Spring tulips

Good Morning everyone

Spring flowers - i can't decide which is my fav as when the snowdrops come out in January they bring promise with them then we head into the cheerful yellow daffodils which brighten up a grey wet spring here in Cornwall where they often grow wild in the hedgerows and then comes the vibrancy of tulips...basically i love them all and grow them all in my little garden. 

I used this lovely little tulip in wellies die and teamed it with pastel polka dot papers....not often i go for pastel shades

5.5x6" green cardbase.  I first die cut my tulips/wellies from polka dot papers & the green card and paper pieced together.  Just adding a little shading around the wellies with a grey alcohol marker.

I die cut a border edge die from the front edge of my base card.  I then cut layers using the same die from pastel polka dot papers, you only need it deep enough to slot under the one above so only need a small stripe of the papers, i then die cut a white panel with the same die, added foam tape and adhered it to the card front leaving a little of the green base card showing at the top edge.

I added a strip across the middle of the card using the same papers/colours.  Die cut a white circle and green circle to fit the wellies and attached to the card base and then added my tulip wellies with glue gel.  Stamped sentiment to finish.

Just a close up of the tulips wellies.

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As i had left over tulips and wellies from die cutting in the different colours i used them all up, so this is version 2.  On this one you can see the card closed shut, i added a little strip of the polka dots to the inside back edge so you can see it when the card is closed - when its stood up open you just see the green shaped edge as shown on the first photo above....hope that makes sense😀

Items Used:

Simon Says stamp ' rainboot planter'

MFT Border Edge dies

Circle dies

Clearly besotted sentiment stamps

Anna Marie crafts polka dot cardstock

Echo park paper pad ' dots & stripes'

Thank you all for stopping by.  I hope its a good end to the week & weekend for you all.  Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://bastel-traum.blogspot.com/2022/03/111-fruhling-spring.html

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http://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/03/challenge-74-dots-andor-stripes.html

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http://cinspirations.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-challenge.html

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http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2022/03/challenge-229-add-flower.html

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http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-challenge-spotsstripes-or-easter.html

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http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2022/03/challenge-645-die-cuts.html

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Floral birthday

Good Morning everyone.

With my mojo missing i have joined in a challenge with friends, ive combined two, one was to make a floral card with an aperture and the second to use the colours, tangerine, turquoise & tawny.

I first went through my extensive 6x6 paper pads and found this one with muted shades of turquoise & tangerine which ive paired with kraft card to act as the tawny shade.  Its by My Minds Eye 'Indie Chic - citron'

6x6 Kraft card cardbase. With the spine of the card at the top I then die cut the scalloped edger die to the front panel.  I then die cut the circle burst from the centre.  I lined the insider with a pale yellow paper and rounded all the corners.  I then inked the edges with pale orange ink.  I stamped my sentiment on the inside back panel of the card so that you can see it from the front of the card.  

I then die cut several layers of daisy dies from an orange paper and foliage from a blue paper, inked the edges and built up my floral arrangement so its hanging over the edge of the circle aperture.  I die cut a little butterfly from papers in the pad.  Then i just added orange pearls and giltter gems to finish. 

Side on view showing it stood up and you can clearly see the aperture. 

This shows it side on, really showing the circle burst aperture.  This is 300gsm kraft card so it isn't too flimsy after cutting out the aperture. 

Just a close up on my flowers & butterfly. 

Items Used:

Memory box large circle burst die

MFT scalloped edger die

Sizzix butterfly dies

Stampin up curly cute sentiment stamp

MME 'Indie Chic - citron' paper pad 

Flower & Foliage dies

Kraft Card

Thank you all for stopping by, i shall be around to catch up with your blogs soon. Emmax

Boys 18th Birthday

Good Morning everyone.  Thank you for all your comments on my wirework attempts, i do appreciate them all and had fun.  

Today im sharing an 18th birthday card i made for my godson's birthday a couple of weeks ago.  Not sure where the 18 years have gone since his mum and I brought him home from hospital!

6x6" white basecard. I then added a panel of rainbow coloured paper and stamped the greeting in the bottom right corner.  

I then cut a square of white card slightly small again, die cut the scalloped border, then randomly die cut lots of 18's out using number dies, this panel i mounted using foam tape, i then glued the little circles back in the number 8

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I cut a panel of white card and stamped his name in black, mounted onto a strip of the pattern paper and added on top with more foam tape. I then used a blue fine liner pen and doodled on a border. 

I must have taken the photo on a slight angle as both sides of the name band were equal - looks a bit one sided in the photo! 

Items Used:

MFT dienamics scalloped edge die

Memory Box Parker number dies

Kasiercraft grunge alphabet stamps

Stampin up - into the wild set (sentiment)

Poundland paper pad - Happy watercolour

Other funky personal Childrens cards made by me. all making use of an alphabet die set.

This one makes good use of those circle dies and neon card

square dies in action and lots of butterflies

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you are all having a good weekend. Emma

Floral birthday

Good Morning all, i hope you had a good weekend.  

Can you believe its a fortnight gone again and time for a new challenge at

Make My Monday

The theme this time is:

A Hint of Summer to Come

I found a lovely summery floral paper with blue cornflowers in my stash to go with.  I picked out co-ordinating cardstock and dies to go with.

5.5 x 7" white cardblank.  I first stamped my sentiment direct onto the cardfront and then die cut my pattern paper with a MFT edge die, layered it onto blue cardstock cut with the same edge die,  i added this to the cardfront with foam tape. 

I made up a cornflower using my old Tonic cornflower die and added a button centre.  I die cut different foliage from orange and yellow cardstock to pick up on them in the paper.  Ive had the Sue Wilson foliage die years but its such a pain to cut cleanly that i rarely use it but its perfect with this paper. 

I added a thin strip of blue to the top edge and 3 yellow buttons to finish. 

Exactly the same details as the first one but just reversed with the paper at the bottom and white linen card on top.  

Hopefully summer will arrive soon and i have lots of beautiful flowers in the garden!  So if you fancy joining our challenge or just want to see what the rest of the DT came up with and all the amazing entries, please do hop over to 

Make My Monday

Items used:

Paper - B&M

MFT scalloped edge die

Tonic cornflower die

Sue Wilson Fern Trio die set CED1401

Tattered Lace - ferns die set

Clearly besotted sentiment stamp

You might also be interested in:

sparkly-snowflakes - scalloped edge dies

thank-you-cards - scalloped edge die

Thank you for stopping by and all your visits and comments last week, i hope you all have a good week. 

I would like to enter:

craftaholicsrus - use something blue