Wednesday 28 October 2015

80th Purple flowers


I've been making this card for my Mum's friend who is 80 very soon. She is  lovely and
I know she likes flowers and gardening so I hope she likes this.




I've used up some snippets of white card to stamp and emboss the flowers in bronze, my new favourite colour for embossing.
Then I smooshed an acrylic block onto a big and juicy ink pad and used a brush and water to paint the flowers. By using more or less water and blending the colours you can vary the shades of ink. I love these jewel colours.
I wanted a circle for the middle so I inked some paper and cut it out. Then I decided that needed a frame. I didn't have quite the right shade so I cut that out and painted it too.
I asked my daughter if it was too purple and she said 'Can you have too much purple?'


I even remembered to decorate the inside. I'm usually in too much of a rush and forget.



I hopped over to the Butterfly Challenge as I remembered that the challenge was to use embossing and butterflies. Whoops, way too late. We've moved on to N for Numbers. Well I do have a number on here so I'll enter anyway. I hope that is not a cheat, I promise to try harder next time. I always look at this challenge but rarely get round to making a card.
Pixie's Snippets Playground is celebrating Week 200 so I'll skip over and show them my card.  I think there is cake.
A huge thank you to Di who keeps the Playground open for us and must spend many hours keeping it in order. We appreciate you!

6 comments:

  1. These look like cloisonne. So beautiful! Good that your number lets you in to Mrs. A's too!

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  2. This is so pretty and not a cheat at all. I agree with Bonnie and love the varying degrees of colour you have achieved on the flowers. Gorgeous shades. Thankyou for fluttering by #41. hugs Mrs A.

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  3. Oh yes, there is DEFINITELY cake in the Playground at the mo! Come on over to tonight's party . .. . I've organised some ginger beer, Guiness; cake and MORE FIREWORKS. Oh, and some jacket spuds too.

    Lovely inking and embossing for your pretty card.

    Hugs, Sarn xxx

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  4. NEVER too much purple Alison - this ia fabulous as I ador ethe bronze EP. I have some of that too and it really does look lush.

    Hope your Mum has a wonderful Birthday - am sure she's gonna just love your card!

    Too funny, I'm obviously following Sarn around commenting on Playground entries - so far I found her plans for bangers in rolls and a delivery of a few pizzas! And now this little lot :) Bet you'll all be sick! :)

    Hugs

    Di xx

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  5. Gorgeous card Alison. Thank you for the comment that you've left on my blog. Ironically, I'm not on Facebook, I just did a Google search, so not quite everybody lol :)

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  6. a very beautiful card love the colours x

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