Easter Wishes

 Hello, and happy Monday to all! This is the last day of my week long vacation.  Bill and I did some birding, but it seems we missed most of the migration as most of it came through the week of May 5.  It was kind of disappointing to say the least.  But..... it was a great just being off of work, taking some 'me' time. I did a lot of reading, finished watching the Downton Abbey series, and Season 1,2,3 of New Amsterdam, just starting to watch season 4.  I also found some time in the craft room :), along with some gardening.

Today's card that I am sharing is one I did for Easter.  I completely forgot to post this.

Products used are:  Penny Black - Tulip Treasure, Penny Black Cross Stitch Borders, and sentiment is from a very old Verse set.

Using Canson 140lb watercolour paper, tombow markers and my Misti.  I continued to add ink to the image, spritz and stamp until I was happy with the image.  I then placed the cross stitch die along the right side and die cut it - love how it only cuts the slits in each triangle.  I stamped the sentiment in black versafine.

To finish off I added some tiny pearls, and sponged antique linen along  the edges.

As always, I appreciate you stopping by.  See you again real soon.  Have a wonderful day, whatever you are up to!

Pauline

Farm Fresh Birthday Wishes

Good morning everyone. A gloomy rainy day today here in SW Ontario, but much needed.  Ground is so dry, we have huge cracks in the ground in our backyard.

Today's card was made with pieces I already had  in my basket of unfinished pieces.

The vase of flowers is from Simon Says Stamps - Mandy's Flowers, coloured using copic markers, then fussy cut out. The background layer was sprayed with a light peach colour (sorry made this over a year ago, so don't recall the colour of spray). I then used a stencil and applied Nuvo paste on top. 

The coral frame was cut using IO - DIE242-YY, cut twice and adhered together.

Cut a tiny tag from Spellbinders and stamped the birthday wishes from PTI in black versafine. Added some foam squares behind the flowers and tag and popped it up along the side of the frame.  Added some clear sequins to finish off.

As always, I appreciate your visit.  Wishing you a wonderful day!

Pauline

Paper Rose Sympathy

Hello everyone. I'm back today to share a couple of Sympathy cards which I made for my last card order.  Actually you will probably see a few more Sympathy from me as I made several for this order.

Using a die from Paper Rose  - Gum Leaf Border die. I have had this border die for over a year now, and finally got around to using it.  

After cutting my front panel with the die I added a piece of vellum behind it. This was done for both cards.

For my first card, I added a couple of strips of washi tape along the top and bottom of the die cut. Cut some tiny flowers and leaves using Spellbinders and added them to the gum leaf die cut area.  The white die cut in the corner is from Memory Box - Flower field corner and the sentiment is from Simon Says Stamps. Added some gem stones to the centers of the flowers.

For my second card, basically done the same way as the first, changed the colours and kept it very simple.

Well, off to get my day started, I'm working from home today, which is an option we could choose when we returned back to work in Feb.  So Wednesday and Friday's I work from home, which I love!

Thank you for stopping by today.  Wishing you a wonderful day!

Pauline