G 45

Carol has made some lovely cards from the newly arrived Graphic 45 papers. What a joy .....order from America on Friday and stock arrives on Monday.....Fab, cards on Tuesday....Fab, boxes tomorrow.....Fab, scrapbooks on Thursday.....Fab..........

Spring colour

How lovely, some gorgeous flowers in my house.............I just had to show you

This beautiful Amaryllis was supposed to flower at Christmas but I am so glad its flowering now.

My beautiful Jasmine has been flowering for two weeks now

Tha pretty mimosa has really struggled this winter, it startes to drop its leaves and I thought it was dying.............but then it just burst into flower.

Isn't this sweet, my granddaughter gave me this on mothers day. When the plant has finished flowering I can use the china watering can, so pretty.

I have put several pots of Daffs around the house as these are so pretty. I get them from Pete at Manor Farm and we sell them in the shop at 40p each or 3 bunches for £1

The spider plant has been producing babies for weeks so I am removing them and popping them into a hydrangea pot to make the roots grow.

In this pot I have 12 little plants.

AND.......last but not least I must show you my Money plant. It stands about 5 feet tall now, I don't think this picture does it justice though!

Mum.....and more.

Here are two more pages from the Pion page week.

Next Pion page

Well with page 3 we are well on our way to make our book. Here is the next page

Pion pages

This page was inspired by the lovely photo of 2 of my Dads cousins. It looks like they are looking out from the page at the butterflies and flowers.

For the backing I used a rich brown fairly stiff 12 x 12 card, but not too dark. I then aged all of the edges of my chosen paper with a craft knife and used the distress ink, walnut stain, to give an all over aged look to the edges.

 

The paper I have used is from "From my Heart II," Homing Pigeons and the reverse of Rose Frame, a lovely striped effect which I used for some backing, punched a pretty border from a Martha Stewart punch and inked the edges.

 

 

I used the letters from "Studio of Memories" and inked up with aged mahogany and brushed corduroy

 

 

There were strips of rose frame so I was able to cut out some pretty flowers to use.  The heart is Tags, From the HeartII and the butterflies from the cut out sheet in Studio of memories.

 

 

The ribbon is from the shop as are the Prima flowers and rosebuds.

 

 

 

 

Don't they look adorable?