blossoms into dreams

A little girl watering her precious blossom .... from Mo Manning's digital image April.

I totally loved colouring her using water-colours - and especially 'muddying' up her cute little pink boots!

Sentiment comes from Penny Black's Friendship (T for Transparent) stamp set.

Entering card for this week's 

Mo's Challenge #228 -"CAS (Clean and Simple)" 

with a Mo Manning digi or stamped image!

a final close-up shot of the adorable cutie-pie

my very first tri-fold card

cottage tri-fold, a photo by eatzycath on Flickr.

I have just learned the technique to stamping a tri-fold card (a card with two flaps on the right and left) - i.e. having a series of co-ordinating stamped images on the centre portion, and on the overlapping right and left flaps. For proper alignment of the three images, the best method requires the use of a stamp positioner, and how easy the task becomes! Love the possibilities that this may throw up in the days to come!

This tri-fold card was stamped using the 'cottage' series of stamps in Art Impressions "Tryfold" range - the scenes are beautiful, especially for water-coloring.

Scene from the second flap:

Final image scene on the centre portion when both flaps are opened:

The very appropriate sentiments come from IO - Impression Obsession - Joy in the Journey clear stamps set.

together we can do so much

together, a photo by eatzycath on Flickr.

I love how the sentiment in this card worked so well together with the vertical line of cute little mice, and this is thanks to the Fusion Card Challenge #13 design sketches, which have been combined in this card:

* after stamping the vertical line of mice, I placed the die-cut near the top portion of the vertical line, and die-cut the rectangle around the top mice and the third mice

* sentiment was stamped on the blue patterned paper and cut into a shape of a banner

* I then fussy-cut around the second mice on the left and right edges at width just enough for the banner to slide through

* a second larger rectangle was then die-cut in the red patterned paper

* after coloring the image in water-color, the rest of the mice were fussy-cut, and the whole thing put together, with the help of dimensional dots at the right places

The mice stamp is from Penny Black - Everest Next, whilst the sentiment comes form IO-impression obsession - Fabulous Friend clear stamp set.

Card was also submitted for Penny Black and More's July Challenge - "Dies and Punches" theme.