I saw that the The Paper Players’ challenge this week is Spring. What a great idea – as I sit here listening to the icy rain pelting on the windows. I really love the little flowers in the Painted Petals set and decided to feature them on my spring-like card.

The clip isn’t part of the card, it was just needed to keep the card closed.  I actually had a completely different design in mind, featuring a large piece of the pear pizzazz and that will likely happen later on. I had cut out the circle in the very vanilla using the Circles framelits and also cut another out of a piece of pear pizzazz as I was working on two cards at once. For the second, which will be featured later, I decided that I needed to have a larger circle but didn’t want to move the circular opening higher up the card and cut out this unusual shape in pear pizzazz that is now featured on this card. I like the interesting frame that it gives to the flowers. The flowers are stamped in blushing bride and pear pizzazz.

I decided to add another circle of pear pizzazz to the inside of my card.

This serves two purposes – firstly it gives a good frame to the flowers but it also indicates where not to write on the inside! The envelope is lined using the envelope liner framelits and the Backgrounds DSP in pear pizzazz.