and finally!

for our dancing teacher

First Christmas

A first Christmas deserves a special card (any excuse eh?)

It is an easel card and I have used my lovely skiing snowman stamp as the basis of my design (as he is sooo cute!!).  The letters were cut with my Sizzix decorative strip alphabet “Wingo Zingo”and the number was cut with my Sizzix decorative strip “Frosting Numbers”.  I coloured the snowman with brushmarkers and the background with pastels.

The last of the September birthdays

 
The 30th is our friends birthday.  With all the celebrations in September it can be difficult to continue to come up with unusual cards.  This year I was lucky – I had been messing around with some flowers that I had dried and I decided to use these to make our friend’s card.

During the summer I had picked some hydrangea (hortensia) flowers and put them in my flower press.  When I finally remembered them they were certainly dried but also quite colourless.


I trawled the web to see if it was possible to hand colour dried flowers and came across an article that gave instructions on how to colour dried flowers with pastels.  Well, after a bit of trial and error I was beginning to have a bit of success.


I coloured some more, this time with blue pastels and used them to make this card.


Our friend loved it, especially when I told her that the flowers were from my garden.