Cherry blossom

I really ought to colour something other than Power Poppy images but they’re just so pretty and perfect for feminine cards. Though, to be fair, I have coloured up a couple of other digis recently, they just haven’t made it onto cards yet.

This digi stamp has a single branch of blossoming cherry so I duplicated it and arranged them on the Mac until I was happy with the layout. Then I printed it out and coloured it with my Copic markers.

I heat embossed the sentiment and die cut it with a sentiment strip die that has been lurking in my stash for ages. I added a few adhesive gems and thought I was finished.

After I’d taken all the photos, and right before I was about to put it into an envelope and post it off, I remembered that I’d originally planned to add some dots of gel pen to the centres of the flowers. I had a brief moment of indecision — should I just forget about it and post it as it was — but then I went ahead and took the time to add the dots. I’m glad I did.

Copic markers:

flowers – RV10, RV11, RV14, RV19
buds – RV11, RV14, RV19
sepals – YG17, YR27
branch – R56, YR27
background – BG11, G00, G000

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Tim Holtz – crazy talk
• digital stamps:
  Power Poppy – blossoming cherry
• dies:
  My Favourite Things – stitched sentiment strips
• inks:
  Versamark
• embossing powder:
  Ranger – liquid platinum
• pens:
  Gelly Roll stardust meteor – copper
• embellishments:
  The Works – adhesive gems
• paper and card:
  Neenah solar white 216gsm
  Hunkydory Adorable Scorable pearly shimmer
  scrap of dark red card