We all use flowers!

 

Hi peeps

Hope you've enjoyed the weekend so far?  

Today I would like to share a card that I made with a flower stamp that I bought a while back in a set from JustRite, called 'Plant a little love'.  We all seem to use flowers on our cards, but few of us actually use flower stamps, so I thought I'd try and use both.   I love the way that some hydrangeas turn blue, so figured these papers from the Wild Rose Studio set 'Lilac Mist' would be perfect.  The flower was coloured with Copics, and then I used the same colours to tint the flowers which I made using coffee filter papers.  I used an MS punch for the border, and a nestabilities tag die for the sentiment.  Ribbon and charm from my stash.

Hope you like it.

Judi xx

A step away from the norm!

Hi again

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I actually found two unfinished products when sorting out my stash the other day.   In this instance, it was the swirly background paper that I could decide how to use.  I’d made it having watched a demo on TV by Sheena Douglas, and though while pleased with the effects I’d created found it way too ‘busy’ for me, and couldn’t decide how best to use it.  So having fetched it out again, and determined that I must use it to get it out of the way, I decided to use some of my much neglected flower images from Justrite Stamps.  First of all I stamped up the flowers, and then I stamped the border separately, having mounted the stamp on a clear block instead of the wooden one that I normally use with it.  I embossed it in gold, and then added a succession of circles cut with Nesties.   I cut the centre strip with a Magnolia Doo Hickey die, and added a strip of gold mirri which I’d put through my corrugating tool.  It all still looked a bit dark, so then I hit on the idea of cutting down the patterned paper and adding some plain white and gold mats behind it, and eureka, it suddenly ‘worked’.    I then stamped up the sentiment, and added a purple flower and a couple of leaves to finish it off.

Do feel free to let me know what you think, your opinions are always appreciated.

Hugs

Judi x

Just Rite - flowers 1

Evenin' all,

Hope like me you've been having a lovely weekend? 

I've just finished making this card, and was really pleased with the end result, as it's something a bit different to my usual 'cutesy' style.  I bought the flower stamp at the Stevenage show last weekend, it's part of a set from 'Just Rite' stampers, and is of course beautifully compatible with my nesties.  When I started I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with it, but just fancied colouring it to see how it turned out.  I did try doing this one the other day with watercolours, but made a right pig's ear of it, and so returned to my Copics, with which I believe I did a far better job, although the photo does seem to have faded the flower colour slightly. 

The papers are from the very first set that I bought from Papermania.  Background card - C'ordinations, although on this occasion I didn't feel the need to distress it.  Butterfly punched with the Martha Stewart large punch, glittered with Glamour Dust, and then I added a few sticky backed crystals just to give it a nice bit of sparkle.  Sentiment - computer generated.  Card candy - made from the matching C'ordinations scraps.

As always, I'd be grateful if you could spare the time to let me know what you think.

Judi x