Snowdrops in the Green - for the March Scrap Our Stash Challenge

Afternoon All,

This, by necessity, has to be a quick post because I need to make a tag for a very special young woman and I want to complete it for tomorrow.

No prizes for guessing that this is my favourite spring photo of the year – love snowdrops.   Finding snowdrops this spring proved to be difficult – we have had a warm winter which fooled the snowdrops into an early show so by the time we went looking we were told we were too late. It was, therefore, a lovely surprise to find this little clump during a walk in nearby Culzean Castle Estate.  So, for the Scrap Our Stash Challenge for March - Green, I just had to base a layout on this photo.

The white base is sprayed in patches with two shades of green Cosmic Shimmer Mist. The papers are from K & Company’s Flora & Fauna collection, and Papermania’s Secret Garden ... this last has been in my stash for a couple of years at least. The photo is matted on to a subtle brown floral paper and the fern leaves, bird on apple blossom, rose spray and the letters for the word green were fussy cut from the Flora & Fauna DP. The rest of embellishments, Prima and Wild Orchid Craft flowers, lace and pearl trim and ribbon are all from my stash.

Snowdrops are best planted ‘in the green’ – that is straight out of the ground or pot, hence the layout title. Planting bulbs is less successful. Knowing this I was really tempted to dig up this wee clump and bring them home – however, it’s against the law here in the Scotland to do that. Instead, I have this lovely photograph and layout as a constant reminder of their fresh loveliness.

What I used to make this layout:

• White 12" x 12" card for base - bought from Two Peas in a Bucket eons ago
• Cosmic Shimmer Mist, Meadow Lush & Blue Lime colours
• K & Company , BW Flora & Fauna paper collection
• Papermania's Secret Garden - the 2"x12" strip paper pack - this included the journaling note 
• Basic Grey, Dasher Letters - for the word 'snowdrops'
• The black stick on letters came with and were left over from a self-assembly flat-pack DIY job
• A mix of Prima and Wild Orchid Crafts flowers 
• Pearl/lace trim from Funky Farm Scrapbook Barn
• Ribbon from stash

Okay, time for a quick bit of lunch and then onto the planned project - hopefully I'll be able to share it with you sometime tomorrow, although it will be a busy day as we are off to put a plant on my mother's memorial garden and then we are going over to see how wee Arihanna is growing :)  My daughter was planning a visit but unfortunately the two youngest grandchildren, Alun & Shari-Ann, have caught a nasty bug of some sort and are too feverish to visit - because I have asthma my daughter insists that I don't come anywhere near them until they are better :( 

I hope you all have a wonderful day tomorrow. For me it's one of the nicest days of the year, though I do realise it may not apply to everyone, not all of us are mothers, but we either have or had mothers, our daughters/nieces/aunts/cousins/friends may be mothers, and that to me is reason enough to celebrate :)

Happy crafting,