More Spring Woods cards

I've had so much fun playing along with Anna's CASometry Challenge 2. Make 5.

where she challenged us to choose one stamp set and make five cards using it.

I have the habit of pulling out a stamp set, making one card using it

and started on another card with another stamp set.

This challenge encouraged me to make several cards at once

while I had my stamp set out.

(It also helped keep this stamp set at the forefront of my mind

when choosing which set I wanted to use!)

Anyway, as I was stamping a card for the final stage of the challenge, 

I decided to make four cards using it.

Because I've struggled a little with coming up with fresh 

colour combos in which to stamp the birds, 

I took my inspiration from three of the April Release Inspiration Cards

that Nichole Heady posted on her blog. 

(By the way, I was thinking that I was on the ball with making

my final card for the challenge ahead of time, but I didn't realize 

that the Final Stage of Anna's Challenge had a secret aspect.

So that's why I'm sharing these cards now.)

So, what I did was diecut several branches and birds (a few of each type)

and then stamped them using my MISTI, which allowed the process

to go faster, as once I had it set up on my MISTI, I could stamp several birds

in different colours at once.

For my first card, I used this colour combo:

Here's my card:

I stamped the branches in classic kraft for each of my cards.

I stamped the blooms in mint julep and the leaves in green parakeet.

The birds were stamped in aqua mist, mint julep and Altenew's Caribbean Blue,

which I substituted for Winter Wisteria.

I stamped the sentiment (from PTI's Walk By Faith) in Caribbean Blue.

For the border, I ran a piece of Mint Julep cardstock through my 

diecutting machine with my woodgrain impression plate.

Next, I used this colour combo:

I used all of the colours, but substituted Altenew's Persian Blue for Amethyst Allure.

I diecut my sweet blush cardstock using my Mama Elephant Femme Frame dies.

I stamped the sentiment (from Winter Woods) in Versafine Onyx Black.

And lastly, I chose this colour combo:

I decided to make two cards with the elements I stamped

with this colour combo, again substituting the Persian Blue for 

Amethyst Allure and Altenew's Sapphire for Royal Velvet.

On this one, I ran a piece of ripe avocado cardstock through my diecutting machine

using my Winter Woods cover plate, but didn't love how it turned out. 

Rather than take a new piece of cardstock, I just ran it through again

using my woodgrain impression plate. 

I ended up with a piece of cardstock that had a cool texture!  

The sentiment is from Spring Woods, which I stamped in Sapphire.

And here, I used a piece a Basic Grey patterned paper along the side.

Thanks for looking!