Poppies!!

After seeing some beautiful poppies growing on the grass verges as we drove back from our weekly shop this morning I was inspired to get out this old Hero Arts poppy stamp.  The new challenge at Hero Arts for June is Tic Tac Toe.

I decided to follow the bottom row, watercolour, tag and my favorite colour (RED).  The poppies were stamped using Distress Markers and when dry I added some water colour with a paintbrush and my Distress Stains. After lots of goes to get it right I am pleased with the final image (lots of smudged designs lol).

Fun with a Wine Label!

I decided to have a play with a wine label that lovely Jacqueline sent me last year, I still have a few saved, the paper they are made of is high quality and a watercolour effect always comes out really well!  After stamping I have embossed the edges in gold to compliment the gold words already on the label.
This card is for the Flower Power challenge at the Simon Says Blog this week.

Its my wedding anniversary tomorrow, 31 years of married bliss!!  Hubby is taking me away for the weekend down to Dorset, so I am hoping the weather forecasters have got it wrong and its not going to rain!!

Christmas in June!!!!

Oh my goodness I can't believe I have made my first Christmas card in June...  The challenge over at "A 
Blog Named Hero" is to use the "Kissing Technique"  and after I had played around with a few stamps, this background was my favourite using my  Hero Arts Friend definition stamp and the leaf and floral background.  The silver and red together immediately made me think Christmas and this is the resulting card. The poinsettia is made using a sizzix die, the petals have been dry embossed using a herringbone embossing die for texture, I have also used lots of Old Paper distress ink.

Hope you are all having a great week, and once again I would like to thank all my visitors for all the lovely comments you are leaving me.

Another Wine label card!!

 After seeing this beautiful card by Franziska I was inspired to get out my wine labels and make another card.
I had been hoarding them a bit as I know we won't be able to get any more, I had been saving a few to use when making my Christmas cards.

After stamping and embossing the Garden Bouquet in white I applied some distress stains and some distress inks to create the background, I then sprayed with some blue perfect pearls to give the card a shimmer.

Hope you are having a relaxing day and heres wishing all my Irish friends a Happy St Patricks Day!