Thursday, March 4, 2010

April Showers

Hello!

Well it has been a long time since I have put a card on but finally have one. This one is called April showers. I have coloured this one with distress inks. I have been practicing but still need a lot more practice. The flowers I made are called Wattle. They are native to Australia.
Here in Australia on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland the rain hasn't stopped falling for days.
There are floods everywhere. Fortunately we live on the top of a high hill. The grass here is usually brown from the heat and dryness. It is nice to see the green grass like my home land of New Zealand.
Hugs
Marion

26 comments:

Lisa Phillippi llelsik@aol.com said...

Your coloring is Excellent & I love those flowers! We have had a lot of rain this year too so we should have a lot of wildflowers this spring...I can't wait!

Julie Case said...

Such a beautiful card!! I love your flowers and your coloring with the distress inks is just gorgeous! I'd like to give the distress inks a try but still have so much to learn with my copics!!
Really nice card!!

Sharon Caudle said...

Beautiful card, Marion! I love that bouquet of flowers and Tilda looks fantastic!
hugs!
Sharon

Cami said...

Lovely card, Marion. Love Tilda in that soft blue and you have done a great job of coloring with distress inks! Your Wattle flowers are beautiful! Hugs, Cami

Yenni Natalia said...

Hi i love the way you use the distress ink for your card. i also did experiment with distress ink...
thanks for inspire me..

Hugs
Yenni

Patti Jo said...

Terrific coloring with the DI's Marion! Love how you've achieved all your highlights! Your flowers of course, are gorgeous and love the arrangement with the maidenhair fern! Beautifully done my Aussie Friend!!!

Nancy said...

Marion your card is beautiful! You have done a awesome job coloring with the distressed inks! The flowers that you have made are gorgeous!
Hugs,
Nancy

Crystal said...

Marion this is soooo adorable, love your bg paper, image, and that fabulous bouquet!!!! Beautiful work sweetie!

Cindy said...

Please let me know how you made these fabulous flowers. The whole card is wonderful, but the flowers rock. Cindy2

Christina C. said...

You colored this cutie to perfection.
Love the wonderful embellishments and layout. Beautiful card!!

Barb Hardeman said...

What a beatuiful card, Marion! Thou flowers are gorgeous and the bright pop of yellow on the sentiment tag is wonderful. What a great job you did coloring Tilda with your Distress inks!

Patricia Garcia said...

Hello Marion, beautiful card love the pretty flowers and Tilda is colored beautiful!!

Hugs,
Patricia

Gina K said...

Wow, that's lots of rain. Love the bit of bling you added to the card as well as the little jewel. Pretty! Gina L

Maureen said...

Wow, this card is stunning! Love your colouring and the flowers are beautiful too!

raindropecho said...

Very beautiful! I love your bunches of flowers!
- Ann

Ludkasz said...

very beautiful:)

♥♥RubyM:)♥♥ said...

Coloring is perfect! Your card is very pretty and clean.The flower bouquett is darn cute! Looking foward for your next card!RubyM:)♥

Anonymous said...

Beautiful card, Marion. You've done a beautiful coloring job! hugs, Angela

Christine Riley said...

Gorgeous card! I love how you colored Tilda and I love the bouquet you added. So pretty!

Eulanda said...

Oooh I love this and it makes me feel so springy! Looks like your coloring is turning out good to me!! Love it!

Unknown said...

Beautiful Marion as always. I was wondering where you were.
Kay

Chris Olsen, Glowbug said...

Oh how cute!! Love your sweet Tilda and the color combo!! The pop of yellow and dimension is beautiful!! So Springy Marion.
hugs and blessings,
Chris

Norma said...

Oh my goodness, Marion, what a simply beautiful card. Love this Tilda image and your colouring of her in distress ink looks wonderful--love the way you do the shadows. And ooohh another type of flowers to copy. They are gorgeous. I get my inspirations from you--thank you my friend.
Make sure you enter this for the April home page at the Yahoo group.

Hugs.
norma

Barbara said...

It's so fantastic. I really stunning.
Babsi

Anonymous said...

Just as pretty as can be Marion! We have had lots of March showers that I am hoping will bring April flowers here in Alabama US. Thanks for sharing your beautiful card.

Leslie Anne Avila said...

this basket is darling!!!!