Spring Tulip (Lily Bee Sketch)

Supplies: patterned paper (Lily Bee), mini alphabet stickers (Lily Bee), journaling card (Lily Bee), yellow alphabet stickers and orange asterisk stickers (Bella  Blvd), pen (Sakura Gelly Roll), ink (Versa Mark), orange acrylic paint (Plaid Enterprises), green acrylic paint (Deco Art), standard office hole punch.

Spring is in the air!  Cherry and apple trees are flowering, birds are singing, and tulips are in bloom.  With all that springtime imagery surrounding me, it's no wonder that I scrapbooked a spring photo when I joined in the current Lily Bee sketch challenge.

The journaling (pictured above) on my layout reads: "We have quite a few tulips in the front yard, but for some reason only one in the back yard.  It adds a happy splash of color."

Even though this is a fairly simple, single-photo layout, I managed to use quite a few Lily Bee products.

* the yellow floral paper is "Pattern Block," from the Handmade line

* the brown graph paper is "Sand," from the Double Dutch line

* the teal dotted paper is "Harvest Blue," from the Harvest Market line

* the orange dotted paper is "Villa," from the Happily Lost line

* the mini alphas are from the Handmade line

* the journaling card is from the Double Dutch line

I made up my own pattern for the tulip paper-piecing (shown above), and I had fun enhancing my layout with paint.

I used some tiny punched circles and more dabs of paint to make a playful border (shown above).

Thanks for stopping by to check out my layout.  You can see what other bloggers did with this sketch on the Lily Bee blog.