Hi Glenda. I must agree I also loved the colours of your poppies.

I first saw this coloured poppy earlier this year when I went to

Mottisfont a National trust property which is famous for its Rose gardens, but I must admit I think I took more photo's of the poppies.

I thought it would be fun to have a go at your challenge as I thought the colours would be brilliant for your stamp sets

Butterfly swirls and Nature swirls.

I used brilliance pads Ivy and Olive for the swirls and stamped the butterflies in Royal purple Stazon, cut them out and water coloured them using a touch of Rose madder and violet

to make a soft blend of lilac to purple. I also used crystal glitter on the wings.

Thought you may also like to see this Christmas card Glenda.

I just love this tree stamp and have used it for the past 3 years. While looking to see what corner stamp I could use I realised that the Butterfly

swirls corner stamp matched this tree perfectly.

This has made a lovely card that is easy to batch make, I have also made this card in red and purple. I simply used big and juicy pads with lots of crystal glitter, and raised one of the trees a little.

Thank you helping to make it so easy for us.

Hope you like these cards.

Emilio Lickorish Birthday Card 2011

This is the card I made for my Grandson's Birthday.

I used the Serif Craft artist for the background and figures.

The clowns and elephant were printed separately cut out and coloured in using pro markers. Then attached using foam pads to raise them a little.

I hope you liked the card Emilio.

Wedding Cards and Shoes

The shoes were made using the free template download from Chocolate Baroque. I used papers printed from a Artylicious CD. Then stamped and embossed with silver pearl embossing powder the flowers were made using spellbinders dyes (Blossom Two).

The cards were made using Glenda's (Chocolate Baroque) new stamps,nature swirls and butterfly flourish swirl they were also stamped and embossed in silver pearl powder. Paper flowers made as above, silk flowers from my stash. The box was printed with the same paper as the shoe, stamped and embossed with paper flowers as before.

Mothers Day Cards

These are the two card's that I made for Mothering Sunday, using the Papermania Build a Rose stamp.

Demitra Lickorish Birthday Card 2011

This is the card that I made for my Grandaughter for her Birthday this year.

I have made cards for her for many years, they have been posted but I am unsure if she has seen them or not. So this year I have also posted her card on my blog. So one day she may find it.

Chocolate Baroque

I made this card from the Chocolate Baroque paper I downloaded.

To make this card I printed straight onto a smooth white card with my free download from Glenda. I then stamped my poppies from the Elusive Image range onto white card twice. The poppies and background were then painted with h2o's.

I then cut out the front petals, leaves and large seed head and glued with pinflair to give a raised effect, curving the petals and seed head as I did so.

I used Spellbindes labels one for the matting and layering.

The flowers were cut from the Spellbinders Dahlia, each flower is cut from two layers of pink tissue paper, the flower centre was from the smallest die cut from black card.

The centre of the flowers and the main poppies were then embossed with dots of Disco black. To finish off I used one of the spellbinders Flourish accents in gold mirror board at the base of the flowers.