Celebrate the Sunshine

Evening,

I had a wonderful weekend with the 'Littlies'. It was so nice to hear them out in the garden in the sunshine. I managed to get a bit of weeding done before the weeds get too big and strangle all the plants. Why is it that weeds seem so easy to grow, whatever the weather, but we have to be so careful with anything pretty that we plant. 

Thankfully I know enough about gardening to know that it was too early to plant anything despite the beautiful sunshine. I got an early lift home as reward for all my efforts, and there was a heck of a frost when we left. It would definitely have killed off anything fragile.

Here is a card that I made recently after our class on Altenew Stamps, Dies and Matching Stencils.

I do love these stamps, and they are so much quicker and easier to colour now that they have matching stencils.

This set also has coordinating dies which makes it even easier. I do like easy.

I layered the die cut and coloured floral images over a couple of plain stamped and embossed ones.

I used the stencil on a square of cream card and cleaned my brush though it to give a lovely subtle background.

Finishing touches, a few pearls and a die cut sentiment, stacked and covered in glossy accents.

Back to work tomorrow, so I had better get an early night.

Thanks for stopping by.

Crafty hugs

Kimx

Friendship Blooms

Evening All,

I'm sitting here yawning my head off, but it might have something to do with having just spent some time in the gym. It's a good job that I have a 'Gym Buddy', because I don't think that I would have done anything today after work, except sleep. We are good for one another, spurring each other along when neither of us feel like doing anything. 'Even doing something is better than nothing' is our mantra lol.

As you know I don't like to waste anything, so the background to this card uses the ink that was left on one of the stencils after I had used it on another card. I just spritzed the inky stencil with water and then pressed it on to a piece of card stock.

Once the panel had dried I stamped and embossed the bunch of flowers from Altenew Our Friendship Blooms stamp set. There is also a stencil available to enable you to colour the image easily using inks and blending brushes.

I added some stamped script to the background before I die cut the image and layered it over a white deckled panel.

A die cut sentiment, some faux Card Candi and a white gel pen finished the whole thing off.

I'm having a very early night tonight. It's my weekend with the Littlies, so I will need to be on my game.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx