Count your rainbows

Afternoon all,

How are we today? I'm enjoying having my first day off after working straight through the bank holiday weekend, 13 days..... whew! Anyway, enough of that - the sun is shining (ish) and I have a card to share with you all.

Taking inspiration from the recent weather I a couple of challenges based on April Showers, I have come up with this:

I'd never really heard the saying 'count your rainbows' before but in the last week no less than 10 visitors to the museums have said it, when discussing the weather. Weird. So it had to be the inspiration behind the design - that after the rain comes the sun and new starts, fresh outlooks and everything seems to sparkle just a little bit more.

So instead of using rain as the main focus of this card, I'm going for the look after the rain:

I've used the beautiful Navaeh image from Saturated Canary and kept her in blue for rain. I coloured her with Promarkers and once again tried to do blond hair, I'm not very good at it though. Papers are all odds and ends from stock as are the flowers. Sentiment is computer generated and lots and lots of stickles for sparkle on everything - including the flowers.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Simon Says - April showers and spring bling flowers
Creative Inspirations - Pastels; Purple, green and blue
Saturated Canary - April Showers
Sketch Saturday - For the layout

Until next time, thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!