Monthly Challenge - July

This month's letter is U and the word is Umbrella. I decided to pass on TH's Umbrella man and Crafty Individuals parasol lady at the beach and then contemplated a weather related postcard but finally decided to use this balancing lady die I bought last year. The background is a scrap I'd used to clean my brayer off on and I decided to continue with the green theme adding some red gems for contrast and some purple swirls. The stencilled swirls are by Splodge-a-mask in dusty concord DI. The sentiment is by Paper Artsy from Swirls and Curls 4 and the swirls along the edge are Bricks and Mortar 3. I thought she seemed to be struggling to balance herself and felt the sentiment was appropriate for us all as we wobble our way through life. I edged the card with bundled sage and pumice stone DIs.

Tropical Toucan

I started this with the idea of using it for the 'Wings' monthly challenge for June but then went in a completely different direction for that project.
The background was stencilled with various colours of Distress Oxides. The toucan die is by First Edition Craft (from Hobbycraft). The branch is a Memory Box die. I added some punched flowers and dragonflies and embellished with tiny pearls.