Happiest of Mother's Days...

Wishing all mothers, the most wonderful of Mother's Days.

Created using pink, red and purple alcohol inks on Yupo paper. Poppy from Unity Stamps and sentiment from Avery Elle, fishtail flag and stitched frame from MFT.

Playing along with

Creative Artiste Mixed Media

Altenew and Alcohol...

Had super fun experimenting with alcohol inks while away crafting. Using alcohol inks on Yupo paper and blotting excess ink with paper towel to create the patterned variations in colour, then paper pieced behind this super gorgeous Altenew die cut rose and paired with Altenew die cut lower case alphabet. Love how the combination of bright inks and bold black diecut makes it look like stained glass.

Joining in Altenew April inspiration challenge

and Simon Says Anything Goes

Happy Mother's Day FUSION...

As we have Mother's Day coming up next weekend in our corner of the world, I thought I'd create a FUSION Mother's Day card this fortnight, inspired by the FUSION sketch and floral inspiration.

Patterned papers from Prima and American Crafts, super sentiment from Verve and stitched tag diecut is by Paper Smooches. I broke out my Tim Holtz Tiny Tattered Florals dies to create these gorgeous flowers. The set comes with its very own quilling tool - a fabulous little tool which proves invaluable in rolling these flowers after you have die cut them. These flowers were created using a sheet of stiffened fabric paper - which was all the rage about 10 years ago. If you don't have any handy, you can always use fabric stiffener/glue applied to any ribbon or fabric to create the same effect, or you could use cardstock or paper if you prefer!

This month at FUSION we are also lucky enough to be joined by special Guest Designer, Bonnie Sharp so make sure you stop by for some extra fabulous inspiration from Bonnie and the FUSION team!

Betty J - Deanne K - Jeanne Jachna - Julia Aston - Katie Brooks

Karren J - Kimberly Wiener - Lynn Mangan - Michelle Folland

Michelle Lupton - Sandie Munro - Shannon Jaramillo - Stephanie Severin

I would LOVE if you could join in the fun @ FUSION too!

Playing along with the Card Concept Spring Flowers - Clean and Layered 
and Simon Says Anything Goes too!

Happy Mother's Day!

Hope all the Mum's in your life (including you!) have a FABULOUS Mother's Day!

I've spent a few hours crafting today, mostly playing with watercolours and nothing has turned out as I envisioned - perhaps that's the problem with watercolour, you have to go with the flow, literally, LOL.

Playing along with Avery Elle's Mother's Day Challenge, this card was created from a panel of watercolour created using Twinkling H2O Poppy and LuminArte Bougainvillea, die-cut with Avery Elle Rounded Diamonds Die, with this gorgeous Avery Elle Love Notes sentiment stamped in Versamark Watermark and embossed in Gold. Three colours, three rounded diamonds and three layers were used on one third of the card to play along with CAS-ual Fridays Three Thirds Challenge too!

Off to enjoy some afternoon tea with my family - after a lovely breakfast cooked by my DD :)