cheiro urgia: April 2025

Hello again, and I truly hope you'll get to spend the holidays doing whatever you enjoy most.

We have an ATG challenge this fortnight over at the Alphabet challenge blog, but beware: Don't just post whatever you want, make sure to tell us which letter of the alphabet inspired your creation.

Matching the spring/Easter season, I'd like to show you a cute little Easter bunny. As you see, it's a girl bunny, and I fell in love with her when I first saw her.

I found this wonderful napkin motif sometime between Christmas and New year as I was on rehabilitation. Of course, the creative therapy there is a bit different than my crafting at home because the supplies are limited (and so is the time), but I tried to make use of it as much as I could, even if that meant sneaking into the crafting room at random hours of my free time to ask if there are any seats left.

During one of those bonus hours, I took a piece of wood and covered the front surface in white acrylic paint. It took a couple of layers to make it thoroughly wite, but it was worth in. Once that was done, I glued the napkin motif in it's place.

While everything was drying, I strated to roam different boxes for embellishments that could go with my lilttle bunny. This was easier said than done since most of the stuff that was laying aound was obviously connected to the winter season and Christmas holidays. Nevertheless, I managed to find a wooden Easter egg, a faux feather and a wooden ladybug. I placed the egg atop of a piece of the feather, and if I remember correctly I had to use mosaic glue to adhere the items as there was no regular glue available. Then, I added the little ladybug, which was indeed orange, so no worries - your eyes aren't playing tricks on you with this one.

Once everything was done, I noticed that the big dent in the lower part of the wooden surface is bothering me. I had another look in those boxes full of random bling, and I found a random egg-shaped bead that I thought would blend into the scenery by resembling a 3D Easter egg.

I'm not sure if my mission succeeded, but I like to believe that I created the first Easter bunny of the year - right after New year. I then signed date and place on the back side of the ornament, and left it on the shelf of random goodies where you could exchange yourr creations with others or just leave yours if you couldn't take them home for whatever reason... I got myself a little candle, and I really wonder where my Easter bunny is hopping around at the moment.

challenges:

- 613 avenue create: ATG
- a place to start: ATG

- allsorts challengeblog: ATG

- as you like it: CAS or fussy & fancy (I prefer to create items with a bit of fuss to create a fancy scenery. I have nothing against a CAS project, especially as they're way more handy when it comes to shipping, but I feel like they oftentimes seem a bit blank and missing something. I need those patterned papers to frame my images, enhance my motifs with gemstones and pearls, add a sentiment, paper flowers, a wooden embellishment or something else. When I'm creating the fussy & fancy way, I feel like I can really get lost in my stash and use my things however I please, without thinking if something will fit inside a regular envelope.)

- card free zone: ATG but a card

- classicdesignchallenge: ATG DT

- crafty calendar: feminine

- crafty catz: ATG
- crafty gals corner: adorable ... (bunny)

- creative inspirations: Happy Easter

- critter crazy: ATG animals

- fabnfunky: think spring
- inkspirational: mood board

- kreativtanten: spring

- lil patch of crafty friends: ATG handmade

- morgans artworld: ATG

- nachteulen: Frühling lässt sein blaues Band...

- wortartwednesday: ATG
- pinspirational Happy Easter

After a long and quite unexpected break from everything, I'm back here in blogland to post my long overdue project for the "Yummi" challenge over at the Alphabet challenge blog. No need to feel inspired as said challenge is closed already - feel free to add your "Zoom" (fast) projects though!

I certainly thought that I'll be able to have an uneventful spring, but at some point in March everything just went downhill. I'm still not able to function on my own, at least not properly and on the long run. And the more things come my way, the worse it gets. My pain issues intensified in the past weeks, and there are days on which I can't make it out of bed due to exhaustion.

Anyway, I've been thinking about something to activate your taste buds for the "Yummy" challenge, but I simply couldn't decide whether I should bo for a tasty food or a beverage. In the end, I decided to combine both. The reason being that I had this piece of cross stitch in my stash forever. I stitched it years ago to make one of those explosion boxes for a man, but I never used it for the occasion. I now decided to give it another chance with another project: a masculine card that features the motif of grapes.

I created a rather simple card, using a purple card base with an oval window. Fortunately, the opening was big enough to feature the stitched motif, and small enough to allow me to adhere the fabric on the inner side of the card (it was a tight match, but it worked). As the stitched image is quite delicate, I opted to leave the card just like that - no additional embellishments whatsoever.

To cover up the inside of the card, I used a piece of patterned paper with purple blooms - if you look closely, you may see how some of them shine through if you look at the front side of the card.