Bluebonnet Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day, Crafters! Before I get started with today's project, I wanted to share an amazing Mother's Day Sale going on at Ellen Hutson:

You have until Tues, May 16 to use this coupon code but the earlier you shop, the more items will be in stock!

Today I'm sharing a typical Texas Spring scene created with a wonderful new stamp from Pink Ink Stamps -- Bluebonnet Highway:

Even though the native bluebonnets peaked here in south coastal Texas early last month, my neighbor has some in her garden that are still hanging on! It wouldn't be Spring in Texas without the ritual of snapping photos with your children in them ... I have lots of fond memories! Here's about the last photo I could coax my girls into taking in 2012:

They create a gorgeous sea of blue! To try and replicate their coloring for the stamp image, I used one of Copic's Doodle Packs: 4pc Doodle Pack Blue. The Doodle Packs contain a range of color-matched products that make for a great doodling or coloring experience, and are a nice affordable introduction to Copic products. Packs include two markers, a color Multiliner, and a glitter pen. The pack I used contains Ciao B12, Ciao B24, Baby Blue Atyou Spica Glitter Pen, and Cobalt 0.3 Multiliner:

After stamping the Bluebonnet Highway with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto X-Press It Blending Card, this is how I colored it:

1. Color all the flowers with a base coat of B12. 2. Color centers of flowers with B24:

3. Color stems, leaves and grass with YG23 and G07. 4. Darken behind and in between flowers with B26.

5. Color fence posts with E42 and E44. 6. Color bird with N1 and N4 to resemble the Texas state bird, Mockingbird:

7. Using lighter YG01, B00 and B0000, color behind foreground bluebonnets to create grass and flowers in the background field. 8. Using a die cut cloud stencil, airbrush B00 for the sky. Not shown: Airbrush the remaining lower white space with YG23 to create grass.

9. Using the Baby Blue Atyou Spica Glitter Pen from the Doodle Pack, color over the lighter parts of the bluebonnets so they sparkle in the sun!

10. To create a little more depth in the flower centers, I dotted them with the Cobalt Multiliner from the Doodle Pack:

To finish my card, I used X-Press It 1/4" Foam Mounting Squares on the back of the die cut Hello frame. These new high-tack adhesive foam squares come in handy 1/4-inch or 1/2-inch pre-cut squares and are the same fabulous high quality foam and adhesive as my favorite X-Press It Foam Mounting Tape! <3

The framed image was mounted to a Neenah Desert Storm (kraft) card base using X-Press It Double-Sided Tape Runner:

I hope you all are having a lovely Sunday afternoon!