Saturday 20 May 2017

Sending smiles

Hi All,
It's been a couple of weeks since I've blogged. We've had a visitor and things have just been a bit busy round here.
Also, it is now winter ... there was snow on the hills on Saturday morning. It's gone for now, but I know it will be back again.


This week's Muse challenge really appealed to me. Jenni's card is really clean and simple. I love the shadows created by her white on white  that contrast with her simple and colourful string of flowers and little hearts.

I kept Jenni's flower theme, the colours she's used and the white on white. I used an old Craft Stamper stamp  that has little heart shaped leaves and had fun colouring it with my copics. I left it on the table, uncut last night & had a bit more inspiration in the early hours. I decided to find my old roller-ball embossing tool and try doing straight lines using the runner on my paper trimmer.

Sometimes I have ideas in the night that turn out to be totally impractical in the cold light of day so I was fully prepared to start again after the failure of my experiment ... but it didn't fail ... don't know why I didn't think to try this years ago.

So, anyway, my flowers were framed by a subtle, embossed line and popped onto a white card blank with 3D tape ... then I decided to add a touch of sparkle with a teeny spot of stickles on each of the stamen. Again I was worried that I would stuff it up, but it looks nice with just a little sparkle, so I'm pleased and relieved.

I will add this to the Muse challenge this week, and the AAA blog where the challenge is to use embossing.  
Then I'm off to light the wood burner 😊

9 comments:

  1. Lovely card Dianne, love that floral stamp

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  2. Gorgeous and beautifully CAS, love it! Thanks for playing at AAA Cards.

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  3. Gorgeous card and the embossed frame just finish it beautifully..thank you for joining in with us this week at Muse x

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  4. Beautiful card, your coloring is perfect :)

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  5. Love this - it's like a breath of fresh, spring air! Thanks for joining us at Muse this week!

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  6. Beautiful CAS! thanks for playing along with us at AAA Cards!

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  7. So pretty and I love the embossing it looks great!

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  8. Lovely colouring and lovely design. Thanks for playing along with us at AAA Cards!

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