It's Freebie Friday .....!!

...Today is a fun day for me!  It's 'Freebie Friday' over at Baby Bud Designs and on top of that we also have a brand new and very FUN challenge.    I invite everyone to hop on over now, so that you'll have a chance to grab a cute little Freebie and also take part in our new challenge.

   We all have SPRING on our minds and I know that for those of us who had a snowy cold winter, we are thrilled with each day it that the sun shines brightly and warms up our temps.  Here in Massachusetts, Spring has started slowly and we even had some 'snow' on Monday and then even MORE on Thursday....Grrrr!  I am soooo sick of winter, cold and snow and HOPE very much that was the END!!   It's time for SPRING and I am dreaming of sunshine, warmer days and flowers starting to bloom in my garden.   And with flowers in mind,  that is the theme we chose for our challenge this month.   We want to see all kinds of wonderful Baby Bud images and lots of Flowers.  You can add flowers to your project, use papers with flowers in the background or even create a project with one of our sweet little Flower themed Baby Buds.   It's all up to you, just be sure to include  Baby Bud Image and Flowers !

  This is the card that I created and I chose to use Baby Bud Chloe, as she is one of my favorites.  I picked out some really cute digital papers with a flower theme, which I used for part of my background and I also used some of the same paper to paper-piece her sweet little outfit.   I have fallen in love with Paper Piecing and bought this cute set from Shery K Designs.

   I also used my new Grand Calibur along with a set of Grand Ovals, to cute my own large oval shaped cards.  I then used a matching sets of Scallops Ovals to create various layers for my image and added a selection of purple, white and lavender flowers to match.  I was very happy with this card and these are my most favorite shades of purple!!

   This is a slightly different view, which shows more of my wonderful digi papers.

   My sweet little card is also being submitted to these new challenges!  All of these challenges are open to all and I found them all over at Feline Playful --

• Crafts & Me - Challenge # 27 - Anything Goes
• Scrapbook Sisters - Challenge # 28 - Anything Goes
• Papertake Weekly - Its' A Mom Thing / Just Be Girlie
• The Crazy Challenge - # 59 - Shaped Cards/No Squares
• Simon Says Stamp - Mother's Day or Girlie Cards

    If you need some fabulous inspiration, please hop on over to the Baby Bud Blog and take a peek at the projects the Lady Buds have created!  I think you'll enjoy them and if you hurry, you'll also have a chance to grab our 'Friday Freebie' !  But, don't wait long - Our Freebie is for One Day ONLY!!

 ***********

    I also wanted wanted to share a brand new release today from 'StampFairy', which is can be found in the store HERE!   This is a preview of the new collection, which is a cute little girl, named Lilly.

   The DT gals have also put together come really cute cards with little Lilly and you can find them over on at the StampFairy Blog.

  And lastly, you still have time to enter our current Sketch Challenge at StampFairy!   To see the sketch and find all the details, please hop on over to the blog  HERE!     I hope everyone has a wonderful day and a nice weekend!!  

Have fun and Happy Creating!!