Bleached Daisies

 Hello again,

I have made a card following this month's Group of Cardmakers, using the bleaching technique. I have used a scrap of water colour card which I used dylusions Funky Fuchsia and crushed grape spray inks and one of my potluck stamps from Darkroom Door that I bought before they closed down in Australia and recently re-opened in the UK. My potluck stamps are from the scraps, when the rubber had not quite made a full set, they saved the stamps that they could and sold them at a discount.

My stamp comes from the set called Viva la Flora Vol.2 it has a script background which doesn't show on my card as the texture of the water colour card comes through. Stamped in clear ink and heat embossed in black powder. Using bleach-soaked cotton buds on the flowers, I have added a sentiment from Art Stamps Australia.  

What I used

White card blank 10.5x14.8cm

Watercolour card (Micador from Big W)

Darkroom Door Daisy stamp 'Viva la Flora' Vol.2

Clear embossing ink

Black embossing powder

Art stamps Australia Sentiment stamp

Dylusions Spray ink Funky fuchsia and crushed grape

I would like to enter this card in:

Group of Cardmakers Bleaching Technique

Allsorts 847 In the Garden

Beautiful Blossoms Anything Floral goes optional mood board

Daisy Chain Challenge #106 No Design papers

Aud Sentiments Watercolour and/or Spring + Sentiment

NBUS Challenge #85 Daisy stamps first outing

We Love Stamping 'Spring' We already have one jonquil and anemone in flower, whilst all the trees are still only just starting to get their Autumn leaves changing colour her in Aus.

We are starting to get Autumn leaves in our area, which I fully expect to be overrun with tourists as they change as some of the elegant gardens in our area are cut off after several years of extreme weather has caused damage to the roads, some are required to get permits to enter their own streets some of which are several kilometres long, some people have had weddings cancelled as the venues have had to close to the public, some are used to getting 1000+ visitors each day over Autumn. 

That does not include the still cut main highway between Sydney and greater west New South Wales where convicts built the road in 1832 and it has recently failed, almost 200 years and used to transport B-double trucks laden with coal for export or quarry materials for construction. A Blog post from one of the local librarians shows a colourised picture and a story of a grisly murder from 1842, Caroline Collit's Blue Mountain's Local Studies.

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

p.s. Many thanks to my blogging friends and visitors who stop by and take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Thank you

 Hello all, 

Well this past week our local bank branch was closed due to lack of use during Covid two of the three staff chose to take redundancy the third is planning to work from home for a while before she thinks she'll join them. My parents have opted to change banks (grudgingly) as they prefer to deal with a human, the ladies that worked at the branch have been there for many years and I made them each a card to say thank you for all their help over the years. 

Here are my cards:-

What I used:-

Kraft slim line card blank
text background paper 
Kaisercraft High Tea paper pad
CCD Stitched square die
CCD butterfly die
Scrap silver and vellum
Sentiment from High Tea paper pad
Adhesive Pearls

C7 white card blank

Black cardstock

White art paper

Waffle Flower 'Pretty Wings' Stamp set (temporarily unavailable)

Distress Oxide inks various (read I didn't remember to write them down)

Art Stamps Australia Sentiment stamp

Memento Tuxedo black ink pad

Enamel dots

Ribbon scraps

Square card blank

Pink and white cardstock

Paper Rose Stamp 'Milly's Bouquet'

Sentiment from Waffle Flower 'A Little Note' 

Painted with Derwent water colour pencils

Clear embossing ink and Gold embossing powder

Clear and yellow tiny gems

White adhesive pearls

I would like to enter the cards in

Card 1-

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned paper challenge

Cute Card Thursday #675 Feminine

Sisterhood of Crafters Anything goes

Card 2-

Cards Galore Encore Anything goes

Allsorts Anything Feminine Goes

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge Anything goes week 9

Card 3-

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog Spring with a sentiment

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge Anything goes

613 Avenue Create Anything goes optional heart and soles

Well I started the year off well with my Christmas cards and completely skipped making any during February...

Thank you for looking in... have a wonderful week, I hope you are all keeping safe and well during the numerous lockdowns...

Have a good week..
Megan

P.S. A Huge thank you to my lovely blogging friends and visitors who stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all. 

Daisies

Hello again, 

Well blogger is being a pest, this is my third attempt to get this post up.... I nearly had the whole lot typed up and it just vanished and hitting undo worked until I tried to add something again....

Thank you for all the kind thoughts and well wishes after my surgery, I had no pre-cancerous cells this time! so rather than surgery every 6 months I have a reprieve and will have surgery to check up on things in 12 months.

This is the card I made last week for my Mum's birthday, I have used a similar layout and some of the same patterned paper I used on the rose card I shared here. The main image is a stamp I bought at the local craft show almost a year a go from a local Aussie stamp company but I cannot find it any where online... only the business side seems to have a website.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

12.6cm x 17.8cm (5x7") card blank

Heidi Swapp wide striped paper and glitter paper

Sugar 'n' Spice patterned paper

Stamp-It Australia 'Daisy Bunch' cling stamp

Prismacolor watercolour pencils + water

Ranger clear embossing ink

Wow! Ebony super fine embossing powder

Whispers Opaque Embossing powder

Sentiment stamp from Art Stamps Australia

Wplus9 wide scalloped border die

MFT pierced rectangle die

MFT pierced fishtail flags die

Brads and sequins from my stash

I would like to enter this card in:-

Daisy Chain Challenge #23 Birthday

Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge September Anything goes

Always Happy Birthday Challenge September Anything goes

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour challenge optional twist butterfly

Aud Sentiments Challenge bingo plus sentiment  (die cut, flowers, two patterned papers)

The Flower Challenge #24 Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. A huge Thank you to all my lovely friends and visitors who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!