On the Fence.

Recently I shared a trellis/fence card inspired by Bibi Cameron and my blog friend Betty has also been sharing her cards inspired by Bibi..  You can see Betty's cards here and here.  

Both lots of Betty's cards made me think about what floral stamps and die sets I could use. So over the weekend, I made two cards. 

My first one is a very busy focal floral bouquet.   I started by blending Altenew orange inks onto some Bristol card.   I then die cut the layers from Charming Floral die set.    I did two from dark to light an one light to dark.  I used two inks - Mountain Mist and Emerald to make the leaves and Just Green and Minty Mint for the twigs.  The sentiment is Altenew's Versatile Greetings die set.  I used the Autumn Blaze ink directly to the white card before cutting the love and white card for shadow.  I stamped the with (part of a sentiment from Altenew's Sentiment Stipes)  The "splatter" is little dots added with an Artline 0.4mm pen.  

For the second card I trimmed off the "boards" and ran them through a Cuttlebug embossing folder then used some Altenew Hazelnut and Almond butter inks to blend over the top.  The top half of the card was stenciled with a stencil from the colouring set for Grand Carnation with Jade Fresh Ink.  I then stamped the Grand Carnation with Charcoal Suit ink and then used the stencil to add the colour - Baby Pink, Fuchsia and Magenta and Green Field, Shadow Creek and Mountain Pine.   I used another of the Versatile Greetings die with a Creative Expressions Wordies - Everyday sentiment.  

I do like this design and had fun playing with it.   Thanks to Bibi and Betty for some inspiration.  

 

Cards inspired by - Gina and Betty

 I have two cards I made over the weekend.  Both inspired by wonderful crafters.  

First up is a card inspired by Gina K's 5 minute video about Thumping - using a cube rather then a marker. 

I don't have any Gina K inks so just used what I had - in this case, Altenew inks.  I used Silver Lake fpr the grey and Magenta for the thumping.   The stamps are by Gina K as is the dies I used to cut the panel and layer.   Finished with some Altenew Enamel Dots from the Red Cosmos set. 

My second card was inspired by my blog friend Betty Keefe.... Betty made a gorgeous Easter card as her sample for Tic Tac Toe Challenge... that she set.  You can see her card here   It's simply gorgeous.  

Here is my take on her card 

I took Betty's idea to use die cut letters for her Easter sentiment.   For my card I used a very old Cuttlebug alpha die called Olivia.  I cut the letters from blue card and then from fun foam and glued the two together.   For my background I used some Tumbled Glass and Broken China distress inks and did some ink smooshing onto some watercolor paper.  I then ran my panel through the Cuttlebug with a Spellbinder Impresabilities - these are thin steel embossing/debossing panels that I got over 10 years ago.

This gave my background a very subtle impression.  I added the letters and some white flower ephemera from a Uniti pack called Kiwi Collective.   I added a little pre-printed sentiment and some silver sequins.    Thanks Betty for your delightful inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I'm feeling a bit shattered after spending all day on a Team meeting with the new team.   Lots of getting to know each other, talking about what our work will involve, running through the presentation that we will be doing  as online seminars... all in all lots to take in.