Cafe Fleur

I'm home! Hubby and I spent the weekend away at a new hotel just outside town - it was nice to get away and just relax together after several very busy months of running in opposite directions... this was also a celebration of our 10th anniversary which passed us by 2 weeks ago! Nice to be back too - sort of... Our school is on break now so on one hand there's more time for hanging out, and for neglected projects... on the other hand I function much better with a routine, and that is lacking at the moment.

In celebration of our celebration, a quiet cafe scene.... This is one of those cards that was weeks in the making - not because of complexity but for lack of free time to finish it...! This is Cafe Fleur from Auntie Amy's - the scene is watercolored with a combination of pencils, markers, and reinkers. Love that bicycle too!

The decorative paper features the technique I referred to in my last post, and my next post will be a bit of a tutorial on this 'reverse resist' technique, using a combination of inks on photo paper. The rose stamp I used on that panel is from Impression Obsession.

On to my busy day - I have some new stamp artwork to polish up , and I'm also in the middle of reorganizing and integrating past design team stamps into the rest of my collection. Isn't half the fun of crafting organizing and reorganizing?

Challenges:

Moxie Fab World: I want to ride my bicycle
Daring Cardmakers: The World is your Oyster