Purple Onion Designs + another digi freebie example

Purple Onion Designs has these nifty “Word Blocks” for all kinds of occasions. I’m so excited because I can think of so many ways to use these. They can be a focal element of a card, or a background. I can even cut up the stamped image to create individual sentiments! I think they would be great for scrapbooks too.

You can see the new Purple Onion stamps here.

For my card, I used the Spring word block stamped on Prism kraft paper in Cloud White Versamagic ink.   I cut out the stamped panel and matted it.

For the flower image, I used the free Spring Flowers digi set (the crocus this time). I colored the flowers with Copic markers and used Antique Linen distress ink with a duster brush to ink the edges.

I matted the image with Spellbinders long rectangle dies – allowing the image to come “out of the box”. (To do the out of the box, I just layed the die on my image and traced the inner rectangle lightly with pencil. Then I just cut out the box, cutting around the flower).

I hope everyone is having a wonderful day.  Its another beautiful spring day here today and I really want to go play in my garden. But its such a muddy mess after all the rain. Maybe I’ll just start some seeds inside.