Daffodils and Blackbirds

Hello and welcome! It's time for a new challenge at Allsorts and Lynn is hosting this week. For her optional theme she selected "Add Yellow" which I happen to love, especially this time of the year so it was perfect for me to finally ink up a new to me stamp set.

I didn't plan on making 2 cards but somehow that's how it ended so here they are both using the same stamps - Elegant Spring Florals #623 and Blackbird #530 both by Aall and Create.

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On the card above I made a smooshed background using Squeezed Lemonade and Wilted Violet ink (or was it Villianous Potion??) then stamped the floral image onto the card. I colored with distress inks and pencils. I wasn't too thrilled with it so far and that's when I decided to start working on the second card (below). But when that one was finished I decided to go back  this one and added the blackbirds and garden sentiment which is also part of the Blackbird set. I inked the edged with Squeezed Lemonade ink then mounted onto black cardstock and then a white card base.

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I plan to share this card with these challenges:

• Daisy Chain Challenges - Flowers
• Double D Challenges - First Signs of Spring
• Fab n Funky - Favorite Colors (I love yellow and purple)
• Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges - AG
• Paper Shelter - In the Garden
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Bright and Cheerful
• Stamping Sensations - Spring
• Triple B - Birds, Blooms or Butterflies
• We Love 2 Create - Something Creative
• Word Art Wednesdays - AG

And here is the other card I made with the same stamps.

Here I started with a circle die cut mask then inked with Squeezed Lemonade Oxide ink and also used a stencil (Circle Explosion). Next I stamped the image and colored with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. I stamped "Narcissus" on a scrap piece and added 3 enamel dots next to it. I wanted to turn this into a birthday card so I added the Penny Black birthday sentiment from the set Sprinkles and Smiles and Stickles glitter to the bloom. Still seemed like it needed something else so I got out the Blackbird set and stamped the birds. Believe it or not but this is when I thougth there was too much going on now LOL so this is when I decided to finish the above card. Well, my daughter liked this one more so I decided to show both :) And I can't really say which one I prefer now that I finished both. Which one do you like more?

I plan to share the above card with these challenges:

• Aud Sentiments Blog Challenge - Glitter
• Beautiful Blossoms - Flowers
• Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game! - Stencils and Spring
• Dragonfly Dreams - Circles
• Dream Valley Challenges - Sparkle
• Incy Wincy Designs - Birthday
• {PIN}spirational - Glitter
• Simon Says Stamp - Add a sentiment
• Sisterhood of Crafters - Dots or Stripes
• The Paper Funday - Dies or AG (I used a die cut as a mask)
• We Love Stamping - Feminine

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Btw, Allsorts challenge is open for one week and I hope to see you joining us for your chance to win. We have prizes from Craftstash and AALL and Create for challenges 771 and 772 with winners announcements on the last Friday of the month.