Flowerpot Card for Craftwork Cards

The lovely peeps over at Craftwork Cards sent me a pad of die cut flowers and papers - it's called Floral Fusion. I knew straightaway that I wanted to make a flowerpot card, it's ages since I made one, and they are so simple and effective. The flowers are all layered from the pad, inked with spiced marmalade distress ink,  and the leaves are Spellbinders, cut in white and coloured with ProMarkers

 I love the way the insert with the flowers on lifts right out to reveal a message......

Oh dear. Blitzy had Tim Holtz distress inkpads today - I bought eighteen! At home they sell for between £4 and £5, which is about eight dollars, so when I saw them on sale for $2.99, well, it was a no-brainer. I have pretty much all the colours now. Next it will be the reinkers.... Oh, I got a couple of dies as well. I need a twelve step programme.......


I am keeping a low profile here in Florida as far as friends from the UK are concerned, from what I gather the UK is being battered with torrential rain and high winds. I don't think I would be anybody's favourite friend if I told them that the weather here is glorious. How to alienate friends without even trying....


Overheard in Dunkin Donuts today, one of the servers was sitting outside with her feet up, on the phone. 'well I am working with two broken ankles' she yelled at some person on the other end of the phone, who obviously wasn't working at all. Phone call finished, she hopped to her feet and walked briskly back to work. Is that coffee responsible for miracle healing?


I will be having another look at all the challenge entries over the next couple of days, and announce the winners later in the week. Oh yes, and deciding on the next challenge as well

BBTB2 - Leaf cut

This week, the challenge over on BBTB2 was to use the leaf cut from the Life is a beach cartridge. The flowers were the shift flower from George, layered up and with a gemstone in the centre. I didn't have a clear idea where I was going with this cut at all, until I saw my pal Kath's gorgeous flowerpot for Get Funky, and it reminded me of how much I love making these little cards.

The papers are all by C Gibson, for a tutorial on making flowerpot cards go to Splitcoast Stampers/resources

I always put a little folded piece of cardstock on the back of these cards, to act as a little stand. It means they will stand on their own, otherwise you have to prop them up.

Here is the insert, I made it a get well card. Lots of hospitals don't allow flowers on the wards now, so I think a little handcrafted pot of blooms would cheer up the patient. Be sure to go over to BBTB2 to see what the other designers came up with, and as this is an open challenge, you can join in with any leaf cut, from any cartridge.
No time for my daily ramblings today, I have errands to run, people to see, busy busy busy.
See you tomorrow

Polkadoodles - Sketch 4

The sketch on polkadoodles this week was certainly unusual.........see the design teams take on the challenge and get a freebie download to join in. I made this flowerpot card, the insert slots into the pot and the flowers sort of hang over the top. Isn't the ladybird cute? All the papers are from the sugar birdies CD. Nikky is going to be taking it to Create and Craft TV in July.

My car broke down yesterday, it made a strange noise, then the steering went, luckily I had just left the motorway and was only a mile from home. It was towed to the garage, leaving me carless and helpless - I really don't know how to even inflate the tyres on a car, how pathetic is that. Anyway, a friend's husband came round and sorted it, and whilst we were waiting for the tow truck, he wandered around the garden. 'You've got a dead rat in your water feature En' he said chattily, now he is a bit of a joker, so I laughed merrily - until I looked into the terracota pot that is supposed to send trickles of water cascading gently over the sides onto the pebbles below. There is a BIG bloated ratlike thing in the water - it's still there, the tow truck arrived and we were diverted. I keep going and looking at it in fascinated horror, trying to pluck up courage to do something about it. A rat! The water feature is only about 6 feet away from the house. Did he have a wife and little ratlets? If so, where are they? Was it mass suicide? Are more drowned rats going to rise like Ophelia from the deep? What is it with me and wildlife? Regular readers of this blog will have seen me dealing with snakes, large black pigs, poisonous orange furry caterpillars.................now rats.