Just a little Hello - Sending Happy thoughts with Altenew

Hello everyone happy Tuesday!  

I hope you are having a lovely week - I treated myself some time ago to a Build a Garden collection by Altenew.

The set is called the Daisy Crown collection and I bought the stamp set, layering stencils and coordinating dies, but I've been so busy with other projects I've never got round to playing with it.

So I decided to have a play whilst hiding indoors to try to keep cool.

It's very different from my normal cute cards but I do love to make floral cards.

I used the smaller of the floral images for this card and I've got loads more ideas just need to have the time - who knew being retired would be so busy... LOL

I stamped the smaller floral spray in a light grey distress ink and then used the layering stencils to colour the design before cutting out with the matching die.

The background is a piece of fabulous ink drop paper that I have been hoarding but thought it was about time I used some !...the design has the look of gold foiling but I decided to add more, splattering the panel with foiling flake glue before adding gold foil.

The sentiment were stamped using purple Versafine Clair ink, one directly onto the card blank and the other die cut and then mounted with foam. Finishing touches were a few pieces of gold confetti around the design.

I hope that you like my project today and you'll come back to see my next project 

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Project recipe:

Altenew - Build a Garden - Daisy Crown - stencil & dies

Distress Inks - black soot, mustard seed, wild honey, worn lipstick, aged mahogany, twisted citron, mowed lawn. hickory smoke

Craft Consortium Papers - Ink Drops - Vivid

Crafters Companion - gold foil

Pebeo gilding paste

Versafine Clair - monarch

Spellbinders confetti -  gold

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

Wendy x

I Love Promarkers Blog - #534 Magical

Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Wednesday! I hope that you are having a lovely week. Aren't the months flying by so quickly - I cant believe we are in May already

I'm on my blog today for the new bi-weekly I Love Promarkers blog challenge , it would be wonderful if you joined us over there if you love to colour with  alcohol markers and don't forget there are prizes up for grabs.  

You can find all of the rules and details for the challenge over on the blog. 

This challenge is being sponsored by Ching-Chou Kuik.

There are so many beautiful dreamy and magical images in her Etsy Store to play with so it was really difficult to choose for today.

Here is my inspiration card for the current blog challenge with the theme of  Magical, using a fun image called Drifting Soul 

What's more magical than this beautiful garden girl - I think she looks like a Fairy with her magical Dragon fly.

The word for a Dragonfly in Spanish is Libélula and its one of my favourite Spanish words it even sounds beautiful.....We are so lucky to see these beautiful creatures flying over our pool in the garden - they definitely seem magical

I chose to use lots of green for my beautiful girl  and coloured her with my promarkers (see below for colours ) before cutting her out.

Todays card is a 6" x 6" and I chose a beautiful leafy paper from Craft Consortium as my base layer, adding some die cut stitching details to the sides of this piece.

I die cut a panel of printed vellum from my stash using some new stitched dies that I've just received from Craft stash UK and then used one of my favourite embossing folders from Lisa Horton Crafts to add leaves. To highlight the leaves a little more I added a little green distress ink on the debossed side of the vellum.

I wanted to create some leaves with texture so I used a piece of green handmade mulberry paper from my stash and die cut this with a variegated leaf die before running it through the coordinating embossing folder - this creates a beautiful texture

The sentiment is a stamp from a set by Lili of the Valley that I've simply stamped with brown Versafine Clair ink and added a touch of green distress ink to tie this into my design.

The finishing touches are some sparkly gems around the design and clear sparkle to the dragonfly wings

I really hope that you have enjoyed my magical card for today and will drop by again to see my next project and don't forget to join in with the challenge over on the I Love Markers blog

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Ching-Chou Kuik digital stamp - Drifting Soul

Craft Consortium papers - The Emporium

Lisa Horton Crafts 3D embossing folder - Pretty Leaves

Lisa Horton Crafts 3D embossing folder & die - Variegated Leaf

LOTV Stamp - Dreamy Days

Lawn Fawn Custom Craft Dies - Stitched Borders

Cardmaking Magic dies - 5 x 7 Alternate Stitched Nestables

Distress Ink - Twisted Citron

Versafine Clair ink - Pinecone

Gelly roll pen - Metallic Gold, white, black

Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen - clear

Pretty Pink Posh gems - sugar plum

Promarkers used :

Skin:           almond, blush, oatmeal, soft peach, dusky rose 

Blush:          pale pink

Eyes:           ocean teal, holly, soft green

                   lavender, ivory

Hair:            pastel yellow, buttercup, sandstone, caramel

Lips:            antique pink, dusky rose

Dress:          forest green, bright green, apple green 

leaves

Berries:        lipstick red, poppy

Dragonfly:    ivory, pastel yellow, lavender, lilac. warm grey 3, 1             

   

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

 Wendy x