14 April "shower theme" blog hop day 1

 Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's April Showers, Full of Flowers blog hop



 
Today- it is raining April Showers...   
On the first day we will show you a project with the theme, April Showers, then on Sunday we will either transform our project into a "Full of Flowers" project. Or we made a matching item with the theme of Flowers....

Please say you started at Erica's craft room at mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com and if not, please start at the front of the line-up and start there.
You should have come from Claire's blog at http://scrapmyway.blogspot.com.

LINE -UP IN CASE YOU GET LOST:     

Erica's Room

Erica- http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/    START AT
Claire- http://www.scrapmyway.blogspot.com/
Tanya-http://litle/-scrapper.blogspot.com
Janet- http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/
Lisa Peters http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/
Jessica Bashaw - http://thecrafterscottage.blogspot.com/
Claire Chenoy Spielman- http://scrapmyway.blogspot.com/  SHOULD HAVE COME FROM
Doris Parker - http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com/  HERE
Especially Ashley http://especiallymade.blogspot.com/   NEXT TO GO TO
Kathy Jo Page Ritchie http://skrappindiva.blogspot.com/
Haidee Shableau http://created2bunique.blogspot.com

 Erica's Craft Room is sponsoring this blog hop with ONE of the prizes being a Cricut Mini machine. Be sure to comment on ALL of the blogs both days to be entered to win the Cricut Mini Machine!

Using the Cricut Cartridge April Showers (overlay # 9 & 19) cutting out at 3.5inches.  I used the watercolor crayons from Stampin Up bold brights..  using 3 colors  (blue, yellow orange) and green for the handle.  I then used the Glossy accents to give it a glossy look but no.... I smeared it and tried to rub the smudge off and made a mess..  BUT....  LO & Behold...   my hubby liked the effect it had.  so after a while - I did too.  it looks like a real cool umbrella!!!

Using peacock Liquid Pearls -  I dotted the bottom tips and the top of pole.

On my card I have raindrops coming down as I enhanced them using Icicle & baby blue stickles for the rain drops.

Stamp sentiment is from Close to My Heart D1287 May Word Puzzle.

I put blue cardstock in the inside of card to give the scalloped trim some color. as this was a base card from a set of cards.

I hope you like my card.  Tomorrow you will see what the April Showers will bring...  So please come back tomorrow to see what the rain will bring us..

Please go over to  Especially Ashley's blog for an amazing April shower day..  project you surely will not want to miss!