Florals in a Frame

I'm sharing my DT card from the Make the Day Special blog as it's made with a couple of challenges in mind. The ladies at Less is More are asking us to choose three previous challenge themes for our creation this week and the sketch at CAS(e) this Sketch helped me to collate my ideas....

The three LiM challenges I've used are Wk. 54 Stripes, Wk. 79 Blue & Green and Wk 111 Frame it 

and here's the sketch from CTS this week

                                                      

The flowers and leaves are the Doodle Blooms stamp set from Altenew, the matching 

dies have just arrived in the UK and I couldn't wait to buy them...

 they make flower arranging so much easier..Lol :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stamps and dies used available from Make the Day Special Stamp Store:

                     Doodle Blooms - Altenew, 

                     Basic Borders - Mama Elephant, 

                     Hand Written Notes - Avery Elle

                     Scalloped Frames - Paper Smooches

                     Doodle Blooms dies

Coloured Pencils

It's my turn to post a card over at the Make the Day Special Stamp Store blog today so I thought I'd share it here too. I was inspired by a fab card in our monthly challenge gallery, Kate acheived the retro fabric feel on her card by using masking and minimal colouring... it's just so cool :)

I used a Paper Smooches pencil stamp instead and some bright coloured Promarkers... not so retro but I love the off-set style of the pattern :)

I took a couple of photos of the process to make the background ....

I made several masks of the pencil and stuck them down on the panel before sponging the background colour. I didn't worry about cutting the masks exactly along the lines as it's quite a simple shape.

After removing the masks I stamped the pencils in Memento and made sure I off-set them... then I used the chisel end of my Promarkers to add some swishes and flicks of colour :)

Instead of using the whole piece I chopped into two and made a couple of cards :)

Those bright colours really make me happy and I think I'll need to experiment with other stamps and this technique :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stamps used:  Just a Note by Paper Smooches

Paper Smooches Sparks - Anything Goes

Good Sunday morning to you and Happy Mothering Sunday if you are in the UK :)

It's time for the new Paper Smooches Sparks challenge and it's Anything Goes this week which means you can be free with your PS stamps and dies :) I was in a floral mood this week with Mothers day on the horizon so I combined the two for my Mum's card...

I'd used these gorgeous flowers from Blossoming buds before but not with my Promarkers and I was in a colouring mood so that's what I went with :) Colouring is a relaxing form of crafting for me and I love the freedom of colour choice for flowers so I went with bright!! 

I trimmed around them with scissors as I don't have the dies and then used them as a corner embellishment for a piece of vellum which is the centre piece from the largest Scalloped Frames dies. The sentiment is from the same stamp set and embossed in silver.

Here's the links to my teamies playing along in this weeks challenge too...

Alice,  Lisa,  Erin,  Jenny,  Savannah

We'd love to see you play along with us, click here to check out the details  :)

Jenny x