Thursday, 29 December 2022

Purple flowers

Hello lovely crafters. 
Here we are on the other side of the mid-winter festival of washing up. I'd forgotten how bad it gets, as soon as you finish a load, 6 more mugs arrive. (I did insist that everyone had a go, without complaint, I should say).

After the washing up was done and the house had a fewer occupants, I was able to reclaim my crafty space and make this card. 

I started with a couple of inkings I found in a folder. I can't tell you when or why I did these but I know they are brushos on watercolour paper. 


The flowers were die cut from the purple end and the leaves from the green. I decided against using the leaves in the end and used a flourish instead which was also a snippet. 

Die cut flowers, a cut away edge and added inky piece, a little stencilling and a tiny bit of stamping. 


I've got some more flowers and leaves cut from the first sheet so am working on another card with those. I'm still fiddling with it or I would have shared it here. 

I wanted to add some tiny bees or insects so if anyone knows of any very small insect stamps, please let me know. Thank you! x

I'm sharing this at the Snippets Playground where there is a very special prize on offer and the theme is 'Anything but Christmas'. 



And also Allsorts Challenge where the theme is CAS



Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x


8 comments:

  1. What a lovely way to use those pretty creations and put together a very delicate and elegant card. Thank you for joining the CAS challenge at Allsorts.

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  2. A delightful blend of stencil work and die cuts in a lovely colour palette, many thanks for joining us at Allsorts.

    B x

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  3. You've used some of your inky snippets to make a very pretty floral card - love it. Card-Io may have some small inspect stamps, worth a look anyway.

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  4. Sorry that should read 'insect'

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  5. A lovely birthday card with a great layout.

    Thanks for coming to play in the Snippets Playground. Lots of mince pies and chocolates left over to be enjoyed up in the Playground Treehouse. Come and help us finish them off!
    Happy New Year to you xxx

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  6. Lovely card, Alison. Beautiful flowers and I love the subtle stencilled background. xx

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  7. Such a beautiful creation with the gorgeous flowers and stenciling. Thank you so much for sharing at Allsorts challenge!

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  8. What a pretty card Alison - beautiful design and I love the softness. I did a quick Google for insect stamps - mostly butterflies or 'quirky' cartoon like insects was all I turned up. There's an opening in the market there!

    Happy New Year

    Hugs

    Di xxx

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