Thursday, March 20, 2014

Welcome Spring!

I've always thought of March 21st as the first day of spring, but this year it's today!  So here's my welcome to this much-awaited season:


This uses 3 stamps that are now discontinued or hard to find: Rubber Stampede's Bleeding Heart, #A2300H, the spring version in this Hero Arts Seasonal Memories set, #E3373, and the sentiment from The Craft's Meow Easter Greetings set.  I colored the image with Spectrum Noir markers, overstamped the spring memories text in a dull green, then sponged around the edges with tumbled glass.  This was framed out in a BoBunny dot cardstock, adding a sweet pink gingham bow and some clear sequins from a recent Simon card kit - irl, they are irridescent and give a lovely dewy sparkle, with hints of pale pink and blue.  My card base is a piece of Simon's Surf Blue cardstock, rapidly becoming a go-to for me this season.  

For those of you who've never seen a bleeding heart plant, here's a picture from one of my Pinterest boards:

Bleeding Hearts...

Isn't Mother Nature amazing?  

Happy Spring, everyone!  

11 comments:

Cindy C. said...

It's beautiful! A lovely way to welcome Spring Lin! I have seen the Bleeding Hearts flowers, they are quite delicate too! TFS.

Emily Leiphart said...

Beautiful card, Lin! I love how the bleeding hearts form a heart. The gingham bow and sequins are perfect embellishments. Wonderful welcome for spring!

Virginia L. said...

This is just SO SWEET! Love it so much, Lin! The text and ribbons really are lovely!

Robin K. said...

I really love how you've framed the text with the bleeding hearts! I'm more than ready to welcome spring!!!!

Anonymous said...

Absolutely gorgeous Lin, the gingham bow is perfect!

Dawn T said...

such a sweet card Lin. Lovely soft colours

debby4000 said...

Such a beautiful card
luv
Debby

Ann said...

Beautiful! Love that Bleeding Hearts stamp (and photo). There's a white Bleeding Hearts that I've been coveting too. Spring is definitely here but we're not out of the woods yet - big snow came in April last year! Lovely to 'speak' to you! xx

Sarah G said...

So pretty - love the soft colours and beautiful design! Lovely blue skies here today so it finally feels like spring :)

Petti said...

happy spring! your card is beautiful!

Jacqueline said...

This is a gorgeous card, Lin, I remember a card like this you did a while ago - just love this mix of stamps!