Thanks a melon Tara

Hello. 

Today we have something a little different for you. 

The design team have all got together to organise a surprise blog hop for Tara and Rick.

We all wanted to say "Ta Tara" for all the work you do  and for the fantastic service you provide.

And to Rick for supporting Tara and the shop.

As I'm a bit useless at all of this i will let the rest of the team and their wonderful cards do the talking.

You will find the full hop list below and we hope you will join us In saying Thankyou.

I started by die cutting my two panels.

The scalloped one i coloured using distress inks to match the colours of the melons and then heat embossed in white the pattern from Sharp backdrops stamp set.

The stitched rectangle panel was cut from water colour card and the melons randomly stamped and heat embossed in white before colouring with water colour pens.

The full hop list in order is .....

Start http://makethedayspecialcards.blogspot.co.uk/
Jenny http://craftinginthecountry.blogspot.com/
Jill http://paperlovebuzz.blogspot.com/
Julia http://just-one-more-card.com/
Kate http://justkatecrafting.blogspot.com/
Keren https://kerenbaker.wordpress.com/
Sarah http://funkyfossildesigns.blogspot.com/

All products can be found by clicking the images below.

  

Thanks for looking.

Many thanks

 Hello.

Well according to the met office the 1st of September is the start of autumn so that means i can start using The lawn fawn stitched leaves dies.

I have mixed up the old set and the new smaller version.

I coloured some white card with distress inks first then die cut the leaves. 

The largest one is from the original leaves dies.

Once they were die cut i added some more ink to the bottom parts of the leaves and dusted some perfect pearls in gold on them, it gives an amazing shimmer.

I also added some of the perfect pearls to water and splashed onto my panel and dried with a heat tool.

I wanted to add a matt using the new scalloped stackables from Lawn fawn and used some of the  card with colour on it. 

It is a bit random but i like the little extra pop of colour and no card was wasted in the making ;)

To finish i stamped the sentiment from Many thanks and added some dots of gold liquid pearls.

Just so that you can compare the size difference the left is the original set and right the new smaller one.

Everything used is linked up below just click the images.

   

 

Thanks for looking.