Wild Orchids

A Tuesday Lunch time stroll with Jim Harker the artist that I work at La Pashe with.

Jim know me well after 2 years working together. We can often be found talking a stroll around the block on our morning and afternoon break times, it clears our heads and gives our eyes a rest from the close up work that we do.

Tuesday Lunch time we took a short car journey to a spot Jim had found whilst walking his canine friend (Scamp) and had found some wild Orchids.

with camera in hand I managed to capture a few of these beauties to show you all.

I looked up the name of these and they are Dactylorhiza praetermissa - Southern Marsh orchids and are protected so I won't say where we found them, I hope you enjoy seeing them as much as we did in the finding of them.

A close up shot

Unbelieveable that these are growing wild

A close up view

Manhattan Rose

The Manhattan Rose Stampin Up embossing Die and the cuttlebug swiss dots was used to make this quick card.

The base card was embossed with the swiss dots folder, then on a separate piece of white card the rose was embossed and cut out, a ribbon tied in a bow around the base card and the Manhattan Rose adhered on top.

Two pearls were add to the roses to finish.

Rubber Stamp Tapestry - Necklace

I made this Necklace using the Rubberstamp Tapestry peg stamps Floral Filigree Wreath

I used finding by Nunn Design which will be available very soon at Rubberstamp Tapestry

I stamped the flower design onto a square of card once I was happy with the design I popped it into the pendant then flowed diamond glaze on top until the the pendant was filled, I stamped one more flower which a cut out then coated it with the diamond glaze then added it on top of the design once it had dried.

I flowed more diamond glaze around the frame and added bedazzles to give it some bling.

Happy Fathers Day

A glimmer of hope in the form of a Poppy...

A difficult day for me today and I expect many others too, the first Fathers day without my Dad, Mam is coming for her dinner and then we are going to the Cemetery to visit Dad, I bought some flowers yesterday ready to take along.

Now for the glimmer of hope.... This morning a Poppy has appeared in my garden, the colour of this Poppy is the colour of the flowers I have bought for my Dad.

We also have a gardener coming today to sort out the garden as at the moment it is weed ridden and full of overgrown plants that need to be sorted out, of course he will be instructed to leave this beautiful poppy alone.

Flourished Wedding Card

This wedding card was made using the Flourished background in my previous post below this one.

I stare=ted with a 15 x 15cm white base card printed out the background paper then cut it to 13.5 x 13.5cm, punched the corners with a heart punch and adhered it to the card I used the Nestabilities to cut out the heart shapes 2 aqua and 2 white, embossed the larger white heart with the birds and swirls cuttlebug folder and stamped a Obsession Impression Hear onto the smallest Aqua heart and heat embossed it with white powder.

I layered it all up and added a sheer white ribbon white was given to me by my talented friend Katie.

Free Wedding Sheets

That time is upon us again "The Wedding Season" so. I've put together a few sheets to help you all out.

I chose one of my favorite colours as the inspiration for the sheets (Aqua) then duplicated it in a classic colour(Gold) to give you a choice.

You are free to use my sheets for personal use but please do not share or sell them instead link back to my blog for people to download them. They are copyright.

Aqua Flourish Background positive

Aqua Flourish Background negative

Gold Flourish Background positive

Gold Flourish background Negative

Wedding Toppers

Fathers Card

A Birthday card for my Father in law, I have really struggled with Fathers Day coming up this being the first since I lost my dear Dad so I actually bought my Father in Law a card for that, however, it is also his Birthday on Friday so I made him this card and left off the Father wording and that seemed to make it easier for me.

The card was inspired by a photo I took whilst in Appleby Magna (Staffordshire) I love these colours as they are so warming.

The tree stamp is a Graphicus Stamp inked with Close to Cocoa ink then touched with the Inkssentials gel pen to add the highlights, I sponged the edges of the card with the same coloured ink to add depth to the card.

Ohhhh I love this Button, not cheap to buy but hey isn't it gorgeous.

The card was made so I thought I'd carry on the theme to a bag to house some toffees.

The template for the Bag can be bought at The Digichick

Sheer Indulgence

I had great fun making this Video to show you all.

This is showing the Cottages where we stayed in Appelby Magna.

Flourished Pearls

Flourished Pearl card...

The base and patterned card I got from a friend at the weekend (Thanks Greta)

I loved the colours, that patterned card has a punched edge I did this with a Kreation Punch then adhered it to the base card.

i punched out some tiny blossoms and dotted the centre of them with a matching coloured pen, glued them in threes down the side of the card then used the Inkssentials opaque gel pen to create a stitched vine effect. The Flourish Stamp was inked in Ocean Tides Palette ink (both from PapertreyInk) and stamped onto white card then little aqua pearls added to the flourish.

Finished with a jewel and some ribbon.

The ribbon is slotted through the back of the glass jewel, actually it isn't a jewel at all it is a button I found in a knitting shop but knew it would be perfect for my ribbons on my cards.

Tear Bear

My first Tear Bear, actually I don't like it but I wanted to give making one a try, he is far too dark as this was the only thick Mulberry paper I could find that would be suitable to make one with.

It was made by drawing round shapes with a wet paintbrush onto the paper then teasing the circle away from the rest of the paper which left the hairy looking edge.

The sentiment is by Stampin Up