Just about got time to put the cards up we made with Jo last night, before Alison of Cruft's fame (see earlier post) comes to trim the dogs for me. I have asked her to clip them this time as they are getting old and I don't feel it's fair for them to stand there and be hand stripped. It will be much quicker for them and Jim has always hated being trimmed.
Anyway back to cards, I only got 2 finished last night so will put those up now and finish the 3rd tonight and put it up tomorrow. They were three lovely cards and I really enjoyed making them. Here's the first.
We used the m-bossabilities folder on the front of the base card and also on a square of the same CS which we then cut into a triangle, punched 2 strips of Wisteria Wonder and stuck them to the 2 longer sides of the triangle and stuck it onto the centre of the card. We stamped and punched the flower three times, once on Whisper White and twice on Wisteria Wonder, the second of these we punched only part of the flower so that the centre was close to the edge. Punched the white with the 5 petal punch and the wisteria with the posy punch, and the centre with the 1/2" circle punch. Mounted them up using foam pads and stuck to the card with foam pads. Stamped the sentiment and mounted is then stuck above the flower. The ink was Wisteria Wonder. I really love this colour.
O.K. on to number 2, this used Very Vanilla, Calypso Coral CS and DSP, plus a small piece of Lucky Limeade CS for the leaves and flowers. The Very Vanilla background was embossed using a distressed stripes embossing folder then mounted onto the base card. We die cut 4 flowers from the DSP, creased the petals (Jo doesn't do flat) and put them together alternately light and dark sides, secured with a brad. Die cut the leaves and cut the stem freehand. Mounted them onto the card, stamped the sentiment onto Very Vanilla and mounted this onto DSP and onto the card using sticky pads. Very effective I thought.
I had some good news today, we have been wanting a conservatory for some time but being a listed building have had great difficulty obtaining listed building and planning permission for the ones that we like. We found a firm who do Garden Rooms and they said that they thought they would be able to do it for us, so we applied again a couple of months ago and lo and behold he rang today to say that both permissions had been granted and they can start soon. The surveyor is coming out tomorrow to do the final survey and we should have our Garden Room in about 6 weeks!!!!!! Hooray.
I will keep you up to date with the progress, the glass doors slide right back to the wall so the dogs are going to love it, when we have some sunshine. I can't wait to be sat in there with them.
Back tomorrow with the third of Jo's lovely cards.
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