Yellow Tulips

Another tulip card using up the last of the ones I cut out the other day. This time I made them yellow!  

I used another new Penny Black die as a background for them. I think it might have looked better if I'd raised it up a little with some foam tape.The sentiment is the same one I used before but inked with Rustic Wilderness this time.

 

Challenges:

 

Allsorts

NBUS

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

Simply Clean and Simple 

 

Springtime Tulips

I recently succumbed to some crafting retail therapy and among my purchases were some stamps and dies from Penny Black.

My first make with them used the Tulip Quartet dies.

 

 

Although I cut out all four I have only used two on this card. They were cut out of a cream snippet and coloured with Copics. The trellis for the background was another of my new purchases and is part of theDaffodils stamp set. I used Distress Oxide ink inFrayed Burlap for the trellis and sentiment, which is from Uniko. 

Challenges:

 

Allsorts

NBUS 

Snippets Playground 

Tulips

The new watercolour challenge at Happy Little Stampers starts today. I have gone with the optional twist of emboss.

 

 I stamped this lovely Uniko tulip stamp onto a piece of mixed media card and embossed it in gold. I diuted some brushoes on my craft mat to paint it with. With hindsight I should have just added the sentiment and stopped there, but I didn't.

I decided I wanted a wash of pale blue behind the tulips but it came out much too dark. I managed to lighten it by the liberal application of water then mopping it up with kitchen towel. It's still a lot brighter than I wanted, but decided that it waas time to call it a day.Once I'd trimmed it and mounted it onto gold and then the card base it didn't look as bad!

I hope you'll be able to join us.

Happy Easter!

Hello, today I have two Easter cards to show you - the same but different (or at least the background paper is!) I decided it was high time to get out of the rut of making all my cards with either a side fold or top fold, and cut these ones out on my Silhouette.

The papers are from the Simon Says Stamp March kit and the stams are from SU. The tulip one is retred and I masked of the sentiment that came with it and used one from another set, but can't remember which one! I am entering this into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More - Holiday Challenge
Make My Monday - Flowers
Crafters Cafe - Easter ( this is a new to me challenge site)
Pixies Playground - where the challenge is always to use snippets - mine are the green mats and the gingham ribbon.