The Glittered Poppleberry

Happy spring everyone! Today I've decided to share a couple of spring cards I made using patterned paper pads I have. I love my paper pads so this was great fun. Certainly put the gloomy weather outdoors out of mind. I made these by picking papers I felt co ordinated well together, then matted and layered them with some black cardstock I have.  The paper pads I used were 'home sweet home' by craft Asylum and 'Tealightful ' by Pebbles inc. These are such pretty and colourful pads, the tealightful pad had some pretty cut aparts with spring sentiments-perfect!  I finished these off with my wink of stella brush pen or some nuvo drops in matching colours.  I hope this brought spring into your craft room! Thank you for spending some of your day with me! Crafty hugs and see you tomorrow for 'whats on your workdesk Wednesday. Ellie x

Evening friends! Sorry about not blogging yesterday, I didn't have any time to craft unfortunately. So this evening I used some of the coloured image I shared recently to make small toppers, these can also be used as tags. Both stamped images are by Clarity stamps. So to start both of the example off, I fussy cut the stamped images. Next I used distress ink on the toadstool image and artistry ink on the owl image. I used a blending tool to apply the inks to a white piece of card. I stuck the images using Cosmic shimmer acrylic glue. To complete the toadstool image I added nuvo drops and ran a pink pen around the edges. To complete the owl design, I die cut a stitched circle by lawn fawn from the inked background. Next flicked water at the inked circle and blotted with kitchen roll. This lifts the ink leaving a splattered effect. I then adhered my owl and drew a branch using ink and a paintbrush.  Thank you for spending some of your day with me. Crafty hugs and se...