The yard work is done for another few days and it’s looking
good. We lost a few roses over the last couple of brutal winters and decided
not to buy anymore…..until Joe found this one in the garden centre. It’s called
Orange and
Lemon and it truly is bright orange and lemon yellow. Gorgeous! We didn’t
resist buying it for long.
The first picture is the rose just opening.
And this is what it looks like as it fades – still beautiful.
Today’s card is another dragonfly card.
This time I used Distress Inks to colour the background and then
flipped water drops on it to create the blooms. Once it was very dry I stamped
the dragonfly and then coloured it in with alcohol markers. I had a piece of
very nice blue ribbon but I wanted dragonflies on it and wondered if I could
stamp on ribbon. I wasn’t sure it was going to work or not so I tried it on a
small piece of left over ribbon first – it worked. I found this little
dragonfly stamp from HOTP and stamped it on the ribbon using Archival Ink. It
just seemed to balance the card somehow. And of course I added a few sequins as
well. This card would work well for many occasions.
That’s all for a beautiful sunny Thursday – more thunderstorm
tonight and tomorrow though! We'll be grounded again so good job we got a long 25.4km bike ride in yesterday!
Cheers
Violet
Mowed some grass myself today and used the weed eater... tomorrow morning i'll ride the mower again ..... we have to take time away from working on the house to work on the yard but it looks so nice when we do... That rose is gorgeous! My fav rose is Joseph's Coat a climbing rose... so many colors on one bush!
ReplyDeleteI love your card Violet. You know i 'm a sucker for dragonflies! Hugs! deb