Cool Christmas

Remember this?  I made the topper as my swap for the Reading Training day, you can read all it here. I thought the ladies at card club would like to have a go too and so I turned it into a larger card and added the greeting.

Reading Training day Swaps

Yesterday was just great!  I attended a Stampin Up Leadership training day in Reading.  I learned loads, did a make and take or two and met loads of lovely people :)

This is what I made to swap with all the other demonstrators and is what has been the cause of me spending the last few days in various stages of inkiness.  I punched a circle mask from a post it note and then added 3 different inks using a dauber (Not Quite Navy, Night of Navy and one of the new In Colours Midnight Muse).  The images are from Winter Post and Lovely as a tree and stamped in black.  I then matted onto Night of navy and not Quite Navy card. 
Hmm, think I might upscale this a little for card club next week, what do you think?

Autumn Oak

Another poor photograph, sorry.  I made the Oak Tree from the Lovely as a Tree set very autumnal looking using an aqua painter and the ink from my inkpads, Being very frugal I used up a scrap of background paper tearing down the diagonal and sticking to a wild wasabi card blank.  I didn't mat the image today just added it directly to the card but I did add a splash more colour by using a yellow scallop punched greeting and a ribbon along the spine.

Lovely as a fir tree.

The quality of this photo isn't very good I'm afraid, I will replace if I ever find a spare five minutes. I went back to those images I stamped and watercoloured a couple of weeks ago for this card.  The fir tree this time, matted onto crumb cake and wild wasabi card and mounted onto a crumb cake base card.  I also used one of the tiny stamps from the Lovely as a Tree set to stamp a background for the card.  I added a scallop punched greeting in wasabi to finish it off.

 

Springtime trees

Remember those images I stamped and watercoloured the other day from the "Lovely as a Tree" set?  I finally managed to get one onto a card today.  The weather is so wet and grey outside that I felt the need for something a little more springlike so the colour combination of Certainly Celery, Daffodil Delight and Wild Wasabi did the trick perfectly.  I background stamped the base card with celery ink using a flower stamp from one of the Sale-a-bration sets, the birthday greeting comes from there too but due to the poor photograph it doesn't show very well.