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Greenhouse Garden is one of my long-time favourites. Here are two cards I have made using this set. The first was done as a workshop demonstration. Here I stamped the flowers in Baja Breeze and stamped over in Not Quite Navy.

The butterflies are cut using the Beautiful Butterflies Embosslit die. The background is created with the Very Vintage Jumbo Wheel and the ribbon is Baja Breeze Seam Binding.

My second card is in a brighter colour way - Wisteria Wonder and Concord Crush - a lovely combination - and it is not long until Concord Crush is retiring - I will SO miss it.

I used the Framelits die to create the white front to card and used the butterfly from Nature Walk to add some impact. The greeting comes from Party This Way.

I hope you have enjoyed your walk around my Greenhouse Garden :)

Love Elizabeth X

Life on the Ocean Wave

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More from the new Summer Mini Catalogue from Stampin' Up! today. I was so happy to get the stamp set called The Open Sea that I have used in this project. It is perfect for a man card and also lovely for creating a distressed look like the one below.

All the images are from the stamp set and the greeting is from Party this Way and the scrap of DSP is from First Edition Speciality Designer Paper.

Do you see the scoring down one side and along the bottom - this is done with another new and fabby tool called Simply Scored. More about that coming soon.

Love Elizabeth X

Birthday Owl

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Today I am sharing a cute birthday card that we made during our December classes. We used a top note background and the Owl punch to make the sweet birthday owl.

The stamps come from Party this Way and Funky Four - the wings of the owl are made using the Boho Blossoms punch and the leaves made using the Little Leaves die.

I did the eyes in advance because I wanted to use Crystal Effects and it takes a little while to dry when you use a blob to make the 3D eyes. Now we have the Multipurpose adhesive sheets, I could make them all up on the adhesive sheet, so they could easily be stuck on during the class.

This card was inspired by the one I made for my niece Phoebe on her second birthday, so I though I would show you her card too....

Hope you like my cute little owl cards :)

Love Elizabeth X

Scrapbooking - a little late

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So those of you who are scrapbookers - hands up who is behind with your projects? I know I am - it takes me for ever to get to my scrapping - even though I love doing it.

I am so behind times that today I am sharing my niece Pheobe's first birthday layout after her second birthday!

I love the pictures of Phoebe with her balloons - she had so much fun with them - even trying to eat them!

I copied the balloon colours and used the Party This Way stamp set, which is perfect with those bright colours.

So happy SECOND birthday to Phoebe and I promise to get your birthday page made a bit quicker this year!