Tuesday 24 March 2009

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Challenge 44 "Easter"

For our challenge over at A Spoon Full of Sugar this week we are asking you to get creating for Easter. I have made a simple card today using the largest scalloped square nestabilities. I think it turned out real sweet though. I cut the green dotty paper using this nestabilitie. I then folded a piece of white card stock in half and the cut with this die again but didn't go right to the top edge so you keep the join to get the main card shape. I then stuck the green dotty dp to the front of my card matching up the edges carefully.

The cute little characters are from the High Hopes Three pane Easter stamp. I stamped sweet bunny again to create my fourth pane. The gorgeous papers are from the DCWV Nana Nursery Baby Girl stack. To finish I added the little flower gem and pearl to Baa Baa.

We have a great prize this week of the below gift voucher which has very kindly been donated by Bryony from Silly Monkey Crafts. Thank you Bryony!


Our wonderful and talented Guest Designer this week is Becky. Please pop over to Becky's blog to say hello. Be sure to also check out the gorgeous creations on the challenge blog from the rest of the fabulous team!

If this is your first visit to my blog today be sure to check out my two earlier posts.. Wow, I've been a busy bee :-)

Hugs,

57 comments:

Agnes van Hensbergen - agnesstampcards said...

OOOHHH nikki a real easter card.love the colors.
Big hugs Agnesxx

Moni said...

So adorable card! Gorgeous images and great colouring! Hugs, Moni

Chris said...

Beautiful Nikki! I love the easter themed stamps and your stunning colouring. Great card shape and paper too. Hugs, Chris xxx

Tab said...

Oh Nikki, your card is adorable! What a fab idea to use the nesties, and I love the HH images, I hae this stamp and I adore it!
Hugs Tab xxx

COCO said...

wo very gorgeous card and fabulous coloring !!!!!
hugs coco

Sharon said...

Lol great Easter card Nikki.Love the cute characters each in their own little frame.

Anki said...

Love, love, love your Easter card! It's wonderful. Kramis - Anki

Michele Roos said...

Gorgeous card Nikki. Love the adorable images and the beautiful colouring. Love the papers also. Michele

Mariska said...

Oh this one is brilliant too. Love the design, your colouring, the green dotted paper on the edges... gorgeous!! Now stop making your projects so perfect!! (just kidding of course :) ).

xxx
Mariska

angeljakki said...

Such a cute card love it x x x

Debbie said...

Gorgeous Easter card Love these cute little Animals with this gorgeous Dp.Hugs Debbie x

Andrea said...

Nikki this card is so cute!
xAndrea

Bubbles said...

Gorgeous card Nikki, love the individual piccies and your paper is scrummy, love the shape of the card to!
Sorry been a bad blogger recently, love all of your cards, especially Mickey for your brother, wow that was FAB!!!
Cute piccie of Danni to!
Joanne x

Kathy said...

Oh Nikki this card is fabulous!! I love absolutely everything about it!! The papers are gorgoeus, the shape is so pretty and all those images are so stinkin' cute!! Wonderful Easter card! Hope you have a great day! :)Kathy

Anonymous said...

Awww how sweet is this, so adorable. hugs rachxx

Marlou McAlees said...

awwwwww I loooove this!!! very very cute Nikki :) ♥

Annie said...

such a fabby Easter card, love the scallop shape and those cute images. hugs, annie x

Vicki G said...

How cute it THAT!!!! I LOVE it!!!!


Vicki

Donna said...

I just love this card! The animals are so cute and the frame sets them off nicely! Thanks for sharing.

Jeanette said...

This is such a pretty card. THe colors you have used are of perfect for spring and Easter. Once again, I think your coloring is superb and the card compostion is wonderful! Have a great day! Hugs Jeanette

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous card Nikki!!
These animals are very cute and I love your nestabilities and your colouring!!
Last week in France the weather was marvellous but this week it's cold again and we have April showers.
Love to you all,
Big hugs,
Christelle.

Cindy Haffner said...

Oh my gosh these guys are way to cute, they make me smile. Wonderful work.

Joey said...

love the layout and papers and colours of this, those squares are so cleverly done with the animals inside I love them. Joey.x

Heike's Creativeplace said...

Wow, Nikki this is so cute and adorable. Love the Image's and all the lovely Details.....

Big Hugs
Heike

Janna said...

Oh Nikki this is just adorable with a captial A!!!! I love these adorable little animals and the beautiful coloring you did!! So amazing! The shape though is incredible! I have really been trying to do more shape cards, but I find them difficult for some reason! LOL! YOurs has inspired me though!! Love it!!!

Smiles,
janna

ella bella said...

fab card Nikki love the shape and all the very cute images
Tracy x

Caryn said...

Great card Nikki, I love the scalloped edges - must try that with my square nesties! I love your sketch too - have saved it to my file and will definitley have a go at it.

Hope you're keeping well.

Hugs,
Caryn xxx

Teri said...

Nikki! I just love your Easter card for the challenge. Those new HH images are so cute!! xo, Teri

Heidi Brawley said...

Awe! This card is soooo cute!!! Great job and love the coloring and the shape of it!!!! ~Heidi

Unknown said...

wow that´s such a colourful and so funny card. i love the square layout of your card. looks so very pretty.
hugs, bea

Maria said...

Gosh, those animals are so cute!! I especially love that bunny with his big teeth. . .he is too cute. Beautiful job coloring the images and putting them in the squares!! Love the scallop borders too! Such an awesome card!

Maria

Stephanie said...

This is adoreable Nikki - really put a smile on my face :) xxx

Rosette said...

This is just beautiful Nikki!! I LOVE IT!! :)

Heather Schlatter said...

Nikki,

These farm animals are adorable!!!! I am going to have to give in and buy some of these now!!!! I love their stamps so much just because of you!!!!!

This card is simply said perfect!!!


Heather

Karen said...

Wow Nikki, this is just fabulous - I love these stamps - I so want some High Hopes!

Love these pretty spring colours also.

You have been so busy and all such different cards - just beautiful.

Karen x

Zoe said...

Hello Mummy, I love the pretty Easter card you made and I love the adorable high hopes stamp.
love
Zoe
xxxxx

Anonymous said...

cute card nikki !!!fantastic colours !!!!!!!!!!
big hugs tina46

Ila said...

Have you ever been busy!! This is just the Cutest!!...love how you added another bunny...just Fabulous and Wonderful coloring as always!!...Hugs, Ila

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous Nikki, love the layout and cute little characters..
Sorry for not being around much! hope you and family are ok?
Big hugs, Marlene xx

Unknown said...

What a lovely card Nikki, beautiful colors.

love Suze

Donalda said...

Oh Nikki this is just gorgeous dear. I just got my HH stamps and I cant' wait for the weekend to play. But your card is just breathe taking dear

Marcea said...

totally adorable Nikki - love your colouring. BTW thanks for advsing re the canon paper - loving it!
-x-

Chris Olsen, Glowbug said...

Love your Easter Card Nikki!!! How cute!

hugs,
Chris

Trina said...

This card is adorable!! I love all the cute images!!

Kelly Schelske said...

These guys are adorable, so cute Nikki!! Perfect for an Easter card:-)

Hugs, Kelly

Anonymous said...

I absolutely adore this card. I didn't even realize that the bunny was repeated since you gave each one a unique personality with your fantastic coloring.

The Country Rose said...

Cute, cute, cute Easter card!!!

Barb

Christine said...

Those stamps are so cute. I love your design of the card too. All that distressing and scalloped edging is precious. What a wonderful, fun Easter card!

Anonymous said...

Hi Nikki,your easter card is really pretty!!!
Those stamps are so cute!!!!
Hugs
Stéphanie

thread-bare said...

Love the images you have stamped on this card xx Its adorable xx Clare x

flatis stempelwelt said...

Beautiful Nikki!
I love the easter stamps and your stunning colouring.

Hugs, Sonja xx

6 wacky women said...

Awesome card, Nikki.
Your coloring is just amazing and I love the wonderful papers.

Karen x

Crissy Armstrong said...

Nikki! I hadn't seen this creation before! I have been too busy to visit blogland so I'm trying to catch up to everybody. This is tremendous! I tried to mentally follow your instructions about the nesties and I'm a bit instruction-challenged and don't get it. I think I could try to do it though if I mess around with it.
Your card is just amazing and I love it!

Anonymous said...

This card turned out so cute.. Great job on the design.. I have to check out those stamps!.. Thank you for sharing.

Anonymous said...

Oh wow, just gorgeous Nikki...such a beautiful card...perfect!
Hugs
Carole x

Helen said...

Fab card! How cute is that stamp?!
Helen x

Tasha said...

Super cute love the papers and the images are lovely - fantastic colouring
love tasha xx