all the beautiful flowers

This Lisianthus set is another designed by the delightful Emily Midgett for Simon Says Stamp. I am loving this collaboration and can’t wait to see more of these flower sets in the future. Their size is just perfect for getting dark and light tones in each of the petals and leaves and such and yet you can still squeeze them onto an A2 card. 

It’s hard to see in these photos, but for the background, I applied paint directly to the Soft Plaid Background set, spritzed it with water and then stamped onto a piece of watercolour card before splattering liberally with paint and white gouache.

Of coures, I had great fun painting the Lisanthus flower too and used the matching die to cut it out before foam mounting on the background. 

I really like the clean font in the sentiments in the Celebrate Rose Corner set and so stamped a greeting in Versamark ink on Ivory card, heat embossed with Antique Gold embossing powder, trimmed out and again foam mounted on the background. 

I mounted the finished panel on a card base cut and scored from Desert Storm card before embellishing with enamel dots and pearls. 

life update

As I mentioned above, I am recovering from surgery and my journey is going well. That’s the main focus of this little story. However, if I backtrack, things got a little chaotic with a change of surgeon because the original surgeon came down with Covid. The date was being moved from Wednesday to Thursday and back again. I did wonder if I would get the operation done or if I’d have to wait at the back of the queue again for the next appointment. 

In addition, each surgeon seems to have a way of doing things and so changes were being made to the procedure too. But as I said above, the main focus is that I am recovering well. It’s all done and I can now concentrate on physiotherapy and my overall health. It’s amazing when I plug all the health tasks into my planning app there really isn’t a lot of time left in the day to do anything else!

supplies

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