Hop Into Spring This is a simple and fun tut. I used the awesome artwork of Joel Adams in my first example, which you can get at Creative Design Outlet. In my second example at the bottom I used the fabulous artwork of Keith Garvey which you can get at PSP Tubes Emporium. Please use these tubes with the proper licenses. The scrap kit I used is Hop Into Spring by Bratty at Pure Purrfection Creators Corner. The font I used is Springtime Flourish. Open the fence from the kit. Shift D to duplicate it. Close out the original. Resize by 97% so the fence is at 100%. Move down slightly. Open paper 1. C & P (copy & paste) behind fence. Put the grass part down below the fence a little bit. C & P tube of choice and resize 85%. Position to the right side, making sure you stay on the paper. C & P Bunny, mirror and duplicate. Resize 1 bunny 55% and 1 bunny 45%. Position to the left side of tag. C & P Bird, resizing 35%. Position on top of fence. C & P Music Notes, resizing 15%. Duplicate twice and position up by bird. Type Hop into Spring and position to your liking. I used color 62942e and added a glow with f2c780 with a medium band. Chart below. Drop shadow all layers except for the paper layer. Merge visible, copy and paste as new image. Resize to your liking. Add copyright info.

It has been awhile since I posted so I will update things now. On Feburary 13 I fell and broke my right arm severly. When I do things I tend to do them in a big way and this was no different. Pictures posted below. I spent Sunday night in our hometown hospital and moved to another hospital 58 miles away the next day by ambulance. Every bump and dip in the road brought severe pain. I was given morphine several times during transport. I was supposed to have surgery that afternoon, but had to wait until Tuesday afternoon, because they had to order a part for my arm. I felt like a car ordering a part a part and waiting on it to come in. The surgery went well, they had to take apart my elbow to put a metal plate and a metal rod in, then they put my elbow back together. The rod goes from my elbow to my shoulder. I need to get pictures of the metal parts, will try to remember it next time I see the doctor. I was then released on Thursday. I spent more time in the hospital for my broken arm then I did for my double mastectomy. It has been a month since I fell. The break area just has twinges every now and then, not too bad. My hand is another story. I damaged my radial nerve. It was pinched off for 2 days while waiting for surgery. My hand is still very swollen and the tight skin is very painful. At first I had no feeling in the skin but that has returned. But I have very limited movement in my fingers. I can move them backwards, but can't make a fist. I can move my thumb a little bit. I can't move my wrist at all. And I have no surface feeling in my forearm up to the elbow. I don't know if I can move my elbow yet or not, but I will find out tomorrow (March 17th). They are taking the splint cast off and putting on a brace. This will still give me protection in the break area while allowing my elbow to move. I will probably start therapy after getting the brace. I am right-handed and an avid crafter, so the way my arm is now is really worring me. I hope that eventually I will get full use of my hand and be able to work with my plastic canvas and rubber stamps again. Please keep me in your prayers and your fingers crossed. Thanks.