Today, I’m sharing a card based on a photo I recently took of the view outside. It was a beautiful day in the Pacific Northwest – the birds were chirping, the sun was out, and the trees were in bloom (they still are although this tree’s blooms were battered down by some recent rain).
Although I’ve recently been doing a lot of watercoloring, for this card, I stamped and heat embossed patterned paper to capture the spring colors. I stamped the tree pieces and butterflies on a variety of papers until deciding on these colors and patterns.
I dry-embossed the hill, which was cut with the Border die out of Easter Grass cardstock, using the Sizzix Plaid embossing folder to introduce some texture. The Blueprints set has a stitched die with which I cut the blue paper and the green hill at the same time to give a clean finish to the edge.
I’m linking this card up to the current Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge – “Anything Goes.”
Happy Easter Jean!
Hasn’t the weather been nice’ish?!
I love your springy card…the embossing is fun and I love the pop of pink!
I’m not sure why I’m not receiving notifications of your posts, so I apologize for my late visit!
This is such a lovely spring card! I love your butterflies and how you added texture for the grass! It’s the perfect card for the faux stitched panel, too…Love it!
Thanks for the photo of a beautiful spring day in the Pacific Northwest…too bad it can’t be like this all the time 🙂
Jean, what a bright and happy spring scene you have created here. I just love it! The patterned paper you used on the tree and the butterflies really adds so much to your card! Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us at this week’s SPARKS challenge!