Pretty Red Tulips

I’m a huge fan of women’s college basketball, and have spend a lot more time in front of the television this past week watching the NCAA tournament games. I’ve been following UConn for nearly 20 years, but enjoy watching many of the other teams as well. If the game’s not too exciting, I can craft at the same time, and yesterday I managed to finish a card for two challenges. The first is a photo inspiration from Just Us Girls with pretty red tulips. The other is the Librarian’s Challenge with the book cover from Teach Yourself Dutch. 

One of the prettiest tulips stamps I own is from an old Papertrey Ink favorite: “Friendship Jar Fillers: Spring.” I stamped it partially off the side and colored it with Copic markers.

When I started I didn’t have any particular occasion in mind, but in looking at some pre-embossed sentiments, I found a Happy Mother’s Day from Pink and Main’s “Special Day” sentiment set. I try to make each of the mothers in our family a card so it’s good to have one in the stash.

I didn’t think it needed any other embellishment, but did trim the stamped image down so that there was a border of black from the card base. Then I decided it needed a thin strip of red cardstock as a finishing touch. 

We’re busy organizing for an Easter trip to Sarah and Adam’s this week. It’s the first time we’ve been out of town since last September. We’ll be driving straight through on the way. Both Sarah and Adam have just their first vaccinations, so we still need to be very careful. We’re totally vaccinated now, with only the variants to worry about. That will keep us out of restaurants until it’s warm enough to eat outside, but we hope it’s safe to make a road trip.