Altenew Flowers

HI Everybody,

Todays cards are all created from the same stamp set and it is one of the Create Your Life bundles that I bought ages ago.

I need to use these more to get my monies worth from what turned out to be an expensive purchase.

 It was the postage costs that pushed then over the top and so I stopped my subscription

This is the Feathered Lilies  and for the first  5x7" card I stamped it in full, coloured it with alcohol markers and then cut it out with the matching die.

Once it was cut out I added to the embossing folder and ran it through the machine to get the raised areas on the flowers.

The backgrounds panels are also embossed and the sentiments are some that I already had on my desk.

For the next two card this is the same stamp coloured again with markers  but this time  after the flowers have been embossed I have cut them in half and trimmed them down to fit an  A6 and a DL

This gives me a twofer and both look really pretty when completed , and you can see the original configuration when you look at them side by side. 

But this is a good way to make large stamps go a little further as well as vary the look for your designs, which helps to break the sameness that can sometimes happen 

I have splattered both with gold paint but on the DL one, because I was impatient, I managed to smudge the splats at the bottom of the card.

But I am not unhappy with any of the looks that I get for these cards and .they would suit many occasions if I swapped out the sentiments. 

Hope you like 

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx