Sunday, March 9, 2014

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
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


7 comments:

  1. Pretty card, Nancy! Love your wood background and that sweet bike. Thanks for joining us at Just Us Girls!

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  2. That background looks exactly like some wood paneling I had in a house one time! Nice!! Love the little bicycle, fence and flowers too. The sentiment! Wow!! That really pops in the different colors.
    Lynn

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  3. Very cute card....Love all your different colors in your sentiment! Thanks for playing along with us over at Just Us Girls.

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  4. Awesome wood background. Great job with the challenge Nancy! Thanks for playing along this week at Just Us Girls!

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  5. A pink bike! Be still my heart!! I would love a bike like this! It looks great against your faux wood background! Great card and thanks for joining us this week at Just Us Girls!

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  6. Loving it Nancy! Love the "ground" the grass and little fence are just perfect! Think I'd rather be making cards than peddling a bike though 😉 x

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