Have a Great Day {TBT}
Ahh Springtime. You are so wonderful. Cool some nights but not too bad and definitely flip-flop shoes, capri pants weather during the day! Today for Throwback Thursday, I decided to share this spring card that I made in April 2013. It's hard to believe that today is the last day of April and that summer is getting even closer. Anyway, I really like the design of this card and this is what I had to say on how I created it:
I had this Tim Holtz bird stamp that I really wanted to use. As most of his stamps are, there’s not a lot of area that needs coloring. But I did use a few Copic markers to color the bird and I used Y18+Y19. Around the branches where I cut it out and where you could still see a bit of white, I colored with my E000+C0 Copic markers. The butterfly is a Hero Arts stamp that comes with the die to cut it out. I colored the butterfly with BG72 and only used the one marker as the areas to color were so small. I used some light blue cardstock from Stampin’ Up and punched out the shape with a die and then used an EK Success punch to make the notebook paper edge on the striped paper. All the printed papers are from a 6×6 Designer Paper Pad by Pebbles called “Family Ties.” I also lightly inked the edges of the blue paper with Tim Holtz Distress ink in Soot Black. For the finishing touch, I applied Glossy Accents to the bird, branch and the butterfly and let them dry. This gave them some dimension without making them real thick. Then I added three paper flowers by Bazzill. The sentiment stamp is by Papertrey Ink. Lastly I decided to add the yellow and white Baker’s Twine bow.
Okay, I'm keeping it short today as I want to get upstairs to the craft room for the afternoon. I've got several ideas jumping around in my head; and if (that's a BIG if) I get one of them done, I will share a free tutorial class video for National Scrapbook Day. And if I do get it done, it will be here on my blog bright and early Saturday, May 2. Keep your fingers (and toes) crossed!
Happy Crafting,
