WLS March#1 - Hello Spring

Good Morning everyone

Today is the start of a new challenge over at We Love Stamping

The theme this month is HELLO SPRING

but you can always go with the anything goes theme as long as you use stamping

A6 white linen cardblank.  I took a piece of white linen card and stamped the crocus stamp twice with 'monarch' versaclair ink which was a Christmas present.  The colour reminds me of the purple crocus you get but i decided to colour the actual crocus yellow with my inktense pencils and cut them out....I have both colours of crocus flowering together each year.

In my paper stash i found a piece of paper with co-ordinating colours so die cut into 2 small cross stitch rectangles, matted onto purple and added top and bottom of the cardfront.

I die cut the base image into a cross stitch rectangle and decoupaged the cut out crocus onto the base image which i had put a light wash of blue around the image.  I matted the panel onto purple and then added the card front.

'Think spring' die cut from a snippet of gold satin card and a few pale green gems added to finish.  I used green gems as a contrast to the yellow and purple and pick up on the stems and leaves which are green.

You can see the gold satin better at this angle - nightmare to get a decent photo of it .  My crocus have been enjoying the spring sunshine we've had this week.

Items Used:

Chocolate Baroque stamps 'spring is in the air'

Sue wilson die 'think spring'

Derwent inktense pencils

MFT Xstitch rectangle dies

Bobunny paper (very old)

CraftUk white linen card

Purple paper

Gem gems

Versafine clair ink 'monarch'

Do hop over to We Love Stamping to join in and see what the rest of the DT have created with our spring theme

This months prizes are these 2 beautiful penny black stamp sets.

Thank you all for stopping by, I hope you all have a lovely week. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/2025/02/bring-me-flowers.html

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https://carlinskaartenparadijs.blogspot.com/2025/03/challenge-80-maart.html

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https://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-2025-crafts-galore-encore.html

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https://thecraftingchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/03/aspettando-la-primavera-waiting-for.html

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https://2sistersontheblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/challenge-95.html

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https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/03/spring-season-march-2025.html