Oh, Alice! Chapter 5 – WHOOOO RRRRRRR YOUUU?

Oh, Alice!

It’s Saturday and that means it Oh, Alice! time! Chapter 5 this week is WHOOOOO RRRRRRR YOUUUUUU?

“Who are YOU?” said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I–I hardly know, sir, just at present– at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”

This week we are celebrating SPRING here in Wonderland! And guess what! I’m sponsoring the challenge and I’m sooooo excited!! This week we are using the Wild Flower KidsAll a Flutter” digi set which are available at the the Wild Flower Patch Store.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to create a card using a CATERPILLAR or BUTTERFLY on your projects this week!   You have until Friday, March 26th to submit your entries by 8pm CST to the Oh, Alice blog.  The Winner will be announced on Saturday 3/26 during our next challenge and the WINNER will receive the “All a Flutter” digital images from ME! This week’s keyword is OAC5.

Now onto my creation this week. I used Crisanta from the All a Flutter set and colored her with Copics and then went a little nuts with the Stickles and Spica pen on her wings and clothes.

Crisanta Jen

I used this weeks MTSC65 for my layout and my Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety paper for the rest. I lightly sponged the edges of everything with Antique Line TH Distress Ink and I used Memento Lady Bug red to sponge the inside of the Nesties circle cut out.
For the little butterfly garden at the bottom of the card I used a whole slew of Martha Stewart punches… ya’ll know I love her punches. So here they are… the green plaid CC paper is punched with the MS grass punch, the flowers are a 3 in 1 MS hydrangea punch and the butterflies are from a 3 in 1 MS basic butterfly punch. I attached two of the larger flowers together with brads  and added some Spica glitter to the plain red flowers. Crisanta floats above it all on her pop dots. :D
I have to say this is one of those cards that took on a life of it’s own. I had the basics of it done on the first night but I was not feeling so hot and set it aside of finish and the next day when I started playing with the flowers I went a little nuts and the inside matches with a whole little garden there too.

inside

And here’s a little close up of Crisanta:

close up

That’s about it!  If you participate just upload your card and link to Mr. Linky at the Oh, Alice! blog, and we’ll stop by to see your amazing creations!   HAPPY SPRING, everyone!

Please check out the other design team members creations and our guest designers for the week!

Jessica Diedrich, Miss Mad Hatter
Jen Shults (Me)
And we have a super fabulous guest with us this month! Erin Leveille!! She blew our socks off with her card for the first challenge and we are so happy to have her guesting with us!

Thanks for stopping by!!! Have a fantastic Saturday!! :D

Wild Flower Wednesday #5 – Red, Black and White

Yay!! It’s Wild Flower Wednesday again! This week Donna selected our challenge and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! This week we have a color challenge and it’s Red, White and Black. I have to tell you the design team ROCKED this challenge and every single sample is AMAZING. So here is mine:

Jen

For today’s challenge I used this weeks Mercy Tuesday Sketch Challenge (MTSC64) because well… Mercy’s sketches are always so perfect for focal images.

MTSC64

Today I used Willow Butterfly Fairy and colored her with Prismacolors and OMS.  This fantastic paper is Kaiser Craft but didn’t have a theme name on it… I wish I could find more of it, these were the last two sheets at the local scrapbook store. :(

Here are a detail photo:

detail1

I added a light bit of sparkle to the white area of her wing, to her necklace and to her eye lids.

If you’d like to participate with us you can get the full details at The Wild Flower Patch blog! Each week a random winner is selected to win 3 Wild Flower Patch digis!!

Be sure to check out the rest of the design team… they have just made some amazing creations this week!

Donna * Jacquie * Jenn K * Jennifer O * Jen S (Me) * Lori * Piali * Yvette

Also entered in:
Flutterby Wednesday (Open)
Stamp Something (Feminine)
Crafty Cardmakers (Feminine)