Double D Challenge -- Springtime Flowers

 

Hello!  We continue to move onward into spring and I sincerely hope you're seeing sunshine and flowers where you are.  I'd like to see more of it, but I know it's coming.  Double D Darlene is encouraging us to put those spring flowers on a card for the newest Double D Challenge.  How about this pretty inspiration board?

This sweet stencil goes to a random winner, and the team votes on creative favorites.

I colored Penny Black's Scent of Spring tulips from last year's collection -- stamped in Memento London Fog on a circle scrap, colored with Copics, and framed with a die cut ring from my spare parts.  The designer paper gives a corner of color, but mostly plain otherwise.

The sentiment is from PB's 2015 Sprinkles and Smiles set.  How could this fun sentiment set have slipped by me all these years?  A friend recently gifted it to me and I love everything about it.  I hand cut the sentiment, then smooshed with Versamark ink and embossed with clear powder.

The Rhubarb Crumble Nuvo drops were a good match, and how fun it is to dot them here and there as big or as tiny as desired.  They make the prettiest pearls, but in this case I thwacked the back of the card to flatten them somewhat like enamel dots.

I hope you'll visit the team at Double D to see their springy flower-filled cards, and then play along with yours.  I think it will be a pretty gallery!

That's all for now!  It's been a busy month, both in and out of my craft room, but nothing to complain about.  Thank you for visiting!

Stamps:  Penny Black Scent of Spring and Sprinkles and Smiles  Paper:  Neenah Classic Crest Super Smooth Solar White 80 & 110 lb, color cardstock for base and layer, Whimsy Stamps Floral Explosion designer paper (older)  Ink:  Memento London Fog, SU Going Gray for sentiment, Versamark  Coloring:  Copics  Other:  Nuvo Rhubarb Crumble Crystal Drops, clear embossing powder, Spellbinders circle die, Memory Box Stitched Circle Layers