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When you make a conscious choice to be happy, no one can take it away from you because no one gave it to you: you gave it to yourself.

A quote from April Green's - Bloom For Yourself Journal

Friday, 20 January 2012

I've been playing.

Like many of us, I love the stamp ranges from Crafter's Companion - and I could not resist the brand new Strawberry Kisses range. While storing them into my file I spent a while looking through my collection. I'd just got my hands on some of the Papermania Portobello Road papers and decided the stamps would look lovely with these papers.

So here's 2 cards I've made for no reason other than to play!


 This first one is the 'After the rain' SWALK stamp, I thought it worked well with the British theme, after we're known for our rain! I coloured the image with Spectrum Noirs, and added Glossy accents for rain drops.



The second is also coloured with my Speccies, I'm really pleased with the colouring on the trainer, and feel like I'm really getting somewhere with my colouring.  I also got to play with my Bakers Twine. The colours worked beautifully as do the buttons - well I think so!  I finally bought myself a white Sakura pen, why have I not purchased one before? It's perfect for adding the stitch details.

Anyway I'm off to play some more, so I think these papers may be used for a few cards, funny how we find a them we like and then go mad with it!

Take care and I hope you enjoy the weekend.
Zo xx

8 comments:

McCrafty's Cards said...

2 gorgeous cards Zoe, I like the colour combo and the images.
Kevin xx

emma mitchell said...

2 fab cards ,love these papers looked at them myself this wish I'd got them now :( loving the red white and blue theme too.
Emma xx

coops said...

stunning cards zoe.i really love your papers and designs and the images are gorgeous :D

xx coops xx

Helen Anderson said...

Fabulous cards Zo!! I love that colour combination and don't think I'll ever tire of it.

Just wanted to let you know that I've awarded you a Liebster Blog award because you are amazing! Please pop over to my blog at: http://beeskneescrafts.blogspot.com/ to collect!

Helen xx

Alizabethy said...

Love that trainer card - very funky!

Louise Welsh said...

just fab, i love both of them the union jack is great. louise xx

Elizabeth said...

Two terrific cards - like the way you've coloured the images in red/white/blue, works so well with those Portobello papers. Elizabeth x

Pop's Cards said...

Gorgeous work sweetie, hugs pops x x x