A new Path

 Happy new year from Sonia and such a perfect project to start the year too

Welcome back and thankyou Sonia for creating such gorgeous projects for us in 2024

I did not know I was going to be here again this year and especially on the very last day of a year, so I wish you a very Happy and Magical New Year.

I made the following project just because I loved Denise’s new Paper Range ‘Enchantment’, and the sheet Whisperings Woods straight away showed me a life story which I will share with you now.

If you have been doing something for a long time and you’re not getting the results you want it’s time to do something different, take a new path and just maybe some magic will happen!

• First, I made lots of flowers using Denise’s Briar Rose Stamp/die set.
•  I started out with stamping the flowers in waterproof light grey ink on a light purple/violet card stock. On one set of flowers I used a darker blue and purple ink to colour the petals with a strong yellow centre and added black dots to make the centres pop.
•  On the other flowers I used the same purple but very lightly and sparingly as the coloured card stock became a good part of the flower colour. To this second lot of flowers, I only used a very light-yellow stamp pad colour in the centre.  I used a flower shaping tool on the back then used my fingers to create more dimension by folding over the edges. 

• Next, I embossed a set of chipboard Castle Gates. I have an embossing powder that has several colours in it which I felt gave a wonderful effect.  
• I also painted a set of Berries, bold leaves small, and a bird using colours that complimented my overall theme. All are Denise Boddey Design chipboard and are available in her online store.
• Adhering the piece of Whispering Woods paper to a plane piece of card stock made it stronger for my project. 

• Then it was just a matter of glueing the gates on first and layering up all the other bits and pieces. I also fussy cut a couple of mushrooms to add to the picture. I used wink of stella on the steps and trees and small beads to draw your eye to the path.

 

 we are in catch up mode at the moment Christmas and new year takes a bit from me we went very much into slow motion the last couple of months but we are getting back on track. as 2023 ended I know we achieved some amazing firsts with taking the business over the border and we have plans to do the same this year.

but firstly I am catching up on post and projects from my talented design team who are very patient with me  creating all the social media stuff. 

I would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and safe New Year 

Tonight we welcome Debra to the blog 

 Hello Everyone.

Here is my Design team Project .

Using papers from the beautiful card using papers from the new Enchantment Collection,

I created this beautiful card,

 

I chose 2 sheets of paper to use, Faerie  and A magical Place.

I fussy cut images to layer at various heights  to achieve this gorgeous card

 

Hope you like what I created

 

Debra