Tidy Up

Hello lovely peeps and welcome to my new follower Diane.
 

I'm feeling very chuffed with myself today, I spent most of yesterday tidying and organising all the piles of paper/card I had lying about. Not only are my papers all tidy and colour co-ordinated but I can now see most of my craft room carpet again :D

Little Holly

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

 

For today's card I've built a wreath with the Berry Branches stamps from Inkylicious. 

I wanted a slightly softer look so I spritzed the stamp after inking for a watercolour effect and used first and second generation stamping. After mucking up a couple of attempts doing it freehand I got out my stamping platform so I could overstamp if the image wasn't clear enough. The 'Merry Christmas' is also from Inkylicious. 

Flower Wreath for Polkadoodles

Hello lovely peeps

For todays make I used some of the gorgeous pre-coloured flowers on the Magic Garden CD from Polkadoodles.

 I started off with one of the wreaths that I made from birch twigs 18 months ago

I printed off lots of flowers from the CD and cut them out with my Craft Robo. I shaped each one with a ball tool and poked holes in the centres before layering them up two at a time with mini black brads.

It was a bit awkward trying to arrange the flowers on the wreath as they kept falling off, so I cut a rough outline of the wreath out of black paper

Once I was happy with the layout I started glueing them all on with a hot glue gun.

 Once that was done I wanted something to hang in the middle, so I picked one of the fab chalkboard sentiments on the CD.

I printed it off twice and cut them out (it's a nice easy shape to cut). I attached some fine thread in between the two layers which was then tied around the top of the wreath.

It's finished off with a loop of pink satin ribbon to hang it up with and a couple of pieces knotted around the wreath itself.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Everybody-Art-Challenge #368 - Flowers
 Shopping Our Stash #251 - April Showers Bring May Flowers
 Deep Ocean Challenge #128: "Flowers everywhere
Going Grey With Scrap-Creations Spring/Flowers 
  Live & Love Crafts Challenge  #47 Blossoms &/or Butterflies 
Quirky Crafts #5 April Showers bring Quirky May Flowers

I'll be blogging a Leonie card over the weekend but if you're a Polkadoodles fan then make sure to come back and visit on Monday for a very special post

Thanks for stopping by today,

Katrina x