Handmade Paper Flowers

Just a quickie for tonight. I made this card a couple of weeks ago for a lady. It's the only female card I've made just recently. I've been concentrating on making men's cards as I struggle to get inspired. Women's cards seem to be much easier!This paper was part of a free download set from Tinker & Co. I really love these colours at the moment. I've made the flower myself using my nestabilities and an embossing tool. I inherited quite a lot of handmade papers a while ago, but never really used them. They are perfect for making flowers with though. To finish I've added a Craftwork Cards sentiment on foam pads, to the middle of the flower and a few teal adhesive stones. I might make some more like this! It only took a few mins to make too!

Tinker & Co DT Cards - Elisia Paper Pack

Here are my first few cards that I've made for Tinker & Co as part of the Design Team. The paper pack is called Elisia and you can buy it here! I really love the colours in this set, and the flowery flourish is absolutely gorgeous!
This first card is my favourite of the set. Its made using the Joy-Fold layout. I've used a combination of the three paisly papers from the set, combined with some black card. I think these colours contrast really well. The flourish element has been printed onto acetate and then cut around the edges before being fastened with a small brad through the centre of the flower. A few adhesive stones and some organza ribbon to finish and voila!

I've made this one using a sketch I used a couple of weeks ago, and have used some of the more floral papers from the pack this time. Again the flourishes are printed onto acetate and fastened with a brad.
This was quite a simple one to make, again using the blue paisley paper layered onto white cardstock with inked edges. I used my nestabilities to cut out the squares and layered over the printed flourishes so that they overlapped the square. I then just stamped the sentiment and added a few adhesive stones to finish.
And finally, using my favourite layout of the moment! I paper pieced Tilda's dress using the pink and black spotty paper, which was really quite fiddly, I'd not done this before, but I love the result so it was worth it! I love the pink & black combination, one of my favourites.


Yo can buy this kit from Tinker & Co along with a huge range of other digital kits too.

Some Great News!!! and some Thank You's!!!

I apologise for being such a bad blogger! I've been so busy over the past couple of weeks with lots of orders for my cards and family stuff, that I just haven't had the time to do any blogging, so I've set today aside so that I can attempt to catch up!

First of all I'm very proud to announce that I have been asked by Jo at Tinker & Co to become a member of their Design Team, which I am over the moon about! If you haven't come accross Tinker & Co before, please go and take a look at the products in their shop. The digital kits are just gorgeous. Also, there are some freebies for download on their blog, to get you started.
I would also like to say a big thank you to Chrissie, Helen and Victoria for giving me this award. It means so much! Thank you. I hope to get round to passing it on to 10 of my favourite blogs as soon as I am able to catch up a bit!

I will be back later with some cards to show you!