Spring Fairy Tag

Hi there and happy spring! Depending on where you live you might have gotten a surprise spring snow over the weekend. What was up with that? Sunday morning we woke up to a couple of inches of the fluffy white stuff, but it was all gone by the afternoon.

This week the design team is showing more projects using our current Spring challenge theme. We've added ribbons to our projects for a little extra oomph. At the end of the week Senior DT Jamie and Brenda, our very first Guest Designer will introduce our April sketch challenge. Yay!

I made a quick tag using our new Tim Holtz dies: Tag & Bookplates and Tattered Florals, and Graphic 45's "Once Upon A Springtime".

This really was a quick project - it took just about 2 hours, which is record time for me! The flower was made by cutting the Tattered Floral shapes twice and offsetting each size so the space between the petals doesn't show. I cut the largest flower down by about a half-inch. The petals are rounded with the awesome Empressor tool. To the edges I randomly added a combination of Star Dust and Crystal Stickles with my fingertip.

The little fairy tag was pulled from the Once Upon A Springtime "Tags" die-cut 12x12 page - loads of cool embellishments on that sheet! I cut an extra wing and added a little Stickles to the wing, crown and sceptre for a little bling.

Card Recipe

• Paper: Graphic 45 Once Upon A Springtime
• Medium: Ranger Distress Ink in Walnut Stain, Tattered Rose, Bundled Sage; Glimmer Mist in Pearl; Stickles in Diamond, Star Dust and Crystal
• Embellishments: G45 Springtime Tag; Kaisercraft Pearls in snow; May Arts lace; seam binding ribbon and pearly branch from stash
• Tools: Tim Holtz Alterations Tag & Bookplate die and Tattered Florals die, Journaling Genie Empressor; Sizzix branch die from stash
• Adhesive: Fabri-Tac

Thanks for visiting today. There's still plenty of time to join our Beary Sweet Spring Challenge and Birthday Bash. It's going on until March 31 - you could win one of 5 fabulous birthday prizes!

Cheers,
Susan