It may have started off at 30 degrees this morning, but by 11am it was 64 degrees.  Ah, Spring!  Seriously, even the birds were tweeting outside this morning. 

I suppose this should get me in a Spring Cleaning mood. NOT!!  But I did put my own laundry away, organized the drawers in my dresser, tossed two things and put several more in the bag to donate.  Started a load of laundry and ran the dishwasher.  enough…!

So now I can reward myself with a little coloring.

I decided to make a thank you card for a friend.  But at the same time it was a 'Thank you for leaving, Winter, and not being very hard on us this year'.   I was inspired to use this adorable stamp, Siku and Shiya, by Mo Manning for Stampavie.  I see the boy as Winter and the girl as Spring, doing a little eskimo kiss in greeting.

Aren't they sweet?

I used the following colors from my Copic Markers to color them:

Boy:

• YG23/YG25/YG63/YG67
• B21/B93/B95/B97
• E51/E31/E13
• Teensy bit of E53 in the fur and trim, blended out with C00/C1
• C1/C3 for shoe bottoms

Girl:

• RV21/RV32/RV34 
• B21/B93/B95/B97
• R85/R89 
• E51/E31/E13
• Teensy bit of RV21 in the fur trim, blended out with C00/C1
• C1/C3 for shoe bottoms

Sky: B0000/B01

Snow: C00/C1/C3/C5 for shadows

Spellbinders Labels Eight was used to diecut and emboss the focal point image.

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed the card as much as I enjoyed coloring it.

Hmmm. I may even sweep and vacuum.  Call the paramedics, my husband may collapse from this sudden spurt of housework.  *pick up the paddles and yell, CLEAR!*