Bicycle Springs

Sunday and the sun is shining! It is almost jacket weather! I am tempting fate but I packed away my snow boots. Next....I will be laundering scarves, mittens, and chapeaus! Spring can't be far off...can it? What screams spring more than a bicycle, flowers, and GREEN grass?

Another technique challenge over at Just Us Girls. I do love a technique challenge! Well, I don't always LOVE them but I do like giving them a go!  This challenge is a wood panel look and here is the video tutorial link.

This is a card that will be seen in April over at {PIN}spirational. (You will have to wait to see what the photo inspiration will be.) I "discovered" a Stampin' Up Spectrum ink pad in a drawer that I cleaned out...whooot!!! So I put it to work on the sentiment. I love finding long forgotten treasures in hidden places!

Detail

Pedal Pusher Pink

~Base card - pink Stampin' Up

~Layer of kraft card stock stained and scored to look like paneling

~Bicycle stamp: Unity Stamp, stamped with pink, seat, fenders colored with Copics, pedals, handle highlighted with Smooch, Stampin' Up Crystal Effects added to the fender

~Brads used on the wheels

~Flowers in basket by Fred She Said Design,  Marigolds & Morpho colored with Copics, hand cut, and highlighted with Stampin' Up Crystal Effects

~Hand cut "grass"

~Taylored Expressions Picket Fence die cut

~Sentiment by Unity, stamped with Stampin' Up Fiesta Spectrum

~Die cut label for sentiment

~Two pink pearls

Inspirations | Challenges

Just Us Girls - technique

Emerald Faeries - pretty in pink

Card and Scrap - dies

Pumpkin Spice - rainbow (sentiment ink)

Totally Gorjuss - pink and green

Jo's Scrap Shack - anything goes

Here's to thoughts of spring, packing away winter duds, and found treasures,

Nancy in Iowa