Thanks

Firstly, I would like to say thank you to the Less is more team for showcasing my card from Challenge 281.  Such a pleasant surprise.


I have spent another week working in the garden.  I bought several new perennials and need to find space for them. All this rain that we have been having has resulted in everything making a huge spurt in growth. I need to be ruthless!!!

I thought it appropriate to make a thank you card for their latest colour  challenge which involves using your kitchen colour scheme as inspiration.

I am just getting in under the wire here as tomorrow brings a new round of inspiration.

My kitchen is  mulberry and cream and I found card that matched to form the basis for my card.

I die cut an oval and stamped foliage with Adirondack - Currant  for the background. I then applied FlitterGlu to the cow parsley stamp then added Sheffield Steel Mega-Flake. This was to represent the stainless steel of my appliances.

The base card is textured cream which has been embossed with random diagonal lines with the help of my score board.

The sun is shining so Herman the tortoise and I are off out to take advantage of it.

Fresh Flowers

One of the benefits of the rainy weather that we are having in the north east of Scotland at the moment is that my garden hose has been made redundant !

 I took this photo of one of my rhododendron blooms. The bees and butterflies love this shrub as much as I do.  The colour is amazing.

 I used its colour as inspiration for my next card.

The stamped image is from the Fresh Flowers collection by Clearly Besotted. I used watercolour pens to colour then I spritzed the stamp before applying on to watercolour card. Detail was then added with the fine tip of the pens. I die cut the image with the accompanying die.

I used a stencil that I had made from a Silhouette Cameo file and an oval mask to create the background before adding the die cut and the sentiment.

I am entering this into this week's Less is More challenge - USE A STENCIL

More Poppies.

It is no secret that I love poppies. In my garden, I do have rampant Welsh poppies that I am constantly trying to tame  ( eradicate!) but I still appreciate their beauty. Here are a couple of this year's pics of the more cultivated of the species.

This card was made using Clarity's  Funky Foliage stamps. I applied Distress inks on to watercolour card to create a background then, after spritzing the larger stamp with water, stamped the image into it before removing ink with a paper towel. I used a mask made with a Spellbinders die to draw a circle in the centre of a panel before stamping the single poppy seed head 3 times.  I then used the partial die cutting technique to complete the panel. (Still following ??)

This panel was adhered to the watercolour card with 2mm foam pads which, in turn, was added to a 6" by 6" card blank. The sentiment is by Clearly Besotted.

I am entering this into Less is More Challenge 281 with the theme Faux Bleach, HLS Anything goes with Dies and CAS themed Addicted to Stamps and More challenge.

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Just a Note

This CAS card has been somewhat troublesome in the making! The brief over at Less is More challenge was for a One Layer Card with the theme of 

Splatters

But... the "one layer" didn't register in my brain and I made a panel before attaching it to a blank card.

Now, "splatters" is one of my fortes, although they are of the unintentional sort, so..... this is my 4th attempt.

I applied Brusho paint medium to a feather stencil then over stamped  the matching feather ( HOTP) with black Versafine. The intentional splatters are from a set of Ink Splats by Visible Image. The sentiment came free with a magazine, as did the feather stamp and stencil. 

Phew ... off to the empty the waste paper bin!

Altered Sewing box

Been thinking about this one for a while. I made a similar sewing box some years ago at a class. I used alcohol inks to colour a plain paper mache box before decorating the lid with hand cut embellishments. buttons and a safety pin. The "tape measure" was cut from a designer paper.  I nearly forgot...I used  a textured stamp and a gold ink pad before adding the embellishments.

Purple Butterflies

 It's COLOUR week over at the Less is More Challenge blog and the colour that has been chosen is PURPLE.

Here is my submission:

The leafy swirl stamp is by Clarity and the butterfly is by Visible Image which has been coloured with Spectrum Aqua Pens.
I used a clear sparkle pen on the wings( I'm a little addicted).

The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted.

I wanted to frame the image without adding more colour so embossed a line around the perimeter of the 6" by 6" card.

Altered Coaster

I was searching around for something  small to alter and found a coaster that had been sent through the post at Christmas by a charity. So I used my favourite Tim Holtz Papillion stamps and some designer paper to give it another look. 

I used  a couple of coats of IndigoBlu's Slap It On to seal it.  I really should make some more to complete a set.