Just a Note Floral layering dies.

I've been using some of my new stash over the last little while...I got this card finished yesterday but didn't get to photograph it till late this afternoon.   My day was full on crafting with Grace as it was my day to look after her during the school holidays.   Her wish for the day..... to spend it "doing arty crafty" with Nanny.  More on that later...

Here's a card I made using Altenew's Craft A Flower - Dahlia April Heather Layering die. 

I googled this flower and got some ideas of colours - luckily Altenew had some suggested colours on the packaging, so used Buttercream, Magenta and Snapdragon inks together with Lagoon and Emerald for the leaves.  I cut the dies from an off white 240gms Fabriano card and used the inks to blend. The flower layering is nice and easy with Altenew's Keyhole layering.   For my background, I spritzed the ink left on my sticky mat after inking the leaves and smooshed it onto some card. I added black splatter with some Indian Ink mixed with water.   At the same time as getting the flower dies, I also got Altenew Scripty Sentiments dies.  I added some clear packing tape over some black card and die cut the sentiment.  Arranged my floral dies and the added splatters of Fossilised Amber Distress Spritz. 

As both my flower dies and the sentiment die are new, I'm adding to Darnell's NBUS challenge. 

And here are a couple of pics of our day today 

We tried so many different techniques...  dry and wet embossing, learning about using watercolour pencils, painting with watercolour paints, using "magic powders" and much more.

Show us your new Stash at Sweet Stampin' challenge.

Hi there... our first challenge for the New Year here at Sweet Stampin' challenge.

And what's not better than to show us your new stash. Did you get lots of goodies for Christmas or did you spend up large on the Black Friday sales....

My card uses some new stash I got just a week before Christmas.  My friend Suna, had won a gift voucher from Altenew so she asked if I wanted her to include anything in with her order.  We often do this as it saves on postage costs.  So I ordered the Gentleman's Grey inks and the Fine Frames rectangle dies.   She gave me a price...and told me that the inks would be a present from her.... how generous... and then when we meet for lunch she told me she had got the large inks... So an early Christmas present for me, thanks Suna.

I started by using some foil card from Rosie's Studio with my Fine Frames die to cut a frame.  This die is incredible.  It die cuts many tiny thin frames.  I managed to stick some tape on the back of the thin frames to keep them together.  I used one of the lighter grey inks to stamp the dotted layer of the leaves around before adding the frame.  I stamped the flowers in Altenew Coral Bliss and Heart Beat and added some of the orange inks for the centres.  I fussy cut them out and stamped and fussy cut some leaves in the darker colours of the greys.  I used the darkest grey to stamp the sentiment from Altenew Sentiment Strips.

We would love to have you join us this week, using your new stash
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