Roses are red...

 And they are one of my favourite flowers, not particularly long lasting but so beautiful especially the older fragrant roses. Let's face it I love flowers...and propped my finished card by some beautiful red gladioli that we picked out of the garden this week.....



 I decided to use one of my favourite Altenew stamps inked up in red paint rather than an ink pad and a repetition of stripes using a thin black and white washi tape I had in my stash......I wanted to keep it simple ......enjoy

That's my offering on this beautiful hot summers day. I've got three of the grandchildren for a few hours, some water and ice creams and they're as happy as can be and grandad will be BBQing the tea...

I'm entering this card into The Less is More Challenge repetition and AAA one stash favourite challenge and case this sketch

Tag you're it......

a bit of relaxation after a hectic week of visitors, including some very special visitors...our daughter  and 3 grandaughters meaning we could get our 6 grandchildren (aged 4 - 14yrs) all under one roof for sleepovers, meals, fun.........they all get on so well together too! Happy days!!

As well as making cards I've also been trying to finish a king size quilt for my daughter and am half way through another for my eldest grandaughter...in pale pinks and greys. And today I was asked by the 12yr old ....Grandma these jeans don't fit very well can you make them into a skirt...OK ! One happy young lady later.....

Over at aaa cards I found a tag challenge....interesting, hmmmm.....here goes,  this is what I came up with.  A white on white card with vellum leaves with a script die cut silver hello on the vellum tag which I embossed with a word script folder to add some dimension. I didn't want to add any ribbon twine etc so I carefully hooked the tag over one of the leaves...and added a few.sequins and a crystal.

It did cross my mind that this would make a lovely simple Christmas card with maybe the addition of a tiny red bird or snowflakes on the tag or a leaf....which made me search for and order a die set of tiny resting birds and I already have a 'merry' script die...mmmm maybe my Christmas cards are sorted watch this space!

K is for Kitchen....

There's a colour challenge over at Less is More using colours from your kitchen .....love it! Casology ...in a row and a birthday card for Addicted to stamps  and  Time out case this with a twist  I knew immediately what I wanted to do....getting the stamping right and deciding how to put it together was the challenge.

  My kitchen is simple high gloss units,  all white walls and paintwork and black granite work tops, with my gorgeous pink tulip splash back...not everyone's cup of tea but I love it!

A lot of masking and placing followed, I have covered the flower strip with acetate to give the gloss effect and added a black strip for my work tops.... and this is what I came up with - unfortunately I didn't have a tulip stamp but I did have my gorgeous daisy stamp, poetic licence ha!