Holiday Crafting

Finally I am sharing the two cards I made while we were away on our holiday break.  Since coming back I've been exhausted after my day at work... and then the weekend was full on with little time for crafting and blogging!  Did manage a couple of cards - one for a swap and one for an upcoming design challenge post.... more later...

So here are the two card I made between Christmas and New Year

 I got this new background die recently.  And I die cut it from some black card and layered on to the white base.  I used Altenew's Bitterroot Flower stencil and die for my focal floral image.  Sentiment is from Spellbinder's Popular Sentiment dies.   A few purple gems finished the card. 

Entering this into the TIME OUT challenge... New.  Two of my bloggy friends - Helen and Greta have joined the team.

Card two 

The flower is Altenew's Ambridge Rose painted with Altenew watercolour and splattered with Gold paint (Jasart ombre metallic paints)  I decided to fussy cut the flower.  I used some Mixed Media paper.  The background was made with the watercolour paints and salt to give some texture.  I cut it with Gina K Master Layouts 2 and die cut the frame from Gina K Master Layout 12.  Added a little bow from twine.    Sentiment is from Altenew Sentiment Strips 2.

Not too bad for only have minimal supplies.   Some watercolour paper, some watercolour paints, a few stamp sets and matching stencils and dies... a couple of ML's and some coloured card.   Got my fix - a couple of hours on a couple of days.. 

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope the New Years is starting well for you.