Spring has Sprung

Well it had yesterday, it was the most beautiful sunny morning, with gorgeous blue sky and the first signs of buds on the trees and finally some flowers in the garden. I went out to feed the birds and it was warm enough to sit out and have a drink and enjoy the sunshine. I love this time of year, the garden is starting to spring in to life after looking so drab and dull over the winter and the birds and bugs are everywhere. My morning cuppa in the garden was the inspiration for this card

I made the meadow scene using my brayer and assorted inks, I stamped with versamark first to give some faint flowers and grasses, i love to see the images appear through the ink using this technique. I then overstamped with flowers and grasses stamps from Elusive images. The tag was created in the same way using a verse from my new themeplate from elusive images (patchwork butterfly). I stamped the butterflies on vellum with black versafine, embossed with clear ep and then coloured with some shimmery chalks. the are lot brighter IRL but the shimmer hasn't shown up too well in the pic. I attached them with some silicone glue to give them some dimension and finished the card with a twist of yellow ribbon.

Its a good reminder that spring is here as this morning is it cloudy cold and windy. There seem to be a lot of 'Spring' type challenges about this week so I'm entering this card in to following challenges:

Magical Crafts which is Spring/Easter

Flutter By Wednesday which is Green with of course a butterfly/angel/fairy

Dragons' Dream Tag it On which is Got the Floral Bug

Allsorts: Spring is in the Air

Lots to Do: Springtime

Rosie D's Challenge: which is Green Yellow and white

Just Scraps which is New Beginnings with a pastel theme and also the inspiration behind your new beginning project

Thanks for looking

Claire xx