April Showers.

Hello, everyone! I'm playing along with Some Odd Girl's April Showers Challenge on their Facebook group. The challenge is all about rain showers, umbrellas, and Spring flowers.

I've colored up the lovely Rainbow Fairy a while back, and thought she'd be perfect for this challenge. We've been having lots of showers here on our neck of the woods, and I've also been seeing a rainbow here and there. The kiddies get giddy when they spot them too, and I've got to admit, they are so beautiful to look at. I always try to take a picture but photographs don't do them justice.



Anyway, back to the challenge... I am a big fan of "mixing things up." I picked some cloud overlays from Hambly (again) as they are my current cloud patterned paper (and believe me, I've got tons of those). And thought these 3-D flowers from Sassafras were the perfect colors and embellishments for the Spring theme. They are a bit more shabby chic while Hambly is all about graphic lines. Am loving how they came together though to bring this pretty unique-looking card. Quite right for a Some Odd Girl challenge, am I right?? :)

Hope you all have an awesome day and I'll see you next week!

It's Magic!

Good Tuesday morning, peeps!!

Today, I've got a card for you for two challenges. First, there's a paper piercing challenge over at Milk Coffee Challenge and a DT call too. I haven't paper-pierced in so long! They've got some really cute digi stamps. Unfortunately, I ran out of ink so I couldn't print up any of their freebies going on right now. Make sure you get yours here! Otherwise, I've got a couple of Milk Coffee cards here and here.

I've forgotten the beauty you get from a paper-pierced image. I always thought you lose dimension, but now you can add that with similar-toned copics/ ink. Here, I combined this challenge with the Ombre challenge going on at Some Odd Girl.



I really love this Wild and Free line from Glitz Design. There are a lot of ombre elements here -- that feather PL card is captivating, and her wings, dress, flowers, and shoes are from the same line. I made sure to paper pierce exactly where the ombre part would show on her wings and dress. The mint background paper is from Dear Lizzy. I added some lace and washi and pearls for a feminine feel. I've also created some ombre waves in her hair. The image and sentiment are from SOG's Fairy Magic, and it's my first time using her.

The card and image are pretty meaningful as I had just come back from the land of Magic -- Orlando and its Walt Disney World and Universal's Harry Potter Land. I also attended the Magnet Conference for nurses and its theme was the "Magic of Magnet." :)

Hope you have a truly magical day!