Spring Awakening

Happy Easter to all of my blog readers! This week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is "Springtime", and this time I´ve made a card with a lot of German text that needs a bit of explanation for most of you ... 

The card´s title "Frühlingserwachen" means Spring Awakening, one of those wonderful old-fashioned German words. The text in the background behind the nest is the beginning of Faust´s Easter promenade in Goethe´s famous play; the English translation is

Loosed from their fetters are streams and rills

Through the gracious spring-tide's all-quickening glow;
Hope's budding joy in the vale doth blow;
Old Winter back to the savage hills
Withdraweth his force, decrepid now.
Thence only impotent icy grains
Scatters he as he wings his flight,
Striping with sleet the verdant plains;
But the sun endureth no trace of white;
Everywhere growth and movement are rife,
All things investing with hues of life:
Though flowers are lacking, varied of dye,
Their colours the motly throng supply.
Turn thee around, and from this height,
Back to the town direct thy sight.

For my card, I´ve used Dylusions sprays and rubber stamps from Character Constructions, Red Lead and Karten-Kunst.