Hi! This card was made for today's Sketch Challenge.
I have to admit, I'm ready for Spring. NOT SUMMER, just Spring. You know, when the temperature doesn't rise over 62 degrees. When the bright green new shoots of grass start to appear in patches all over the back yard. When you look out and see a SWARM of Robins, thousands of them, screaming and flying around your neighbor's fruit trees. Yes, it's beginning to look a bit like Spring here in North Florida! Yesterday, our neighbor's front yard was COVERED in robins! His yard looked like the grass was MOVING...It was the ROBINS! Mark and I stood in our front yard and just gawked. I've never seen anything like that before. However, we weren't really thinking about how this phenomenon could affect us until....a car drove by and scared the flock...They flew right at us! We just STOOD there, stunned. What do birds do, after they eat and then fly in fright? Needless to say, Mark and I had to shower, and WASH the cars in our driveway... Again, if I had my camcorder, I would have won on America's Funniest Videos....
The images were stamped in Noir and sponged in with Nude and Orangerie. I added in Copic Dots on the butterfly and stamens. Highlights were added with an Inkssentials pen.
Registered: May 7, 2006 Location: Spokane, WA Posts: 1393
Wed, Feb 03, 2010 @ 12:11 PM
Your cards have such a style to them that I can usually pick them out without looking at your name! This is another gorgeous card! I am ready for spring too ... and we too have been seeing lots of robins around (although not swarms of them!) and we are in northeastern Washington state! Last year we had record breaking amounts of snow into April ... this year, only a skiff and I am NOT complaining!
------------------------------ I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. Phil. 4:13
Registered: March 24, 2006 Location: Deep in the Heart of TEXAS Posts: 15980
Wed, Feb 03, 2010 @ 1:04 PM
Very pretty colors and papers!! Please check out the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge by clicking on the link below my signature. We would be honored to have one of your lovely creations in our weekly challenge!
------------------------------ Phyllis Young at heart, slightly older in other parts. We really never grow up, we just learn how to act in public!! What if you woke up today with only what you had thanked God for yesterday??
Registered: September 10, 2004 Location: Hudson Valley, NY Posts: 6918
Wed, Feb 03, 2010 @ 1:18 PM
Just gorgeous, Faith! Your coloring is always amazing! And what a robin story- no robins around here, hopping around in the snow! hahaha! I'm ready for spring!