Challenge #4 at THE EAST WIND!

Here's my card using the cute FREEBIE offered to you all this month at The East Wind! Just sign up for the newsletter and you'll receive it!

I LOVE pink so I decided that this card would be ALL pink!!!

I colored the image using Copics and added touches of Stickles glitter on her hair bows and the heart on her bunny suit.

I used Echo Park Paper Co. papers called Pretty in Pink. The sentiment is also done using stickers.

I added staples as well.They are pink, but you can't see that very well.

Hope you like it!

Have a Happy Sunday and happy crafting this week!!!

TEW Challenge #4 with Donna Mundinger

It's Donna posting here today with details of my card for the current Use a Sentiment Challenge.  The DT has used the adorable Aurora Easter Egg Hunt which is available FREE for signing up for the TEW newsletter.  Just look for the big  hot pink banner on the right side of the Challenge page, fill in your info and you will receive this adorable image for FREE.  And there's a new one for each month, Woohoo!

I've used my Cricut to make a "Panoramic Egg" card for this adorable image. It reminds me of the decorative hollowed out sugar eggs I had as a child with the fun scenes inside.

 

I printed her several times, colored her with Copics, flocked her jammies and bunny and layered her for dimension.  I've used MS punches for the grass and fence and a Cuttlebug die for the computer generated sentiment.

 

Stay tuned for our new Challenge on the 15th but remember, Aurora Easter Egg Hunt will be available  through April 30th.

Susan's Challenge #4 Closeup

Good morning everyone!!! Our theme is to Use A Sentiment.  Here is what I came up with using the new East Wind freebie.. isn't she gorgeous!!!  Kyra is so generous!!!








I am always so disappointed when I try to go more simple LOL  I just don't think I pull that off. But I gave it a shot. And I hate this card LOL!! I used several different ribbons, netting that you use to make a tutu that I got from the fabric store.. this one is pink. I have a lot of colors.. and how fun is that!  I added the layered flower with the pearl in the middle.. a little netting in the middle of layered flower as well. I colored the awesome image with Copic and layered just a bit of it. I layered the bunny, the basket and the ribbon around her head. The last thing was the stamped sentiment.

Copic:

• Pink Ribbon and Pajamas:  RV11, RV32, RV34
• Blue on Pajamas and Socks: B0000, B00, B01
• Skin: E000, E00, E01, E11, E13
• Basket and Hair: E31, E34, E35, E37, E39
• Eyes: YG01, YG05, YG09
• Eggs: B34, B37, B39, Y11, Y15, Y18; YR02, YR04, YR09, YG09, YG01; R22, R32, R43, BG02, BG07; V12, V15, V17; R22, R24, R29, B24, B26
• Bunny: R20, R21, R22, C00, C3

I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your week!!!  See you again soon!! Keep posting those awesome cards!!  We love seeing them!! And hopefully my next card will be a bit better!!!

TEW Challenge #4 April Freebie with Maureen

Hi folks!! I'm a wee bit late with this but here nonetheless! It's my first time posting in the Showroom and I have a card to share for the current Challenge #4 Use a Sentiment.

I have used a 6x6 scalloped edged card and 'Flying High' papers from Craftwork Cards, with matching deep pink card from my stash. I've added Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers Distress Inks to the edges. My sentiment comes from a sheet of 'Easter' themed rub-ons and I thought it was perfect with this image!

I've coloured the image using Promarkers and fussy cut her, popped her on some 3D foam for dimension. The card is finished with some Die-namics swirls with platinum Liquid Pearls.

I hope you'll join our challenge!
Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Bettina's april freebie post

Hello everyone! It's Bettina here today to share a little more details about my card for the latest East Wind Challenge using Aurora Easter Egg Hunt! Remember you can subscribe to our newsletter to get the freebie of the month to work with! You can subscribe by clicking the little button on the right hand sidebar of the challenge blog if you don't get the newsletter already!!

I absolutely loved working with her and she inspired me to make a circle side step card. You can find a tutorial for that over here. I used a grand nestabilities die to make the shape for this card and picked up some leftover DP's from stash to work with. My flowers are from WOC and North Star Stamps. My lace is also from WOC and I used a Cheery lynn dies to make the background doily in purple. 

Aurora Easter Egg Hunt is coloured with both promarkers and graph it markers (the greens) and my sentiment is a freebie that I have found on my friend Annette's blog over here.

And a little closeup

Remember there is still time to join in on the challenge over here!!

Challenge # 4 - Use a sentiment with Crafting Vicky

Hello everyone!  I'm here today to share with you the little card that I made for the fabulous East wind challenge.  This time the challenge is again super easy!!!  It's to use a sentiment.  And if you use one of the great digis from TEW you can enter twice.  Since there's a freebie offered it's a cutie why wouldn't you use one?!?

So here's my little bright Easter card made with the great digi that's given out this month.

The paper for this is from Doodlebug design Inc. - Hello Spring.  I used a bright ribbon, some foam eggs from my stash.  I used my grand scallop square and my grand square from Spellbinder.

Here's a closer look at the great digi colored with my copics.  The awesome sentiment is from Create with TLC.

Hope you have liked this little card and you will be inspired to play with us!!!!!

Have a great crafting day!!!

Hugs

Crafting Vicky

Aurora Easter Egg Hunt Goes Mixed Media!

Hi everyone! It's my chance to share my DT project created for the TEW April 1 Challenge with this month's fabulous freebie, Aurora Easter Egg Hunt. if you subscribe to the newsletter, you have already received her with the April 1 edition. If not, you can subscribe by clicking the little button on the right hand sidebar of the challenge blog. I love this adorable image and she became the inspiration for my "E is for Eggs" Altered Dictionary page. Aurora was coloured with Prismacolor pencils, fussy cut with a narrow white border, and then matted with a narrow black one. I often do this when my background is busy in order to give the image more weight and allow it to contrast with the background. Aurora was popped up on foam tape to give her added dimension and let the viewer know that she is the star of the spread.

The dictionary, a thrift store find, has a two page spread for each letter (almost)...not quite finished yet. The pages are glued to the ones next to them and covered with gesso to tone down the text, give strength to the pages, and make them stand up to the many different media I throw on them. On this spread, I used watercolour crayons, gelatos, big brush pens, stencilling, and stamping. I also fussy cut some wonderful egg images from Tumble Fish Studios so that Aurora would have lovely companions. No wonder she is "eggcited"" !

The two sentiments come from Create With TLC and seem to suit the pages perfectly. A little washi tape, some doodling, and rub ons, and Aurora and I declared the pages finished :) Look at how happy she looks in her new setting.

I hope you will join in the current challenge, Use a Sentiment, on TheEastWind blog. The theme is Use a Sentiment and there are already some fabulous entries. If you stay tuned to this blog, you will see each of the DT projects... inspiration galore.You are welcome to use any image but if you use one of Unky's fabulous images from her Etsy store,you get a second chance to win because you can link once to your post and a second time to your blog.

Thanks for visiting. I hope we see you in the thumbnails!

Bonnie Irvine

Wiola's April freebie post

Hallo! Hoppy Easter!

Here's my card for the Easter challenge. 

In this card you can see what I have created with the monthly freebie. If you sign up for the newsletter at the East Wind Blog, you will receive this image for free.

I have used lots of Stickles (Yellow, Thistle and Starry Night) plus Glitter Glaze from Panduro for the primary background.  For the secondary background, I have made some brush strokes with acrylic paint.

For the bunny suit, I have used Mercury Grey from the Traditional Craft Paint range. For the other details I have used some ProMarkers and pencils.