roses are red, and daisies too in this week's Play Date Cafe Colour Challenge!

I have rather a lot of journals that need covers, so when it became apparent that these flowers weren't going to fit on a card,  I found a journal that was a perfect fit!   And being red, it fitted in great with this week's Play Date Cafe colours :)

Aren't they gorgeous?  So many options with this colour combo. 

I went for a bit of a grunge look.  The flower stamp is from the Autumn Leaves' Doodle Flowers set.  I stamped it onto text that I'd sprayed brown, mounted it on red card, and paper pieced the centre to include red dots and some grungy letters courtesy of Sir Tim.  I stitched around the flowers with my sewing machine, and added the leaves and stems.

I didn't intend this piece to come out as pretty as it did LOL but it needed something to the side of the main image and the bits n pieces I found brought about a rather prettier look.  Not that it matters!

And don't forget, the Play Date Cafe have a Design Team Call out 'til Feb 28th so still time to get your application in!  Click HERE for details,

play date with a fab friend

You can't get much better than a day spent with a crafting friend, shopping in new craft shops (new to me anyway) then playing with the new purchases together.  Not forgetting a chip barm for lunch...yummy!!

Sue took me to Craft Addicts first where I bought these yummy flower stamps by Autumn Leaves.  Craft Addicts sell  E-Z Walnut Ink Tintz which come in a variety of colours in dabber bottles.  I'd not seen these before so when we got back to Sue's we both played with Sue's collection of these inks in our journals.  Having just returned from Wendy's Stamp Attic, Sue had new stamps to play with too...Tattered Angels Clear Stamps of owls and butterflies [Graceful Journey].

I stamped the butterfly on the bag Tracy had put my goodies in at Craft Addicts, as well as some of the flowers :)  The page isn't finished yet, want to work on the leaves!

We visited Carol at the Cubby Hole before going back to Sue's, arriving just in time for a chip barm :)  I won't show you my purchases from there just yet, I want to use them for this week's play date cafe challenge.  :)