Lacy Swallows

Good morning everyone, 

I hope you are having a great weekend!  I have another fairly relaxed one, planning and preparing for workshops.

I have two cards on here today, both using the lovely Lacy Swallows stamps....

This is the first card, I kept it all one colour - Cornflower archival ink
I stamped the 'so sorry' from the new line writing set  (these are one of my favourite styles of wording - very useful!) I wiped a little bit of ink off each end of the line before I stamped it, because I didn't want it to be quite as long as it actually is.
I stamped a lacy swallow at each end
For the main piece of the card, all I did was add some ink round the edge of the card and add a few gems and mat on to matching card
For the background piece, I stamped bits of the tail and wing of the larger swallow and added some extra ink.

For the second card, I stamped the birds on double-sided adhesive, then covered one side with acetate and used gilding flakes on the back, then cut them out and mounted on a black strip of card across the centre of white card, mounted on to black.  I stamped the lovely heart line from the same set of line sentimens and added a couple of gems.  I added a few dotty designs with a silver pen

Hope you like them, enjoy your weekend

Janet xx