Thinking of you

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I have another card for The Flower Challenge - Anything Goes

I used Stampendous Poppy Fields & Zigs for colouring. I cut the flower panel down and framed with MFT Stitched Square Scallop Frames. Distress inks were used for the watercolour background. Some yellow Stickles for the flower centres & a sentiment from Altenew Thinking of You set.

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Floral Christmas

Ok, so I've failed dismally so far this year in the Christmas card department. I think this is only the second one I've made so far. This originally wasn't even meant to be one.

I've had these flowers sitting on my desk partially coloured for about a year. Yes, you heard right! For some reason I just kept shuffling them to the bottom of the pile. Nothing particularly challenging about the image except it was partially coloured & I wasn't very happy with the outcome. So determined to clear my desk of *ahem* rubbish (the polite word) I decided to get it out of the way once & for all. I started to go with a loose, outside the line watercolour look but wasn't happy with the outcome so blended out the colours to a soft background instead. A few splatters in matching colours & then all I could think of was how Christmassy it looked. So I added a Christmas greeting, some sequins & there you have it!

I was thrilled to see a new challenge devoted to floral images - The Flower Challenge 

So I have entered this into their very first Challenge - Anything Goes.

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Birthday shaker

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Another card from partly finished bits & pieces I had lying around.

The MFT Birthday Background had been sitting on my desk for a while so I cut a stitched circle and created a shaker with SSS Happy Birthday Circle die cut from an ink blended scrap. The only item I made especially for this card was the flower using SSS Artful Flowers embossed in white & watercoloured with distress inks. The Paper Smooches vellum leaves & Altenew word were already in my stash.
I am entering this into SSS Wednesday Challenge just in time!

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