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A bit out of my comfort zone today. Not cute, and I have decided that there is to be no more special card/paper box (they have been in there for ages). If it is special enough it needs to be on a card, not in the box. Having said that this purple paper was not easy to cut with the complex Anja die, I'm hoping it was the stretchiness on the paper that made it so difficult so the jury is out on this die. I do love the other dies in the set.
My brother-in-law was so chuffed with his card, declaring he had received a card you wouldn't find in the shops that I think his wife will expect something special next week, so hopefully this card will be good enough. I made up some of the flowers but cannot remember where I bought the Gypsophila ones.

A different set of ingredients today :-

Paper and card - card blank is an A5 made from Centura Pearl,

   the backing papers are from my special card/paper box.

Dies used - Marianne anja frames and leaves, Crealies 11 and

Die-namics Fishtail flag stax and Layered Rose,

and ribbon and bling was from stash.

Same image 2 cards

Not going to mention that weather today but I received my new wellies in the post. I played with one of my favourite stamps twice. I also learned a valuable lesson, diecut your topper before putting the bling on, even with a soft piece of card to protect the bling the bigshot took revenge.  A few days ago a friend put a card on her blog with some lovely nitwit paper and I thought "I like that lots", fortunately I checked what I had already downloaded and there it was, already done. (One up against FM, I have to work very hard at being that logical). Part of these cards is my attempt to use some stash so hopefully they don't look to bitty as a result.

Image - Daisy stamp from some time ago

 coloured with letraset pens.

Paper and card - card blank is a 6x6 from Joanna Sheen
and backing paper is from Nitwit digi papers

Dies used - Marianne LR0236, and Die-namics Let's Chat

Card 2 and my attempt  to use more stash.

 coloured with letraset pens.

Paper and card - card blank is a 6x6 from Joanna Sheen
and backing paper is from Papermania Lemon Sorbet

Dies used - Marianne LR0156 , spellbinders circles, 

 and a CREAlies die from Joanna Sheen shop

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts