Spring Sprang Sprung!

I made this card for a Justrite Friday Challenge #69, to create a card with spring colors and butterflies. I am enamored with Justrite Stampers at the moment (and Spellbinder dies). Justrite is having a sale , retiring last year's collection, and well, I indulged myself with some new images and borders, including the one I used in this card. Spring Sprang Sprung! Image from Just Rite Stampers' Plant a Little Love I have been poking around the tutorials on Splitcoaststampers.com for some time now, learning everything as fast as I can. In this card, I used the technique in Beate 's tutorial called Bleached out Images , in which you stamp and emboss the image on colored paper, and then bleach out and color (or not) in the lightened areas. I bleached out the flower, leaves and border in this Justrite image, and used my Copic markers to color it in. Before I bleached out the image, I sponged on some color (to dim the green paper a bit). I usually mask my image whe...