Split Sprigs with ACLD

Hello friends and Happy Mother’s Day to all! 

Welcome to another post for A Colorful Life Designs (ACLD) as a May 2022 Guest Designer. Honestly, creating with the stencils designed by Mary Kay of ACLD is so easy and the ideas just keep flowing...

Here is today's star: the stencil called Split Sprigs. You receive both positive and negative of the stencil, so lots of creative options:

For the green card, I started with Bristol Smooth cardstock from Blick Art. This cardstock not only ink blends beautifully, but has a cream color which pairs perfectly with white. The blue card is white cardstock from my stash - I do prefer Hero Arts Dove White cardstock for it is 100 lb. - not too flimsy and not too heavy.

To ensure the delicate leaf branches stayed completely flat, I did use Pixie Spray on the stencil first. The green card was ink blended with Distress Ink colors: Bundled Sage and Peeled Paint. The blue card was Distress Ink Prize Ribbon. I tried to do a darker to lighter fading.

I knew I wanted to add florals to the branches and originally I was thinking of red, white  and blue, but then I saw a scarf I had in my closet...I thought perfect - red and pale blue! You never know from where you will find inspiration.

I used previously watercolored bits and bobs in my stash with various flower dies from both Spellbinders' Build a Spring Birdhouse and Sizzix's Thinlets - Flowers in an Umbrella to die cut the flowers and bird.

Lots of fun flowers in this set of Thinlets:

Love the little bird, too!

The sentiments are from the Paper Rose - Mother's Day quotes:

A few small enamel dots for the flower centers and we are all set!

I will be submitting my cards to:

The Four Seasons Challenge Spring Inspiration Board: 

My inspiration: Mother and Florals

Happy Little Stampers Stencil Challenge:

and:

NBUS - new Stencil and dies for me:

Thank you for sticking to the end and don't forget to check out A Colorful Life Designs' stencils...you'll love them!

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