Beautiful Season

This stamp set is beautiful, I LOVE it!! I have watercoloured the image using Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive and Soft Suede..the background is stamped with En Francais  and the border is made with a yummy new punch which is available for order after September 1st! I have also used the color spritzer tool (which I don't use often enough!)

Nature Walk and Just Believe

Although this one is very simple and had no layers I still like it..the background has been stamped with En Francais and I used markers to stamp the flower images..I added the birdcage from Nature walk and inked up the bees for the first time...sure it wan't be the last!

Strength and Hope

My last effort using this set wasn't my favourite so this time I used stronger colours and I am much happier with the result. Basic Black, Basic Grey, Whisper White and Rose Red are the colours I used this time. En Francais is stamped on the panel behind the butterfly and I used a stamp from Short and sweet for teh sentiment

Paper Pieced Awash with Flowers

This is for challenge 119 over at Late Night Stampers...to use embellishments.For this one I have stamped Awash with Flowers onto DSP . The embellishments I used are a button, a Hodge Podge label and a flower. The inside of the card is stamped with En Francais

Baby Tees Baby Card

AAWWW! I love that little baby romper..it's the Baby Tees Wheel of course which I rolled onto watercolour paper and colours with my Aqua Painter and ink pads...The Top NOte Die was stamped with En Francais then  Embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder. A pretty satin bow and a bookplate finishes it off...as well as a bit of sponging around the edges

I Heart Hearts

Was wondering why my photos looked blurry lately...my camera lens was filthy...oops! This is a buckle card made using Rich Razzleberry and Very Vanilla. I used En Francais to stamp the background on the inside. The hearts on the strap are from I Heart Hearts...a very pretty set, I really need to use it more often.

I put a plain panel on the inside of the strap so there would be somewhere to write. When the card is closed the strap goes through a slot made with the word window punch. (and I didn't buggar up the stamping on the inside...it's that pesky dirty lens

Shabby Chic Card

Hmm, these types of cards are NOT my forte however I gave it my best shot...I used En Francais for the background and the flower is made with three punched and scrunched XL Fancy Flower punch. The David Jones paper (lol) is from the Love Notes DSP and the oval thingy is from Notably Ornate..I won't give up my day job ha ha

For Everything (and a few others!)

I was so pleased to see this set (For Everything) has made it into the  new catalogue...it has so many fun stamps to play around with...One of my fave colour combos, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise and Melon Mambo

I love the new Contempory Christmas set, especially the bauble..can't wait to get the matching punch!

I saw this background technique somewhere in blogland but I have no idea where...it makes a nice backdrop for this beautiful butterfly, I have almost worn that stamp out!

..and lastly another card using the jumbo wheel Baby Tees...I have been creating some oher baby goodies for an upcoming Bloghop so stay tuned for those...ok off to bed I go...see you next time!

Inspired by Nature-Again

Hmm flash photography not so great...will stick to natural light next time. I saw the idea somewhere of using both gold and silver embossing powder and loved the idea...it looks so much better in real life (trust me?) I used markers to stamp the flower and then stamped  En Francais background  over the top with versamark and embossed with silver and gold...The gold around the edges was done with a gold face painting crayon...it actually worked quite well..glad I rescued it from my daughters room clean up a while ago!