Enduring Beauty hello cards.

I have not been very good at posting the projects we have made at classes this year - and now it's past the Winter Solstice already and so the days should start getting longer again! 

So here's a few projects from card classes earlier this year.

This was a class using the fabulous Enduring Beauty Masks and blending brushes. No dies were used for this, and we didn't use the coordinating stampset - I wanted to show what you can do with just the decorative masks. There are 5 masks in total and although they are numbered 1-5, I tend to do all the flower parts in one go and then both of the leaf masks next. When you start your blending mark the location of the notch so you know where to position the next mask and which way to orientate it. You need to manually place it in the best position before you start adding ink. Some low tack tape is useful to hold the mask in place for this.

MY two cards use Starry Sky and Lost Lagoon, and then Fresh Freesia and Lost Lagoon and I used Moody Mauve for the central stamens to add some definition.

The Perennial Postage dies were useful for the largest piece to create the feature panel, and I layered this on a solid colour of coordinating cardstock to match. The sentiments were from random sets and I chose them because they did not take up too much space covering the beautiful flowers. 

I loved being able to use the masks as a stand alone  product.

Unfortunately the Perennial Postage stampset is now retired but these were great sentiments.

I hope you have a creative week and remember, 

"don't just post online,

 post something pretty!"

cheers, Liz