Spring in a jar

New month, new Fadengrafik Challenge. In March, we'll be looking for your "ATG" projects: feel free to join us with any of your crafting projects, given they include some kind of paper embroidery. 
For my DT creation, I decided to be inspired by the season and use an ornament that I've made ages ago. Using a yarn with different shades of green gives a lovely dynamic to the swirls, but I just couldn't come up with an idea to use it properly. Until I found another pre-crafter thing in my stash: a stripe of patterned paper that was already glued on a background of green cardboard. It must be some kind of crafting leftover from another project, and it occured to me I migt as well join the two pieces. 

To make the stitched ornament more stable, I placed it on a green background cardboard as well. Also, I decorated the swirls with a couple of pearls and gemstones to resemble the raindrops in the other background paper. 

Then, I thought I'd overlap both pieces and place them onto a plain white cardbase. However, as there seemed to be too much white in the background, I opted for a pastel green cardbase. 

In the very end, I used a couple of flower stickers from my stash. I'm not sure whether they take away from the main motif or contribute to it, but I've had them in my drawer for way too long and simply wanted to get rid of them soon. 

A little contribution to the March collection of Create in Austria - artwork created by Austrians and/or in Austria.
A little contribution to the collection of hand-stitching at made with Blümchen.

challenges: 
- krafty chicks: ATG with optional twist "shimmer & bling"
- a bit more time to craft: ATG
- allsorts challengeblog: favourite season (spring)
- alphabet challengeblog: Y for yarn, string or twine
- as you like it: one or many layers (I'll usually use multiple layers in my cards - one of the reasons being that I hardly ever use stamps/digis/CAS and the other that as soon as I start going through my stash, I always find more than one paper that I'd like to use)
- crafty catz: ATG
- crafty sentiments: ATG
- craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper
- creative moments: ATG
- cute card thursday: greens
- friendship challenge: ATG with optional twist "spring flowers"
- love to craft: ATG 
- pennys papertake: ATG
- scrapping4fun: layers
- male room: ATG
- through the craftroom door: ATG
- worldwide open design team challenge: ATG

And what about that spring jar thing? Spending loads of time away lately, I managed to go from winter to spring and back again a couple of times, only to find the most beautiful spring entrance in the past week - chill mornings and wram sunny days, spring flowers blooming and the bees going wild, even the first butterflies have come out of their hiding already.
"Away" of course means no proper opportunity for colourful bouquets, however, I ound a pair of plucked snowdrops on one of my spring walks and decided to place them in an empty yogurt glass in a rescue attempt. 

Despite not having much hope, they recovered completely and kept me company for a whole week. Also, who knew that only a pair of snowdrops is enough for a lovely smell of spring? 

A contribution to the Friday Flowerday at Holunderbluetchen.