CASology: SPROUT

It’s Tuesday and time for a new cue word over at CASology!  Spring is ever so slowly trying to arrive here in my part of the country.  I see evidence of new leaves cautiously making their appearance, knowing that Old Man Winter doesn’t like to release his grasp any sooner than he has to.  Even with a sprinkling of snow in this week’s forecast I keep reassuring myself that eventually people will be planting seeds in their gardens and new life will finally be sprouting beneath the thawed soil.  Soon.

I dug out an old StampinUp! set as well as a sentiment from Precious Remembrance Shop’s DIY stamp set to create today’s SPROUT inspired card.  I was looking for just the right image and this one came the closest to what I had in mind.  I wanted something that looked like brand new growth.  Oh, how I wished I had an image of a bean sprout in its earliest stage!  I even looked through the baby sets in my stash thinking surely there would be something along that line in them!  No such luck.

I used a Heidi Swapp mini stencil to create the striped background.  I then stamped the black silhouette image & sentiment.  Three small clear sequins were added as embellishments.  The main panel was popped up for dimension using foam dots.

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