Spring Fever!

As I was uploading my cards for the challenges I participated in this weekend, I noticed a theme - everything is brightly colored! LOL I soooo have Spring Fever! Bring on the flowers and the butterflies and the ladybugs and all things Spring, I say.

Soooo - here we go!
This card uses an adorable digi monkey image from All That Scraps, along with SU! cardstock in Tempting Turquoise, Green Galore, and Orchid Opulence. Assorted ribbon and dragonfly embellishments.
I was able to use this one for 2 challenges:

Digital Tuesday Challenge - use scallops
Just Us Girls 23 sketch challenge

This adorable creation (if I do say so myself - hee hee) is for the March Delightful Inspiration challenge, where you can grab this cute digi image "Patches" for free up through tomorrow and everyone who plays gets another free image:

The Digi Kitty did a similar challenge where they offered a free digi image to play and then another free digi if you participated in the challenge. This is the new image, Hippo's Flowers, and I used this card for 2 challenges:

The Digi Kitty Spring is Calling and
Crazy4Challenges #27, use paper piercing

And last is my card for the riley & co Tuesday challenge, which was to use the colors red, brown and caramel:

So I'm sure you've noticed I enjoy participating in challenges. I have found literally hundreds of them, and I'm sure there are thousands more I have not yet found. Most of them are run by awesome, friendly, cool folks. I enjoy getting to know fellow card-makers and seeing their work. But I have had some negative experiences, too. I think it stinks when people who run challenges don't do it ethically or fairly. There are a few that I refuse to participate in anymore - I won't publicly humiliate them by naming them here because it's not like they did anything HORRIBLE, but I won't visit their sites or promote them on my blog, that's for sure. For example, one of them I "won" a gift certificate to their store over a month ago but I've yet to see it despite e-mailing them and leaving comments on their blog. Another I noticed the people who "win" (it's not random) are not usually the ones who did the best jobs, but maybe the ones who the blog owner is the most friendly with... things like that. I guess I just don't think that's ethical - and if I'm going to spend an hour creating a card and then promote someone's stamp company or blog on MY blog, they better deserve it. Hmph! ;) Luckily, I find the positive far outweigh the negative and I happily promote the awesome companies that I have come to love and trust and that you will find links to in my sidebar. OK - before I get off my soapbox - hee hee - go here to get a freebie digi image from The Greeting Farm before it's gone!
Peace.