Hello Spring

Hello everyone, it's actually a bit better down here today-still cold but lovely and sunny. It's amazing what a little bit of sunshine does for you and I've decided to enter this card in the current Sophisticat challenge which is Spring. This is my very first attempt at colouring with Promarkers as I bought the Spring set a couple of months back and have only just plucked up the courage to use them. You've probably noticed that I don't do much colouring on my projects, tending to rely on inks! This might change now as I didn't realise how well the Promarkers seem to blend and I think with a lot more practice I will like these a lot. I had to raid my elder daughter's desk drawer (you may remember Claire is in Japan and she's a very good Manga artist) for some flesh and hair colours.

The sweet image came from the Polka Doodles Back to Nature CD as did the pretty daisies round the frame. The daisy paper came from the brand new Love & Cherish CD and I've altered it a little with pink, lilac and yellow inks for a brighter look. Nikky is on Create and Craft TV again at 3pm on Monday 25 January with both these CDs and Promarkers so if you missed the last show, you can catch her then. She'll have loads of samples from the Design Team too and hopefully mine too this time as the snow caused late delivery of my cards last time and they missed the show!
I used a Nestabilities set to cut out and emboss the flower shapes and embossed my lilac panel with the Cuttlebug Floral Fantasy folder. I trimmed the top edge with scallop scissors. I finished off with a greeting from the Back to Nature CD.