Floral Friendship for Paper Players 735
27 April 2025
Happy Sunday
Oh... I know you are feeling a little touch of de ja vu! Because you saw this same set used on a card for Freshly Made that appeared on my blog yesterday! Today's card is for the fabulous sketch created by our wonderful Claire.
Well, another day, another challenge - and the same colors :-). I just love this image from Floral Friendship and don't seem to be able to quite get enough of it! Today's card is another clean and simple use of this great set. Here's a sneak peek:
For today's card I used both the stamps and the dies. I stamped the image and then colored it lightly with vintage inspired watercolor paints. I die-cut a strip of paper using some border dies and used that as a mask. I positioned the two pieces on my card base and then used some waterfall ink from Pinkfresh Studio to create the background.
Before I added the focal image and the sentiment, I used some metallic watercolor paints to add some splatters.
All that was left to do was to add the sentiment and the focal image. Here's my card:
We would love to see what YOU create with Claire's fabulous sketch. As always, the design team have some wonderful inspiration for you:
On a personal note:
Well, we have furniture for the deck - but, unfortunately it has been covered up all week as it has been rainy, windy and cold! Today the sun is shining, but there is still a cold breeze. However, we can see the start of spring as little green shoots are starting to appear! So, we might get to use the furniture sometime!
We have a planter box near the front door and have decided that we will be planting herbs there. It gets lots of sunlight and the idea of going out and picking my own coriander (more commonly known as cilantro here in the US), chives, basil, rosemary, dill and sage. Some of my favorite herbs - and smells! We will be planting those at the end of May along with some flowers in our front garden.
One of the things we have to tackle in the house is the color of the ceiling. We have no idea why, but the previous owners painted it a strange sort of warm yellowy cream. Which is odd as the rest of the walls are a cool grey. It looks really odd - and even odder with the white painted fireplace and our mid-century furniture! I tried to capture a photo showing you how it looks. It reminds me of the color of cream from the old milk bottles that used to get delivered when I was a kid. We weren't the only ones who enjoyed the cream off the top of the milk, the tits used to sit on the edge of the bottles and peck the foil lid of the bottle and drink the cream!
Not my photo - I borrowed it from a birding site in the UK - and you can read out the robins and blue tits and how they adapt to be able to digest the rich milk.
Now... where was I? Oh yeah, the color of our ceiling! Here's that photo where you can see the yellow/cream ceiling
And here's a photo - which is very distorted - but really gives you a better idea of how big the ceiling is - and how yellow it really looks
With the cool grey walls and white fireplace, it really does look yellow. Now, we just have to decide whether it goes to white, or whether it goes darker?!
And, just because I don't think there are quite enough photos on this post :-) I will finish up with a photo of Chilli just chillin' on the carpet in the sun room! I mean, who doesn't want to see a photo of a 20 pound Maine Coon kitten just lounging around:-)
I'll be back later in the week with a card. In the meantime, warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight
Hugs
Jaydee
Card recipe:
- Stamps and dies: Floral Friendship - Gina K