Rustic Garden

Hello, crafting friends!

The delicate little flowers on today's card are made with my favourite crafty item at the moment - the Botanicuts Wildflower Mix dies from The Greetery. They are quite fiddly but absolutely addictive!

 

 

I coloured my flowers with sponge daubers before glueing them together.

 

To showcase my flowers, I used a kraft card base and cut a matching panel using one of the Nordic Frame dies, also from The Greetery. I made a background by scribbling on the panel with a white watercolour crayon then glued the flowers on it in a curve. 

 

Finally, I stamped a sentiment from an old Stampin' Up set and popped up another sentiment from Uniko's Floral Vines over the top of it.

CHALLENGES

I've been wanting to join in with The Flower Challenge's Use Your Latest Stamps/Dies theme all month and think I will just get this card in before the deadline!

AND IN OTHER NEWS

I have become very, very fond of this little cutie!

 

He's quite a dignified chap who turns into a little babe when he falls asleep!

Sending hugs,

Left overs for Mothers Day?

Hello, crafting friends!

 

Today I decided to tip out my scraps box! I wanted to make a mothers day card and, after a little rummage, selected these items:

Those watercoloured flowers were left over from THIS box card which I made for a lovely friend of mine last year. Later on in the year, I bought the pads and mats that would enable me to use my dies to emboss. I used one of the Nordic Frame dies from The Greetery to see how it worked and this embossed panel was the result. It has been sitting in the snippets box ever since but was perfect for the card I planned today. Here's what I made with my snippets:

I started by masking off the bottom of the embossed panel and sponged a little blue ink above it to make a background, leaving the negative space as a 'ground'. The bottle, from The Greeteryy's Bottled Up, was stamped on the snippet of white card, cut out and glued onto the panel.

 

I fussy cut the flowers and leaves and arranged some of them over the neck of the bottle, popping the front daffodils up on dimensional pads.

 

I couldn't for the life of me find a mothers day sentiment in my stash but then I had a bright idea - the magazines would be full of adverts for mothers day! Sure enough, I found a white on black mothers day text, cut it out, mounted it on black card and added a pink, die-cut 'happy' using a Lawn Fawn birthday die. Clever huh?!!

EDITED TO ADD AN AWARD

This card won March's Flower Challenge! I felt very honoured!!

CHALLENGES

The Flower Challenge has a fun challenge this month - to make a card featuring flowers and to Use Scraps. My card was made with snipppets apart from the card base so I'm linking up there, and also with The Snippets Playground where all cards entered must be from snippets. I'm also joining in at We Love Stamping where Anything (stamped) Goes with optional Spring theme; also Stamping Sensations where we are invited to Stamp Something For Spring. I'm also linking up with a new-to-me challenge called Four Seasons where Anything Goes Spring.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

I do love dear old England with its silly weather! Two days ago Eva and I were drenched with torrential rain every time we went out but today, spring has definitely sprung. It was so hot that Eva, who is still sporting a winter coat, spent a lot of time reacquainting herself with the river.

 

She was with a friend, a cheerful black lab named Otis, who is a genius when it comes to finding balls in the river. No ball today but he DID manage to come out with this squeaky carrot which he generously shared with Eva!

Sending hugs,

Purple pages

Hello, crafting friends!

Welcome to some fabulous Saturday crafting fun courtesy of the latest challenge from Addicted to CAS! It's Ceal's turn to choose a code word this week and she has come up with a colour:

I used to find purple a slightly repellant colour - isn't that weird?! Luckily I've recovered from that and even wear purple sometimes now :) 

I started this card by masking off the bottom of a panel and sponging purple ink upwards to a fade. I trimmed the panel to size with a beautifully ornate die from Nordic Frames by The Greetery.

The sentiment, from Sugar Pea's Beautiful Books, was stamped in a darker purple below the inking. I used the same ink to stamp one of the books from the set and fussy cut it before glueing it onto the inked part of the panel. The panel was attached to a card base with double sided tape to ensure that the little bits of the frame stayed attached and I finished the card with some purple sequins.

Okay, it's over to you now! Do hop over to the Addicted to CAS challenge site won't you - the team has some wonderful inspiration for you. You'll find the Linkuy Tool at the bottom of the post and you can use it to share your own creation with us. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

CHALLENGES

This card will accompany a book I'm lending to a friend :) I'm going to link it up with Watercooler Wednesday where Dawn is hosting the All Things Feminine challenge. I'm also joining in at Happy Little Stampers Die challenge where Anything Goes; and Darnell's NBUS challenge where we showcase our Never Before Used Schtuff - mine is the die that features on this card.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

You know purple? Well, do you really? I thought I did but, looking at my card today, I think I've gone more violet than purple (although I blame it on the photo!) Apparently purple and violet are often incorrectly identified colours, with people often thinking they're interchangeable. But to clear things up:

Source: Pinterest

You're welcome!

Sending hugs,