Spring Birdie

Hello All!

I decided to make a last minute entry for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. This week's challenge is called "whatever the weather". I saw a lot of rainy entries and I'm looking out my window and seeing too much rain myself. In an attempt to relieve the rainy blues, I chose to focus on the result of rain, which is the growing flowers and birds that come out and start chirping once the rain is gone.

I chose to use a colour pallet of navy blue, soft pink, peach and grey! I noticed this used on a TV commercial and thought it was a nice mix of colours. In this case, I used Altenew Desert Night, Frosty Red and Limestone inks. 

I also wanted it to have a bit of sheen so I used Simon Says Stamp Powder Steel Navy, Ranger Silver and Altenew Golden Peach embossing powders. I recently got the SSS powder steel navy and I am in love with it! I find myself choosing colour schemes that include it just to use it!

I basically used my WPlus9 stamp sets to create a floral background. I used various floral and leaf images from Southern Florals 1 & 2, Fresh Cut Florals, Merry Florals and the sentiment, bird and branch images from All Year Cheer.

Once I had my background, I die cut an oval  in the center. I adhered my background to a soft pink card base with foam squares adhesive. I don't have dies for these sets so I fussy cut the images that I put in the oval opening. I simply placed my cut pieces where I liked them and carefully adhered them with liquid and foam adhesive.        

  

Once my sentiment was stamped with MFT Black Licorice hybrid ink, I went over it with a Wink of Stella marker. I also added some clear white and navy blue gems to the background flowers, bird tail and around the sentiment. And voila, there you have it!