More Favourite Flowers...

Today sees the last two of my sample cards for the Favourite Flowers stamps by Joanna Sheen.

The bluebell card has a punched frame border, which I made using one of those fantastic Papermania punches I bought a couple of weeks back. If you missed my tutorial on how to make the frame you can find it HERE. I know quite a lot of my friends have been buying these punches and giving it a go. I'm hoping to see some amazing cards around soon.

I used Lyra Aqua crayons to colour both the bluebells and the wild roses. I find these crayons wonderful for getting the exact colour you want to mix, especially when you're trying to make a really delicate shade like the one I used on the roses.


The quote is a clear stamp I bought recently from Clarity Stamps - being a clear stamp it was easy to get the quote in just the right position. To stamp the reversed image of the rose in the correct place I used a stamp positioner.

I matted and layered the finished images onto a soft silver embossed card and then vellum which helped to soften the look of the card.

Thank you everyone for looking at my samples this week and for your lovely comments. Some of them have just blown me away they have been so good. Have a great weekend and see you Monday for Pink Elephant day.

Floral Fantasy...

Guess what - yep another card using one of the flowers in the new stamp range, Favourite Flowers, by Joanna Sheen. This particular stamp gave me quite a headache at first, because for a little while I couldn't get my head round how to show it off well and do justice to the fabulous art work.

Then looking though my papers for inspiration I found a sheet of dreamy blue scrapbook paper with the word Daisy at the top and very subtle flower words all over - how lucky is that? I didn't even buy the paper if I remember rightly it was free with one of my Artymiss orders some time back and like a lot of things it just seemed too good to use - till now!

I stamped the daisies directly on to the patterned paper and then used my white inktensity pen to really make the flowers pop. I think I used Sakura Stardust green for the leaves and stems. I matte and layered the image on to white and then vellum before finally putting it on to a navy border. Looking at the card now I would quite like to have a navy tag too but ah well not to worry.

Luckily the challenge at Tanda Stamps this week is floral fantasy so it's an ideal challenge to link up with this card. Thank you for looking everyone and for leaving such fantastic comments - you are so kind.

Birthday flowers...

I'm really busy at the moment doing more samples for Joanna Sheen, which is fantastic, but means that it's hard to fit in making cards for the weekly challenges that I so love to enter. I'm hoping that nobody will mind me entering the cards I made for last Sunday's show if they fit the challenge theme.

This is my favourite of all the Joanna Sheen Wild Flower samples I made. I love daffodils and the artist captured them so well for this stamp. The card is 8" x 8" and the inner stamped section has a pocket behind it for the gold mirri card tag.

I stamped the tag with the Irish Blessing verse which is a stamp by Clarity Stamps. Aren't those words just beautiful? The little flourish at the bottom of the verse is also a stamp, but at the moment I can't remember which clear set it was from.

As my card is a birthday card I'm entering for the challenge at Stamp Something where this week they are thinking about birthdays. Love their challenges and I haven't had chance to enter for a while. Mental note to self - 'I must get more organised!'