Creative Expressions Thursday

Hi Everyone

So sorry to all that looked for me this last week , I am still really recovering from this op of mine as far as It decides to swell and play up from time to time and so I have been resting and doing prep for Saturday's shows.

I have of course got some new design team stamps to start off  for June and so I chose to start with one of Sam's stamps called Lighthouse and as it is fathers day for those of you that are lucky enough to have your pops still and you will be celebrating, it will be with us soon so I went down the male theme for today's card. Hope you like it.
Thank you to all the lovelies emailing to see if I was ok too I really do appreciate it and am only just getting round to answering the emails so thanks so much.

Here's today's card.

 I used Sue's Galicia Die from the Spanish collection and Sam's Lighthouse and verse stamp for this project.I also used some Burlap and some string plus some Calico material which I rolled up into a rose but kept it more masculine.

 I stamped  the image with Potting soil Archival ink from Wendy Vechi for Ranger and coloured it with Distress markers and a water brush but kept it extremely simple.

Here is the verse again stamped in  archival ink and cut using a simple rectangle die. I tucked the verse just under the 2 little sections on the die cut which is stunning. The focal image is sitting on a faux  mat created simply by turning the die over and tracing it on the plum card and fussy cutting by hand to get the same look.

                                         This is the stamp set. Lighthouse by Sam Poole.

So then while I was resting last week with my foot I got to playing with some fabrics and making some more bits for the little gifts to go out soon as promised and I made a whole heap of Ribbon and or Calico fabrics.Here they are.

                                                                          Pretty ?

So for those of you that didn't know my  shows are on Create and craft this Saturday at 10 a.m and 4pm I really am looking forward to bringing you a sewing themed stamping show and I really am looking forward to it so much.
Will you be joining me? If so will you email in to the show and let me know you are there, I will of course be giving away cards on the show and over the next week.

Have a great Thursday ,we had torrential rain all night but the sky is clear and blue this morning which always helps doesn't it?

Lots of love

 Kim

xxxx