Recycling sunshine

It's been a while since the ladies at Path of positivity asked me to be their GDT for a month. With the invitation came sets of sponsor digis to work with, among them an image of ladybugs and flowers from Deede's Digis. I've printed the image back then, and made up the idea of yellow/orange blossoms on a summer card, but I was a little bit too brave with cutting it, so it turned out a bit too small to be used. Instead of printing it again, I went with one single ladybug I used in a New Year's card.
The flower image remained unused and uncoloured, buried somewhere in my stash. But every now and then, I had yellow/orange flowers on my mind. Now - in a seizure of creativity - I took out the digi and my coloured pencils to finally get the project done. 

For a while, I couldn't think of matching background paper, until I remembered remains of a green flower-power paper I used ages ago. 
In addition, I used a yellow card base - another thing I absolutely had to have, but never used later. Now, the tiny yellow border seemed to match the outside of the card, while I decided to cover the bright background with a sheet of white on the inside. To make the image stand out from the bright background, I used two different kind of green papers, 3D paper pads and motive scissors to spice up one edge of the paper.
As I was obviously in recycling mood, I decided to use pearls that remained after various crafting projects - huge perals, single pearl leftovers and pearls in unusual colours that didn't seem to fit anywhere.

To add a little colour on the inside, I added a raffia ribbon that I gently attatched on the side and formed to a bow. Believe it or not, it's just another recycled piece I received lately wrapped around a booklet of my former student residence. 

In the end, some of the footprints sunshine left in our garden this year. Have a lovely week ;)

A little contribution to the July collection of Create in Austria - artwork created by Austrians and/or in Austria.

challenges: 
- 613 avenue create: ATG
- gem of a challenge: animals
- come and get it: kids cards
- crafting from the heart: ATG
- crafty cardmakers: summer
- crafty sentiments: animals
- craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper
- creative fingers: ATG
- everybody art: summer/holidays
- fabnfunky: tic tac toe (pearls, digi, flowers/ribbon)
- glitternsparkle: summer sunshine
- inspiration destination: ATG
- ooh la la: add some texture
- scrapping4fun: ATG
- through the craftroom door: ATG
- tuesday throwdown: happy birthday
- useyourstuff: floral prints
- word art wednesday: ATG