I finally finished my taxes yesterday – last minute but it had been quite frustrating trying to get it done – and so was able to reward myself with some crafting time. I had made a card using leftovers from the Paper Pumpkin April 2016 set, Lovely Little Wreath for yesterday’s post and that left a smaller strip of the leaves. Well, not wanting to waste that, I designed another card. I have no idea if bees tend to frequent cactus flowers, but I’m okay with that!
This time I decided to use whisper white as my layer and first stamped the sentiment in mossy meadow. I coloured in the flowers and leaves with the Stampin’ Up! markers in mossy meadow and daffodil delight. Next I stamped the bee from Garden in Bloom using archival black ink. If you don’t have the bee (which is a shame, because I think he’s adorable and I am expecting him to appear on quite a few cards in the near future!) either click on Shop Now on the left and get him or a butterfly would work equally well. Although it wouldn’t be as adorable! I also used the daffodil delight marker to colour in the bee. Then I added the leaf strip from the Paper Pumpkin kit and the remaining spare flower. You get 15 in the kit and need 11 for the wreath. I’m still trying to design a card using the leftover from where the leaves are punched out! So don’t throw anything from the kit away!! I glued my whisper white layer to a mossy meadow card base.
I heard from my sister yesterday and she had had a fabulous time at the local onstage in the UK. And then I found out that one of the next locations for a local event in November is in Secaucus, NJ which is only about 45 minutes from me. She’s already talking about coming over to visit when it’s happening, and Julia’s keen too. So that’s three of us already within 12 hours of the announcement. If you want to come with us, just go to the “Become a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator” tab on the left and join the team.
Sometime this week I’m planning to share the gifts that I made for Julia who became a SU demonstrator a couple of weeks ago. But first, I have to play some more with my Paper Pumpkin kit!
See you tomorrow,
Liz