Waiting for Spring Dimensional Cards One Two and Three

 I recently found Elena Morgun through YouTube and immediately fell in love with her awesome style.  I started following her instantly and have watched countless videos of hers.  But I just just discovered her amazing blog and am about 6 weeks late to this awesome card party "Waiting for Spring" she's throwing. Nevertheless, I just had to jump in head first and play along.  My first card, much inspired by Elana's work, featuring vellum.

 I went crazy embossing on blue vellum, including flowers, butterflies, and my sentiment.  This quirky focal point is a Hero Arts stamp that I fell in love with as soon as I saw it and have been dying to use it, but couldn't figure out what to do with it.  I just knew it would be the perfect focal point for a spring card.  The flowers are Stampendous and butterflies and sentiment are Unity.  Many thanks to Stampendous and Heather from Houses Built of Cards for these awesome giveaways that I won.  <3

The dies are Tim Holtz and background is Basic Grey hoarded paper that I stamped and embossed with this awesome unmounted I have had for years and years, and a XL dry embossing plate I scored from Tuesday Morning.

 My second card features a stencil.  This card is my favorite of the three.  I made my background with a Prima stencil and watercolors, layering the two colors after heatsetting in between.  The butterfly is Stampin' Up! and vellum flower and sentiment another Unity, and leaves Stampendous.  The awesome corner in the top is Tim Holtz and the honeycomb is Stampers Anonymous.  The text in the background is Catslife Press, an old favorite.

 You can barely see the dots I stenciled in white over my Prima stencil, but it's a great contrast IRL.

 I so love this background and have to do more of this, as they always turn out to be my favorites.

 I just love the white vellum, which I carried from theme one.  The doily is a coffee filter by MFT.

For my third card I have used three kinds of flowers.  This was hard for me because I don't buy a lot of premade flowers.  I am such a cheapskate!  I can hardly bare to use $5 worth of flowers on one card!!!  But I am trying to let myself go and quit worrying about those things when I create.

 My main flower is by Prima, the wooden flower I have had for years and years, and the third type of flower is cut from scrapbook paper.

 I layered a Hero Arts butterfly over this Stampers Anonymous label stamp and then over a pretty piece of paper.  I love the pom pom fringe, the coffee dyed leaves, and the coffee filter doily here.

 I'm sharing my cards with Elena Morgun's challenges:

Challenge 1: Use Vellum

Challenge 2: Use a Mask/Stencil

Challenge 3: Use 3 Different Types of Flowers

To find out about all of the challenges in this series and to see Elana's awesome video inspiration click HERE.  Trust me, you will be so inspired by Elana and the artists in the linkup!