Rainbow Lady's Challenge #163 - Hand Made Flowers

I love having an excuse to make flowers!  Usually they are rather large and grungy but today I thought I would try and make some dainty ones for a change.  I have made them all using paper punches and out of 160gsm white paper, with the exception of the centres for the daisies which are 80gsm.
The paper punches used are Boho Blossoms from Stampin Up for the daisies and little blue flowers and a small sun-ray punch from Floral Punches for the centres of the daisies.  An ordinary single hole punch made the centres for the blue flowers.  I moulded them into shape using a deet tool and moulding mat after brushing the edges with either pink or blue ink.  The daisies are 3 layers and the blue flowers 1 layer only.  The more you make,  the quicker you get at making them!

The sentiment is from Clarity Stamps and the foliage punches are by Stampin Up (branch from bird and branch punch) and Tesco.  The white base card was inked around edges with DI Spun Sugar and embossed using a flourish background stamp (Stampin Up) and a sparkly pale pink embossing powder.

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #46 - Summertime and the Living is Easy

Over at Crafty Ann's we are having a summertime themed challenge and hope you will all join in and give us your thoughts on easy summer living!

I've gone for a comfy chair, a straw hat and the perfume of the flowers in my shady part of the garden.  The backing paper is from Ann's Mottled Stone collection and the stamp is called Morning Glory.  It is a lovely digi stamp and comes in three designs - plain, with script background and with trellis background.  I have used the trellis version for this card and printed it over the backing paper.  The chair stamp is by Serendipity and the pot of purple daisies are by Stampin USA.  All the images have been coloured with Copics.  I have mounted the main image onto a thin border of mauve card and then onto a cream mat that has been punched with the Martha Stewart Trellis Punch.  My base card is lemon to match the backing paper.  The sentiment is by Elusive Images to which I have added three toning pearls.

Thanks for visiting and I do hope you will join us in the Summertime Easy Living challenge over at Crafty Ann's. 

DragonsDream TIO # 89 - Pressing Matters - Embossing

Helen has chosen Embossing for our TIO challenge this week.  I fancied trying something I haven't done very often,  dry embossing on vellum.  My image is one I have had for ages and never used, a bouquet from Elusive Images.  I stamped it in black versafine and coloured the petals and leaves with pencils on the reverse.  I then embossed some of the detail on the reverse with a medium sized embossing tool until I was happy with it.  The grungy flower is simply made with 6 layers of paper scrunched up and dampened and held together with a brad.  Form the flower whilst it is damp by pinching the layers with your fingers.  It has got to be simple if I do it!
I do hope you will join us at DragonsDream TIO this week and show us your take on the theme Embossing. Don't forget to use at least one real stamp in your creation.

CD Sunday - Dreams

Just got the boy for this card - my grandson James!  We can all live in hope, dream on son.
The boy and bicycle is a free digi from Beccys, the motorcycle is from Clarity Stamps and the sentiment is a freebie from the very talented Bethany .
My backing paper is from Joanna Sheens Victorian Companion CD3, the digi is coloured with Copics and the motorcycle has been embossed on patterned paper in black detail ep.  The sentiment is computer generated.
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Rainbow Lady's Challenge #162 - Pets

This is my first attempt at making a scrapbook page and is a tribute to my lovely boxer dogs.  They are all gone now and I still miss them every day. " Let's have some fun"  was their byword and we certainly had plenty.  The backing papers by Dovecraft reflect their colours and marbled stripes and I can almost feel their lovely soft black velvety muzzles.  Keeping dogs and going on holiday do not mix.  We have gotten used to our holidays now so no more dogs for a while.
The stamps are by Joanna Sheen and stamped in Versafine.  The mountboard square has been triple embossed.
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DragonsDream TIO #88 - Look to the Skies

The lovely Elizabeth is leading this week's challenge over at DragonsDream TIO and is Looking to the Skies.

As I bought some lovely Stampscape sun and moon stamps at Ally Pally in April, I decided to give a few of them an outing on this tag.  The background is alcohol inks on glossy card to give the look of deep space and the sun and moon images are stamped onto an acetate overlay.  The phases of the moon have been given the silver foil treatment on the reverse.

I do hope you will come and join us this week, we would love to see you.  Please don't forget to include at least one real stamp in your creation.

Message in a Bottle

We have had new floors laid at Redmoss over the last fortnight which has meant John and I have had to make ourselves scarce.  We spent most sunny afternoons watching the seals on the rocks at low tide at Portgordon beach.  On Thursday, John found a plastic bottle on the shingle and inside was a pencil written note.  The letter was from 8 year old Igor from Central Primary School, Peterhead - about 60 miles east, along the Moray Firth.  He had put it in the water on 26th June this year.  John is writing back to him at the school  to let him know he found his bottle and how far it had travelled.

CD Sunday challenge this week is to have a nautical theme so I could hardly resist using this Joanna Sheen Messy Rabbit stamp of the unfortunate bunny having to row for his life out in the ocean and including Igor's message in a bottle.  The backing paper is from Pattern Resource CD Nature and the sentiment is from TLC .

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