Sunday, March 8, 2009

We have SPRUNG forward...

What a morning...woke up to rain and wind, and wind and rain...and then we went Amish (no electric)...yet again...not for horribly long, but long enough! The ground is still pretty frozen here so all the rain sits on top of the ground...lots of flooding today, roads flooded, enough so the neighbors are outside snapping photos of their flooded land. I talked with my FIL and said he had to hook up the generator because the basement walls were seeping and the basement would flood if he didn't keep the sump pump going...but all is well, just a wet start to today! LOL

As if that wasn't enough, daylight savings time has begun for another year, so I'm already an hour behind! LOL...

So since rain to me = Spring around the corner, I thought a nice spring card would be in order! I met several challenges with this card, Pink Elephant Challenge blog was to use Die Cuts and Ribbon, the Cupcake Challenge Blog challenge was Spring, and I used the Mojo Monday sketch.
So let's discuss the card briefly, I found this adorable nest stamp by Inkadinkado (which is a nameless stamp) and decided to use my Nestabilities Label 1 dies to cut it out. The nest is stamped on watercolor paper and watercolored with Tombow pens, then matted on SU and IOD (striped) paper. Then I added the ribbon, the sentiment and pierced the bottom left corner towards the sentiment. Recipe below, enjoy!

Recipe:
  • Stamp: Inkadinkado Nest, Studio G Sentiment
  • Ink: Staz On
  • Paper: SU, IOD, Watercolor
  • Other: Nestabilities Label 1, Ribbon, Piercer, Pop Dots

13 comments:

Jacquel said...

Another gorgeous card Paula and the colors are so pretty together! awesome work gf!!

Annie said...

Love the clean lines on this card - really beautiful
Thanks for joining us at the Pink Elephant this week.
Hope you will check out our new challenge which starts today - it's using the colours Pink, Green and Brown.

Ann xxx

Michelle Quinno said...

Oooh, it's so perty!!

I hope your basement doesn't flood! We ended up with several inches of snow. :-P Not too hapy about that!

Hope you get your images today.

LORi said...

Super nice card!!

Robin said...

What an adorable card!! I love that little nest. Thanks for joining us at at TPE this week.
Robin
http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com

Alicia said...

How lovely Paula this is such a soft and sweet card the color combo is perfect.

Chris Olsen, Glowbug said...

Beautiful Job on three challenges!! Love your colors and the way you put all of those challenges together. Great spring card!!

Ceal said...

I love this. So simple yet beautiful. Thanks for sharing with us this week at CCC

Julee (Vervegirl) said...

Just beautiful! Thanks for playing! :)

craft mad Jenny said...

such a lovely card, really nice,

jen

Susan said...

Wow! I love your card. Very creative and nicely done. Even great photos! Awesome!

Gingerbread Gal♥ said...

Very Pretty! I love the soft colors and layout. That nest is so sweet. Simply Lovely!
:) Rachel

Carolyn Bounds said...

How very pretty!!! I love your take on the sketch and the beautiful color combo!!! This card belongs in the pages of a magazine!!! Gorgeous!!!!

Hugs!
Carolyn