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Woodware flower and leaf maker punches.

Once you start you just can't stop, these are so addictive, made as the earlier cards except I used black card for the leaves so no shading work on them.

Flower & Leaf Maker Punch

I decided to give the Flower Punch another whirl using more dramatic colours and as I'm still having problems with my hands my lovely husband Chris came to the rescue and punched the 2 flower heads out for me.

I used Black archival ink to shade the petals and stamp the DMD Border Stamps.

Leaf & Flower Makers

Woodware Flower and Leaf maker Punches

I punched out the leaves from yellow card stock and shaded themwith chalk inks the flower was punched from a very light pink card stock and buffed the edges of the petals in purple ink, I shaped both the petals and the leaves to give them some dimension.

The spinial vines happened by accident as I had to trim some green card ever so slightly and as I did this the sliver of card a cut away was curling as I trimmed it, I thought it looked quite plant like so added it to both cards cutting more as I needed it.

The border stamp was inked in the same colour that I shaded the petals with.

I cut out an oval shape and heavily shaded the edges then arranged the leaves and flower onto it.

This card was inspired from a card I saw on Peejays blog and loved it. Having had the punches for some time it gave me the push I needed to put them to use.

The leaves started off as a bright yellow card stock I used paintbox fluid chalks to shade in the colouring I needed, then tipped the edges with a gold leaf pen.

Guest Star Stamper Cards

Father Knows Best and a mention from Nichole Heady (Capture the Moment)

I love this set by PTI it has lots of sentiments just perfect for those hard to do Fathers cards and some lovely images to go along with them.

Guest Star Stamper Cards

A fun to make card using PTI Pond Life stamps

Stamped the frog in versamark to create a watermark on the front of the card then cut out an oval aperture. Stamped the tortoise onto white card stock the cut around this and stuck to the front of the card.

The inset picture was stamped onto a piece of card that fit snugly into the inside of the card so that it peeped through the aperture opening, stamped the sentiments and added a couple of clear gems to the corners to finish.