Spring Wishes by Kittie Caracciolo

Spring is just around the corner and brings the promise of beautiful flowers, lovely butterflies and warmer temperatures. My project today shows the spring season in full bloom. 

My project today was made using Impression Obsession’s Hollyhocks, Large Fence, Tall Grass, Grass Border, Small Grass Border, Cloud Set and Butterfly Set.  The sentiment is from the Easter Basket set stamp set.

I started by cutting all the pieces for my project using bright spring colors.  Did you know Ellen is now carrying a beautiful line of smooth, heavyweight cardstock by Bazzill? I used Cotton Candy, Sour Grape, Easter Green, Icy Mint and Sour Lemon.  

 

I lightly applied a touch of PanPastel to the flowers and butterflies with a mini applicator to add depth.

 

I used a green Copic marker to color in the stems.

I used my stylus and molding pad to form the flowers.

The large fence die is just a little short of covering the width of the card base.  I cut two pickets off of a second fence and attached one picket with glossy accents to the back of the end piece of the full fence. 

I stamped the sentiment on the largest cloud using black versafine.

I applied thin strips of mounting tape to the back of the fence and attached it to the card base.

I applied the tall grass and grass border to the front of the fence using my AATG adhesive.

I cut a portion off the bottom of each flower to be the correct height for the fence.  I applied a touch of glossy accents to the bottom of each one and tucked them in behind the grass border.  I use the point of my leaf tool to scoot the stems down and to secure in place. 

I attached rolled glue dots to the back of a few of the flowers to hold the upper stems in place.

I applied thin strips of mounting tape to the back of the small grass border and attached it in front of the grassy border.

I applied small pieces of mounting tape to the back of the clouds and attached them to the card base.

I lightly bent the wings of the butterflies up so they would appear to be flying and attached them to the card base with a small touch of glossy accents.  I held them in place for a second using the point of my leaf tool.

Can you ever add too many butterflies?  I don’t think so. 

I thought the big puffy cloud was the perfect place for the Special Spring Wishes.

I hope you have been inspired to pull out your dies and create a spring scene that will help warm you and melt away all of that February winter snow.

Impression Obsession Dies, Hollyhocks	Impression Obsession Dies, Lg. Fence	Impression Obsession Dies, Grass Border	Impression Obsession Dies, Grass
Impression Obsession Dies, Sm Grass Border	Impression Obsession Dies, Butterfly	Impression Obsession Dies, Clouds	Impression Obsession Clear Stamp Set: Easter Basket
Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Cotton Candy, 10 pk	Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Easter Grass, 10 pk	Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Sour Grape, 10 pk	Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Sour Lemon, 10 pk
Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Icy Mint, 10 pk	PanPastel Sofft Mini Applicators, 12 pk	PanPastel Ultra Soft Artist Pastel 9 ml, Permanent Red 340.5	PanPastel Ultra Soft Artist Pastel 9 ml, Diarylide Yellow 250.5
PanPastel Ultra Soft Artist Pastel 9 ml, Violet 470.5	VersaFine, Onyx Black	Sizzix Accessory, Magnetic Platform for Wafer-Thin Dies	Sizzix Big Shot Machine, Powder Blue & Teal
Tonic Paper Trimmer Guillotine, 12x6	Teflon Bone Folder	Sizzix Accessory, Tool Kit inspired by Susan Tierney-Cockburn	Accents, Glossy
Copic High Tack Double-Sided Foam Mounting Tape, 1/2"	COPIC Sketch Marker G99, Olive	Glue Dots, Mini (3/16")	Clear Acrylic Block, 2.5 Round w/ Alignment Grid and Finger Grips

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