Roses are red

Hello, crafting friends!

 

With Valentine's Day on the horizon I thought it was time to get into the spirit of romance, and what better way than a bouquet of red roses and a wedding or ruby wedding anniversary card!

 

I'm having a wonderful time using my new goodies in the Craft Square Metre! The background of this card was made with The Greetery's Ribbon Maker Large Scallop die. I had seen the DT use the die in this way and fell in love with the look! The card is a lovely suede look cream card that I've had for years (and sadly have very little left.) I cut the scalloped pieces and glued them onto copier paper before trimming to size.

The other new item I'm using is my new Arteza brush pens and oh! I have fallen head over heels with these too! I used them with a water brush to colour these roses from a favourite older set: Modern Roses from WPlus9. I've also found a proper white watercolour paper at Crafters Companion and it's superb.

 

While waiting for the roses and leaves to dry, I stamped a sentiment from Uniko's Simply Said Blocks, and snipped it out. Everything was then arranged on the background and glued in place, then the background was attached to a card base.

 

CHALLENGES

I'm linking this card up at We love Stamping where Hilary has chosen the optional theme of Romance; At the Alphabet Challenge, W is for Weddings so I'm joining in there too., as well as at Try it on Tuesday  where the theme is Hearts and/or Flowers. The background die and the watercolour brush pens are brand spanking new so I'm also off to Darnell's NBUS Challenge to play :)

 

AND IN OTHER NEWS

I'm afraid I can't stay to chat today as I have two chocolate labs to deal with. Someone seems to have swapped my golden girls for them... thank goodness for my kind neighbour giving me those extra dog towels!!

Sending hugs,