With love......

And a rose....stamped along with some leaves from an Altenew set I love.

Using a favourite technique I stamped ink pads onto a glass surface and mixed them myself with a little water to get the shades I wanted and then painted the ink onto the stamp..

I cut the stamped piece in 2 and added an overlay of vellum as I wanted a soft gentle look, stitching the vellum  onto the base cards with my sewing machine, a simple die cut love sentiment coloured with my gold leafing pen finished it off. I hope you like it....

The challenge I have entered this card for is.......Less is More

Delphiniums....

..one of  only a couple of stencils I own, and as the garden is looking so beautiful with delphiniums, poppies, daisies and lots more, it was quite easy to come up with an idea, several messy cards later (I suspect we've  all been there haha)!

I decided my stencil strip needed a base layer so just painted a strip of cardstock to match the stencilling, which I did with with my stamp pads blended on a piece of glass with a bit of water added. The poppy was stamped separately and a bit of fussy cutting later was added on top of the background. I had a wishing sentiment ready however the card looked too busy with the sentiment so I left it out......Adding to two challenges here at LiM and here at aaacards

Sunset

That's  the colour challenge this week over at my favourite challenge blog LiM and as it's  a friends birthday this week I thought I would take the opportunity to say Wishing ......you a happy birthday, using some Kraft card, a Wishing stamp and some flowers stamped and embossed in gold and watercoloured with ink from a couple of new inkpads I have just bought in lovely 'sunset shades!'  I then cut out the flowers and arranged them behind the banner, a couple of sequins to finish and here is my card.

Sunbirds and.....

Waterfalls are my inspiration for this weeks challenge over at LiM which is one layer with a focus on water...mmm had to get my thinking cap on for this one which I found quite difficult....until,  I was looking through my photos and a little sunbird caught my eye, and, we had seen him near a waterfall! Problem solved....

I used a waterfall embossing folder and had an old sunbird type of stamp(SU I think. It has markings on it which is why it looks crackly when stamped not solid.?) & my lovely flower stamp perfect... Stamped and heat embossed both in gold & coloured the flower brightly as that is what attracts the birds...added a few little drops of gloss to the flower like waterdrops off the waterfall.  Enjoy x

African Butterflies....

Opposite colour's  of the colour  wheel that's the LiM Challenge

 So, having just returned from a wonderful trip seeing many amazing places in South Africa, and many, many beautiful birds, animals and butterflies, people  etc...who could resist the challenge, a little late but here is my take on the challenge, using various shades of bright blues and yellows I went for some bright big and small African butterflies And a PP sentiment....

Shades of.....blue!

Colours can be challenging in themselves, but to incorporate a CASE'd card at
LiM where I chose Sarah's card to CASE, a colour Fusion challenge  and an anything goes plus a sketch challenge at Uniko  and an around the world with Altenew ......challenges indeed this week...and bonus of all a little photo from  one of our trips to see our daughter in the UAE, inspiration indeed....

I also decided to give my sewing machine an airing with some lovely new silver thread I recently bought....just because...as we crafters do! AND this was my first attempt at proper watercolouring, so not so perfect but oh did I make a lovely mess, used up a lot of paper and had loads of fun, especiaaly as one of the paints was a lovely shimmery silver! Not a good photo as the silver shimmer on the bottom flower looks a bit gold instead of silvery....never mind. I used silver to emboss the flowers and the die cut heart I placed over the stitching so that just a little peeked through....

Here is my card for three challenges this week..

Hello....

Says this gorgeous giraffe digi from here isn't she sweet, and there are lots more .
The LiM challenge   this week is one layer and the subject is add an animal......and immediately I pictured this little giraffe peeping out from the top of the trees collecting the flowers on the way...

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I simply sized the digi to what I had in mind, printed her and then used some new cats eye colours I bought recently (which have a lovely sheen/shimmery effect to them) to colour various leaf stamps, I then overstamped some flowers and a couple of tiny leaves onto the tiara of flowers rather than colour them in as I wanted to tone them all in and thought this effect might give a more dimensional look.......I liked the black and white look so left a lot of the giraffe uncoloured............

Also entereed into AAA challenge here

Hope you love her as much as I do.....