Flirty Flamingo Sneak Peek

Hello! Here is one of the Design Stamper cards I made for Telford's On Stage. The flower stamp is from Swirly Bird. I stamped the image in Versamark and then used white embossing powder on top. I used an Aquablender to make a watercolour wash of one of the new In-Colours, Flirty Flamingo (great name!) over the heat embossed image. I've added a piece of Emerald Envy dsp for contrast, along with the gorgeous co-ordinating ribbon and some gold sequins! I hope you like it!

I've been so busy with design stamping and launching my new business that I have been absent from the playground for too long!! So, I am saying 'Bonjour Beautiful' to Parsnip and Di over at Pixie's Snippets Playground!

Bird Postcard

Hello! I'm sorry I haven't been blogging much lately. I have missed it very much! I have been busy with lots of different creative projects in the last month or so. First of all, I was very pleased to be selected as a Design Stamper for Stampin' Up's On Stage event at Telford. It was a delight to work with a brand new stamp set and the new In-Colour card and paper to create twenty projects - a mix of cards, 3D items and scrapbook layouts. I will be posting all my samples here as we move towards the excitement of a super new catalogue arriving!

Secondly, I have launched my new Jamberry nails business. This really fulfils my need to have patterns on my nails whilst crafting! Please do visit my new blog - Lily Leaf Nails.

Finally, inspired by my crafty friend 'Too Much Glue' Sam, I have opened a tiny shop on Red Bubble. The design above was a postcard that I made for the Friends of the Williamson Art Gallery's exhibition, 'Extraordinary Postcards' in 2014. He can be found here - paperlilyleaf.

I'm hoping that things will quieten down a bit now. I have missed visiting all my usual virtual crafty haunts and taking part in challenges. My design team makes for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown have also been more last minute than I would like!

Hope you are having a lovely weekend - April x