Spring Chickadees

This stamp (Chick-a-dee Blossoms) is from Penny Black in 1999.  I've always loved it, but never made a card with it before.  I stamped it in black ink on white cardstock and colored it with Prismacolor pencils, then cut it out - the hard part. 

It seemed like it needed to be on a sky background.  I tried embossing it for texture, but couldn't stamp the message, so I used another piece of cardstock for that.  I like it better with the message stamped directly on the sky background.  The message stamp is from a set by Hero Arts.