Anniversary flowers

Welcome to our little blog.  Thank you for joining us today.

It's a Bank Holiday here in the UK so we are supposed to be having a restful extra day off work.  That isn't happening as there is still packing to be done before our holiday!

We don't have a theme as such this week but all my cards will be ones made for Jen and Alan's wedding anniversary last week.

I made this background a while ago and was saving it for a special occasion - this was it :)

All I had to do was cut the anniversary several times from gold and white card and stack them together.

The background is an Altenew flower gold embossed and coloured with Zig watercolour markers.

I then stamped a small happy and cut it out to add to the sentiment.

The finishing touch was to add some gold liquid pearls.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Blooms fill-in

Hello and thank for joining us.  Excuse the pictures in today's post.  I took them at night so they aren't the best!

I'm back today with another card on the theme of embossing.  This time it is a sentiment and a failed attempt at partial embossing that I managed to salvage (but only just) lol.

I used the fabulous blooms fill-in die from Concord and 9th for the main body of the card.  I used various coloured inks from Altenew to stamp the flowers. I then tried to add Versamark just to the centres and dotted areas of the flowers, and the small leaf branches.

I did this with a Versamark pen but when I added the embossing powder and heat set it, it looked really bad!  It didn't make the statement I wanted so I ended up adding gold liquid pearls over the top of the flowers but I couldn't do anything about the leaves.  Luckily it doesn't show up too much ;)

The sentiment is a long strip stamp from Simon Says Stamp.  I embossed it with gold powder and cut into three smaller sections.  I wanted something a little different and I think this works.  What do you think?

See you again on Friday.  TTFN Jude xx