Sassy Cheryl's Challenge -- Inspired By Nature

This week at Sassy Cheryl's the challenge is Inspired By Nature, what a perfect theme for the onset of Spring.  Today is the first day of the glorious season of rebirth and I have already seen the return of many birds and, yes, bees.  I guess we do need the bees though they scare me because I am allergic to their sting.  But without them we wouldn't have the beautiful blossoms on the Bradford Pear trees that we see everywhere here in Branson.  The bulb flowers have popped up from their winter slumber.  And Cheryl's Funky Flower Bunch has found it's way into my heart.  That's the image on the card below.  Isn't it fun?

I actually used the image twice.  The full image is colored with Copics on GP 110# cs and cut out with the Nestabilities Funky Squares die.  I enlarged the image (the beauty of digis) and used just the three blooms, layered on a larger Funky Square cut from purple cs.  To continue the secondary color scheme I cut two additional Funky Squares from lime green cs.  All are layered on double-sided dp from the K & Company Sera Sera collection.  Yellow rhinestones create the large flowers' stamens and add sparkle to the MS butterfly punch.

I hope you have had a warm, sunny weekend and more of the same in the coming week.  Thank you for stopping by and be sure to visit Sassy Cheryl's challenge blog.  The DT has so many gorgeous projects inspired by nature.