Easter Treats and a Birthday Cake

Hi,

No card to post just yet, i've been  really busy  with my grandaughter's birthday cake and finishing the Easter boxes for her to give to the children at the mums and tots group. She was leaving this week to start nursery after Easter. Thought you might like to have a look.
This is Timmy from one of her favourite programs. "He's a little lamb with a lot to learn" so his song goes.
He starts nursery and has lots of new experiences to deal with, just as Grace will. Don't you just wish you could be a fly on the wall!!!

My sister Jac and I made them really simple because they were for tots 25 in total!!
Just a basic milk carton, you can get a template Here
The bunnies are made from circles and ovals cut with nestabilities.
We did the faux stitching with a fine liner pen and coloured the faces with a copic marker.
I printed the greeting on the computer and punched it with the oval punch from Stamping Up.
The ribbon is from Whichcraftuk.

I didn't get to take her today as I spent a fabulous day with Jac's craft club. We went to Craftzone in Pontefract and met the lovely Wendy Stenton. There we made a gorgeous card and bought a lot of goodies.
Their shop is an Aladins cave of wonder I can highly recommend it.
Then on to the Bassetts sweet factory shop more goodies!!! finally ending up at the Junction 32 outlet.
A fabulous day, a big thank you to Jean mwah! for organising it.
Thanks for stopping by,
Love Cherie   //*.*\\

My first creation for Teddy Stampers Challenge # Easter

Good Morning  hope you're all tickety boo!!

I'll find it  really easy to remember my first DT creation, as it's our grandaughters 3rd birthday today.

Here is my DT  Easter Basket for the Teddy Stampers Challenge Blog.

This basket is so adorable and so easy to make, there is a tutorial to follow here.

Our team members hope to be doing some tutorials for you soon and finding others that you can link to.

The gorgeous star of today is Coco a digi ted from Digi Stamp Boutique if you hurry you might just catch the offer of the month. He also comes with some cute friends as you can see in the first photo.

I coloured my images with copics and promarkers.

Really must try to write down which colours I used,

 (note to myself for next time)

There's a brilliant tutorial for colouring bears over at the Lily of the Valley challenge blog here

My double sided designer paper is by Making Memories. I bought it from Whichcraftuk, they have one very similar but not the one I used.

Nestability ovals and a punch for the little butterflies. The doylie punch by Martha Stewart, don't ya just love her punches, the hardest job with them is choosing one!!

Come along and join in the fun and show us your Easter creation with your favourite teddy on.

ALL BEARS WELCOME

Just a reminder your creation must include at least one  Stamped or digi teddy bear image.

 I'm so looking forward to visiting your lovely blogs.

Check out the creations from  my lovely team members!!

Enjoy your day thanks for stopping by,

Love Cherie   //*.*\\

Special Monthly Challenge Just Magnolia

Good morning friends,

The special monthly challenge at Just Magnolia is a tent card.There's a fabulous tutorial to follow to make this gorgeous card, hop over and have a look.
I am also entering the following challenges.
 Magnolia Down Under which is a recipe of 3 papers 3 flowers 2 buttons and 1 bow.
Cupcake Craft who's theme is flower power
Roses on paper to make something for Easter.

 I really enjoyed making this card although it wasn't without a problem. I stuck the front paper on, cut the apperture then realised I could see the folded piece in the window. No problem i'll draw the shape and trim it sorted. Then I stuck the back paper before the folded piece so had a pink strip on my cream dotty paper!!!something else showing in the window.
 One thing we crafters are good at is covering up mistakes, another paper that matched the colours cut with my Martha Stewart doylie punch, and as if by magic pink was replaced with a row of Easter eggs.
  I got there in the end love it so much  i'm going to make another one for a  challenge tomorrow.

The double sided flower paper is by Making Memories, garden party.
 My cover up my mistake paper with the eggs on is by Papermania spring time.
I coloured the Tilda with rabbit stamp by Magnolia with Copics and Promarkers
Flowers are from  Wild Orchid Crafts my prize from the just magnolia win they are soooo fabulous, I am so lucky.

The only problem with posting in the early hours is being tied and pressing the wrong key  it posted before
I wanted it to. I was getting it ready for the morning when I could take my photo. Aw well!!!

Love to you all
Cherie   //*.*\\

Just Magnolia Challenge Sketch by Jay Jay

Good morning thanks for calling in.

I hope you are all having a brilliant weekend. We woke up to snow again, but it is a brighter morning.

I was SO THRILLED to win the Just Magnolia challenge last week, there will be lots of flowers on my cards now!!!!
Thank you to Wild Orchid Crafts for your lovely prize

 This weeks entry at  Just Magnolia Challenge  is to follow the sketch and Roses on Paper/Belles n Whistles Challenge is a colour combo of pink, brown and cream.

I really love making easel cards, what a brilliant sketch and colours to work with.
Card Ingredients
Brown base card from  : Paper Mill
Magnolia image Tilda with Easter egg
Copic markers
Paper:   pink Basic Gray,   cream with flowers Papermania ( I coloured some of the white flowers pink with a copic marker)
Border strips cut on my Rotatrim
Nestabilities : square.  greeting tag : hand punch
Eggs  :   from Cute Companians romance stamp set
"With Love"  Cuttlebug border embossing folder
Flower : Papermania
White gel pen for doodle dots.

Thank you for looking and for your lovely comments.
Love Cherie

Just Magnolia Special Monthly Challenge Easter Basket

Hi, Welcome, happy Wednesday,

The Just Magnolia Monthly Challenge is to make an Easter basket, bag or box to hold  yummy goodies.
I've decorated a bag  from a die cut which can be obtained from Which Craft. As I want to do another challenge with the bag I used it as a template and cut one out.  I printed the inside of the card first using the fabulous cd Spring from Wild Rose Studio. This cd has  fabulous backing papers in amazing design and colours that print sooooo lovely.

Items used:

• Die cut bag
• Magnolia stamps: Tilda with rabbit, Edwin with chicken, waggon, bench, tulips.
• Ink, Momento tuxedo black
• Copic pens
• Background: chalk
• CD
• Ribbon from Which Craft

Enjoy your day, thank you so much for looking.
Love Cherie  //*.*\\