More playing cards

Well, so much for my weekly posts of my altered playing cards! Life seems so hectic, but today I have been doing a little catching up, being creative and doing some baking too!
 

Here are cards 2 and 3. Card 2, uses a lovely image of a lady - this is available from a number of companies. This is a Cherry Pie stamp. This stamp got me e mailing the very talented stamper Paula Whittaker who also loves this image, when I wanted to know who made it. I love Paula's work and she has been very generous with her patient answers to my questions about stamps, papers and techniques - thank you! The words are from Artistic Stamper. I used a mask to create the background and added a chipboard bird and a little bling!.

Card 3 uses a word stamp - I think it might be a Cat's Life stamp possibly, the child image is from  Joanna Sheen. This is stamped in plum archival ink, coloured in pink sherbert and coloured gently with Coloursoft pencils. I think these words are very apt, sometimes when I am at work, dealing with something very challenging, wondering how I ended up doing what I do, when really all I want to do is craft these days, I think of these words!

Lastly, I posted my latest project on the blog I share with the lovely Jo, Judith and Lesley.

Do pop over and have a look at our projects this month (I think we might just have stretched the month again!). Judith's project really sums up our special friendship perfectly.

Thanks for stopping by.

Elaine x