Lots of goodies.

My awesome friend Cindy has once again come to the rescue in providing me with the scallop circles I've been hunting for in my probably hugely vain effort to have a go at making more challenging easel card designs.   Also going to try and do some stamping into the bargain - my forte is very much more decoupage, but Cindy's long been at me to do more stamping as she feels it's much more versatile.   I just figure I gave up painting because my hands were too painful & so just switching to colouring in stamped images isn't really much different in some ways - both involve holding thin items (paintbrush/pen etc) that I struggle badly with these days.  Still I figure it's worth a go.

So this is one of the other easel cards I’ve made of late – using decoupage again this one was quite awkward & fiddly both in the cutting & also in the layering up as the flowers go through & behind the frame – plus the very fine stems were too difficult for me to cut out so just had to work with what I could.   Doesn’t look too bad overall, but still lacking something yet.   I just don’t have the huge range of items many other crafters can lay their hands on, & really can’t afford to go and buy lots of things like ribbon or flowers etc, just for one type of card.   I tried everything I had available to add on to the base but nothing really appealed, so have left it fairly bland for the meantime.   Somebody will appreciate it no doubt.  Sorry for the poor photos but still trying to figure out my new digicam not to mention Photoshop - love to hear how the rest of you do things!