Smile by Alison Bevis

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Hello!!

It's Alison back again for a terrific Tuesday...

Have you seen the beautiful

STAINED GLASS

Collection?

10 decorative dies with lovely names,

I just had to use them all!!

Smile..

each die was cut out in Ultimate Crafts 'Snow White' cardstock -

which gave me the option to colour them or

leave them white!

The photo is an outdoors one so I picked out 3 shades

A yellow, green and a light brown -

By mounting those intricate die cuts on a combination of the cardstock,

they form a lovely background for the layout

The whole layout is created with just 5 & a bit sheets of cardstock - one of each colour, one white as the base and a sheet and a bit for cutting all the dies!

I coloured the white flowers with the same inks and watercolours as the 2 stained glass pieces on either side of the photo - some added with a water brush and then a little dry brushed over too.

I love to remove a base layer of petals and make a new flower - just add another centre!

The finished layout

The frame, leaves and title are all Imaginarium Designs chipboard simply give a quick coat of spray gesso - easy!!

While I had all the offcut pieces of cardstock, I assembled a quick card

Using the 10th die from the Stained Glass collection!!

I adhered the white die cut to a piece of watercolour paper and added the colour then roughly swiped it over with a black ink pad - I don't even mind that there is an 'extra' bit of messy ink, in fact I quite like it!! Very simply added a bit of faux stitching to each layer with a black pen - easy!!

Stained Glass Collection

ULT157338 - Cathedral

ULT157339 Rainbow Lorikeet

ULT157340 - Daisy Dreams

ULT157341 = Gerbera Bloom

ULT157342 - Flower Baskets

ULT157343 - Flower Cluster

ULT157347 - Florettes

ULT157344 - Pressed Flowers

ULT157345 - Lily Pond

ULT157346 - Proud Peacock

Flowers