Peony Bloom

This is the Peony 2 Bloom by Just Inklined which is being given free from the Imag-e-nation online shop this week if you sign up to their newsletter you get informed every time a new free image is available.

I printed the image at full size then cut out a square from the printed sheet keeping the head of the bloom in the corner of the square, coloured the image with Promarkers added a pretty ribbon and some pearl pins, stamped a sentiment then added a bit of love to bring it all together.

Attention to Detail...

You can see in this photograph that I printed out the image twice and cut out the first 2 layers of the Peony petals to make the flower pop.

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The Nativity

The Nativity, I made the stable so that it folds into a concertina and the base fold up so that the whole of the stable folds flat all of the images of the Nativity are by Mo Manning and can be purchased as a set here.

All coloured with Copic Markers.

Click on the image for a larger view.

***News Flash***

I give up!

All night I tell you, all night I have been trying to get something right to show you tomorrow.

I started after my tea and I've just got it finished, I'm thinking at the moment I should lay down my craft tools and not pick them back up until after Christmas.

I have been crafting most of the day at work but that is on things that I can't show as yet and yes, I know, I am privileged to have a job that is also my hobby but it also means that it is a 24/7 kind of craft and I feel mentally burnt out.

So if the photography takes as long as the project I have just finished it may well be after Christmas before you see it.

If I'm not back here by morning can someone come and rescue me????

Autumn Leaves

Just a quick card today as I have been working on theme project which has now got me scratching my head on how I'm going to build what I need next.

A simple card using punched out leaves and inked up to add the colour I wanted, I used the sizzix fall embossing folder on the cream card, added a few berries and a pretty ribbon and a bit of love to bring it all together.

You can see from below that the leaves started their life yellow in colour, I used dye inks and blended them onto the leave to get the colour tones I wanted.