This is the set that gives to the Ronald McDonald charity for every set purchased, which is a good reason to buy it. It’s a set with loads of images so there is lots of scope for masses of cards too.

This is another card that I made at the crop in July. I embossed the basket in early espresso on whisper white and then stamped the flowers in wild wasabi. Using a blender pen I used rose red, wild wasabi and so saffron to colour in the image making sure to get various strengths of colour. For example the yellow flowers are coloured completely in so saffron with a fairly intense colour for the centres and a lighter touch for the petals. I cut out the image using the circles framelits and then cut out the next largest circle in rose red.

I love the new designer series paper stacks and wanted to use one of them as a background – this is the one in so saffron. I matted it with whisper white since it didn’t look quite right directly on the base of rose red. To finish the card off I cut the thanks with the Greeting Thinlits dies in wild wasabi – I seem to use these dies rather frequently. I really love having words that I can die cut and add to a card. Oddly when I used to buy cards before I started making them, I used to look for the cards that had no sentiments. Now, I really like to add one. Go figure!

I’ve been a bit busy over the past day or so – my father arrived from the UK last night which is wonderful. I even tidied up the my craft area aka the kitchen table!

See you tomorrow,

Liz