More Beautiful Botanicals from Sweet Poppy ..........

Happy Friday! .......

I hope you've had a lovely week.  And we've got another fabulous long weekend to look forward which is nice.

  

We've spent the last few days parked up on the banks of Loch Linnhe, on the Bunree Campsite.  It's been so peaceful and relaxing here ........ nowhere to be, no one to see ......... it's been great!!  We are on the move again tomorrow though, the trip isn't over just yet!

It looks like everyone is loving the new Beautiful Botanicals stamp release from Sweet Poppy, our Facebook pages are full of gorgeous floral creations.  Not surprisng really though as the stamps are so pretty.

One of my favourites from the new collection is the Tulip ........

So pretty used on it's own to create CAS cards.

I stamped the image in the centre of my card, and used watercolour markers to colour the stem.  I then added a few inks splatters onto the background around the stamped image, just to add a bit more interest ........

To colour the actual flower I decided to paper piece it using a snippet of card I found in my bits box (I never throw anything away!)

 

So quick and easy to do, and just think of all the different colours you could use!

Something that took a little more time was this all over design ......

I do love tulips so I couldn't resist using a whole bunch of them.

Stamped and heat embossed in gold ....... and then coloured with watercolour pens

A few gold ink splatters, and a two-part die cut sentiment to finish ..... love it!

Another pretty Spring flower is the Daffodil ...... 

Perfect again for creating CAS cards.

As with the tulip above, I simply stamped this int he centre of my card, used watercolour markers to colour the stem and then paper-pieced the actual flower heads .......

I added a little tag with my sentiment on, using foam pads to give the card a little bit of dimension

and I finished off with some dots of Nuvo's Crystal Glaze and a little bit of doodling around the edges

What will your favourite flower be?

As I said, we're on the banks of Loch Linnhe, enjoying our latest trip in the van.

The weather hasn't been too bad, no rain to speak of, the sun has shown it's face at some point everyday but, it has been a little on the breezy side the last couple of days ...... so no crossing of the Loch on this visit (shame, as there is a rather nice little pub on the other side, with a really good whisky collection!) 

The regular Corran ferry is out of action at the moment so there's a replacement doing the crossings for foot passengers only.  Apparently, it's not a very big boat, and it doesn't go if the weather's bad.  You know me and water, my sea legs are not the best so, we've stayed on this side so far.

We have been out walking nearly everyday though, sampling the local watering holes and restaurants, it would have been rude not too.  We also walked up to Inchree Falls, which was nearby.

A lovely forest walk up the side of the falls .......

There's spectacular views of Loch Linnhe and the hills around Ardgour from the top ......

and we came back down through the forests 

We're heading off again tomorrow, to a place called Ardtur near Port Appin ...... never been there before.

We've rented a beautiful cottage there for the week, and Lauren and Alex are meeting us there which will be nice.

Thanks for popping by ........ have a lovely Coronation Bank Holiday weekend.  We'll be watching it all on catch up!

Cheerio until next time .......