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Monday 11 January 2016

A floral bouquet

As this is my first blog of 2016 a belated Happy New Year to anyone who is kind enough to read this blog.

My first card of the year is a 90th birthday card for my Mother in Law.  Its a shaped card using the lovely floral bouquet stamps from Clarity Stamp and also my entry into the January Clarity Blog Challenge Say it with flowers.

Ive used some light blue card for the base, the outside panels are made by stamping the flower heads onto Clarity card with Versamark and then shading with some blue and pink inks to get the watermark effect.  I've decoupaged 3 of the flowerheads coloured with pencils onto each side panel and some die cut swirls and finished off using the Clarity letterbox kit.

 On the inside I stamped the full bouquet coloured with pencils onto some white card and although its not easy to see from the photo the bouquet is framed by a Clarity oval stencil shaded with pink around the outside.

Thank you for looking, your comments will be very welcome.

11 comments:

  1. Love your card so wonderful the shape design colour good luck in the clarity challenge xx

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  2. A beautiful card and design. Good luck in the challenge and thank you for entering. Xx

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  3. This is really lovely I like the watermark effect and blended colours, I m sure your mother-in-law was delighted with such a beautiful card X

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  4. A very beautiful design and card

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  5. A very pretty card Steph. The watermark effect is a perfect foil for your bouquets. Great design. Good luck in the challenge x

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  6. Such a beautiful card and will be treasured I'm sure. Pretty, delicate colours. Good luck in the Challenge and thank you for entering xxx

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  7. Very pretty. Good luck in the challenge.

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  8. So lovely, a great design. Welcome to this month's Clarity Challenge and good luck.

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  9. Hi Steph,
    A beautiful card I'm sure your mother-in-law will love. I like all the detail you have included eg the stencilled background, decoupaged flowers and glazed letters and numbers. Thank you for joining the first Clarity Challenge and best wishes. ;~}

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  10. I'm sure your mother-in-law will love this card. It's so pretty and im love how you've used the stamp and shaped the card. Thank you for joining this month's Clarity challenge. Good luck! x

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  11. This is really beautiful - a lovely colour scheme and great design overall.
    Good luck in the clarity challenge.

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