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Monday 30 April 2012

Flowers grow on you.......

Evening again, hope you've all had a good Monday.  
Got to admit, I used to hate Mondays (along with most other people)......but now, they're the same as every other day : ).....and even better because Alan usually works from home on Mondays.
Anyway, today I've made a few cards and thought I'd show you two of them.
My inspiration came from the gorgeous colours of the ribbon, and as you've probably guessed from previous posts, they're my favourites.

I'm trying hard to convince myself that I need the Spellbinders Moroccan and Persian dies, as I do love using the borders designs and think they give drama to the card.  This border is from the Parisian set.   I've used the flower stamp in a previous post....it was a freebie with the Craft Stamper magazine.




The flowers on this card were cut with a Quickutz die.   The leaves, as above, are Spellbinders and the flourish is a Sizzix bigz.  I 'glazed' the centres of the flowers, but took the pic before the glaze had 'cleared', whoops!

Hope you've enjoyed looking at my cards. As always, I'd love you to leave a comment, I like reading them all.
Many thanks for looking xxx

I'm entering card No1 into the Joanna Sheen challenge,
http://joannasheenchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
Flower Power.

26 comments:

  1. WOW Barbara these are fabulous, loving the yellow and orange with the black and white they look stunning.

    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  2. Gorgeous cards love the colours, my fav is the 2nd one. Chris xx

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  3. Two gorgeous cards Barbara,love the colours.xxx

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  4. Two stunning cards, love them both love the black and yellow very stricking xx

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  5. They are both lovely, beautiful warm colours xxx

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  6. Love the colours! And I can't recommend the Moroccan dies highly enough :-) x

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  7. The colours are striking on theses cards Barb,

    Di x

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  8. Ok these call for a Fabulous Darling xx

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  9. These are both beautiful cards, I love those sunflowers, just beautiful
    Lindsay xx

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  10. These are truly stunning the colours are amazing simply beautiful xx

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  11. two beautiful cards....beautiful colours never tried these together before but having seen these think I need to be more creative...just gorgeous
    Debby

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  12. These are both stunning. I love the fact that you've used the colour of your ribbon for your flowers.

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  13. Love these cards beautiful xxxxxx Ros

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  14. These are stunning such beautiful cards. I love those flourishe's and dies, and the stamp flowers are lovely what a great freebie. Cheers me up looking at these especially in this gloomy weather.
    Hugs Rachael xxx

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  15. Absolutely gorgeous, the Morrocan dies are fab, have used the borders on some wedding cards I did - very striking x

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  16. barbara what stunning cards just loving the colours xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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  17. Oh Barbara, these are lovely. What gorgeous colours! Never thought of yellow with black and white, but it looks fantastic! Beautiful work xx

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  18. I also do like the colours you've used here, and I-spy the Craft Stamper flower stamp. They are good aren't they? We're almost neighbours - I live in north Bristol! Well, Filton, which is officially South Gloucestershire.

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  19. Fab cards Barbara ... got to agree with you, the spellbinder borders are just so classy and really add class to any card... these look super. Strong colours always stand out too xx

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  20. Two beautiful, striking cards Barbara. Am following you now - thought I already was so maybe you are one of the people blogger keeps kindly unfollowing me from!

    Catherine x

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  21. Love this colour combination - stunning!!
    Kate
    xx

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  22. Two fabulous cards Barbara I love them both xx Jan

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  23. Two stunning cards.... the colours are fabulous x

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  24. Beautiful cards love the flowers really gorgeous! JO xxxx

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  25. Fabulous cards, love your design and those gorgeous flowers. Thank you for joining us at Joanna Sheen with your adorable work.
    Hugs
    Suzi x

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