Good morning!
Over on the Daring Cardmaker’s blog today, Jenny has picked this image for our April elemental inspiration challenge:
I was inspired by the little yellow flowers (which could be Mimosa?), the colours combining yellow, kraft, and pink, and the spring/Easter theme complete with Easter eggs:
Stamps: The Greetery – Christmas Time Sentiments, The Greetery – Mimosa Musings, The Greetery – Springtime
Dies: The Greetery – Christmas Time Sentiments, Mama Elephant – Oval Scallop Frames, The Greetery – Curio: Spring Findings, The Greetery – Fit to Be Tied, The Stamp Market – Jumbo Tag
Other: Distress Oxide inks
I started out by creating my Mimosa stamped background on white cardstock in the Misti. The branches are stamped in Greenery ink from The Stamp Market, then I used Citrus Burst Altenew ink and Sweet Mustard Pinkfresh ink for the flowers.
I then ran the stamped panel through the Big Shot using the Jumbo Tag die from The Stamp Market.
I was going to layer it on a plain card base, but the pattern looked too stark against grey and pale pink, so for a little extra spring detail I splattered the pale rose card base with metallic copper gansai tambi paint, white ink, and some watered down guava dye ink from Lawn Fawn. I also splattered the kraft oval in white ink for extra detail.
I set those aside to dry while I used Distress Oxide inks on daubers and blending brushes to colour in the bouquet of Spring Findings die-cuts, which includes some tiny blue Easter eggs in the mix.
I used Scattered Straw for the bow detail to bring in a bit more sunny yellow.
Then I found the perfect sentiment from the Springtime set that would work behind the bouquet and coloured the matching banner in with Kiddie Pool blue ink.
Once everything was ready to assemble, I added a button tied with twine to the top of the tag to finish off that spring look.
Make sure you check out the wonderful projects from the rest of the design team here, and play along if you can!
Happy crafting!
 The Greetery – Christmas Time Sentiments stamps Shop at: MISC | SHC |
 The Greetery – Mimosa Musings stamps Shop at: MISC | SHC |
 The Greetery – Springtime stamps Shop at: MISC | SHC |
 The Greetery – Christmas Time Sentiments dies Shop at: MISC | SHC |
 Mama Elephant – Oval Scallop Frames dies Shop at: MISC | SHC |
 The Greetery – Curio: Spring Findings dies Shop at: MISC | SHC |
 The Greetery – Fit to Be Tied dies Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market – Jumbo Tag dies Shop at: MISC |
 Altenew – Citrus Burst dye ink Shop at: MISC |
 Distress Oxide ink pad – Gathered Twigs Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Distress Oxide ink pad – Ground Espresso Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Distress Oxide ink pad – Kitsch Flamingo Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC |
 Distress Oxide ink pad – Peeled Paint Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Distress Oxide ink pad – Rustic Wilderness Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC |
 Distress Oxide ink pad – Scattered Straw Shop at: EH | SBC |
 Distress Oxide ink pad – Speckled Egg Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC |
 Distress Oxide ink pad – Squeezed Lemonade Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Distress Oxide ink pad – Tattered Rose Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Distress Oxide ink pad – Tumbled Glass Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Lawn Fawn – Kiddie Pool ink pad Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC |
 Pinkfresh Studio – Sweet Mustard ink pad Shop at: MISC | SBC |
 The Stamp Market – Greenery ink pad Shop at: MISC |
 Versafine – Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Altenew – Pocketful of Sunshine ink cube set Shop at: MISC | SHC |
 Bazzill Cardshoppe – Pale Rose Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Neenah 80 lb smooth Desert Storm cardstock Shop at: AZ | EH |
 Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: EH | SSS |
 Dr. Pj. Martin’s Bleed Proof White watercolour Shop at: AZ |
 Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36-pan watercolour set Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Brutfuner 120 Colouring Pencils Set Shop at: AZ |
 Tonic Studios Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Lawn Fawn – Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC |
 MISTI stamping tool Shop at: EH | SBC |
 Craft blending brushes Shop at: AZ |
 Sponge daubers Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Taylored Expressions – Blender Brushes Shop at: MISC |
 Waffle Flower – Mini Media Mat Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC |
 Ranger – Artist brush set Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Sizzix – Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ | SBC |
 Sizzix – Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ | SBC |
 Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
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