February Blog Hop - Spring

The Spring blog hop card.

Strangely enough Spring to me means fields of gold, the farmers fields are covered in rape seed and are so vibrant at this time of year not to mention the blanket of daffodils that are about so my card hopefully resembles what I see around me in that season.

Stamp sets used ; With Sympathy & Simple Alphabet both by Papertrey Ink

Nestabilities Card - Monotone

I started with a black base card 150mm x 150mm and then stamped the top and bottom border in black ink onto a 140mm x 140mm white piece of card and adhered this to the base card.

The ribbon was tied and knotted around the middle of the card.

2 circles was cut from nestabilities a black scalloped and a white plain, onto the white circle I stamped the flower and added glass glitter to the center to make it pop.

This monotone card was made with all of my own stamps, I made the flower with individual parts, I made it this way so that if coloured ink was used it would be easier to build the flower (See sample picture below card)

Sample picture

Damask & Cuttlebug Card

This is a card that I made using one of the Damask Papers I made, for the download click here.

I cut it down slightly smaller than the base card, using the textured textile cuttlebug folder I embossed a piece of white card down one side and layered this on top of the damask paper then tied a white ribbon around the card.

I used the RST clear stamps and black ink and made the top image then matted this onto black card stock then added it with foam pads to the card

A Memory Walk

I went on a memory walk with my Mam today, we went to Hawthorne Dene, I was so disappointed as we couldn't get down t the Dene itself as they had the gate chained up, the problem was Mams wheelchair, if we had both been on foot it would have been fine.

The walk itself is one that both Mam and Dad used to take both my girls on. we knew that the snowdrops would have been in full bloom and in the Dene it would have looked like a white blanket as far as the eye could see.

So instead we had to keep to the road, we still enjoyed the walk, the sun was shining and it was lovely to be out, just the two of us.

We met a couple walking their Black Labrador and it nearly ended up on Mams lap, it was so friendly, I also now need to wash my coat as it just wanted to play, it also made me realise that I really miss having a dog.

This shot actually inspired me to make a card from my new Damask Papers, I'll try to post that a little later.

Free Damask Papers

You are free to use these for personal use but please do not share my designs instead link back to my blog for people to download them.

They are copyright to me.
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