Hello Bluebird!!! .... and a Lunch Date!!

The weekend has been so gorgeous here in Southwestern Ontario!! I spent some time in the yard, weeding my garden and I'm already seeing things sprouting up from the dirt! And I can heard those birdies singin' in the morning!! Aaaaahhhh! Winter is finally over!!

So I had yesterday off from work and besides yardwork and attacking a giant mound of laundry, I also made a few cards. This one I'm particularly happy with!!! This week's Tilda and Co. challenge is to create a Girlie card, but it has to be mainly Blue. So I pulled out my Tilda and Bird stamp and got busy!

Do you ever start a card with a specific idea, with papers and embellishments in mind and the finished product turns out to be nothing like that original idea?? Well, this is that card for me. The papers and colours I had set out to use with it are still sitting on my craft table!

Anyway, for this card I stamped the fence stamp twice, side by side, on Wasau bright white paper and the Tilda stamp on a separate piece. I coloured them in with my Copic markers and cut Tilda out. The papers I used are from an older line of Basic Grey papers, called Oh Baby Boy. They have a sort of distressed look to them, so I decided to distress all the edges of paper with my Heidi Swapp distressing tool. The card base is a 6x6 textured Very Vanilla piece of cardstock. The layer on top of that is a green BG paper and then I layered the patterned piece of BG paper on top of a Brocade Blue piece. I also distressed the patterned piece using Tea Dye ink by Ranger. On the focal piece I coloured the sky area and around the fence using a Copic colour called Raw Silk which gives it an off white colour and then coloured the ground with a green Copic. I sponged it with Tea Dye, distressed the edges, and attached to the base. Tilda is popped up on lots of pop dots and I added Stardust Stickles to her wings. I embellished the card with a piece of American Crafts gingham ribbon that matched perfectly and also attached a mixture of Prima flowers with soft yellow Making Memories glitter brads. I topped it all off with a trio of green Dew Drops on the top left corner!! Isn't she just yummy???

Okay!! Now onto to our Lunch Date!!! If you are in the local Southwestern Ontario area and would like to meet up for a yummy lunch and some stamp shopping, I will be in Petrolia this coming Friday, April 25th (my day off) for lunch at noon at Actors and then for a little shopping at The Town Scrapper. If you would like to join me, be sure to send me a quick email or leave me a message in this post, so that I can make a reservation for lunch!! Hope you can join me!!!