Ready for spring!

It was such nice weather this weekend that when I went down to my stamp room to create, I couldn't help but play with flower stamps and bright colors - I am so ready for spring!

I decided to play with my new single, wood stamp - Blessed Easter - that is featured in the Occasions catalog.

I kept seeing and "pinning" cards that just stamped the image in black ink on top of the "wash" stamp from Happy Watercolor. I like that because you didn't have to color - it just added color instantly. So I set out to do that.... I didn't want to out right copy a card. There's no need -  there are so many endless possible color combinations. I reached for my handy-dandy Color Coach and there it was - the cover!

Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, and Not Quite Navy (retired) on a Sahara Sand background. I knew right away that's what I wanted to do, especially since I had some Rich Razzleberry taffeta ribbon!

I made my card but I didn't particularly care for the "flatness" of the colors on the Sahara Sand. So, I stamped the flowers again on Very Vanilla card stock and cut it out - using the paper piecing technique- to match the Vanilla card base. I made the tulips and the leaves stand out by using Dimensionals.

I used the Tulip Frame embossing folder  for the Big Shot on one of the layering pieces, and the card was finished!

For my second card of the day, I decided that I probably have enough Easter cards on hand, so I just wanted a spring-time card. Something I could use during the next few months, but not necessarily at Easter. The tulips on that stamp were just what I needed!

I stamped the tulips repeatedly, using a black ink pad, careful not to ink up the sentiment. I highly recommend using a black marker for this purpose but mine, right now, is MIA. I colored in the tulips using a variety of colors: Tangerine Tango, Calypso Coral, Strawberry Slus,h Pink Pirouette, Dafodill Delight and Wisteria Wonder. The leaves were done in Pear Pizzazz with Old Olive highlights.

The card base is a piece of Pink Pirouette textured card stock. 

The stamped piece was cut out with the Top Note die for the Big Shot and trimmed at the perforated line that borders the die cut. That made it just a tad smaller so was able to layer it on the Wisteria piece, with it "peeking" out from behind.

Pretty bows of Pear Pizzazz thin taffeta ribbon were added on each side of the Top Note. I also added a sentiment from Pretty Petites (from last year's Sale-a-Bration) and punched it out with the matching Petite Curly Label Punch.

I still wasn't satisfied with it. 

It needed to something... but what? 

Then I saw it....

The sign that I bought a couple of weeks ago-

I was in "doubt" so I added glitter!!

Here's a closer look:

Those really are words to live by!

Spread a little glitter wherever you go!

Have a sparkling day!