Tulips

This was a photo from two years ago - I love tulips and orange ones in particular!

I was delighted when my daughter sent me a tulip stamp for Mothering Sunday last weekend!

I immediately set to and made her a 'thank you' card...

I stamped the image with Versafine and coloured it with Zig real brush pens.

I then trimmed the image and distressed around the edges with 'mowed lawn'.

I simply then added it to a white card base matted with green.

I stamped 'Thank You' directly onto the green card.

Sophie received it the next day!

I then used the stamp again to make some tags. This time I stamped it with Versamark and added green and gold embossing powder roughly to the leaves and flowers.

After heat setting I used a punch to cut oval snippets of the image.

I added scraps of green card onto kraft tags, added the tulip and then the heart strips. This is a digi from LeighSB Designs that I had printed with a green filter and then trimmed to size.

Finally I added the ribbon...

I will add this to Pixies Snippets Playground #321

The final thing I did with the stamp is a set of ATCs for a pocket letter swap:

Again I used 'mowed lawn to distress each of the elements. I used snippets of  the tulip image coloured with Zig pens. The clover paper is a digi from Imagine that Digistamps.

I added a scrap of ribbon and the sentiment (a sentiment I once got from From the Heart Stamps)

And now for something completely different - and just to finish off this post...

Another ATC ...

I am a member of the UK Stampers Network - I am looking forward to a Retreat with them next weekend - woohoo!

Anyway one of the challenges we set each other is to use a freebie in some way 

- usually 'out of the box'

This freebie was a dog and boots die from Tattered Lace.

I used the larger boot as a 'candle'!!

Happy Crafting!