Little Leaf PP#172

Leaves are among my favourite images, but I don't own any current stamps with leaves, mainly
because Autumn/Fall isn't as important in the southern hemisphere.

The challenge at The Paper Players is clean and simple with leaves, pop over to check out the cards.

 Faith In Nature is a retired Hostess set, quite lovely too,and I stamped a leaf on water colour paper, and coloured it using an aqua painter and Bermuda Bay ink. It's another Sympathy Card in soothing blues, love those colours.
This type of card is called a Joy Fold Card, I hadn't made one for a while, so it was fun to play with this style for a change. I've kept it quite plain, with some texture on the left fold with the Pretty Print Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (132175) and on the right is some of the lovely Winter Frost DSP Stack (132183) It is held closed with a button from In-color Boutique Details (130938) and a scattering of Rhinestones finish it off.

I do hope I don't need to send this card any time soon,
Rachel

My Little Leaf card was picked by LeAnne!

FMS#80 & PPA Color Challenge - Faith in Nature

I knew I had a lot to do today but it is amazing how you can fit a little bit of stamping between chores when it is a sketch as sweet as this one at Freshly Made Sketches and these lovely restful colours from PPA Color Challenge.





I decided to go with a 'Blast From the Past' this week, using a retired stamp set Faith in Nature, maybe you still have it in your stash too? I love a stamp with a subtle script and the three main images all fit the bill here. I chose the pear, and stamped it with Pear Pizzaz, one of the colours about to return to the Stampin Up! family of colour. To give some added interest, I rock 'n' rolled the edge into Marina Mist.

I'm sure I'm not the first person to discover this but I had a happy moment when I was punching some Bitty Butterflies out and I wanted to use the patterned chevron stamp from Oh Hello, stamped so delicately with Bashful Blue. I discovered how perfectly the punch fits in each segment of the chevron, so the wings are both different, and the body is an exact fit in the white space between the patterns!

I think they're gorgeous, but I am a sucker for anything miniature too!  I finished them off with a row of 3 little pearls, then wound some Lucky Limeade Baker's twine several times around the card, once it was mounted on Pear Pizzaz card, and stamped the greeting from Faith In Nature stamp set. 

I like the way those 3 shades of green are similar enough to mix and match them.

Cheers for now

Rachel