Adding Swirls

Hello everyone out in Blogland and I hope, if your suffering from yet more snow this week, it is not causing too many problems for you and you are staying safe and warm.

It has been a beautiful day here, gorgeous blue skies and sunshine, although cold. Lets hope it lasts for next week and half term for those of you that are on holiday from school!!

I've had a lot of thank you and just general thinking of you cards to make recently and I think Kay Carley's Funky Flowers are great for that. They fit any occasion and so have been getting a lot of use.


I made a first batch up, which were just stamped onto a label Nestie and coloured with a glitter gel pen and water brushed with inked edges to soften them. The image was then matted onto some Artylicious BP which had been punched with a Martha Stewart border punch.

After I'd finished the first lot, I was admiring Kay's cards on her own blog where she'd been using the same stamps and she'd under stamped the image with swirls as she always does and it looked just beautiful. She generously gave me permission to try out the same idea and although mine is nowhere near as good as Kay's, (I need to learn not to be so heavy handed), it's interesting to see how it makes the same image, coloured in the same way, look different.


I'd be interested to know what you think, or do you do something else around your edges.

Thank you, as always, for stopping by. All the cards are now done and sent out so I can get back to being messy and just playing again.