Say It With Flowers

Morning everyone!  Now I know I said that I would show you the rest of Mum's snowflakes but I thought I'd hold onto them for a bit and wait to see if we get any more snow and post them up then so that it is 'seasonal'!!

So instead I've got a flowery card for you today which I thought I'd enter into the Penny Black At Allsorts Say It With Flowers challenge.  I used one of my favourite Penny Black stamps called Clusters and used another favourite PB stamp - Scrolling Along to decorate around my main image and the background panel. 

I stamped the burgundy panel with Moonlight White Brilliance ink and the Mince Flourish stamp by Judikins.  I'm afraid that I can't remember whose the 'Friends Always' stamp is but the 'Birthday Wishes' is a Craftwork Cards Oh My Words! Message.

The flowers were coloured using Coloursoft pencils and then glittered using Stickles.

Have a great weekend everyone.

The Stamp Man's Second Challenge

Hi everyone. Today is the start of The Stamp Man's 2nd Challenge which is Take Two Colours. As you can see from my card I opted for some nice bright colours of purple and green which I thought would make a nice fresh looking card. 

For the background I used the Cuttlebug Stylized Flowers embossing folder and some plain vellum. After I'd embossed it I coloured the reverse side of the vellum with some markers in order to pick out the detail of the embossing.

For the main panel I used one of my stamps from the Funky Flowers stamp sheet and coloured this using Coloursoft pencils and Sansador in order to give it a soft muted feel.  I then took one of the flourishes from my Fancy Flourishes stamp sheet and stamped and embossed around the flowers using Versamark and Crystal embossing powder.

The birthday wording is from my Funky Frames stamp sheet.

I really hope you like the card and fancy having a go at submitting a card of your own into our challenge. Click here to go and visit the Challenge blog and find out what you need to do to enter.

Enjoy your weekend!

For You

Morning everyone. It is a lovely sunny morning too here on the south east coast of England.

The blog candy has now been claimed but my sincere thanks to all of you who entered.

Today I am posting up the very last of the cards I did for The Craft Barn's Extravaganza Weekend in June. This was made (as I am sure you can guess by now!!) with my Funky Frames and Fancy Flourishes stamp sheets. The imagery was coloured using Coloursoft pencils and Sansador.

All the products including the stamp sheets are available from The Craft Barn plus of course you can purchase the sheets from The Stamp Man as well.

I still haven't had chance yet to upload the cards we did at The Glitter Pot the other week but I'll see if I can do that either today or tomorrow and then I'll post them up.

I have made a whole host of cards recently but haven't had the chance to scan any of them in so I'll have to see if I can start doing that at a later date - but it is going to be a mammoth task!!

Best Wishes Butterflies

Here's a card using the Funky Frames and Fancy Flourishes stamp sheets that I also did for The Craft Barn's June Extravaganza. I can't believe that it won't be too long now before the next one in September - we just seem to be whizzing through this year at such a fast rate!!

I used the Coloursoft pencils and Sansador to colour the imagery on this card. Sansaor or Zest It blending solution really is a great way of getting a lovely blended look to your colouring and it is SO easy to do - I LOVE IT!!

For You

My thanks to everyone who's left me comments over these last few days - I have really enjoyed reading them. Sorry that I haven't been able to respond but I have had my nose firmly to the grindstone and will continue to have for the next couple of weeks. After that I may be able to lift my head up now and again from my workspace and look around instead of having my eyes firmly glued to the table!!

Anyway here is another of those cards from The Craft Barn weekend. (Can you believe that it will only be a few weeks before the next one??) The flowers are from my Funky Frames stamp sheet and have been coloured using Coloursoft pencils and Sansador and the words and flourishes are from my Fancy Flourishes stamp sheet. Not my usual sort of colour scheme this one but I do actually quite like it - I hope you do too!!

Tangerine Dream

Here's another one of those tall slim cards with shrink plastic flowers and that Arabella Basic Grey paper. The flowers (from the Funky Flowers stamp sheet) were stamped onto frosted shrink plastic and coloured using Coloursoft pencils and then shrunk.

The paper was of course embellished using different flourish stamps from Fancy Flourishes.

All products are available from The Craft Barn and the stamps are available from either The Craft Barn or The Stamp Man.

Just For You Flowers

As I have SO many cards to show you from The Craft Barn's Extravaganza Weekend I thought that I would carry on showing you these for a little while before I show you some more that I did for Newbury. (See..................I was a VERY busy bunny!)

The flowers are from my Funky Flowers sheet and were coloured using Coloursoft pencils and Sansador and the flourishes and wording are from the Fancy Flourishes stamp sheet. The papers are of course Basic Grey which I just stamped over using different flourishes and inkpads to jazz them up a bit.

I hope you like!!!!!!

Right I'm off to go and get busy - again!!

Shrunk Dotty Flowers

For this card I used the same flowers as for the one I posted up yesterday but this time I stamped them onto frosted shrink plastic. This is one of the reasons why I tend to have bigger designs on my stamp sheets so that they will work well with shrink plastic too.

The flourishes that you see are of course from my Fancy Flourishes stamp sheet and the paper at the base of the card is Arabella by Basic Grey. I just LOVE that paper as it goes with anything nature orientated really well.

I've got to be honest now and say that I can't remember what I coloured the flowers with - it was either Copics or Coloursoft - I was working with both of these mediums for The Craft Barn weekend and as that was now a few weeks ago I can't remember which I used!!

Anyway all the materials are available from The Craft Barn (regardless of whether it was Copics or Coloursoft!) and the stamps can be purchased from either The Craft Barn or The Stamp Man.

Pink Dotty Flowers

Good morning. Here's another of those cards from The Craft Barn weekend using both the Funky Flowers and the Fancy Flourishes stamp sheets.

The background paper that you can see is by Basic Grey and is from the Phoebe range. The whole of the card background has been built up using different flourishes and inkpads and the colouring was achieved using Coloursoft pencils combined with Sansador.

All products are available from The Craft Barn and the stamp sheets can be bought from either The Craft Barn or The Stamp Man.

Shrunk flowers

Good morning. My thanks to those of you who have left me such lovely comments over the past couple of days. I am still really busy so haven't had the time to reply to them but be assured that I am reading them and that they mean a lot to me!!

Anyway with that said here is another of those Craft Barn cards made with the Funky Flowers and Fancy Flourishes stamp sheets. As you can see this time I stamped the flowers onto frosted shrink plastic using Graphite Black Brilliance. I did all my stamping and colouring (using Coloursoft pencils) on the frosted side and then shrunk them down. They actually shrink down to quite a nice size.

The background paper is that Arabella one again from Basic Grey with flourishes stamped over the top of it and around the edge. I really like decorating my background papers in this way. Being a stamper first and foremost, using background papers is a bit alien to me but being able to decorate them somehow makes them more appealing to me!!

Tall Dragonflies/Butterflies

My thanks to everyone who commented on yesterdays card - you seemed to really like that one!

For this card I stamped the backing paper (Basic Grey) using one of my flourish stamps and then added small strips of the same backing paper and stamped the wording onto them. Both the wording and the flourish came from the Fancy Flourish stamp sheet. The dragonflies/butterflies (from the Funky Frames stamp sheet) were coloured using Coloursoft pencils and Sansador and the shrink plastic tiles behind them were stamped with one of the flourish stamps.

All the materials used on this card are available from The Craft Barn and the stamp sheets can be purchased from either The Craft Barn or The Stamp Man.

Craft Barn's Extravaganza Weekend Card 3

Here's another card using those Funky Frames and Fancy Flourishes stamp sheets.

The Basic Grey 'Arabella' backing paper that you can see on the left of the card was stamped with some of the flourishes first and then put through the Cuttlebug and embossed with Stylized Flowers.

The flowers were coloured with Coloursoft pencils and Sansador.

The pencils, Sansador and Basic Grey paper are all available at The Craft Barn and the stamp sheets can be bought from either The Craft Barn or The Stamp Man.

Craft Barn Extravaganza Weekend Card 2

Oops sorry guys. I had fully intended to post this up yesterday but just ran out of time!!

The dragonflies/butterflies (whatever you want to call them!!) are from my Funky Frames stamp set and the wording and flourishes are from my Fancy Flourishes set.

The image was stamped with Graphite Black Brilliance and coloured using Coloursoft pencils and Sansador to get a soft look to them.

The products used are all available from The Craft Barn and the stamp sheets can be obtained from both The Craft Barn or The Stamp Man.

Last Of The Cuttlebug Cards

Here is the second card we made from the afternoon class at The Glitter Pot using that same daisy stamp. This time I chose to use the two folders next to each other to form the background on the maize coloured panel. The colouring was done using those Coloursoft pencils again.

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I cannot believe that there are only a few days left of this month and that next weekend it is Newbury!! The days really do seem to be just flying past. I haven't been to the Newbury show for a couple of years now and am really looking forward to it. If you want to catch me I will be on Stamp Addicts's stand (on the Saturday only) demoing with those lovely interactive flower stamps by Stamps By Judith, so if you are going to the show do pop by and say hello!

Delicate Daisies

Daisies are one of my favourite types of flowers. There are so many different types and colours of daisies(and daisy shaped flowers) that I could never get bored of them, and somehow they seem such friendly flowers.

So as soon as I saw this daisy stamp by Magenta I just had to have it and as it had got swirls as well I couldn't ask for more!! This is one of the cards that we made last Saturday afternoon. The daisies were coloured with Coloursoft pencils. The pink background was double-embossed onto Coredinations cardstock - first using the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder and then using the Stylized Flower. The green paper is by My Minds Eye.

All items can be purchased from The Glitter Pot.

Purple and Blue Clusters

Well it seems as if the jury is still out as to whether the critters on my card yesterday are dragonflies or butterflies as currently it stands at 2 all!! So if anyone gets time do leave me a comment and let me know what you think as I would quite like to know what to call them myself!!

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As promised here is one of the cards that we made on the morning class on Saturday using Penny Black stamps.. The flowers were coloured using the Coloursoft pencils just on their own without any blending solution. The Cuttlebug Stylized Flowers embossing folder was used to emboss the purple Coredinations panel. I'll post up the other card we did in the morning tomorrow.

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Meanwhile on a totally different note there are only a few hours left now to enter The Stamp Man's blog candy where you can win my Funky Frames stamp sheet.

Pretty In Pink

Here's another one of those cards that are now with Jill in readiness for the Doncaster show. Again I built up the background using different flourishes from the Fancy Flourish stamp sheet. The wording was also taken from this sheet and the letters cut out individually.

The main image is from the Funky Frames sheet and was coloured using Coloursoft pencils and Sansador to give a nice muted finish. Out of all of the ones I did for Jill I think that this is probably my favourite. Infact I nearly couldn't bring myself to part with it so she doesn't know how lucky she is that she has got this one!!

The Coloursoft pencils and Sansador along with the stamp sheets can be purchased from The Craft Barn or of course you can get the stamp sheets from Jill at The Stamp Man.

Sunny Flowers

Hopefully by now Jill will have received this card and all the others that I sent along with it so don't forget if you are going to the Doncaster show this weekend to stop by The Stamp Man's stand and see these in real life!!

The flowers are from the Funky Frames stamp sheet and are coloured using Coloursoft pencils and the flourishes and wording are of course from the Fancy Flourish sheet.

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By the way don't forget to catch the Stamp Addicts girls live on Ideal World tomorrow morning at 11am. In honour of them being on the telly I have decided to post up one of my Demo cards tomorrow from when I was up there in May.

Mini Dragonfly Card

Good morning. So here is another of those mini cards that will be winging its way to Jill very shortly. The scanned in image has come out darker than it is in real life and again has not picked up the glitter both on the dragonfly and the background. The dragonfly is from the Funky Frames stamp sheet and the wording and flourishes are from the Fancy Flourishes stamp sheet. The background paper is by Basic Grey and I just embellished it using different flourishes and inkpads. The tile behind the dragonfly is made from clear shrink plastic. I stamped into it while it was still hot with one of the flourish stamps to give it texture. The dragonfly was coloured with Coloursoft pencils, Sansador and paper stumps.

All the materials used are available from The Craft Barn and the stamps are available from both The Stamp Man and The Craft Barn.

Lilac Flutters

I have just completed some cards to send off to Jill (from The Stamp Man) using the new stamp sheets and I just had to share this sweet little card with you that I have just finished. It only measures 10x10cm but I really like making these tiny little cards as they look so sweet in real life.

The butterfly is from the Funky Frames stamp sheet (Don't forget to enter Jill's blog candy to stand a chance of winning this stamp sheet!! The link is on my sidebar.) and the wording and flourishes are from the Fancy Flourishes sheet.

The background is made up of layered stamping of the flourishes along with a strip of Basic Grey background paper and the butterflies were coloured with Coloursoft pencils, Sansador and paper stumps. All the materials are available from The Craft Barn and the stamps are of course available from both The Craft Barn and The Stamp Man. I hope you like it............ I like this one because it incorporates my favourite colour of lilac!! Funnily enough though most of the cards I have done this time I have striven to stay away from this colour as I thought that it would do me good to create some cards in other colours too!!