An Altenew Flower and a Couple of Piglets

An interesting Title hey!! Got you thinking, no I haven't combined the two. I have made two cards and the sentiment for the Piglets card is too long for my title.

Now my first card is the flower from the Moms Best Altenew flower set. I LOVE this flower, so much potential and so easy to colour and I splurged and bought the die for it. I've seen so many beautiful samples its like where do I start, maybe I should do a flower a day in as many ways as possible. Now that would be interesting, probably the longest part of that process would be chasing up the inspiration links.

I saw a card where the flower was only partly cut out and I liked that so decided to follow that idea and I mentioned in a previous post the way Janet showed off the coloured dimensional foam under the card layer. Lucky for me I had one piece of blue left (ratssss) and it was just enough with a little

surgical assistance for the panel. I did the same amount of die cut on the blue foam  and the coloured image and managed for once to get it right first go. Forgot to mention the colouring is Copics.

I even managed to remember to stamp my sentiment before adhering the front panel. (stamped, stamped where is that stamped sentiment, why its in the bin with the rest of that card). First as I was attaching the front panel I noticed mmm a smear here and a smear there and where did that come from and how will I cover that then I looked at the sentiment, the smeared sentiment). #$%%^^^%%^%$$$## (thats me swearing ok!!)

I managed to remove the foam backed front panel with minimal damage, yes thats why I have a delicate little star sitting on the flower, to cover the tear). I reattached to the next card and added a silver mirror die cut 'Celebrate' and a few sequins and I was back to happy.

I love that blue foam look. You can really see it here and its bloody brilliant I say.

Now to this cutie patootie 

Stamp from Stamping Bella, so simple to colour, still working on my pig colours. 

But happy enough here.

After colouring I added some green for the grass their sitting on and some Wink of Stella

on the flowers. One layer card, so simple and isn't that sentiment just the best.

'The Best way to 

cheer yourself up,

is to try to cheer

somebody else up.'

He was a clever man that Mark Twain.

This statement comes with the piglets. Card is finished off with some mixed sequins.

Challenges:

Simon Says Monday Challenge : Stamp It

Piglets and sentiment stamped.

 I added the wrong image to the link it should have been 

the piglets, sorry.

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge : STAMPtember : Stamp it

Piglets and sentiment stamped.

I added the wrong image to the link it should have been 

the piglets, sorry.

Word It Wednesday Simon Says August

Piglets and sentiment stamped.

Cuttlebug Mania : Anything Goes

The Altenew flower and Celebrate and dimensional 

all die cut.

Pixie's Snippets Playground : #245 Anything Goes Must Use Snippet

TheAltenew flower card blue Foam was a few snippets put 

together and the silver 'celebrate'

was also a snippet.

AAA Cards: Game#72 : New To You Technique

The Altenew flower card was Partial Die cutting and using 

coloured dimensional foam 

to highlight the colour.

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