Avery Elle Spring Challenge, take 2

Earlier this week I made a card that had a woodgrain panel background.  I really liked how it showed off the flowers that I put on top of it, but it was from a paper pad, and the last of that design.  So I decided to try and figure a way to make a similar background with supplies I have here in my craft room.  I ended up stamping this woodgrain background block onto fog cardstock using a charcoal ink, then trimmed it a bit, sliced it into planks and glued it back onto a slate grey card base, allowing some of the darker charcoal to show through and make planks.  I like the results, and it's easy enough to do and change up the colors to browns and tans, darker, greys, etc.  Since I'd gone that far, I decided to make a card, and remembered Avery Elle's challenge this month, which is Spring, and so I pulled out several of their stamp sets and made myself a spring wreath.

supplies: Avery Elle's Petals & Stems, Laurels, and Oh Happy Day sets, Ranger's new dye inks: Grape Soda, Lemon Twist, Pink Gumball, and Electric Lime, and Simon's Hydrangea ink, Simon's fog and slate grey cardstock, Hero Arts Designer Woodgrain block and charcoal ink, Paper Sweeties flower sequins, moonshine sequins, violet sequins

And since I fussy-cut the wreath and sentiment, I'd also like to enter this into Power Poppy's "Cut it Out" challenge once again.  Fussy-cutting is something I truly enjoy doing, thanks to a tiny pair of scherenschnitte scissors I have had for years!  They must be 30 years old at least, and they are still going strong!