BBTB2 Garden Challenge

Monday, again, already???  I can't even believe it's the last weekend of May and Memorial Day.  As it is Memorial Day, I can't let the chance go by to thank all our current and past military service members for their sacrifices for our country.  My son is a Marine and he's my HERO.  Time for a new challenge at BBTB2.  This is the last challenge for the month that our sweet Design Team sister, Julia, picked for us to create.  She came up with fantastic challenges and this week it's a garden theme.  Julia asked us to pick something that you'd find in the garden.  I don't really have a garden because we live in an RV but I love flowers and usually have a few pots sitting around the campsite.  I was excited that I got back to Northern Michigan in time to see the tulips blooming.  Nothing says spring more to me than a tulip.  We actually have a town in Michigan called Holland.  They have a tulip festival every year and the entire town is awash in tulips.  Anyway, I digress.  So for my card this week I used the Freshly Picked cartridge and made this flower box full of tulips.  I added a watering can and a pair of garden gloves to complete my card.  My printed papers are My Mind's Eye and my sentiment is from the Cardz TV Stamps Think Spring stamp set.

BBTB2 Bloom Cartridge Challenge

Happy Monday to you all.  This week's challenge at BBTB2 was chosen by our extremely talented Design Team member Theresa.  She asked us to use the fence/gate from the Bloom Cricut Lite cartridge.  I don't have this cartridge, but as always, we can choose another cartridge with a similar cut.  I recently picked up a discounted Freshly Picked cartridge and it had a great gate cut on it.  I decided to make a shaped card using my Gypsy.  I welded the shadow cut to make the card base and cut it at 4 inches.  I made a single cut of the gate shadow from a light gray cardstock for the front of the card and then cut the top layer in white.  This gate cut had the cute little flower vine and I did some layering with it for dimension.  I cut the vine from green cardstock twice and the flower is cut with three layers, two of them cut at 4" and the top flower layer is 3" with a pink rhinestone in the center.  I added a little grass at the base of the gate that I cut from the new Wrap It Up cartridge.  My Happy Spring sentiment is a Stampendous stamp.  It seems that so many are looking forward to Spring, especially those of us buried in snow.  It is no secret that I hate winter, so at this point I'm keeping my focus on the joys of my favorite season.  I love to see the leaves appear on the trees and the grass turn from ugly brown to green, the first flowers breaking through the dirt.  I can hardly wait.  In the meantime I'll keep trying to bring the season into my designs.  I'm going to share my Spring card over at My Pink Stamper.  Robyn has a challenge going that is perfect for my card.