sing a song of SPRING!

this week at shopping our stash we're teaming up with words 2 scrap by for their challenge #16: the earth has music; which means you can make one card for TWO challenges, and we all love that, right? there are lots of ways to go with this theme, both literal and figurative. i did a little of each, expressed by quite lot of vintage paper, which always adds up to a happy time for me! :)

sheet music, bird illustration, and garden painting from my stash of vintage goodness; lovely old lace from my MIL; patterened paper: prima, basic grey, my mind's eye; florals: petaloo; leaves: prima 

i used the sketch from the current fusion card challenge, which is pretty awesome, as i think you'll agree:

i was heading towards yellows in my color scheme in order to incorporate the color aspect of the fusion, but then i saw this gorgeous photo, which is the starting point for the shabby tea room's current challenge, beautiful blooms; and suddenly i found myself veering more towards neutrals with little pops of pink and green:

my favorite part of this is the sweet sparrow, which came from a vintage nature dictionary. i fussy-cut him so he could perch on top of the beautiful floral illustration that came from different falling-apart book i found at a rummage sale. (both elements are backed with thin white cardstock i ran through my xyron machine to make them a little stronger; vintage paper can be very thin and rather brittle.) the little scrap of lace is from a bag full of odds and ends my mother-in-law passed along to me, which is kind of making me think that this will turn out to be her mother's day card... hence the lack of sentiment... i want to be able to hedge my bets, lol!

one bet of which i'm absolutely CERTAIN is that you will very much enjoy seeing the other design team members' gorgeous projects at both SOS and W2SB... why not give yourself a treat and visit those right now! ♥