Large Flowers and Celebrating Birthdays

I did a workshop with my niece Laura to learn how to make these large flowers, they are so beautiful and really quite easy to make. These are the ones I made at Laura's workshop.

 My friends Karen , Colleen and I got together so I could show them how to make these lovely flowers. We have so much fun crafting together.

This is my completed project, I've decorated a reed swag with the flowers and ribbon. I choose a number of different CTMH patterned and plain red papers and added some leaves. It hangs on the cupboard door in my entrance way.

It was Karen's birthday a few days later so we celebrated her birthday as well. Here is a layout I created with the I Heart Us paper collection and compliments. I love how it turned out.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend  and get an opportunity to do some crafting.

I Heart Us Blog Hop

Welcome to the the CTMH Australasian  blog hop, if you arrived here from Shaunna's Passionate About Pages you are in the right place. If you arrived here by chance I hope you see something you like. To continue the hop click on the link at the end of this post.

This is a wonderful collection, the colours and patterns of the papers are beautiful and the stickers are so gorgeous.There are two stamps sets that coordinate with this collection, I have only used one.

   

               

For this layout I have used some of the papers, a selection of the paper flowers, stickers and one of the stamps from the I heart Us Cardmaking kit. I love this sentiment "ours is a beautiful  friendship" These two friends really are my besties

I keep trying to improve my water colour painting and I am rather happy with this effort. I stamped the flowers and leaves with Pebble ink. I wanted the background to be a softer colour so I decided to use some vellum paper on top of the blue and I liked the look of the striped one but the gold stripe was too bright so I turned it over and much preferred this look. I love the pink pearls.

Blue and white is one of my favourite colour combinations and I especially like the Carolina Blue in our range. I decided to use this cardstock and heat emboss with the white embossing powder and the flower stamp. I have also used the new Swiss Dot Embossing Folder, the hello thin cut, some white ribbon and a little bling.

Thanks again for stopping by to continue the hop go to Vandra's Virtual Craftroom and see what wonderful project she has to share. Your comments are always appreciated so please take a moment and leave a comment.

February Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to the  February Stamp of the Month blog hop, if you arrived here from Shaunna's Passionate About Pages you are in the right place. If you arrived here by chance I hope you see something you like. You can see more of this stamp set by clicking on the link at the end of this post.

This wonderful stamp really does make my heart happy! It is large enough to use it as a title for scrapbooking and if you are into making bigger cards such as 6x6 or larger this would be perfect. The lovely flower and leaf stamps will be great for lots of smaller projects.

I couldn't wait to colour the flowers in this stamp, it truly is a beautiful design. The Shin Han markers matched the colours in this paper pack beautifully. I have used the Oh What Fun papers and some of the compliment stickers.

I decided to stamp the banner in Lagoon ink and then very carefully stamp the "You Make My" on the top. I fussy cut it and adhered it with Foam Tape, I really like how it looks when it is raised a bit..

This card uses a number of the single flowers and leaves, I coloued and fussy cut them. I wanted to create the look of a wreath so I cut 3 hearts using the largest heart Thin Cut and added the flowers and leaves, a few gems and a sentiment and the card is finished. The Get Well Soon is from the January Stamp of the Month. 

I am so happy you stopped by, to continue the hop go to Vandra's CTMH Craftroom, I am sure she will have something wonderful to share. Please take a moment and leave a comment, we all appreciate them.