I wanted to make a card to say thank you for putting us all up, or putting up with us all! It seemed a great opportunity to use my Little Claire bunting stamps, purchased at Ally Pally. These have already been used a couple of times and they are so useful. For this card, I stamped all the elements in black archival ink onto Bo Bunny Country Garden paper and backed the design onto different papers from this collection. The houses are an Artistic Stamper set Our House, coloured with Coloursoft pencils. The bunting flags were stamped onto two colours. I even took the plunge and drew lines freehand which is virtually unheard of for me!
I finished off with a die cut fence using one of the lovely fine Memory Box dies and matted the whole thing onto a black 6 x 6 card blank.
It's been a while since all four of us got together, life has been busy getting in the way, but this time we did it! We has such a special time, crafting with each other and with our two special guests Linda and Paula, eating cake, some shopping and generally having fun! It was completely brilliant!
It was sad to say goodbye as you might imagine and we can only look forward to the next time!
Elaine x
A wonderful card...realy like the cute bunting and that fence die is calling to me for sure!
ReplyDeletehi Elaine, what great you have such a good time together with your friends. Your card is great and de freehands lines are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteLovely greet
Marja
Hi Elaine, lovely card and what a little adorable houses!That fence is great with it! warm greet Mirandax
ReplyDeleteGreat card and I love the way you've personalised the bunting - cute houses too. You obviously had a wonderful time together.
ReplyDeleteIt is a lovely card from you, Lesley and 'Oj'!!!! We had a wonderful time, even though I felt completely cream crackered before and afterwards! However, this card is a lovely reminder of our time together. The bunting is a great idea with all of the individual letters, and you were very brave to draw the lines freehand!
ReplyDeleteJudith xx
What a great card Elaine, which I know the recipient would appreciate. Pleased you all had such a great time together. Suexxx
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely thrilled that you all had such a brilliant time. Funnily enough I've never seen your orange trees 'properly' on your blog before & I can see why you like that design so much. Your personalization of the card is a lovely touch with the bunting being great fun.
ReplyDeletePaula (PEP)