When I saw Tim’s tag for March 2013, I immediately knew what I wanted to do and which products from my stash I could use.

How lovely to have enough stash that the only thing I had to buy was the 5″x7″ canvas.  🙂

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Although I think bunnies and chicks are utterly cute, I decided to focus on the true meaning of Easter Sunday.

The purple shape was cut with the Baroque die.  I cut out the cross with a craft knife.  The sparkly stuff inside the cross is A. Grummer’s Iridescent Flakes.

The banner is from the Tattered Banners Die Strip. The background paper is from Tim’s Seasonal Paper Stash Pad.

The Foliage pieces were first colored with Snow Cap mixative alcohol ink, then colored with Cranberry, Butterscotch, Wild Plum, Eggplant, Denim, Stream, Sailboat Blue, Watermelon, Sunset Orange, Pesto, Meadow, Red Pepper and Purple Twilight alcohol inks.  The white underneath makes the colors not only more pastel, but also more opaque.

Tim suggested we use Memo Pins to make little stick pins of the flowers. Since I didn’t have any, I found simple eye pins for jewelry making to work out perfectly.

The grass strip die is one I’m sure is no longer being made, but you can use the new Tapered Fringe die. (Unless you’re in the mood for a lot of hand cutting!)

Don’t you love the color of the ribbon?  It’s May Arts’ wide silk ribbon in white, colored with Broken China Distress Stain.

I never did get to Tim’s February tag last month.  Mostly I think it was because I was quite uninspired by the image he used. However, during my travels I found a stamp set I thought would be good for giving his layering technique a try.

The images were stamped onto watercolor paper with Jet Black Archival Ink. Then the coloring was done with various distress inks and a Dove Blender Pen.

So now I’m caught up with the tags. Phew!

Next, on to the Tattered floral challenge.

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