Purple Onion Designs:

I hope everyone has been enjoying and trying to join in on #thedailymarker30day coloring challenge as much as they possibly can. If you are not familiar with the challenge you can read more about it in the post below. I am hoping to get a little more coloring time in myself. We had our annual St. Patrick's day party this week and I was busy prepping and cooking all last week. I did choose the two winners from the blog hop and I am happy to announce that the winners of the $25.00 gift certificates go to....

Tracy Lustick
Sam Olden

Congratulations to both of you! Thanks for joining #thedailymarker30day coloring challenge and sharing your colored Purple Onion Designs images and cards.

I have some other fun news for those of you in the UK or have access to purchasing Making Cards magazine. Design team member Susan Srb has several exclusive cards featured in the March 2017 issue showing off some of Stacey Yacula's adorable stamps. The magazine is packed full of inspiration, free exclusive craft paper collections, birthday bear stamps and a CD containing over 120 printable papers for making cards for boys. Here is a photo of the magazine cover. Congratulations Susen!

Finally, I thought I was all set to move ahead with spring and share all the cheery cards that the season brings. We had some great 60 degree days until a few days ago. The cold weather is back and probably some of the coldest weather we have had. We are now getting a snow storm tomorrow with a possible 12" or more of snow. I think we will get less looking at the maps but we are kinda on the border of either getting 6" - 12" vs. 12" - 18". I know many of you will also be participating in this lovely weather. So, in anticipation here are some winter cards for you all. I think this first card from Julia is perfect. Enjoy!

Julia Altermann