Welcome Spring

Welcome

I had some time on the weekend to play.

I am so looking forward to Spring....blue skies and all coming to life.

I picked out some greens and blues to make this Springtime card.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began with a heavy cardstock panel for the front of my card.  I got out some Peacock Feathers,  Cracked Pistachio and some Broken China Distress Oxide inks, then I got out my Dot Circle stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.  I inked over that with some green just in the corners of my card front.
• Next, using the Tic Tack Toe stencil, I rubbed on some green and then some blue mentioned above, in random areas.
• To add more interest to the collage style background, I stamped some script from the Faded Text set by Tim Holtz using the same inks to match the background. 
• I placed the piece into my Misti then stamped the thistles and plants with some Versafine Clair ink.  
• I stamped some of the foliage again along the bottom with some more Peacock Feathers ink to help better ground the images.
• I stamped the sentiment from Avery Elle in my Misti, then glued it all together onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Here are the stencils I used:

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Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- A BIT OF GREEN

Crazy 4 Challenges- 2 STENCILS OR MORE

Daring Cardmakers- PLANT A FLOWER

Supplies

Stamps- Faded Type (TH), Nature Flowers (Art Journey); Foliage (Old Island Stamp Comp.)  

Everyday Circle Tags(Avery Elle)

Inks- Distress Oxides (listed above); Versafine Clair Noir

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook Waterloo, Ontario)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Stencils- Dot Circle, Tic Tac Toe (ACLD), 

Blending Brushes (TE)