I am trying to get back to real mail at the moment:  I used to write loads of letters but email is so much a part of my life now that a real letter has become a rare occurence.  It’s just so much more personal to receive a handwritten letter, so I’ve been making some notecards to send with the letters to give me a push. This is one that I made with the new MME Wild Asparagus range – I was after something with a soft, vintage feel. I hit upon a problem with my ‘bloom’ – it looked just too neat and I don’t own a Prima flower muted enough. Then I remembered this idea that I’d seen on the fab Dawn McVey’s blog – I like the distressed result although my DH did look rather concerned and ask why I’d stuck a screwed up flower on my card

Supplies used: MME Wild Asparagus 6×6 paper, MME Wild Asparagus Felt Border, Basic Grey Sugared Glazed Brad, Penny Black Salutations Stamp & Colorbox Creamy Brown Chalk Ink

Happy crafting

Jane

well, not me but my card!

I’ve finally had a chance to play with my Basic Grey Wisteria ‘Pom’ stamp and it all got a bit distressed. With the soft watercolour flower, the straight lines I had originally just didn’t look right. So I restamped doing the sentiment in distress ink to get a slightly soft edged look, roughed up the card edges with scissors and inked the edges of the card blank.

If you fancy having a go at distressing – last week was ‘distress’ week on the Hero Arts blog with Jennifer McGuire and Tim Holtz among others and there are some fantastic videos. Here’s a link to Monday )

Supplies used:  Basic Grey Wisteria Pom Bitsy stamp,  Penny Black Salutions clear stamp set,  Ranger Distress Inks – Dusty Concord,  Milled Lavender, Weathered Wood,  Ranger Water Mister, Colorbox Chalk Ink Olive Pastel, SU Old Olive cardstock for base, DCWV Latte for mat, green Copics marker for stem.

Happy crafting

Jane