Birthday scene

Wow. June has been frenetic. I've been whirling in circles with work this month trying to get everything done in time for my vacation, which started today.

Ahhhhhhh.

Here's a birthday card that I made for my mum using the Scene in a Garden stamp set. Super cute!

The watercolouring is done using Classic stamp pads and an aquapainter. I'm pretty pleased with the results.

I don't know what prompted to make me a green and orange (technically "Certainly Celery" and "Dusty Durango") card, since those are two of my least favourite colours, but after I painted the little scene, those were the colours it was crying out for me to use.

Funny how cards have a way of sorting themselves out, no?

Remember: last chance to order from the old catalog is this coming Tuesday. After that, the new stuff is available, but the prices will be going up (don't say I didn't warn ya).

Thanks for dropping by.

Summer cherries

I made something!

Holy smokes - no-one is as surprised as I am. Has it really been two weeks since I last posted anything?! In my defense, my craft room has been a first-rate disaster for months now, and it had finally gotten to the point where I couldn't find anything let alone move around in there to create.

I had time the last two days to reclaim my space, and instantly set to work making a wee gifty for a girl friend.

How cute is this?

She loves a wee cuppa almost as much as I do, so I gave her a jar of my absolute favourite wild cherry tea. It worked perfectly that I had some scraps of the old Summer Picnic designer series paper with the cherry pattern on it.

The jar is just a little spice jar - you can pick them up affordably at Solutions. I put a strip of Real Red cardstock around the lid that had been punched using the eyelet lace SU! punch. On top of the lid I stamped the cherries from Tart and Tangy, matted them on a punched 1-1/2" Old Olive circle and a 1-3/4" Real Red circle. The cherries have been filled in with some crystal effects to make them shiny.

I hope she enjoys the tea!