April Showers Bring May Flowers

Happy Friday & Welcome to the month of May!! 

It's me Shari Trumbull, hailing from North Idaho-United States, and I'm here with you as this month's Our Creative Corner challenge host! 

April Showers Bring May Flowers--

...Or so the proverb goes.  Spring comes late in my neck of the world-In the month of May (with Summer just weeks away), our Spring flowers are still, usually, under a thin blanket of snow until those Spring rains wash it all away.
 

This month, the challenge is to create something, a mixed-media project, a journal page, a scrapbook page, a card or tag...Anything, that reflects the Spring rains and/or Spring flowers in your part of the world.   



Now, I'm not going to nit-pic your choices of Spring flowers, as the growing season where I live is short and our Spring flowers don't last very long before the blooms of Summer start budding..... 

So, if you throw in flowers of Summer into your creation, that's OK, too.  


Our challenge sponsor this month is--

Ryn Tanaka, Owner/Designer of Designs by Ryn is generously donating a prize of her best selling water effects stamp and three stencils! 

That is a prize worth $50! for one of our randomly drawn participants! 


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Now lets see what my Our Creative Corner Design Teammates have made to inspire you this month!!

Shari

I used gentle colors with watercolor stamping techniques to create the happy little blooms that adorn this rain drenched manila tag.

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Jan

I used the challenge to make my first ever journal page! 

I played with paints, inks and stamps to create a collage.

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Kerstin

Fabulous theme, here it's also said - Alles neu macht der Mai -

therefore I had to try something new.

It's a puzzle from various spring flower stamps tulips, daffodil, cherry blossom... 

and cheerful bright colorful spray paints in Mixed media style.

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Ana

I made little magnets with flowers, which blooms in bright, spring colors…

there you can also see few drops of early morning rain.…

the colors of the flowers seem to come alive in every drop….

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Lys

Let's have a walk in the rain says the song I illustrated in my art journal.

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Laura

I adore buttercups and daisies and decided to make a tag with a favourite quote -
 complete with springtime raindrops!

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Trish

I have combined the theme a little, a large stamped flower standing proudly next to my lady sheltering from a shower!

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Julia

I have made a tag booklet (using the large size tag) with stitched pages inside and a huge flower to follow the fab theme. I chose to use some of the gorgeously bright shades that Spring flowers give us. There's also some hidden homage to the April showers too!

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Candice

The essence of what makes my world flowery is most certainly the "showers of blessing" that I receive daily and so I created this mixed-media "shower of blessing" canvas, featuring a self-portrait to remind myself to shower my loved ones with the same kind of blessings from me. I attempted to capture the showery rain effect in the background, and used a spring-flower colour palette.

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Laurie

For my project I thought of the Spring flowers and nesting birds in my garden and the sound of the rain drops on the leaves. 


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We'd love to see your creations of 'April Showers Bring May Flowers' in our challenge this month! 

The overall winner of the challenge will be awarded a future Top Talent Spotlight--Exciting!! 

Then we've got the Our Creative Corner Top 3 blog badge honors to award, plus a random participant will win the generous prize package donated by our sponsor this month-Designs by Ryn!! 

Hope to see you here!!

Our 'April Showers Bring May Flowers' challenge is open until May 28th, 11:55pm UK time.