Spring Flowers
Floral cards seem to be my thing at the moment. I guess it’s the garden starting to come to life again and flowers peeking their way through the gloom that are providing the inspiration. Since moving back into my craft room, I’ve found things that I forgotten I bought so when I rediscovered these dies, I decided to have a play. The rabbits and wheelbarrow are from Charlie & Paulchen, a German company, and the tiny flowers are from Gummiapan in Sweden. When I’m making cards like this, I like to get all the die-cutting done at the start so I just cut out loads of the flowers and then coloured them with my markers. I opted to just use the crocuses and snowdrops and omitted the dandelion, as I was thinking of these becoming Easter cards. Then it was just a case of layering everything up. I chopped some of the flowers apart so I could rearrange them so they didn’t look quite so uniform. I also positioned the main focal image at each end so that the bunny was facing into