Happy Easter Kitty

Hello, everyone!  An Easter card all done and ready for next year!  I missed last month's challenge at Magenta so I definitely wanted to join this month for their Easter challenge.  I love playing at Magenta because it inspires me to use my Magenta stamps, which are some of the first stamps I bought when I started stamping - they bring back good memories!

I am having fun with my Distress Inks again, and today I made a double-layered stencilled background.  I used Magenta's Small Birch Forest stencil and Heidi Swapp's Doily Flower stencil, along with Milled Lavender, Dusty Concord, Tumbled Glass, and Broken China Distress Inks.  I was going for an ombre look. I stamped Magenta's Elderberry Branch in black along the bottom of the stencilled panel and added an Easter sentiment (Impression Obsession and Anita's).

I thought it would be fun to add Magenta's Cat in Spring Basket since it's an Easter card, and I coloured it with Prismacolor pencils.  The embossed panel is Couture Creations Washed Away, and I added three Impression Obsession die-cut butterflies, accented with gems.  My colour combo was inspired by Colette's Cosmic Colours challenge, and I've used 5 of the 6 colours (the green is on the leaves of the stamped image).

Here are the stamps, stencils, and Distress Inks I used:

Magenta products used

I would like to support these fun challenges: Artistic Inspirations AG with Twist of Spring UE; Blessings Ink Amusing Challenges Butterflies 2/2; Come and Get It Card for a Child 1/3; Cosmic Colours April UE (TOP 3); Craft Stamper Take a Technique: Colour 2/3; Craft Your Passion AG 2/3; Crafting from the Heart AG 3/3; Creative Card Crew Sentiment 2/3; Creative Corner For a Child 1/3; Cuttin' and Stampin' Cute Critters 2/3; Deep Ocean Things with Wings UE; Die Cut Diva's In the Garden UE; Digi Designs Include an Animal 3/3; DL.ART April Linky AG UE 1/day; Dragonfly Dreams/Laurelcraft Let's See Spring UE; Fussy and Fancy Springtime Flowers UE; Inspiration Destination AG UE; Inspiration Journal Everything Goes UE; Jo's Scrap Shack Florals and Butterflies 3/3; Just Inspirational April Easter 2/3; Magenta Easter 1E; Mema's AG using Die or Punch 3/3; Mod Squad Wheel in the Colour; My Craft Creations April AG UE; Natalie and Amy Frame It 2/3; Not Just Cards AG UE; One Crazy Stamper  AG 3/5; One Sweet Challenge Spring has Sprung UE: {PIN}spirational AG 3/5; Quick Creations Furry Animals UE; Quirky Crafts Many Flowers 3/3; Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Make Your own Background 3/5; Simon Says Stamp Work-It Wednesday Stamping 3/3; Sister Act (Cards Only) AG UE; Stamp and Create April AG 1/wk 2/4; Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Add Spring Flowers UE; The Crafter's Cafe Animal Antics 2/3; The Paper Girls Pastel Eggstravaganza 3/3; Unruly Paper Arts Animal Instinct 2/3; Wags n Whiskers Flowers 1/2; Whimsy Stamps Colour an Image 2/3;Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 4/5

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!