STAMPlorations Spring Fling Day 9 project

STAMPlorations is having a Spring Fling 12 days of giveaway with great prizes.

Just look at this list.

Day 1 - $15 gift certificate

Day 2 - Choice of 3 in-stock 3x5 stamp sets ($21 value)

Day 3 - $25 gift code

Day 4 - Choice of 3 Sanna Lippert Designs stencils ($15 value)

Day 5 - Choice of 1 in-stock 4x6 Dee's Artsy Impressions stamp set ($15 value)

Day 6 - Choice of 1 cover plate die ($25 value)

Day 7 - Choice of 1 in-stock 4x6 The Bee's Knees stamp set ($15 value)

Day 8 - Choice of 1 in-stock Big Grins by Becca Cruger stamp set ($15 value)

Day 9 - Choice of 3 in-stock CUTplorations word/phrase dies (up to $30 value)

Day 10 - Choice of 1 4x8 stamp set ($20 value)

Day 11 - Choice of 1 in-stock 4x6 Shery Russ Designs stamp set ($15 value)

Day 12 - $15 gift certificate

Day 17 (extra prize) - three winners of $10 gift codes

I started my project for today using pale purple cardstock and

CUTplorations CRAZY DOUBLE RUNNIN STITCH NESTING RECTANGLE DIES

I also cut thin strips out of the pale purple cardstock.

I started by taping the strips to the back of the "frame".

 Then I wove the strips to make the trellis for my card. 

I had a mono print that I had made using markers and my gel pad. It had an abstract feeling. I thought it would make a good background for behind the trellis. I wanted a little texture so I embossed it with music notes. This photo also shows some of the flowers.

I made these 3-d flowers by stamping some of the flowers from 

STAMPlorations: IT'S A GIRL THING- SUNSHINE

I colored the flowers and fussy cut them out. I cut a big flower and 2 of the smaller flower for each of the 3-d flowers. It was a lot of stamping coloring, cutting, layering and gluing but I think it was worth it. I also put glitter in the centers of the flowers. Some I did with teal glitter and some I did with purple glitter. Because I watercolored the flowers, no two flowers looked exactly the same. Just like they would in real life. 

I added some die cut leaves and made it an easel card.

The butterfly and flower on the inside work as the stoppers for the easel. The sentiment was stamped on a scrap piece of cardsotck. I used the sentiment from 

STAMPlorations : BLOOMING BUDS -Dee's Artsy Impressions

With this really pretty garden, I just knew that it would make a perfect home for my butterfly. (Look for this butterfly to visit all my projects for the Spring Fling.) 

STAMPlorations BLOSSOM LIKE A BUTTERFLY

I hope you have been inspired by my spring fling project. Remember to comment on the featured blogs to win that day's prize. There is one other way that you can be a winner. Shery has a SPRING FLING section at STAMPlorations where the product is automatically 25% off. Isn't that great? But it gets even better. If you use my design team code, below, you will get an additional 20% off. That is a total of 45 % off for product in that section.