Rainbow Get Well cards

One of my Tuesday ladies has a fall yesterday and dislocated  her shoulder and broke a bone in the socket joint, so today all the ladies have made her a get well card and I have posted them off to her,

so she should get them in the morning.

Here are two that I made, but I'm not saying which one I sent to her,

 then it will still be a surprise

when she opens the cards!

Fabulous Florets, Hopeful Thoughts, Work of Art

Flowering Flourishes, Hopeful Thoughts, Work of Art.

Both cards use the same design, I have just changed the silhouette stamp.

The rainbow is created with the Work of Art stamp set using the following colours:

(From top to bottom)

Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango and Real Red.

Don't know which one I like the best!!

Get well soon Janet!!

WWWU#11 - Neutrals

It's that time of the week again so I am making an effort to participate early!!

Julie has decided that this week we are to use only Neutrals - now I have no problem with this -

it even gave me a suggestion for the colours for my next diamond silhouette card!!

What do you think??

Colour combo Basic Black, Basic Gray, Smoky Slate and White.

Flower spray from Fabulous Florets stamp set

and sentiment from Petite Pairs.

Does it need a Rhinestone in the centre of the flower?

Fabulous Florets

Happy Mothers' Day!!

Have you had a wonderful day?

Well I have!  I started off with a lie in!

After all the activities of the last two days, it has been nice to relax a little.

Simon and Kerry came with the kids - and instead of me cooking for them, Simon cooked for them!  They brought me my Mothers' Day cards - I always get one from Ellie, Lucas and Lexie

even though I am their Nannan - I am quite flattered that they want to send one to me.

Barry then went down to Simon's to help with some work that needed doing in Simon and Kerry's Kitchen - leaving me and Lexie to have "Girly time together" as Lexie calls it.

Lexie decorated a plain bag with stamping, to hold her knitting  (I started teaching her

to knit the other day!) and Kerry amazed Simon by remembering how to knit.

Lexie was impressed that her mum knew how to knit!

Anyhow after that she made a start on her Easter cards.

Later on we went up to the Cemetery, for me to take my mum some flowers for Mothers' Day.

Came home, Barry made tea for Lexie and me, then Kerry came to take Lexie home.

What a wonderful day!

Here's a card that I made and showed Lexie how to make - hope you like it.

Do you recall me making a diamond shape template out of acetate after my first attempt with a paper one?  Well this is the one that I have used (made by punching with the triangle punch, then turning upside-down and punching again to create the diamond.)

I stippled each diamond separately with different shades of blue ink -

Night of Navy, Pacific Point and Tempting turquoise.

Then over stamped with the flower and foliage stamp from Fabulous Florets.

A tiny greeting finishes this off nicely I think.

Matted first of all onto Pacific Point card stock, then White, 

then layered onto a Black base card and voila.

I am really pleased with this and would like to enter it into

the Fantasy Stampers Challenge #7 Silhouettes

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Fabulous Florets

I am making a concerted effort to ink up unused stamp sets (shame!!)

I thought that I would make a card for our WWWU (Wades Weekly Warm Up) 

using this one - Fabulous Florets.

The colour combo Julie has selected for us this week is

Primrose Petals, Gumball Green, Crisp Cantaloupe and Coral Calypso.

I have created the background using two of the flowers from the stamp set,

then another stamp is the main image on this card.

I have finished off the feature flower with a Basic Pearl for the centre,

but I don't think you can see it as the light was bad when I took this photo a few minutes ago.

Note to self - take photos when sun shining!!

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