Looks Like Spring

The challenge this week at Fantabulous Cricut is "Looks Like Spring" (Any springtime project).

Well, I love to garden and that's the first thing I think of when spring comes around. I can't wait to get outside, be in the sunshine and start my gardens. I like my floral gardens, they always bring me joy to look at the beautiful flowers, but I love the vegetable garden. It brings me back to when I was a kid with my Grandfather. He gardened every year...sting beans, tomatoes, onions, eggplant...just to name a few. Oh, happy memories! I miss him....

Finished Card: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Materials:
Cardstock: White, Two shades of Blue, Two shades of Orange, Green, Black, Red, Silver and Patterned Paper.
Cricut Cartridge Freshly Picked Tomato page 69 (Base, Shift Base, Layers Base and Words Base), Spade page 62 (Base and Shift Base), Rake page 60 (Base and Shift Base), Gloves 2 page 56 (Base), Flowers 5 (Pot) page 39 (Shift Base and Layers Base)
Cricut Design Studio (placement of paper and sizing)
Sizzix Embossing Folder Spring Flowers
Chalk: Charcoal and Red Orange (to give shadow)
Red Pigment Ink (on edge of tomato)
Brown Pigment Ink (to antique the silver on the spade and rake)
Mounting Tape
Computer  Sentiment

I hope that I may have inspired you to either make a spring card and/or get out there and try some gardening (plant something for me)...just imagine what you could do.....

Marigolds

Thought I would enter this card in three different challenges...Die Cuttin' Diva's (gardening cut), The Paper Variety (tic tac toe...use 2+ flowers, spring colors and scallops) and CropStop (use lace, real or paper).

I thought the potted marigolds would work for gardening. The flowers are the marigolds and the ones on the background paper, the pastel colors for spring colors and scallops at the bottom. The "lace" is the blue swirls.

Finished Card: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Materials:
Cardstock: White, Two Shades of  Green, Two Shades of Purple, Blue, Two Shades of Yellow and Patterned Paper.
Cricut Cartridge Freshly Picked Flower 3 page 32 (Base, Shift Base, Layers Base and Shift, Layers 2/Shadow Base and Shift and Words Base and Shift)
Cricut Cartridge Paper Lace Dove 2 (Swirl) page 33 (Lace 2 Base)
Cricut Cartridge Christmas Cards Scallop 2nd Button
Cricut Design Studio
Orange and Purple Chalk (Shadow on Flowers and Pot)
Green Pigment Ink (Shadow on Leaves)
Mounting Tape

Hope you like the card. Just makes me wish for spring to come...lol. Let me know what you think.

Have a good rest of the day...imagine what you could do.........