Paper Flowers

After many hours on YouTube, watching some of the fantastic tutorials I decided to give paper flowers a try.  Glimmer mist seemed to be popular, and one tutorial I found, showed how to make your own.  I mixed acrylic paint, mica powder, water and glue and was really pleased with the results.
For the flowers I used a scalloped punch and punched 8 pieces.  Then painted both sides.  I pierced a brad through the centre of all 8 pieces and then, whilst the petals were still wet, one petal at a time scrunched up around the brad.  I slowly teased each petal back out in to the shape I wanted.  I love this quick and cheap technique.
Here is the result..............

After I took this picture I finished off the flowers by sprinkling some glitter powder over the top which really made them sparkle!

Some of my handmade cards

Here are some pics of some of the cards I have made so far.

My First Blog ever!

Here it is!  My first ever blog!
A good place to start is some background to how I got in to cardmaking and scrapbooking.  Back in November 2010 I went to stay with my mum for a week in Cornwall.  The weather was typical of Cornwall that time of year and so we had a stay at home day where my mum was showing me some of her card making techniques.
We got on to heat embossing and I was completely taken by this particular technique.  I immediately decided that this was something I wanted to try once I got back home.  The next day mum took me in to Tavistock and I bought, what mum deemed to be the basics!

My first project was a thank you card to mum, little did I realise just how much I would go on to mean THANK YOU xxx