A leafy background

Posts are rather few and far between for me at present. I am in the midst of a major crafty reorganisation in my shed (it is just about warm enough to work in if I keep the heater on) and after well over a week of sorting out, I am getting rather fed up of all work and no pleasure from my enormous crafty stash. If this doesn't teach me a lesson to slow down my craft purchasing, nothing will.

Today I have a card from the last release of background stamps from Chocolate Baroque, this uses the Leafy Trails stamp.

I wanted a simple, but sophisticated colour scheme and went for one of my favourite colours brown with gold. I embossed the design in gold on a medium brown card and matted onto gold mirri and dark brown. I painted the leaves with a couple of layers of brown H2O paint and then added a brown ribbon and die cut bow using the smaller die from the Die-Namics Beautiful Bows set which makes such lovely neat bows in two different sizes. I finished with a Craftwork Cards sentiment mounted onto a small scalloped circle.

I hope you have enjoyed a slightly warmer weekend wherever you are. It has been dry with us and mostly sunny and we even managed lunch sitting in the garden yesterday for the first time this year, although we did have light snow flurries only on Friday. I think I need to give my shed tidying a miss tomorrow and get out into the greenhouse for some tidying in there. The masses of primroses in the garden tell me spring may finally actually be springing and I may finally be able to get going with the vegetable seedlings.

Elaine