The Beauty of a Rose

I find that many things that surround me inspire me to be creative so I thought I would share something with you all.

I bought some flowers last week and they were headed for the refuse bin this week and when I turned the vase this little rose was still quite beautiful I admire the make up of nature, the texture of each petal has a velvety appearance that make you want to touch it.

It got me started on thinking how clever this rose was to have such a beautiful bloom and yet such a prickly stem to protect it's growth.

If you click on the picture below it will enlarge the photograph for you

Flourish Overlay

I've fussed around so much with this card to try to get a good picture that I've just give up and added this one to show you all.

The flourish was stamped on acetate before adding to the base card, it was stamped with white stazon ink.

The hearts were cut with the Nestabilities dies the I heat embossed a heart stamp onto the Aqua coloured heart with white embossing powder and added the hearts to the card using foam pads.

To finish the card I added punched flowers and leaves, a few pearls and a sheer ribbon.

Blog Candy Stamp Sets

Competition to win a Stamp set designed and made by myself.

Below is a sample of the set and I have 2 of them up for grabs

So I guess you need to know how to win yourself a set of the stamps.

All you need to do is guess what my favourite flower is, I have featured and talked about it many times, those that guess correctly will be eligible to win the name will be put into a hat and 2 lucky winners will receive the stamp sets.

The competition will close Midnight Sunday 26th April 2009

Below is some of the cards I have made with the Stamp set

Flourshed Gold on White

I used a flourish stamp wheel by Stamping Up and white embossing powder on the base card you can just about see it on the right of the image under the tied bow this really pops and gives the card a wonderful detail.

The main stamp by Impression Obsession was heat embossed with glod detail powder then mounted on top of gold mirri card then added to the card after tying a sheer gold ribbon around the middle of the card.

Click on the image below for a more details view of the embossed basae card.

Floral Stamp

One of my own stamp sets was used to create this card, I made another card in monotone a while back using the same stamp set click here to see it.

I used the Birthday Wishes down the side of the base card and staped the flower on the nestabilities oval shapes then using the leaves from the set stamped them at the corners os the card and used a pretty matching ribbon to finish the card.