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 Good afternoon, folks.

Today, I'm sharing a card using the bold watercolour paper from Stampin' Up! that I got in the clearance rack at Christmas.  I love watercolour and I love bold, bright colours so this is perfect for me.  I so enjoyed making the flowers - they are heat embossed in white and watercoloured, using Stampin' Write Markers.  Using the markers as my watercolour was brilliant, because you could use as much ink from the marker, or as little, depending on what part of an image you're colouring.  This was so therapeutic.

I am entering this card into the Just Add Ink #539 challenge which is to Just Choose Two - a border, banner, bow.  Obviously I chose the banner and border (love that little banner stamp - it's so versatile).

Thanks for visiting today xx

Thinking of You card

 Good afternoon, folks.  I hope you are all well and safe.

At the beginning of January, I managed to get a few bargains from Stampin' Up!'s clearance rack and one of these was the gorgeous "See a Silhouette" Designer Series Paper.  I love the beautiful colour palette in these papers.

Today's card that I'd like to share with you is a Thinking of You card as I know so many people at the minute who are not well or struggling in some way and I wanted to encourage them.  So I made up a few of these to send out.

I heat embossed the flower onto watercolour paper in white and then watercoloured it using my Stampin' Write Markers, then punched it out and adhered it on top of a stamped image from the Gorgeous Grunge set using Old Olive ink. I'm pleased with how it turned out.

Thank you for visiting today xx

80th Birthday

 I was asked by a friend to create a card for her Great Granny who was turning 80 years young, and here is what I came up with.  I have to say I'm pleased with the results, as I wanted something quite stylish and I found that these Autumn foil speciality papers from Stampin' Up! fit the bill.  I've just recently signed up as a SU! demonstrator and am waiting for my new goodies to arrive, so in the meantime I had to use SU! products from older catalogues.  The stamps used here are from Number of Years and the dies match the stamp set.  These are great for anything celebrating birthdays or anniversaries.  I die cut 3 of each number to raise it up and give it dimension.  The little tab with Granny's name on it was cut out with a previous SU! punch.

Hopefully when I get my new goodies, I'll be able to share lots of what's going on in the new catalogues, including Saleabration where you can get free products for every £45 you spend!  What's not to love about that?!  There is also a new Mini Catalogue available with some gorgeous items in there too.

Pop back next week to see more!

Welcome 2021

 Hi folks.  I'm so glad to be back posting again after a bit of a break.  I hope you are all well and had a good restful Christmas holiday.

At Christmas, my husband and I were very blessed to receive kind and thoughtful gifts for which we are truly thankful, so I needed some cards to say Thank You.  Is it just me or do people not really say thanks much anymore?  I think we take too much for granted and I really believe we should always be thankful for what people give us - and then let them know it.  I know that the recipients of these cards appreciated them and that has also shown me how much people still like to receive a card in the post.  A text, WhatsApp or Instagram message is OK, but a card can be kept for a long time, put on display and be a reminder of how someone cared enough about them to take the time to make a card for them.  So I'll always be a fan of snail mail!

I enjoyed using this Stampin' Up! three step stamp which was a saleabration stamp a number of years ago.  The papers are also Stampin' Up! and I got them in the Clearance rack for a few £s.  I used Flirty Flamingo Cardstock as my mat, as it is one of the colours in the paper.

I'm entering this card into the Anything Goes Challenge over at Word Art Wednesday.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Karen xx