...little pretty "ballerinas" are one of my most vivid memories of summer as a kid. And seeing them still in bud form and reaching out and "popping" them. What am I waffling on about? Fuchsias of course :O) Of all the plants in the garden, fuchsias are my favourite. I have slowly been adding them to my collection, now I have a greenhouse I can make sure they don't cark it over winter too. So, imagine my thrill of happiness when I spotted the new Paradise Collection from Craftwork Cards when I was over at Crafty Bunch last weekend.
Not only are there fuchsias on the papers, there be hibiscus, bird of paradise, butterflies and... hummingbirds! I remember a holiday to St Lucia when I decided to go all David Bailey and get some really cool "shots" of hummingbirds that used to hover around the pool area all day. It was back in the days of using 371 films in your camera, taking said films to Snappy Snaps the moment the plane landed back in Blighty and waiting, very impatiently, for the one hour developing service... grabbing said photo's (yes, I took 10 rolls of 36 exposures, imagine how much that costed me to develop!!!) quickly flicking through the photo's to see the amazing things I had photographed whilst on my travels. Ahem. Yes, well, enough about that. My hummingbird shots, all 192 of them were nothing but a very small and very strange looking blob in the middle of a photo of the pool! Ok so maybe it was the camera's fault for being old or maybe just the idiot operating it. Anyways, the point of all this info is that I needed to tell you about Linda Ledbetter. Now, Linda is not only is a fabulous artist and all round gorgeous gal, she also takes awesome photo's.. CLICK HERE to see them. Linda took a load of pics of hummingbirds last year... I was so happy to see the photo's, hummingbirds just make me smile... and now when I sees one, I think of Linda.
What to do with the papers huh? I freely admit that I have a very lot of the CWC collections... and a very lot of them are sitting, un-cut, in a box, mainly because I haven't had time to have a proper play yet and a smidge because they are sooo gorgeous! Anyways, I got this new paper collection and last night I was on "free crafting time" ie: any time in the middle of the night is free crafting time, FCT, meaning you can do whatever you likes and it is not eating into prep time for work kind of stuff. So, armed with a couple of hours of FCT and the paper collection, I got a little inky with a tag. There are some foiled papers in the collection and this isn't normally a style I likes, these, however, are perfect. I covered the tag with papers, inked around the edges with Seedless Preserves DI and then scruffed the edges and went around with Vintage Photo. The rose is made from the diecuts in the collection, again inked with Seedless Preserves. The ickle sentiment is from the kit and I added some jute to make it a bit more natural looking. Hessian for the flower, string for the top and voila, done! I am so loving these papers!!!
My only problem now is that I want to make more stuff with the papers and I can't because I am now waist deep in sample making for Tuesday's tellybox shows... tis all goodly fun though and you never know, I might well get some more FCT tonight, sleeps seems to be evading me at the moment! Oooh and I nearly forgot to tell you... tomorrow, Saturday 31st May 14, sees the opening of a brand new craft shop and tearoom in Devizes - called Cups & Crafts, located on Northgate Street, Devizes and I will be there doing a full demo day, playing with all things inky, papery and stampy - so if you are in the area, please do pop by to see us! Have a grand day all! Thanks for looking... TTFN
Hels x
22 comments:
that flower is awesome. love it x
Fabulous tag, Hels' - great use of your FCT... that paper looks fab, I've missed seeing this one from Craftwork somehow...
Wish someone would open a craft store near me (though my bank account doesn't!)...
Absolutely gorgeous tag Hels, love the colours and flowers are beautifully awesome!
Full of gorgeousness! These papers are beautiful! I got my best ever pics of humming birds when we were on holiday last year, so beautiful! Hugs Carole Z xx
Love the colours,Hels very pretty.
I think this is one of my favourite tags, I just adore this and the beautiful papers xx
Hi Hels lovely tag with gorgeous papers. Fushia's are so pretty so can see why you love them, and the humming birds are graceful and beautiful too, just like your tag x
Wonderful tag Hels, love how the fuchsias turned out and how their colour matches your other flower!
Hi Hels. Yes,I remember the "ballerinas" too, especially at my Grandma and Grandad's. They always had loads in lots of colours : )
The papers look great and I love the tag. Have a good day at Cups and Crafts. Will have to pay a visit as it's not too far away from my parents, sadly can't make it tomorrow though : (
Beautiful
Morning Hels, A gorgeous tag, loving the papers (I love fuchsias too) and the hummingbird looks fabulous, a brilliant creation.
I have lots of paper pad collections that I can't 'cut into' aswell haha.
Lots of love from Patricia xx
So lovely Hels and I remember making dancing ladies from fuscias when I was 4!!!!!! I used to push a match stick through the flower to give her arms
Memories eh?
Xx
Wow Hels, your tag is stunning! I had not thought of fuschias as ballerinas before but I will now! Loving those papers too...
My lovely blog friend Darnell lives in California and she has a regular visitor to her garden and has taken some more pics recently. If you have time, have a look at:
http://www.djkardkreations.com/2014/05/woyww-happy-fifth-anniversary-atc.html
I promise you will not be disappointed! Hugs, Anne xx
Gorgeous Hels,you make the most scrummy flowers!
Donna.x
Wow! Hels! What a MOST gorgeous tag!!!
Gorgeous tag, Hels. I agree that the craftwork papers are fantastic-quality and design but I can never bring myself to cut them. They all sit on my shelf and I look at them regularly then move onto some others. We used to call fuchsias ballerinas too. I still love them and take endless cuttings. Thank you, Jan
love this Hels, would also love some FCT when mum's taxi or housework was not needed. No idea where Devizes is but guesssing it is tooo far away for me to pop in, have fun x
Love the colours. Hels very pretty.
Morning Hels,an absolutely gorgeous
tag the papers and humming birds are to
die for.
Nancyd xx
You is sooooo bad Mrs Sheridan. You just showcase products so well I have to have them. This is absolutely lush. Hearing you talk about ballerinas I must tell you about my lupin pod caterpillars sometime :)
You are so sweet, Ms. Hels Sheridan! Thanks for the shout out. Believe me, I've taken about a thousand times more "blob" photos than hummingbird photos. All that zoom-iness!
Love you, sistah!
OH! This is a stunning and perfect work of art, by the way! The colors are absolutely scrumptious!!!
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