It's Perfectly NATURAL !!

Goodness, I can't believe its been 2 weeks since my last blogpost, that NEVER happens...did you miss me?! Life has been VERY hectic these last couple of weeks,a nd still a couple more to go before our littlies break for the summer hols, so apologies in advance if I'm not around much for these next couple of weeks too.

Anyway, onto the REAL reason I'm here, and that's to let you all know about the latest challenge #177 at THE CRAFTY PAD. This week, the thesme has been chosen by our very lovely and talented Estelle, and that theme is.........

IT'S NATURAL

We want to see you use something NATURAL on your creations, be it dried flowers, sand, shells, feathers, twigs, dried leaves etc. And this week we are lucky to have TWO sponsors....

DIGITAL DOWNLOADS by L.R. Designs with £10.00 to spend in their online store

And Crafty Individuals with the following prize:

Prize consists of:

2 red rubber Postcard Stamps
1 pack 6x6 ' Travel in Italy' themed Backing Papers
1 sheet of A4 Glossy 'Tags' Toppers

And so, onto my card:

I have made an A5 card using one of THE CRAFTY PAD DESIGNS fab freebies available from the challenge blog.

My DPs are available from TCP shop, and are just one of several digital paper sets available: these are called Mint & Cream Delight. I used Kraft card for matting and kept the design simple.

As you can see, I created a frame for the image using SUNFLOWER SEEDS, which are my 'natural' element, and they are stuck with Pinflair. I coloured my image with Promarkers, cut it out and raised it with foam pads .

The sentiment I have used is from one of the sets at The Crafty Pad Designs Shop; click HERE to see all available sentiments.

I decorated the inside to match. On the main cardfront, I also added 2 punched MS borders and some natural jute twine, which I knotted at each end and stitched onto the card.

I do hope you will join us this week for our challenge, please take a moment to check out the DT inspiration on the challenge blog...It's Team B this week with some seriously top notch samples.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

• Whimsy Stamps Inspiration #45  - Anything BUT Square.
• Bearly Mine #41 - Anything Goes.
• LEJ Designs #9 - Summer's Here.
• Party Time Tuesdays PTT#74 - Anything Goes.
• Sassy Cheryls #121 - Summer.
• Sweet Stamps #71 - Patriotic OR Summer (I chose Summer.)
• Love to Create #21 - Anything Goes.
• Allsorts #161 - In Bloom.
• Catch the Bug - Summer.
• Di's Digi Designs - Summertime.
• Fat Pages & Cards With Attitude - Anything Goes.