Time for a Break gift bag

The post is all about a Time for a Break Gift Bag project. 

I made this for week three over at Unstampabelles, where the 

Challenge#92 is 

Tea in the Garden

with a  TWIST to use some watercolouring somewhere.......

I raided the stash again - it feels so good to use up stuff - and found some papers from a magazine with a gardening theme reflected on them. 

I took to them with my trusty sharp scissors and did a little (very) fussy cutting

The I die cut out a piece of white card and smooched some ink onto my silicon sheet, and hit the two spots with some water from the spray bottle.

Two or three swipes across the cad had created a w/c background

While this was drying, I cut som strips of paper up and created a ladder stand for myself

which I then glued onto the background piece.

I added some other bits from my fussy cutting - a potplant, some gloves and boots - and repurposed the watering can into a mug of tea/coffee........the heat rising is from my black pen....I also outlined the mug in black pen to make it stand out more. 

I arranged them onto a card blank, with the seed packet cutouts behind to frame it and then glued this card onto the reused white gift bag.

The bag is big enough for some gloves, a mug for outside and some seeds to plant - a gift for my brother's 70th birthday which is coming up soon.

Hopefully he will be able to use them in his garden once the radiation treatment is over.

By adding a complete card, I can write a message inside it and I don't then have to provide another card. It will be all in one!

I drew around the edge of the yellow card piece, and I hand wrote the sentiment. 

It will indeed be time for a break by then for him!

Hope you like it. 

Cheers, 

We're Still Hot.....

......but not from the Summer sun!

I made a card for Bizzy Bec's August challenge

'Anything Goes'

I used an Art Impressions Unmounted stamp set called 

Picture Perfect

I had fun colouring up the girls with my Copics and fussy cutting them out.

I used the stamp in full but I have seen it since trimmed down to two or three

Stamped with black Momento Ink 

onto XPress Blending card

Some Wink of Stella used on lips and jewelry

Some old Dark Room Door stamps also 

Scrap DP from SU

Die-Versions Smile Sweet Frames DVSF-003

I put it together like this......

I thought the rose gave you the idea of the 'flashes' we might be getting.......

Hope you like it!

Enjoy the Little Things Tag

Hello

Glad you could join me for this post

I am sharing a tag I made for the second week of the 

Unstampbelles Challenge #92

Tea in the Garden

with a TWIST of watercolour

I started by going through my stash....took a loooonnnggg time....but I came up with this lot

I then began to put them together

I had a tag made from w/c paper on which I had mopped up some w/c paints from a previous project that I though would be a good background.

I found some flower diecuts in the Craft bag and a fence die which I cut out in brown cardstock (scrap). I redid the bottom in some green scrap and fancy cut out some grass shapes as well.

I added an eyelet - a blast from the past to remember that technique - and added a sentiment strip. I put the flowers behind the fence and then added some little pearls as nail tops to the palings. 

Next I die cut the teapot and mounted it onto some blue card and again used the scissors to cut around it and inside the handle. Tombow Glue is always good with this sort of fragile diecut. 

Once it was dry I added it and some cups to the bottom of the tag. A few extra pearls under the sentiment and a ribbon and it was done. 

The diecuts had some gold work on them and they gleamed in the sunshine but hard to see here

You can see the gold better here. The background also has some gold in it as a shimmer effect and they work together nicely.

Closer up.....

The best thing about all this is that the stash was used and so were some dies that had laid dormant for a while!

You have three weeks to enter at 

Unstampabelles for your take on 

Tea in the Garden. 

Coffee in the Garden?

Hello Peeps

Yes, I am running behind again.

It has been an eventful few weeks. 

A few weeks ago now, my brother was diagnosed with a brain tumor; he was operated on and

is now in rehab getting better quickly.

My hubby has also  had several small medical procedures

There have been a few other things also - nothing major - but they take up time

and cause a bit of stress.

So, now there is free air!

BREATHE

I did finally get a card made for the first challenge at 

Unstampabelles for August

Challenge #92: Tea in the Garden 

TWIST Watercolour Wonders

I scrabbled through my stash and landed on this sheet of garden images, a companion background piece and some cork sentiment stickers and images.

The image looks as if it has been watercoloured in

- that was as close as I got this time to the TWIST

I die cut the image with an SU die square 

and the green card with another one of the dies from this set by SU.

I glued the image onto white card to back it and then added ink to the edges

It is mounted on dimensionals onto the green mount and that is mounted onto the background DP, 

which has also been inked in green ink.

My bulbs are all coming up atm and there is even a flower head here and there.

However, the lovely lot of flowers I had planted in the old wheelbarrow were treated as a buffet by the possums and so I had to remove them and replanted them into a tub on the carport.

This photo was taken before they were planted into the barrow. 

Polyanthus and pansies for some winter colour.

The possum particularly liked the pansy flowers!!!!

So then I purchased lots of succulents and planted them in the wheelbarrow instead!

Let's see the possoms eat those spiny, prickly things!

So far, so good. 

I have over a 100 bulbs in this garden as well as some rose bushes, some rock roses (hellebore) and some natives. The pittosporum tree takes all the water and goodness out if I am not careful. The light green is not weed - it is where I spilled a packed of Sweet Alice (Alyssum) seeds by accident. They were meant to be broadcast over the bed but they are just congregated on one place now. 

My workspace is just behind that curtained window.

When I take a break from crafting, 

I will be sitting on those steps in sunshine, 

drinking coffee and enjoying my garden in spring!

Enjoy your coffee time!

Dream Big - a card for Bizzy Bec's.