Spring is in the Air, at least for now.

We have had a very springy last few days, and our snow bank out front is significantly smaller.  Alas, Spring is only visiting because Winter will be back tomorrow with snow for the next few days.  For now though, I thought I'd make a springy card.  :)

As per usual I started off with the patterned paper, a really cute little set - Fancy Pants Summer's End 6x6 pad.  I suppose technically it is a fall themed pad, but the colours are so bright and fun it could easily be adapted to spring.

I chose the small little sentiment "Bloom where you're planted" from a page of sentiments and journaling blocks in the pad.  Since the flowers will be blooming (relatively) soon I thought this was appropriate.  I then chose the doily background, and all of the coordinating cardstock.  I particularly love the bright green in the patterns so I chose a couple of green shades that would compliment it, and some matching Stampin' Up! ribbon I've had for ages.

I decided to go with an easel folded card, so once I decorated and assembled the card front, I decorated the part of the inside of the card that would be showing when the card was displayed.  I chose the little bird stamp and decided to colour it with my Bic markers.  I found the blue was very blue once it was coloured so I added some blue to the petals on the sentiment so it would coordinate a little better.

Once ribbon and jewels were added, I added a space for a handwritten note in the center and I was done!

This is the first easel card I've made, and because of that I think my measurements were a little off and it didn't pop up as much as I would have liked.  That said, I think this card is really pretty and makes me look forward to when Spring is here to stay!  :)

I've decided to enter this card into the following challenges:

1. Allsorts - Say It With Flowers
2. Catered Crop - Ravenous for Ribbon Quickfire
3. Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
4. Craft Your Passion - Easel Cards
5. Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes
6. Lets Ink it Up - Show us Your Flowers
7. The Pretty Little Ribbon - Spring Colours
8. Pile it On - St. Patrick's Day and/or Shades of Green

Here are the supplies I used:

Cardstock - Stampin' Up! Old Olive, Certainly Celery, Very Vanilla.  Fancy Pants Designs Summer's End 6x6 pad.

Stamp Set - Fancy Pants Designs Little Star.

Ink -  Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink Chestnut Roan.

Markers - Bic Mark It! Blue Skies Blue, Oceanview Blue.  Prismacolour Colourless Blender.

Adhesives - Tombo Mono Multi Liquid glue, Adhesive Runner permanent.  Mini Glue Dots.  Foam Squares.

Embellishments - Stampin' Up! Certainly Celery twill ribbon, Basic Rhinestones.

Tools - Paper trimmer, scissors, sponge, We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper, bone folder.