You Rule my {Heart}...

As soon as I saw the little crowns and hearts on this weeks Play Date Cafe, I immediately thought of this little Party Animal lion from The Alley Ways Stamps, and how perfect he would be as the ruler of my heart!  Inspired by this weeks cool Retro Sketch, I paper pieced my lion - using a mix of papers from MME, Basic Grey, Kaisercraft and SEI, and pop-dotted the layers, perfect for the Paper Players Paper Piecing Challenge (try saying that quickly LOL!)  The gorgeous ruler ribbon is from Little Yellow Bicycle, and the crown and heart are chipboard from Heidi Swapp, inked in silver to give them some added shine.

Hope your day has some added shine too!

Hop Hop Hooray for a Paper Players Playdate...

I couldn't resist playing along this week at The Play Date Cafe - look at this gorgeous colour combo!  As my button collection must be the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere, I couldn't resist adding a few buttons for the Paper Players Challenge too.  This gorgeous buuny stamp is from Stampendous, the wider grosgrain ribbons are from Kaisercraft, the top two are from my stash, acouple of the orange buttons are from Basic Grey, and the teal is from My Minds Eye.  I hand drew the balloon strings and the sentiment - which could either be a Birthday or Easter sentiment.  There She Goes has a weekly challenge of incorporating an animal into your Easter card so I'll hop on over and enter this card too :)

Hope you are having a hoppy day too :)

PS. Hop Hop Hooray for this too :)