Thursday, February 2, 2012

Friendship blossoms...



Love the gorgeous cherry blossoms and the tall glass shapes in this weeks inspiration photo from There She Goes combined with this weeks super colour challenge over at Colour Q, and I couldn't go past this fabulous sketch from Less is More

As I think I have more Valentines Day cards then Valentines to send them to, I designed this card as a frienship card - although Love blossoms does have a certain ring to it too :)  Inside reads ...in every season. 

The cherry blossoms are created using Cheery Lyn Cherry Blossom die-cuts, then dabbing a little of Tim Holtz Spun Sugar Distress Ink and some LuminArte Pink Azalea to create the darker centres.  The blossom stamen are created by using a double length of white embroidery thread knotted in the centre then threaded from the top through the centre hole and double-sided taped to the underside of the flower to hold in place - and to secure the blossoms to the page.  The branch is one of My Favourite Things - literally too!!!

Will soon find out how the kiddies went at their first day back at school - hope friendship blossoms for them, and you, too.

14 comments:

  1. Lovely card, Lyndal, love this it is so cheery! Thanks for joining us this week on the ColourQ.

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  2. This is lovely Lyndal, it's great to see you at "Less is More". Those flowers are so pretty.
    Thanks so much for joining us and we hope to see you again for our next challenge. If you could possibly remove the word verification option from your blog it would help us enormously when commenting. Thanks.
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  3. Welcome to Less is More Lyndal
    your card is fabulous, my kinda thing!

    Thank you so much
    mandi
    "Less is More"

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  4. What a great card I really love it, it caught my eye when I was looking throught the thumbnails!Diane

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  5. Simply stunning. Love your blossom. Reminds me that Spring is just around the corner. Hurrah!!
    Love Sheila x

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  6. This is gorgeous Lyndal. The flowers with the darker center create a beautiful focal point. Thanks for joining us at colourQ this week!

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  7. Oh my, I LOVE it! This is simple but still so pretty!
    Thank you for joining in this weeks TSG challenge!

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  8. very pretty card, Lyndal! Thanks so much for your gorgeous comment on my last blog post - it means alot x

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  9. Pretty care, love the polka dot panel!

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  10. That is stunning ... love the polka dot paper and the softness of the blossom is so divine :)

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