Three and three

Here's a CAS card inspired by the BE Inspired challenge at The Alley Way Stamps. As you can see, the inspiration photo was all about red and white polka dots. I thought it would be fun with a leaf cascading down the page, and maple leaves are red, right?

The leaves (from TAWS set It's Fall About You) are paper pieced. The stems are colored in pencil. Sentiment is from TAWS set Delicate Doilies.

The art of casually placing the embellies around the card escapes me; I hope these gems don't look too random.

I'm submitting this card to these challenges:
TAWS BE Inspired #51: Photo inspiration
Word Art Wednesday #128: Anything goes
Sister Act #52: Anything Goes
Pixie's Snippet Playground #120 

Spring brings birds

Well, it is finally beginning to look and feel like spring -- a few weeks behind the norm for here, but I guess we take what we get, right?
I'll dedicate today's card to the bluebirds I've seen flying around. We have a couple of bluebird houses that look exactly like the birdhouse on the left up here (except most of them aren't painted, as my husband found out after painting one that birds prefer the wood unpainted).
The three birdhouse image is a digi that I printed out a while ago, so I'm sorry I can't give credit for it. The birdhouses are colored with pencils. The sentiment comes from a Stampin' Up set.
The papers are from a Making Memories Stack, and I added twine and a chipboard button to finish the card off.
I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Sketch Saturday, Sketch 304
Paper Players 190, three of something (three birdhouses, obviously)
Challenges 4 Everybody, Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly Challenge, Spring has Sprung
Word Art Wednesday #127, Anything Goes.