Sunday, April 1, 2012

Spring is in the Air and so are the Butterflies

Well Hello Everyone,

Lots a of news for you today over at Through the Craftroom Door.

As of today April 1st the magazine has a new owner. Many of you may already know this wonderful lady. Due to other ventures and commitments Suzanne and Marti decided that they would no longer be able to keep the magazine going as they have wished to when it began. However they still wanted to see their work that they had put into the magazine continue. So as of today the new owner of Through the Craftroom Door is none other than The Outlawz owner Colleen Holmes. I have the great privilege to not only be on this design team but as many of you may already know I am on The Outlawz design team as well. I have the pleasure of knowing and working with Colleen already. I can tell you that you are going to be in for a real treat in the coming months with this magazine. Please stay tuned at the magazine's blog as well and The Outlawz.

OK, let's go ahead and tell you about the challenge for the 1st day of April. Our challenge is sponsored by my friend and artist anaRy the artist behind Gilli Stamps. She will be giving a way a Gilli Goodie bag to the winner of this challenge.

So what is the challenge? The challenge is to create a spring project but it must include a butterfly. Not to hard. Does it have to be a card no. You can make a box, card, or wreath as long as it is spring and has a butterfly or two or three on it.


My card is a mini 3 x 3 card. I am using lil Gilli Classy. She has her new spring outfit on.

I have colored most of her with my Copics. I did paper piece her skirt and the collar of her jacket with like color.

The butterflies are punch from a Martha Stewart Punch.
Of course I couldn't help myself I had to add a little bakers twine.

I know my post was a bit long but I wanted to share the wonderful news about our new owner Colleen. I hope you will join us for our challenge and stop by and welcome Colleen as our new owner.

I am enter this into the following challenges:

Art Impressions Spring has sprung
Whimsical Designs Celebrate Spring

10 comments:

Dawn @ LilyPinkScraps said...

Fantastic bright and cheerful card Jo!! Love the added twine too :)

Linda Palmer said...

This is a beautiful Gilli. Love how you colored her and all the great embellishments.

Penny said...

Love the colors and patterns you chose for this Gilli image. She is tres chic!
And interesting news about the magazine.
Hugs,
Penny

Anne Fenton said...

Wow Jo great card..love your coloring and of course your butterflies...thanks for joining us this week at Art Impressions.

coops said...

gorgeous card jo.the image is so sweet and i love your colours :D

xx coops xx

Carla S. said...

This is so cute, Jo! Love the colors and layout! Great coloring of the cute image!

sue w. said...

Love the colours and sweet image and the layout is fab. Thanks for joining us at Whimsical Wednesday.
Hugs Sue W.

Heather D. ~ Fresh Brewed Designs said...

oh look how sweet!!! I love the image and the twine!

Thank you for playing along with us at Freshly Brewed Challenges!
I hope you will stop in tomorrow to check out our NEW Month long prize challenge as well as stop in to check out our BIRTHDAY BLOG CANDY

Hugs
Heather

Payne Holler Cards said...

What a cutie! Love the reds (-:

Unknown said...

Fabulous card Jo I love this Hugs Elaine