I Love Purple Peeps? Do you?

    Today is another pretty good day, not that we are having great weather, but I was able to sleep in and woke up feeling pretty good.   Hubby is home today and doing some work on my car to get it ready for the annual State Inspection Sticker, which is one task I love handing over to him.

    And me?   I'm working on some cards and basically relaxing and spending a peaceful day in my craftroom.  Tomorrow, I will venture out to pick up a few little goodies to finish up the treat bags I am making up for my guys as a little Easter gift.  Now that my boys are grown the Easter Bunny not longer makes a stop here, but I still like them each to have a little treat, so I make up my own little goodies bags.  I already bought some yummy treats and will pick up a few more while I'm out tomorrow.   We all tend to like different types of candy, so I make them all a bit different.   In our family, I am the only one who LOVE Peeps, so hubby or one of the boys will generally buy me a package.  Not that I need a whole package, but I do love them and this is the only time of year you can find my favorites, which are the Purple Bunnies!!!  Yummy!

    How about you?  Do you have a favorite Easter Treat?   Growing up I always was very excited to find Peeps in my Easter Basket, but I do remember they were only in yellow back then.   How about you, do you like Peeps?   If so, what color or style do you like?  Post a comment and tell me!

    Okay....moving one, before I really start craving Peep, I have three new cards to share today.   The first card was created for some new challenges and is fun little card that reminds me of Spring and Summer.  It features one of my favorite Bears (Lenny) from StampFairy and in this card, he's all decked out as an adorable Lady Bug.  

    My Lenny Lady Bug card was created and inspired to these challenges!   I hope you all join in and play along:

• The Outlawz Group - Copic/Promarker Challenge - Anything Goes
• Craft Us Crazy - Challenge # 6 - Animals or Thinking of You
• Cute Card Thursday - Challenge # 161 - No Text
• Ladybug Crafts - Challenge # 24 - Anything Goes

   My second card today features another wonderful digi image and this one is from 'Wax Fruit Company' and features a gorgeous Cherry Blossom.  I have created other cards with this and used the same again today, only this time, I paper-pieced the flowers for this week's CAS Challenge over at SSC.

     Paper-piecing is fast becoming one of my favorite techniques.  I especially love to use it for outfits on character images and backgrounds for other projects.   For this image is the flowers and stems have been paper-pieced and the rest of the image was colored with Copics.  I used a Stampin' Up top note die to create a background frame for my image and used my Grand Calibur to cute this shaped card.   This card is also being submitted to these new challenges:

• The Paper Shelter - Challenge # 10 - Inspired by Nature
• SSC - CAS Challenge - Paper-Piecing
• Claudia & Company - Challenge #80 - Clean and Simple
• Digi Design House - Challenge # 4 - Paper Piecing

     And next I have a new card to share that was created for more fun challenges and was inspired by this week's Challenge over at  By Lori Designs!    This is a copy of this week's color inspiration image and I thought it was very pretty and fit in very well with Spring and Easter.

Challenge #14

My Card

  I chose to use little 'Ella' for my card.  She is one of Lori's Lollipops and you can find her along with several other sweet friends HERE in Lori's store.  She is one of my original Lollipop images and one I really love to color.    My little Ella card is also being submitted to these challenges:

• By Lori Designs - Color Challenge - Inspiration Image
• Craft Your Passion - Challenge # 54- Use Dots
• The Crazy Challenge - Challenge # 63 - Friendship

   And now I am off to rest a bit and scope out some new challenges!  If you have any you would like to suggest, please leave me a comment and I'll be sure to check them out!   In the meantime, I also want to wish all those who celebrate a very nice Good Friday and a Wonderful Easter.