More cards, more angelina and more flowers

Just been playing around making cards out of my stash for the sheer fun of it. Whilst playing around with angelina fibres last week, I made three square embellishments using an Amaco stamp set (designed for making clay jewellery and works rather well with the fibres). With the resulting tiles having a multi coloured metallic sheen, I decided to set them against a red-violet background. Purples are always my go-to colour to match against warm metallics.

The second card was inspired by a technique I spotted on Betty The Bag Lady's Blog. She's been making beautiful, curvaceous flowers out of heart shaped punches. I don't have a punch but I do have Spellbinders nesties dies and used those instead. I've gone for earthier colours this time, combined with embellishments such as wooden buttons, twine, string and bronze bookplates. The hummingbird stamp is from Inkadinkadoo (mindscapes set) and the sentiment is Papertrey Ink. It's not as stunningly 3D as Betty's and a little grungier, so I heartily recommend you see her blogged examples for inspiration.