Thinking of......Warmer Weather!!

Welcome fellow bloggers...may your day be nice and cozy!  Remember when the yard was green and the trees had leaves...it seems like ages ago.  Winter has really only begun, but I'm impatient for spring already.

When I first saw this image, Three Trees, from Just Inklined,  I new I wanted to try something a little different........colouring with distress inks, using only sponges.

I could say this was a nice easy project....but that's only correct if you can keep your inks and sponges in order.  It can be frustrating, if you are nearly finished and then you pick up the wrong colour for touch up....soooo, this wasn't my first attempt!

I started with the sky, and worked from the top down.  Save the trees for last, and for these, be sure to work with a very small piece of sponge.  I did colour the tree trunks with marker.

Next, I cut out the image using 2 sizes of the same Nestie die, which left me with three pieces....the image, a border and the outer edge.   The border piece is sponged with more green and then I've pieced it all back together, building it up with different card stock layers for added dimension.

You will notice a bit of stamping in the corners and on the underlying DP, but otherwise just a single flower and a couple of pearls finish it off.

Now, we all know it's 5 oclock somewhere......but I'm definitely more interested in the somewhere with no snow!

Thanks once again for visiting, and have a great day.

I will be entering into the following challenges:
Raise the Bar Challenge - Trees
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes