A stamp-free post...

...coming up.

I have been so enjoying my colouring-in that it is a while since I made any cards that didn't involve stamps. Yesterday was the craft day run by Dawn (Bareham) and I made these 4 lovely cards...
This trio of Elegant Ladies involved decoupage, doodling, matt & layering and...
...gold leafing. The gold leaf didn't want to behave and a couple of the ladies there ended up 'wearing' nearly as much as they applied to their cards LOL and that wasn't all - trimming the feathers to decorate the cards ended up with us covered in those too...we certainly had a giggle - a great way to start the day.
This twisted easel card was decorated with more decoupage and some Glossy accents but there was more to come...
...the panels were edged with glitter so you can imagine by this stage we were all sporting a mix of gold-leaf, feathers & glitter and sticky/gluey fingers.
Next came a 'Magic slider' card. I made one of these a while back of a Christmas tree but I think I like this one even better. Here we have the outline of a sailing ship...
...and here we have the image in full colour - I do so love the way these work.
To round off the day we made a 'Penny Rocker'. The card is a folded circle so it can rock and on the front is a flower attached to a penny-slider so it can spin and move back & forth as the card is rocked.

I really enjoyed making all of these cards - such a lovely way to spend a day.

All the PPs & decoupage used on these cards came from a variety of CDs.

As we were leaving, Dawn reminded us that next month would be...Christmas in July..........................................