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
What lovely dies Lynne, they build up to really beautiful Roses which really stand out against the soft colours of the DP's you used.
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What a beautiful finished card Lynne.
ReplyDeleteLove the colours very much.
Hope you are having a good week and haven't made too many impulse buys LOL!!!
Love and hugs
Jules xoxo
Absolutely gorgeous card Lynne, love the beautiful roses-stand out perfectly against the neutral coloured papers.
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It's a very pretty floral card using your new dies. Love the colour scheme.,
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming to play in the Snippets Playground. See you up in the treehouse - we're heating soup in the new microwave. Fancy a bowlful? xxx
Very Pretty card. Thank you for joining the Polkadoodles challenge. Good luck with your entry.
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Beautiful card with an adorable image used love the layout too x
ReplyDeletea beautiful card, the flowers created with the dies are wonderful. Thanks for joining Polkadoodles Taty x DT
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ReplyDeleteVery elegant and beautiful colours. Elaine
ReplyDeleteWell, that was most definitely a successful impulse buy Lynne!! A really gorgeous card, the yellow and grey look amazing and the stoneware urn is perfect xx
ReplyDeleteSo elegant! Love the colours combo. Thanks for joining the challenge at Polkadoodles challenge!
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Nunzia DT
What a gorgeous card Lynne - love the dies you used. Had to sit on my hands! I also like very much that you used yellow for the roses.
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Di xxx
The yellow roses are gorgeous, I love the dimension. I also like a sentiment in black, IMHO it's elegant. Thanks for joining in and inspiring us at The Beautiful Blossoms Challenge. Best of luck in the draw!
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Really beautiful. Love the layers on the flowers. Thank you for joining the Polkadoodles Polkadoodles challenge this week. Good luck with your entry.
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