Whee!

I'm still trying to think spring. It's kinda hard to do with the huge snowbanks towering everywhere around me, so I'll have to do it through stamping. I made this spring feeling card using the adorable Pure Innocence Start the Day with Whee! stamp set from My Favorite Things and this week's Taylored Expressions sketch challenge. It's a pretty loose interpretation of the sketch--much looser than my mostly linear, concrete thinking self usually does--but I think it still works.

I stamped the the little girl on a scrap of white cardstock and colored her with Copic markers, then carefully cut her out, staying close to the image borders. She's set on a piece of cloud patterned paper for a spring-y backdrop. The set's sentiment fit nicely underneath the little girl.

I constructed a tree for the little girl's swing using some cardstock scraps. I found a put-aside celery scalloped circle (missing a scallop or two) to use as the tree top. A bunch of circles, embossed with a swirl pattern, are layered on as leaves. The trunk is made from an embossed brown strip, also discarded from another project. I pieced it all together and added a trio of pink rhinestones to the right edge of the card to finish it off. The perfect spring scene--and not a moment too soon!

Materials Used:

Start the Day with Whee! stamp set (My Favorite Things); white cardstock (Taylored Expressions); Tuxedo Black ink (Memento); markers (Copic); Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, and Close to Cocoa cardstock (Stampin' Up!); designer paper(K & Company-Citronella line); scalloped circle die (Nestabilities); D'Vine Swirl and Forest Branches embossing folders (Cuttlebug); pink self-adhesive rhinestones (Darice); foam tape