Spring Garden - Thinking of You

 Hi ya everyone,
  I wanted to enter the iCopic challenge this week and was excited to try the challenge!  The challenge is to make a beautiful background.  I really wanted to use this new cling stamp I got at my local stamping store.  I used Memento black ink and stamped this image.  I then used my Copics and colored it - this took awhile but it was worth it.  I colored in my lightest color first then added striations and shading with my darker colors.  Finishing again with the light color to blend.  I love this stamp and can see me using more often for a number of cards.  Here are the Copics I used for the background.

I also colored this sweet Mo Manning stamp called Baby Flora Fairy with the above Copics and cut her out.  I added some Stardust Stickles to her wings as well.  I took some Tea Dye from Tim Holtz and added a bit of water and tried to shade the edges of her a bit too - it didn't work all that great and I didn't want to go darker - so I left it this way.

I stamped a sentiment "Thinking of You" on paper and drew a frame around and used Copics to color the outer edge of the frame.  I also colored a thin white ribbon with the darkest red Copic I used in the image to match.

 Last, I went around the background with my Stardust Stickles and added it to the dots and center of the background flowers.  I also want to enter this in the Digital Pencil 2 Challenge found HERE.  You have to check out the inspiration at DP2 - their design team is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G and join the challenge "How Does Your Garden Grow?"