Lockhart Tulips

As I was sitting in my living room this morning, I was looking outside into our back yard. It's barren, brown and pretty lifeless right now. I'm yearning for Spring to come so that I can see the color green again...more birds...and flowers. But I will be patient in the mean time and just make spring like cards! Today I'm using Karen Lockhart's Tulips stamp. It's a pretty little stamp that captures the essence of a big bouquet of tulips. I can't say I've ever seen this color of tulips before around here but when you're creating art, you can use whatever colors you want right?

I colored my image with Copic markers. Oh how I love to sit and color with the Sketch markers. They have truly changed the way my colored images look. I just love them! I mounted my main image onto the Spellbinders Die Template that I showed a few days ago. It's a new release that will be out in late February/March this year and it's called Classic Inverted Scalloped Squares. I think that the inverse shape really adds a lot of detail to the layers of my card. Be sure to see my post a few days ago, all of the designer's blog links are listed so that you can catch a peek of other new SB dies being released.

For the remainder of my card, I used Papertrey cardstock in Ocean Tides and Aqua Mist, Polka Dot ribbon in Aqua Mist and October Afternoon patterned paper.

I know it's snowing in lots of your neighborhoods, so Spring is definitely not peeking around your corner yet. I hope you're staying warm, drinking lots of nice hot drinks by the fire...and stamping!!