A 'Blooming' Birthday

Hello and Welcome. Thanks for dropping in.

Today's post is for our Photo Challenge at

Just Us Girls and Hosting this week is

our Lovely Lisa.

Here's  my take on this gorgeous photo below.

Isn't it glorious! 

No doubt a lot of you will see this

and think of  'Spring' and look forward to it soon.

I chose my card base from SU  Concord Crush

but nearly went for something lighter till I decided

to add some tiny flowers with this and Hello Honey 

contrasting it to my larger flowers from 

SU Petite Petals. I love that stamp/punch set

making it easy to make a floral spray.

These were inked with SU Yo Yo Yellow

and Memento Sweet Plum.

Added some background grunge from 

SU Timeless Textures and s strip of

gold washi tape. 

Sentiment is by STAMPlorations Fluttery

and thought it perfect for all my blooms.

I matted them with SU Concord Crush

and added Liquid Pearls and Nuvo Drops
 to the centres to finish.

Pop over to Our Blog and check what
Tenia and the Team created.
I know I have said it before but...
you won't be disappointed.
It has been an amazing month having
you as our Guest Tenia and loved checking out
your talent more regularly. Thanks You.
I know we will see you back again in our Gallery soon.

It's all about 'DIES' at AAA Cards.

Hello and Welcome to today's post.

STAMPlorations are sponsoring the

Die Cuts Only Challenge at AAA Cards

so I decided to get out a few of my dies

and here is what I made - and it has to also be CAS.

I have used these dies from STAMPlorations - 

CUTplorations Flutter-Zen-2-Layering-Dies

and the Hello Die.

I used metallic card stock to back the cut out

and the popped butterfly. It need a little colour 

so randomly sponged with Nuvo Burnished Bronze Mousse

on both butterfly and sentiment.

Finished with a few pearls.

Thanks for dropping in today.

Love reading your kind comments.

Canvasing 'Happy Thoughts'

Hi there and Welcome!

Today's post is for the current challenge

of Felt/Cork or Canvas etc over at CAS Mix Up Blog

All the details are Here

You will have seen my first entry using cork.

This time I thought I would play with canvas.

It really is a fun paper and gives a great

texture look to your project.

I started by spritzing some Turquoise Brusho's

onto my canvas then decided to add a bit of texture

with Mont Marte Pearl White Acrylic Paint

then some White DecoArt Crackle Paste - 

I should have added more but was just an experiment.

I left it overnight and was happy with the result so continued

by cutting out 2 Spellbinder Butterflies in canvas.

 Attached them to my background and adhered to white card for stability.

Mixed up a little more of what I used for the background,

covering both cutouts and attached an oval gem.

Added some splatters and finished with my sentiment

from STAMPlorations Bloom Happy in Oxide Salty Ocean.

To blend with my pearly background I chose some

Pearlescent Textured card stock.

Here is a close up of the shimmer/texture - 

My Mix is Canvas, Stamping, Die Cutting, Mixed Media.

Thanks for dropping in today

Till next time - Cherrio from