birds and poppies

Hi everyone and hope you are keeping dry - howling gales last night then debris and lots of surface water this morning but its starting to clear now so hope we will have a dry(ish) weekend!

Popping in with two flowery cards suitable for all occasions, one with birds below too.

More inking, die cutting and embossing and apertures (love that at the moment!)

and a closeup to show the apertures and layers on the decoupage.

the sentiment is one of my circular Lily of the Valley ones

The next card is a similar version of a square card I did before, this time a different size, different sentiment and different ribbon - I like this combination a lot before so found myself making another!

love the black and white tartan ribbon :)

flowers layered on this and coloured with shiny twinkling H2O's of course!

Autumnal Wedding with LOTV

This card is a little different to my normal colour scheme for wedding cards, but I like the way it turned out all the same and its good for the season we are in right now.

 

I used a Martha Stewart deep edge punch for the border across the middle and then a Just Rite stamp for the sentiment.

The stamp can be purchased here.

The image is coloured with Twinkling H2O's and the embossing with a cuttlebug folder which has teeny tiny hearts on it - like Swiss dots but oh so sweet little hearts!

Finished off with some gold card candy...

 

Autumnal Embossed Wedding Card

The time of year, all the lovely rich colours around and a request to create something different is what inspired this wedding card, made for a special friend to give, and I really enjoyed making it. Its very different from the usual wedding colours and theme, and reminds me of all those beautiful autmumn shades.

I played around with the leaves and the inking for a good while until I was happy that the colour scheme was just right, and would complement all of the white. The names are added using copper embossing powder and a just rite alphabet stamps.

The leaves are die cut from a mixture of quickutz and spellbinders leaf dies and the inks a mixture of adirondak and color box chalk inks; the embossing done with slightly thinner and smoother white card, using a quickutz vine embossing folder.

The border was punched using a Martha Stewart punch, and the card was finished off by placing it in a decorated box.

Just Inklined Digi - A Prize!!

...and it seems months and months ago now, but back in July I was lucky enough to guess Jak Heath's next project and win three of the gorgeous Just Inklined Digi Stamps, and i was very excited to be able to pick and choose - there aere a good many fabulous digi's and the lastest one with the girl posting a letter to Santa is a brilliant one, so hop over and take a look here.

the first one I had to have was the Rose Digi, and here is the finished project, an A5 card.

the detail below shows colouring with twinkling H2O's and the oval recess frame, the punched edge was made using a fiskars border/corner punch and the sentiment is from a Just Rite Stamp set and happens to be on my craft desk at the mo.

thanks for looking!

Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge

I saw ths challenge blog and liked the sketch a lot, but wasnt sure about the colours which i now REALLY like.. here's my contribution to this weeks challenge (see link to the Sweet Stop on the blog links on the right) and this was a sketch challenge using Mustard yellow and deep red, nice autumnal colours too.


I used my just rite flower stamps, borders and sentiments and coloured the suflower with twinkling H2o's, added some embossing and inking and flowers made with a punch and glue dots and some faux stitching too.