & back, in patterned paper from K & Company

designed by Brenda Walton.

I found six beautiful faces on Blanca's blog,

which I digitally remastered

(altered the colour, tone & resized).

The edges were sanded

to add a little aged, distressed, shabby feel.

After looking deeply into their eyes,

I gave each lady a description

which I felt matched their mood.

To add a hint of colour & focal interest,

I used Cherry Blossom flowers

leftover from my Nice n Easel decoupaged greeting cards.

These little beauties will stay on my desk throughout

Easter

& raise a smile each time I look at them ...

Easter Bunting

For my Easter project this year I have made a paper bunting.

I composed a Haiku poem around the meaning of Easter.

take time to reflect

the forgiveness of pure love

as new life springs forth

I used the generous gift of rosy bunting from Gale at Paper Whimsy,

exquisite silk screen printed vellum by Papermania,

alpha stickers, 3mm pink pearls & twisted cord.

Easter Beauties

I deliberated & cogitated over what to create for my Easter project this year

& settled on unashamedly stealing an idea from Joanna Urbani

& her gorgeous altered Scrabble tiles.

The initials of each themed tile together spell out a word or in her project,

the names of the delighted recipients.

I made mine out of mountboard inchies not Scrabble tiles

& mine spell out the word

Easter

Each one inch square of white mountboard was covered, front & back,

in patterned paper from K & Company designed by Brenda Walton.

The edges were sanded to add a little aged, distressed, shabby feel.

I found six beautiful faces on Blanca's blog, which I digitally remastered

(altered the colour, tone & resized).

After looking deeply into their eyes,

I gave each lady a description which I felt matched their mood.

To add a hint of colour & focal interest,

I used some Cherry Blossom flowers

leftover from my Nice n Easel decoupaged greeting cards.

These little beauties will stay in my desk throughout Easter

& raise a smile each time I look at them ...

Easter Decoration

An altered cd made as an Easter decoration,

using paper & elements from Rhonna Farrer's Color my World digikit,

(from Two Peas in a Bucket)

& a bunny template from Inspire me!

After I finished my Easter design, the image was printed on white card.

The cd was covered both sides & edged with a Marvy Metallics gold pen.

I cut out three more bunnies,

sanded the edges to reveal the white cardstock underneath

& layered them using 3d foam.

I added a touch of gold Stickles for the eye & nose on the top layer.

I punched a hole through the top of the cd using a Crop-a-dile

& thread two pieces of brown polka dot organza ribbon through the hole

& tied with a knot.

Chocolate Easter Bunny

An Easter card, using paper & elements from Rhonna Farrer's Color my World digikit, available at Two Peas in a Bucket & a bunny template from Inspire me!


Once I had finished my design, it was printed out on white card & trimmed to size. The edges of the card were sanded to remove some of the ink, revealing the white card underneath.


There are three layers to the bunny, mounted using 3d foam & gold organza ribbon wrapped around the card & tied in a bow.


I also used a little glitter from my gelly roll stardust pen by Sakura.

With love at Easter

Time to think about making Easter cards & time to bring out those light pastel colours ...


I looked to Inspire me! for some inspiration & found their Easter Chick template. Perfect!


I used papers from the Shabby Princess Spring Breeze range & a Fiskars template to create the scalloped edge. The edges of the papers were sanded to remove some of the ink for a subtle shabby distressed look. The greeting was mounted using 3d foam, to add dimension.


White organza ribbon tied in a bow, wrapped around the back of the card.


A trio of pearls for the finishing touch.

I hope everyone has a peaceful Easter this year.

Joys of Spring

The challenge this week on Art Creations Friday was to use the wonderful textural background provided.

This is my digital collage, inspired by the bird image which seem to match the background colours perfectly.


And my digital art journal page for this project.


Credits:
Crafty Computer Paper
Graphics Fairy
Vintage Moth

May Day Festival

A scrapbook page for a forum challenge, where we had to include an outdoor photograph, yellow & green, flowers & ribbon.


The photographs, taken over this Bank Holiday weekend, show one of the many Morris Dancing groups which took to the streets as part of the festivities.

The paper & elements used are from the "She's No Spring Chicken" digital kit by The Queen of Quirk from Two Peas in a Bucket.

Dancing with the Daffodils

The challenge this week on Artarazzi was to incorporate the image provided into our artwork.

I followed the title of the painting "Spring Flowers" by Alma-Tadema Lawrence.

My heart with pleasure fills

& dances with the daffodils

William Wordsworth

I made my own background, including one of my own photographs & adding a quote from William Wordsworth.

Here is my digital art journal page for this project.



Credits: Dover

Easter Wishes

The challenge this week on Make a Moo or Two is

Yellow Easter.

I have used the sweet Easter chick images by Sarah Kay

& a background image from The Graphics Fairy.

I have added a few punched flowers with glitter gems in the centres.

Easter Card

An Easter card using a Sarah Kay image & the wonderful spring colours of the Shabby Princess Sweet Serenity range of papers.


For all my Sarah Kay projects, click here.