2022 card challenge - March

Morning all!

This month, with the signs of spring already appearing, there is plenty of scope for Easter, Mother's Day, Spring, and uplifting card themes.

The focus colour for March is: Pastel tones (just one shade or many together!)

And the pin-spiration is....

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I look forward to seeing how you intepret it - remember I've listed a few tips over on the blog post for this month.

The full instructions and details for this year's challenge can be found in the intro post on my blog here.

Past prompts will all be tagged under 2022 card challenge on my blog so you can find them easily in one place.

Also for those of you on Instagram, I'll be using the hashtag #2022handmadecardchallenge to share my projects there, so feel free to use this tag on Instagram as well! :)


Points for this challenge:
This challenge scores you 20 points. :) As with all the other UKS challenges you can only claim this once a month.
But remember you can also claim points for up to 10 cards you make in any month.

Happy crafting!

Thanks Nat. Beautiful colours to work with.
Ellie

Pretty, pretty ice cream colours but some nice depth to the pinks too and a lovely turquoise in there, good one Nat.

And if anyone has managed to grab the new Distress shade, Saltwater Taffy, it really fits in with the colour pallet in the prompt. ;)

Beautiful colours. I know just the collection to use.. if I have anything left!?!

Here is mine Nat. Pastel colours, and a little bird.
Ellie
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Don’t know why the gold hasn’t shown on the Rt side
It is there !

Very sweet Ellie

Here is mine using the turquoise as inspiration

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Nice card Elaine. Love the pop of turquoise. Great embossing.
Ellie

Lovely cards both of you. xx

I wish I could motivate myself to complete some projects on my craft desk. Just not feeling it with current events and I can't seem to focus on anything, not even getting lost in an audibook for a bit of escapism. :(

I may just do something that doesn't require much creative thought, like cutting some dies from rainbow colours or something... no new inks to swatch out, but that sort of crafty task usually helped when feeling like this. But yeah, I definitely need some time away from the world outside to rebalance a bit.

I think everybody does Nat. It just drags you down sometimes.
Good idea to do something not too creative. I might try that :)
Hope you feel better soon.
Ellie

Sending you a big (( hug)) Nat. We’ve all been feeling like that. I’ve been struggling to craft and I’m sure it’s that I don’t want to do something so frivolous.
It is good to do something creative though it really helps with our mental health.
Take care..xx

Oh Nat, I am the same, sitting with half done projects and must get on with them. I keep feel as if I'm being pulled in all directions. I do a bit of one thing and find myself doing something else next minute. Maybe we all have to cut ourselves some slack at the moment and be kind to ourselves and each other.

If I'm in my craft room I feel guilty because of all the work that needs to be done elsewhere and the paperwork!!! The only thing I'm enjoying at present and making time for is knitting, almost finished the little jacket for one of two babies due in April. Yikes!

Lovely card Elaine, that water lily is wonderful and I also love the embossing folder.

Ellie that is such a cute card, especially the little bird, so sweet. I can see the gold on the right side as well as the rest, it does show up. It is tricky to get a photo of mirri card though.

Nat, big hugs. We are all looking on in dismay at the dreadful things happening.
Susie, I feel your pain, I have so much to do and keep flitting from one thing to another, slowly progressing but I do feel guilty if I sit down to craft.

Elaine, and Ellie, lovely cards. I’ve had to make a couple of necessary birthday cards but not managed to fit to the prompt yet, I even bought a card for my nephew as I wasn’t feeling it !

Take care everyone x

Here is another using the collection I first had in mind when I saw the mood board!
A collage showing the front and inside.
Let me tell you it was a pig to do!!!!

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Excellent. A lot of work I’m sure.
Ellie

A lot of work but worth it, it's amazing Elaine, haven't a clue how you did it though.

Well done, it’s fabulous! It does look like a lot of work, but I’m sure it will be appreciated :)

I need to think of something for Lara and Lizzys cards, but must do SIL’s first…..

12 little thank you cards made with DGD this morning for after her party next week.

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Thank you all - I'm feeling a bit more with it mentally at the moment. :)

I had hoped to get some crafting done with my new purchases that arrived yesterday, but my noisy neighbours had quite the night between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. and despite 2 walls separating their house and my bedroom I was kept awake all that time with their very loud talking/griping. Gahhhh... so bit of a zombie when I finally made it out of bed this morning, and been playing catch up ever since.

I do miss my former neighbour, he lived on his own and you hardly ever heard him except when he did some guitar strumming now and then. ^_^

I did start on a card project, but am now waiting for a few things to dry so might as well go make tea.

Elaine, I love your takes on the prompt and those thank you cards are bang on the inspiration with those images you've used. :)

Here's a to a better (and more restorative in the sleep department) week! xx

Beautiful little cards Elaine. Well done Amber. :)

Oh, hope you get some sleep tonight Nat, and feel more refreshed tomorrow.
Ellie

These were lovely colours to work from thank you
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Fab card Ruth. Very pretty.

Sorry you are having a tough time Nat. Hope you got a good night last night. Inconsiderate neighbours are the pits.

Lovely Thankyou cards Elaine and Amber.

Ruth, love your painty card, very effective, and I love the little bird :)

Lovely colours in the card Ruth.
Ellie

It's impressive though Elaine. I hope it's appreciated. I must use my embossing folders more.
Very pretty card Ellie.

Lovely card Ruth, the colours are so vibrant in that background. A great backdrop for the other elements.

Well, in other news, I am happy to report that I finally had a decent night's sleep with no interruptions from next door. I hope it continues the rest of this week. Fingers crossed!

This is mine ..

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What a fabulous selection of cards. I do love to see the different interpretations of the prompts.

These are perfect colours for the baby cards I need to make but still filling the skip and clearing so no time for craft as yet.

That's great Frances, really love all those pastel rainbow tones in the image. :D

I'm going to be posting the April prompt a little early. The way the weather's been today I was tempted to swap it round with the December prompt. ;)