PEARLS OR GEMS?

 Morning Everyone,

Today is the start of a new challenge at As You Like It and we are asking whether you prefer pearls or gems on your projects.

I do like both, but tend to use pearls a lot more.  They are elegant and always seem to suit my cards more than gems.  For my DT card I have used dies from Honey Bee stamps call Sweetheart Roses.  They were one of my impulse buys a while ago from Dies to Die For and I've had them made up but not put them on a card until now.  I am a terrible impulse buyer and am going to try and stop this year and use a few of the items in my NBUS basket.

I've coloured the roses with various shades of yellow/orange from Altenew's mini ink cubes.  The instructions on the leaflet only shows four roses, but I thought it looked a bit bare so I've added two more.

The sentiment is from a Penny Black set.  It is quite dark, but I tried it in white it didn't show up very well with it being on the patterned paper, which is from Anna Marie Designs. I've stitched round the edges and finished off with a few pearls and a little pearlised dragonfly.

The roses were made from white snippets and other snippets were the green foliage and the planter.

The sponsor for the challenge is:

I would like to enter:

Beautiful Blossoms - Anything floral

Crafter's Cafe - Birthdays

Creative Knockouts - Something to say

Polkadoodles - Anything Goes

Snippets Playground - Use snippets (roses, planter and foliage)

I hope you can join us for the challenge, thank you for reading this and I will see you again soon.

Lynne x