A Post at Last!!

Well can't you tell the summer hols are here!! Yep the weather has turned wet and my blog feels more abandoned than it usually does 😞

I thought I'd do a round up post with a few recent projects in .... in fact I will have to do a part B and possibly C as I have a bit of a back catalogue!!

First up is a quick and simple guys card made using a Hero Arts stencil, I used a white dye ink sponged through the stencil and I love how its turned a shade of light blue on the navy card... the Winnie and Walter sentiment is a great font match too 😊

I don't really need to say this but next is a birthday card for our little (not so little anymore) girlie....

Whilst I love flowers, I have to say they rarely feature on my cards!! When they do I prefer the stylised or simple layered design like these Wplus9 stamps. I saw a card using these florals that had a layer stamped in black and it looked so striking ... I had to try it too. The sentiment is from a great set by Newtons Nook... I've been looking for a "relatives" set for a while and this has a good mixture of words and fonts 😊

My last project in this post is a gift card I made for our daughter.. this is a gift that grows though 😉

This card contradicts my earlier words because the flowers are more realistic... they took a while to do which is probably why I prefer simple shaped florals!! I've used the no line water-colouring technique with a Concord & 9th stamp set to make Californian poppies for the front panel.... we have loads growing in our gravel driveway and this year we collected some seed to spread in other areas of the garden. I thought I'd give some seed to our daughter who has recently moved out and has her own garden now, so I made, and filled, a small seed packet to go on the inside of the card....

....which brings me nicely back to the beginning of my blog post because now the summer has turned to wet and warm they'd probably germinate quite quickly if planted!!

Thanks for stopping by, I'll pop by with part B soon 😉

Jenny x