Summertime....

...and the living is easy. Well that's where my mind takes me to. Today is a first for me where I have 2 Guest design posts coming up today so if you are looking for my travel journal for Country View you will find that post here or just scroll down one post.

This post shows my second guest design piece for Tracey over at Noor! UK designs. I wanted to make something summery and mellow so I decided to make a card using the Joy! Wild flowers Silhouette stamp and the butterfly edge die. This is one of my all time favourite butterfly dies and I use it lots. You will even see it in my Travel Journal post posted earlier today.

I also thought I would play some more with my Bister powders to make some backgrounds and this is the one I selected to stamp my flower. I cut it down to suit.

I used plum archieval ink to stamp with.

I wanted a really vintage summer feel to my card so I cut a hessian backing and also added a faux stitched border to the stamped image using a gold pen.

I die cut the border butterfly and trimmed off the last small butterfly on the left

and added it to the card as an accent with a little gold gem

I added a LOTV stamped tag, some Cheery Lynn leaves and a button

I would like to enter my card into the following fun challenges;


Penny black and more add a sentiment
Love 2 create anything mixed media
Craft stamper take it make it...use a stamp
Natalie and Amy summertime
Little Claire's in bloom
The Ribbon Girl anything goes with an image
Simon says stamp Monday anything goes


My garden flowers are certainly blooming well at the moment...there is so much inspiration in my garden.

Thanks for visiting me especially if this is your second visit today (!) and a very warm welcome to my latest followers.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

If you would like your own wildflower stamp and butterfly die just click the link below. Tracy ships world wide.

Butterfly Edge Die 6002/0251

Clear Stamp Wild Flowers

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