Red and Yellow Tulips

I really want Spring to be here. I am itching for it. I want to see those first signs of green sprouting up in my flower beds. I want to see the tulips that don't exist anymore in my yard because Eric ran over them with the lawn mower too many times. I know he killed them on purpose because he hated to weed eat around them. Well, at least I can think about how pretty they were.

I guess I'll have to keep coloring flowers for now. I was inspired once again by these red and yellow tulips.
Today I'm using Karen Lockhart's Tulips stamp. The image has a pretty vase of tulips with a nice bold border, perfect for coloring with Copics. While I had my markers out, I decided to do a little mass production. But I shook things up a bit and colored three images three different ways, as shown below. The polka dots were made with a white gel pen.
Here's my finished cards...very much alike except for the colored images. I used polka dot papers from Cosmo Cricket to tie in with the red and yellow them. The bright green PTI ribbon adds a punch of color, representing the green leaves in the colored images.
So bright and cheery, perfect for spring. I finished up the cards with a little machine stitching around the image piece. The inside of my cards has a nice PTI sentiment stamped on more Cosmo Cricket patterned paper.
And here's the sketch I used from my idea notebook. Instead of the buttons across the top, I opted to use the tied ribbon.
And here's the lineup of Copics that I used to color my images...reds and yellows for the flowers, greens for the leaves and blues and blender for the background.
Hope you enjoy! It's been cold and actually snowing here a few days this week but nothing is sticking. Hurry up Spring!

Hey, for you all fans of flowers that are grown from bulbs....when do you plant your bulbs? I really want to plant some more tulips and daffodils and those sweet grape hyacinths this year. It's been so long though since I've planted any that I forgot when to plant them. Spring? Fall?