Blooming with Kindness and scallop flower mini tutorial.

It's winter so break out the flowers and layer it up with lace and ribbon. The sun will come out soon enough. I've come up with a cute way to make this little flower. 

Cut two scalloped circles of Cardstock using the 7/8" and 1 1/4" scallop circle punches.

Or, for a single layer just cut one.

 With your sharp snip scissors - Cut from the outside almost into the centre to create petals.
You can cut between every scallop or every second scallop.

Lastly you layer the two flowers together one on top of the other.

Make a hole in the centre with a paper piercing tool and pin it with a decorative brad. Like I have on the next card shown here.

Card recipe:

Stamp set: Blooming with Kindness.

Sweet Essentials.

Tools: scallop circle punch 7/8"

Big shot machine, large scallop edgelits, Delicate design embossing folder.

Wisteria wonder ribbon. And decorative brad.

Bloomin with kindness neutrals

Todays card is a thinking of you card made with the "Bloomin' with Kindness" stampset.

I tried it with three neutral ink colours: whisper white, Sahara sand and Early Espresso.

The embellished butterfly is stamped in Sahara Sand ink and punched with my butterfly punch.

Stampsets:

 Papillon Potpourri

Sweet essentials

Bloomin' with kindness

Half back Pearl jewels

Raspberry Ripple and glimmer paper TEN!

Jess turned ten and I actually made her a card on time and that she really liked!

Her favourite colour is red.

Raspberry ripple being the particular red that she likes when it comes to cards.

Butterflies and lots of bling!

Of course the invitations were red and stamped with a penguin (from zoo review) and lots of dazzling glitter on hearts and and wings.

December Thank you cards

 This is just a lovely time of year with Summer just on the rise, warm days but not yet too hot. The flowers and insects all buzzing and gathering nectar. I love how you experience it so fully when you're the parent of a 9 year old. Everything is amazing and wonderful, gross and beautiful all at once.

 One moment we are exaning a bee in a flower, the next a dragon fly in a spider's web, lizards on the path and feeding the fish in the pond.

 I just have to show you a photo of our white goldfish (we call her swift ) she is very fast and very big for a gold fish. We only have two gold fish left in our pond and surprisingly neither are very gold. One's white and one's black (with poppy out eyes).

The cards for today are Thank you cards featuring the "Papillon Potpouri" stampset which is punched out with the matching butterfly punch.

The flower is from "Blooming with Kindness" which is a very similar image to the new business cards I have had printed.

The colours are: Pool Party, Island Indigo, Wisteria Wonder and Elegant Eggplant.