Well this is my last Create with Connie & Mary challenge card.  It has been a fun time each week with the sketch and colors challenges.  I’ll be doing something different for the month of April and then with a busy few months through the summer I don’t plan to be on any challenge teams for a while.  Connie & Mary will have some new designers on the challenge team and they have a new Card class going on to so be sure to check out what they are doing.

This week at Create with Connie & Mary we were issued a sketch challenge!

I created an Easter card actually a few weeks ago and now I can’t remember if I made it based on this sketch or if it just conveniently worked out that way 🙂 – I think I’m getting old because I really can’t remember.  So here it is –

It’s a perfect match to that sketch don’t you think?  But it is a twist since it is an Oval shaped card – I love it!  I made use of the Oval Framelits for all the layers on the card.

Here are the are some details –

• Cut a piece of Lucky Limeade card stock – 4-1/4 x 11 and score at 5-1/2″ – fold it in half and position it on the Big Shot with the large scallop oval framelit – you want the folded edge to be below the top of the oval so that it doesn’t get cut – this creates the folded base of the card.
• Cut a Chocolate Chip Oval with the next size oval and then cut a piece of the Tea for Two Designer Series Paper with the next size smaller.  Layer these two together.
• Cut a strip of Chocolate Chip card stock and glue it across the layered ovals  – then trim the ends along the oval shape.
• Tie a piece of Linen Thread around the strip – I used some snail on the back side to help hold it in place so it didn’t slip.  I tied the bow to the left side where I added a Designer Builder Brad.  The brad has a punch out from the designer paper in the center – covered by the clear bubble.  Punch a hole through the layered oval and add the brad.
• Attach the layered oval to the front of the oval card base.   I used Stampin’ Dimensionals.
• Stamp Happy Easter (from Teeny Tiny Wishes) and cut with the Itty Bitty Banner Framelit – then attach to the front of the card.
• A beautiful egg shaped Easter card!

I’m spending the rest of the week getting ready for Easter – I will have 30 people here for lunch – mostly extended family and a few friends.  I’m not sure we will have an egg hunt though – all the kids have grown up most are in college now – we have a few high schoolers but no little kids here this year.  I may need to come up with some games to play instead.

Visit the Create with Connie & Mary site to see the creations from the rest of the design team and to submit your own creation for this new challenge.  I hope you will play along.  Every week the top 3 are announced from each challenge – maybe this week it will be you!

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

• Stamps:  Teen Tiny Wishes
  

• Ink: Chocolate Chip
  

• Card Stock: Lucky Limeade, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla
  

• Accessories: Big Shot Die Cut machine, Itty Bitty Banner Framelits, Oval Framelits, Linen Thread, Designer Builder Brads, Tea for Two Designer paper, Itty Bitty Punch Shapes, Stampin’ Dimensionals, mini glue dots
  

Thank you again for letting me be part of the weekly challenge team.  Continue to enjoy the challenges!