Hello, crafting friends!
What a treat to have a bit of time to craft for the sheer fun of it! It was a beautiful frosty day today and I was inspired by the soft winter colours seen out on our dog walk - as well as some favourite challenges of course!
This card started with a bit of water colouring on a thick card base. I used Stampin' Up's Boho Blue, a lovely greyish blue, and added a few splatters while I was at it. While that was drying, I stamped some magnolias from MFT's Floral Focus on some white off-cuts of card, watercoloured them with blush and pink inks and left them to dry. When they were dry, I fussy cut them and added a deeper pink coloured pencil for a bit of detail.
In my designer paper drawer, I found a snippet of wood-look paper and trimmed off a thin piece. I attached it vertically on my card front, tucking the magnolias under it. To add to the ethereal look, I attached some curls of thin gold thread to the wood and popped up a sentiment label over the top, stamped with sentiment from a retired SU set and cut out with a Postage Stamp punch.
CHALLENGES
I loved Lisa's choice of colours at The Color Throwdown and combined them with Judy's fab sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.
AND IN OTHER NEWS
It is a joy to see my golden girls playing together again after Lulu had to take it easy with her cut pad.
Here they are taking a breather - they actually look terribly fierce when they are in the middle of a playfight, and I didn't want to scare anyone!! It constantly amazes me how clever they are at baring all their teeth and leaping about all over each other and yet there's never a graze or anything!
