It's A Creative World Blog Hop with freebies

March 31, 2012

It's A Creative World Blog Hop with freebies

So it is finally here - THE event of the Spring season. A very special It's A Creative World Blog Hop

You should have arrived from the amazing Sutty's blog (her work is awesome ... simply awesome)

In case you get lost, the full list of links is at the end of this post.

I am so proud to be a part of It's A Creative World. There are so many talented ladies who scrap, craft, sew, bake, crochet, ink, stamp, garden and just plain rock out crafts. And to celebrate Spring we have got together to do a very special blog hop where you can see so many different ideas that we hope will inspire you to be creative yourself.

And there are even some freebies along the way.

My little freebie is a $5 voucher for Pickleberrypop so you can snaffle up something for yourself to help you get creative for Spring. There are so many great Spring kits available and whether you are a digital scrapper or a paper scrapper you will see things you love. If you are a paper scrapper you could spend the voucher on things to print to add to your pages such as cool journalling blocks and word art or images to make cards.

So IT'S FREE and it is money to SPEND. What have you got to loose? Just pop a comment in the box at the end of the post and a free $5 could be yours.

I will pick a winner by selecting a random comment on Monday morning. So ALL YOU HAVE TO DO is leave a comment below and you could have a little Spring bonus to spend.

So now on to my offerings for the blog hop - a couple of spring pages and cards

Firstly, I fell in love with this range from Prima called The Sun Kissed Collection. I think it shouted SPRING! I was lucky to get to go to a local farm at lambing time and, whilst we didn't see any lambs born that night, we did see lots of cute little lambs just a couple of hours old and the love their gentle mothers showed was such an inspiration.

I used lots of small flowers, adding beaded centres and also a cute chipboard butterfly stamped with brilliance shimmer inks and text to coordinate with the page.

I don't know about you but no matter how many letters and alphas I have I never have the right colour to coordinate with my page. So for this page I inked some chipboard letters and then stamped them with text and then versamark ink before using clear embossing powder - several coats - so that they look like enamel.

and I also used some cute new dies I bought from Memory Box - some lovely swirls and a cute little picket fence die.

Never one to miss the chance to use up scraps I made a card with some of the leftovers.

I used one of the Prima Notecards as the background and added flowers and butterflies from the Hero Arts/Sizzix Framelits set - which is a joy to use.

and for those of you who are digi scrappers - or those of you who fancy a bit of hybrid and want to use your $5 voucher, here are some digital and hybrid ideas.

This card uses

Day of Grace Full Kit by Trixie Scraps Designs available at Pickleberrypop

and this page uses the same kit

and the spring freshness in Dawn Inskip's Enchanted Garden collection from Scrapbookgraphics is great for your spring pages.

and this one using a lot of Dawn Inskip products from her on line store here

And finally this springlike page using a whole range of products from Pickleberrypop and was made using Fayettes template for this month's template challenge (You so have to check out their challenges -they rock!. Find them here )

So enjoy your Spring whatever you do and remember to comment below to have a chance at winning a $5 voucher to spend in the store.

From here you are hopping off to MANDY's Blog

I can guarentee you are going to love what she has in store for you!

Happy crafting and, if you get lost, here is the list of all of the blogs from the hop

3-Doda -

6-Erika-

Posted at 12:05 AM in Free classes and templates, cards, Design Teams, digital work/downloads, Freebies, hybrid scrapping | Permalink

Comments

Gosh! What incredible cards and LOs! Love all the details you use. Thank you for sharing x

Posted by: Gabrielle | March 31, 2012 at 06:09 AM

Your pages are so beautiful thank you for sharing them. x

Posted by: Sara | March 31, 2012 at 08:22 AM

Hi Dolly, my you have been busy. Love all your LO's especially the first one. Thanks for sharing, happy hopping!
Erika.

Posted by: Erika | March 31, 2012 at 08:51 AM

lovely fresh spring LO's karen, I particulalry like the little white fence on your lamb LO

Posted by: Claire Keelty | March 31, 2012 at 09:00 AM

What a massive post of goodies - I love those prima papers too and the lamb photos are gorgeous. I should have another go at digi as your pages are super, I love what you do with the elements - thank you for sharing it all :D

Posted by: Katherine | March 31, 2012 at 09:13 AM

Do love all your work. The lamb layout is just georgeous, love what you have done with the letters so will have to try that. I have a few memory box dies, but not the swirl - can feel another spending moment coming on x

Posted by: WendY | March 31, 2012 at 10:27 AM

Oh dear, that mummy sheep doesn't look impressed - but she should be to end up on a fab layout :)

Posted by: Helen | March 31, 2012 at 11:20 AM

$\val$

Hi Dolly, I'm in the middle of the blog-hop and really enjoying it - so many lovely ideas. I love all the Spring stuff, its such a lovely time of the year and so much to look forward to. I'm off hopping again, bye for now, Val x

Posted by: \val | March 31, 2012 at 03:34 PM

Loving those Prima papers. Lambs are so cute.

Posted by: Kerry | March 31, 2012 at 04:04 PM

Wow! What an amazing set of creations - Karen, you're too clever by half! Thanks for sharing your lovely work with us ...

Posted by: Gill | March 31, 2012 at 06:44 PM

Hi Karen - although I visit your blog everyday I have come here via the blog hop today and have to say have been amazed at all the talented ladies out there. Love your layouts and cards. Hope the tooth is feeling better today

Posted by: shellyj | March 31, 2012 at 06:59 PM