Friday, May 1, 2015

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!!



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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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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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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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. 


26 comments:

  1. Fantastic creations from the all amazingly talented DT members! Thank you so much for the inspiration!
    Branka xxx

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    1. Hope to see you here for the challenge, Branka! :) XOXO-Shari

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  2. WOWIE, Ladies! I'm in awe of all of the wonderful projects you've created in support of my first-time challenge hosting!! I love everyone's interpretations of the theme and you all have successfully knocked my socks off!! Just Superb, One and All!! Thank You soooo much!! XOXO-Shari

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    1. Thank you very much Shari, I'm always happy to work with you in our team :-) unfortunatly I can't leave a comment on your blog, therefore here: great tag with cheerful spring colours and flowers, love it!! Have a nice first May and good luck for your first CH!

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    2. Thank You, Kerstin! Your support means soooo much! :) Oh Booo...I don't know what's going on with my blog at Wordpress :( This isn't the first time I've heard that people can't leave comments for some reason :(
      Happy May to you!! Happy Friday!! XOXO-Shari

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  3. Thank to you, Shari, allowing us to play with a such inspiring theme! Have an exciting month challenge hosting!

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    1. Thank You, Lys!! It's all of your wonderful creations that inspire here at Our Creative Corner!! I'm lucky to have such talented women in my creative life who inspire me more than anyone can possibly imagine!! :) :)
      Happy Friday!! WOO HOO!! XOXO-Shari

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  4. Great inspirational projects from the DT.
    Julie x

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    1. Hi Julie!! Thank you for coming over and having a looksee :) Hope you can join us in the fun this month :) XOXO-Shari

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  5. So happy to be sponsoring you this month! Looking forward to seeing the different interpretations of Spring. Lovely examples from the DT too :)

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    1. Ryn, we are so honored to have you as our sponsor this month! Thank You for your generosity!! :) XOXO-Shari

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  6. Wonderful work from the whole team as ever! So pleased to be able to play along with this one. Jenny x

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    1. Jenny!! You are so kind to be here with us this month for my challenge! I can't wait to come by and see your art journal pages! See you soon!! XOXO-Shari

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  7. Such fabulous inspiring pieces! Can't wait to join in!!

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    1. I hope you do, Jackie! It would be lovely to have you! :) XOXO-Shari

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  8. Wow...I feel the need to give this challenge a try ! FuN fUn FuN !

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    1. It IS FuN fUn FuN, Libby!! I hope you do give it a go! :) :) XOXO-Shari

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  9. Wow! You ladies really outdid yourselves with these wonderful creations! Great job on the challenge, Shari! Hugs!

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    1. Hi Sara Emily!! Thanks so much!! And thanks for joining in the challenge fun this month!! XOXO-Shari

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  10. Gorgeous work by the DT, such a talented bunch! Thanks for a wonderful challenge Shari. hugs :)

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    1. Thanks so much for coming by and joining in the challenge this month, Pamellia!! I know it's a common theme, but everyone has such fun with it & interprets it in their own unique ways :) Good to see you here at OCC! XOXO-Shari

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  11. Truly wonderful inspiration by all the DT...love the challenge theme too!

    Hugs
    Jennifer. x

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    1. Hi Jennifer! It's good to have you here this month for my April Showers Bring May Flowers challenge! So glad that you played along!! That makes all of us OCC Designers happy!! XOXO-Shari

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  12. Fabulous challenge Shari and samples by everyone of the team!!! I'm sorry, I'm so behind everything in this moment, I don't think I will have time to join in your challenge but I sincerly regret it. :) Hugs, Coco Xx

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    1. Oh, Coco!! No worries that you couldn't play along with us this month! It just makes me happy that you popped by to say HI :) We'll meet up again soon!! :) :) XOXO-Shari

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  13. Holy Moly Everyone!! 102 entries in my April Showers Bring May Flowers challenge this month! This is not going to be easy to try to determine winners, there's so many beautifully created projects! Thank you all soooo much for joining in this month! This was my first time hosting a challenge and it was fun!! XOXO-Shari

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