Blooms

I've had this background paper for a long time and  love the colours but what to do with it. The flowers are quite small and came with a die but it left a white border which I really don't like so out came the scissors.  I should have put a pale colour for the background inside the shaker , I tried to lift off but it was stuck really well .I used Promarkers to colour the flowers.
 

Triple B - Birds, Butterflies and Blooms. They also have a mood board for inspiration.

Cherry Time

 A little book binding card with a huge cherry. We have some wonderful cherry farms right on our doorstep here in Tasmania but the picking season is very short . I like to throw a few in a pan and warm them a little until they are soft and juicy, I use them with a chocolate muffin and jello to make a black forest trifle base before adding custard and cream. 

Double D challenge Fresh picked -anything but flowers.

 I remembered I had this cherry paper so I just had  to find papers that were a good colour match. Cherry and leaf raised up on sticky pads.

swirls,flowers and flourishes

 I seem to have a bit of everything here, a stencil , embossing ,inking, die cutting and a little stamped sentiment. I made this card for my Aunt who had her 93rd birthday at the beginning of May.

Allsorts challenge week 727 - flowers - I have no idea what sort of flowers these are. Echinacea perhaps.

Stencil Fun - A stencil  + flowers - this is such a pretty stencil with its flourishes and swirls

a little layered card

 A mix n match of 3 papers , a flower card and a postage stamp. A  pretty ribbon and it's done. I often struggle with layers but this one came together so easily. The camera sadly does not pick up all the detail in the light background paper as it is a gold flock and very pretty. I should probably try and take a better pic as the cream card edge is not showing on the right hand side.

Let's Craft and Create-  challenge 195 - ribbon, twine ,lace.

After 5 months of waiting we finally have our bathroom and laundry room finished . Because it's such an old house all the pipes were replaced to the kitchen as well. It took for longer than we expected and not fantastic if I am honest .Having six different trades to do the job is crazy , I think the builder could have done a better job in getting them organised.The best I can say is 'its clean and tidy '.