this is the first time i played in the flourishes timeless tuesday challenge; this week it’s to create anything inspired by country living, so i went with flowers, gingham and stitching. although i’m not sure i can ‘do country’ any better than i can do vintage, it was fun trying. i coloured the image with distress inks and added stickles to the centres. thanks for popping by.
Category: Floral
Playing Bingo
the Penny Black and More At Allsorts challenge this month is a colour bingo and i chose the line with yellow, white and black.
the penny black image is coloured with distress inks, of course, and i added black stickles to the centres. oh, and if my picture looks crooked, apparently my new computer’s photo editing software needs tweaking and who knows how long that will take. i know, i need to take straight pics to begin with, but i swear they look straight when i push that button. thanks for popping by.
Celebrating Magenta’s 20th Year!
i’m back! my computer had a melt down, although i’ve been blaming my ISP all week, which asked me to monitor my connection. i was convinced it couldn’t be the computer because it’s less than three years old, but some would say i’m lucky for it to have lasted that long. my new computer is up and running so i can post again and catch up over the next couple days. anyway, this month’s challenge is to use your first magenta stamp, so here it is – a dogwood; i get a lot of comments about my ‘soft’ cards and it’s the soft look of this stamp that appealed to me. the card looks crooked, but it’s straight; i’m also still getting used to my new camera. thanks for popping by.
Floral Frenzy
floral frenzy is the theme of this week’s penny black saturday challenge and i’m also submitting this to the open theme at flutterby wednesday; at least that’s my plan, unless the internet connection keeps acting up. the image is coloured with distress inks and i added some stickles to the butterflies. thanks for popping by.
Fancy Fold For Flourishes
i created this joy fold card for the november flourishes bring back beautiful challenge – beauty of a fold. i once made a rectangle joy fold card so this time i tried the square one, following beate’s tutorial on splitcoaststampers. the image is coloured with distress inks, as usual, and i went with one of my favourite colour combos – pink and green. thanks for popping by.
Inspiration Challenge Guest Designer Card
i’m excited to be a guest designer for the inspiration challenge at splitcoaststampers this week. i’ve either been away on weekends or too busy to play, but i love the challenge; stephanie is the hostess with the mostest and always finds interesting sites for us to visit. this week we’re browsing the liberty london site, where i found my inspiration in the colours of this fabric. i watercoloured with distress inks, added stickles to the flower centres, some lace and ribbon and sponging and i was done. thanks for popping by and hope you get a chance to play along.
Setting Sunflower
this was a happy accident that occurred while i was designing cards for my next watercolouring class at papercraft cafe. i stamped the image, enhanced the colour of the paper with distress inks and added black stickles to some of the dots. i’m submitting this to the really reasonable ribbon keep it clean challenge. thanks for popping by.
Get Sketchy With Flourishes
there are some challenges during their release week, so i had time to create this for the flourishes sketch challenge, literally following this clean and simple layout. the image is watercoloured with distress inks and markers, die cut and attached to the DP layer and mat. the sentiment is from the same set. thanks for popping by.
Wheelbarrow Bouquet
the penny black at allsorts challenge is celebrating its first birthday with extra prizes, a quiz for penny black fans, and a flower power theme. i’m also submitting this to the stampin’ for the weekend challenge to use my favourite things: watercolouring, stickles, distressing, keeping things fairly simple. thanks for popping by.
In Loving Memory
i made this card for my son, who passed away two years ago today and it just feels natural to me to continue to make cards to honour him, especially because he always encouraged me along my creative pursuits. besides, so much has changed since that horrific day that my card making is probably the only thing that feels natural; everything else just feels out of whack – maybe it always will. i miss him and think of him daily, but with my birthday last saturday and father’s day tomorrow, it’s been an overwhelming week. teddy is watercoloured and i added flower soft to the flower centres and for the grass. i’m submitting this card to the flower soft floral challenge.
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Field Of Poppies
this month’s stampalot challenge is an inspiration photo. the may issue of cardmaking & papercraft contained a free package of papers and one of the sheets just happened to have poppies and daisies on it. i die cut the paper, shaded a bit with coloured pencils and added black stickles to the poppy centres and yellow stickles to the daisy centres. i lightly sponged the edges and attached it to a layer that was embossed with the textile folder and also lightly sponged. thanks for popping by.
Same Image, Different Layout
the hero arts’ june challenge to watercolour was posted the day after i posted my CAS card using this same image, so i made a new card. i watercoloured with distress inks and markers, added a lot of stickles, and popped the image on foam tape. the pink ribbon with gold thread shows up much better in real life. thanks for popping by.
Pink Daisies For Class
this is the other card that i taught yesterday in my watercolouring with distress inks class at papercraft cafe. i only had two participants this time, but it allowed for more individual attention. it was a lot of fun; the ladies were so enthusiastic and it was nice to see how happy they were with their cards. the impression obsession daisies were over stamped with the penny black text background and the punched border is made with my new ek success punch; i love it. thanks for popping by.
Tall Beauties
sunflowers are as beautiful to me as any other flower. i remember when the kids grew some in our small garden and they towered over everything else in bloom. my artist daughter painted sunflowers in oil; she loves van gogh, so i watercoloured these for her. i created this for the penny black at allsorts‘ december challenge – Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder. thanks for popping by.
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