Kindness Bonsai cards- my laundry plaque comes to life, and Aesop's Fables are revisited.

I knew I had to have the All the Good Things Stampset as soon as I saw it in the catalogue, but it has taken a while to actually get it in my hands!
One of the sentiments in the set has been hanging on my laundry wall for the last 20 odd years. Most mothers spend plenty of time in the laundry so I have read this plaque at least daily, so naturally I had to have the set (the Australian Institute for Family Studies produced a statistic last year that Mothers spend on average 24 hours/wk on chores, so I guess I've seen it a lot.....)

This is the plaque- you might notice I didn't photograph the laundry!!
Even the colours coordinate with the Watercolour Notecards, which was perfect because I made a little set as a gift.

I made 2 Blackberry and 2 Mint, and I overlaid the Laser cut Paper on one of each. Anyway, the Bonsai Tree is just beautiful and I have coloured it with 3 layers of green using sponge daubers.

The Stamparatus makes this super easy, and the stamps are the 'Distinktive' type so the detail is just amazing.

As a set there are a mix of sentiments for all occasions, taken from various sets.

Hopefully you can see some of the detail in the leaves in this shot.

And here's the set.

I believe the quote to be attributed to Aesop from the fable of the Lion and the Mouse. (You can read it here if you want a trip down Memory Lane) At any rate I hope that my children may have also read it on their trips to the laundry - though their presence there was markedly less than mine - and have it imprinted on their psyche!