Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday: Spring

This months Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday is to make a project that makes you think of spring, my garden is beginning to look quite spring like with daffodils flowering but there is a distinct lack of blossom and spring leaves, although there was a hail storm around lunch time which definitely made me feel like spring has got lost! For me the main thing I think of when I hear the word spring is flowers and as there was a Mother's Day card that I needed to make for a friend which needed flowers on it, I thought that would be the ideal card to showcase spring. This is the card I made:

I started the card by die cutting and stamping the WPlus9 Fresh Cut Florals and More Fresh Cuts in Hero Arts Cube inks in Pool, Green Hills, Field Green, Passion Flower, Grape Juice, Wet Cement, Lemon Yellow, Butter Bar, Cornflower, Pale Tomato, Orange Soda, Soft Granite and Charcoal. I usually keep a supply of them ready but I didn't have enough for the project and its easy to make lots, I ran through each of the die sets three times so I have lots of spare flowers for future projects. I had initially wanted to have the flowers coming out of a vase but I do not own one in my whole stamps and dies sets. I cut out the circles using the Die-namics circle stax 1 from white cardstock and Alla-Prima Collection 6x6 paper stack (it didn't have a name). I adhered the chosen flowers with Claudine Hellmuth Studio multi-medium in matte in a nice arrangement and set it aside to dry. I cut out the cover for the cardbase from the First Edition Paper Bird Song 6x6 Designer Paper Pad as the polka dots have a texture that is similar to heat embossing so it gave a bit of texture and shine to the card without being overpowering. I adhered the circles together and attached them to the card front with dimensional adhesive. I then cut out the banner using the Simon Says Stamp Folded Banner Craft die and stamped the sentiment using the Lawn Fawn Happy Everything stamp set in Versafine Onyx Black. I used dimensional adhesive on the strip part of the banner and tape runner to the flag ends to create some fun dimension. The card is fairly simple to make so it could be easily reproduced using different sentiments.

There is the chance to add up to three cards to the Work It Wednesday Spring Challenge so keep an eye out for more similar projects during April, when hopefully spring will have actually arrived!

Thanks for looking, I hope you feel inspired to make a project that makes you think of spring. If you are interested in taking part in the challenge too, the link is http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/blog/work-it-wednesday-march-2014/, you have until the end of April to enter.