I Spy With My Little Eye ........... Spring Flowers or Spring Showers (Challenges No. 35 and 36 Combined)

Hello everyone and welcome to a new I spy with my little eye challenge, taking place right here on my blog. Pauline and I are back with a new theme two new themes and we hope you will join us! As always, our top two from the last challenge are at the end of this post, both invited to join us in the next challenge.

As you may have noticed by reading the title of this post, we are combining the next two challenges as I won't have access to a computer right around the time when the next challenge would start. This will make things a lot easier and we are offering two challenge themes to choose from:

I spy with my little eye................

Spring Flowers (Pauline's Theme)

or 

Spring Showers (Ellie's Theme)

We thought these would be great themes for the next two months. This can be any flowers blooming in the spring, not just the early flowers. As for Spring Showers, this will of course cover rain showers but don't forget about baby showers and wedding showers if you have those events coming up this spring. As always, you may share any type of (paper) craft as long as it follows the theme(s). The linky tool is at the end of the post.

My Card (Ellie)

(following the Spring Showers theme - all details are below)

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I thought this cute little mouse with umbrella was a perfect choice for a "spring showers" card. I started out with a rectangle mask/stencil by My Favorite Things and Distress ink. After removing the mask, I stamped Lavinia's Shadowbloom and colored with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. Next I stamped the little mouse Thistlewisk, also by Lavinia. The inked background needed something else so I used Lavinia's Featherleaf stencil to add a design. The sentiment is from the Penny Black set Love Big. A few clear dew drops were added to the card to finish it off.

Sharing the above card with these challenges:

• Beautiful Blossoms - Blooms
• Crafty Calendar - Spring
• Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game! - Stencils
• Critter Crazy Challenges - Critters
• Daisy Chain Challenges - Flowers
• Double Trouble Challenge - 3 colors , 2 images, 1 sentiment plus twisted sister opt. of 4 paws
• Path of Positivity - 3 gems
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Beautiful blooms
• The Paper Funday Challenge - Fur or Feathers
• Try It On Tuesday - Feminine

Pauline's Card

(following the Spring Flowers theme)

Absolutely beautiful! Please visit Pauline's blog to find out how she made this card.

We're so excited to have a guest designer joining us this time and it is Jolanda from Jolanda's Inque Spot. Thanks so much for joining us, Jolanda!!

Jolanda's Card

(following the Spring Flowers theme)

Such a beautiful CAS design. Please visit Jolanda's blog to find out how she made this card.

Top Picks from Challenge No. 34

Thank you all so much for joining us in the last challenge. It was so great to read all about "Something you Love" which was our theme. As usual, selecting Top Picks is never easy but we finally managed and they are listed in the order of entry. 

No. 25 Gerrina (Pauline's Pick)

No. 39 Helen F. (Ellie's Pick)

Congratulations to both of you on your well deserved recognition! Your Top Pick logo is below.

Remember, you are both invited to join us as guest designers for challenge no. 37 starting May 20th. If you would like to be a guest designer please message me (Ellie) at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com so I can give you all the details. Of course, this is not a requirement but would love to have you joining us if you like to :)

To play along in the new challenge please use the linky tool below.

A few things to remember:

(Complete list of guidelines and copyright info can be found here.)

• You may share up to 5 10 different projects (during the 2-months challenge)
• You may combine with as many other challenges as you like to.
• A short mention of products used whenever possible is expected, especially the focal point.
• New: While you are free to link up your creations using pre-colored digital art (AI generated, digital pre-colored toppers/images, digital papers etc.), they will be excluded from top picks. 
• Please include a link back to this blog.
• Back-linking to a recent project is allowed.
• Linkup closes on Sunday, May 17th at 11:59pm CST
• Remember: This linky tool is open for two months - will close May 17th!!