Monday, March 3, 2025

Easter in Blue

      Hey, guess what?  There's a new challenge starting today at Inspiration Station where we offer a different picture each month for inspiration.  Our challenges begin on the first Monday of each month and  ends on the Saturday before the next challenge begins.

     Here's our inspiration picture this month:


     Of course, it made me think of Easter and Easter bunnies so when I found the delightful image of Mrs. Bunny sporting her Easter bonnet, I had to use it (see card below.)  

     The image was originally a grayscale line drawing but I used blue colored pencil to go over each line and added white gel pen to each of the flowers for a highlighting effect. My favorite technique these days is to color grayscale images!  

     I added the sentiment to a scrap of white CS and mounted the colored image onto it.   Both of those were cut with QuicKutz dies.  That went onto a layer of gray, cross hatch dp.  I doodled around two edges of the dp and added everything to the card front.

     

     Challenges:

     That's all I have for today but I hope to see you playing along in our challenge.  Let us know what in the photo inspired you.  Was it the bunnies, or maybe the sense of spring?  the colors?  maybe the sweet little bunny kiss?  Make something and enter it into the challenge before Saturday, April 5.  Because of the way the dates fall, you get almost a week of extra time before the March challenge closes.

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

9 comments:

Donna Walls said...

Wow, such a gorgeous image, I can picture this pattern on china! Great card Nana, Thanks for another fab team project for The Inspiration Station Challenge!
Donna xx

Arlene said...

Lots of work going over each line in pencil, but well worth it. Beautifully done. So glad you joined us at Die Cut Divas for our March challenge.

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

A beautiful old looking image, so very lovely in blue Connie. x

Roni JJ said...

What a beautiful technique to spice up grey-scale images. Turned out great (Blue is my fav. color!!). Thank you for sharing your project with us at the Crafts Galore Encore “Anything Goes” Challenge. Good luck and we hope to see you again soon!

Nicolette said...

Nice card.
Thanks for sharing at 2Sistersontheblog.
Nicolette DT

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

I'm back with my DT hat on Connie, I love this bunny in blue. Thank you so much for joining us in our challenge at Critter Crazy Challenge this week. Good Luck. I hope to see you again in our next challenge.
Faith A DT

Caroline said...

Nice card
Thanks for joining our challenge
Caroline DT 2Sistersontheblog

anne said...

A lovely Easter card in such a beautiful shade of blue. Thank you for sharing it with us at Do-All Kreatives
Anne DAK-DT

Linda W. (ScrappinBari) said...

Sweet inspiration bunnies and I love yours in blue too! So glad you shared at Die Cut Divas!!