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.