Lili of the Valley Mad!

I went to the Lili of the Valley's 10th birthday open day last weekend and snapped up the ten new fairy stamps and I love every one of them.  I think this one, called Water Lily is my favourite.  I made this card for one of my friends using some small pieces of leftover card and paper and to get as much out of the small piece of pink cardstock I cut the large circular piece out of the square piece at the back and the circle and flowers also out of the square piece at the back and the hidden part of the large circle piece behind the coloured image. It was a bit touch and go and I thought I wouldn't have quite enough but it just worked out.

The card below is a slightly older Lili of the Valley stamp called Vegetable Patch and it's very apt for another friend who, along with his wife and son, loves growing veg.  I cut the image on a little slope to make it look like he was working a little bit harder.  The papers I used are again just scrappy bits left over from other projects.  The On Your Birthday image on both cards is from set 7 Sentiments, also from Lili of the Valley and I coloured the main images with Pro-markers and Prismacolour pencils.

Had a bit of a tidy up of my Lili of the Valley stamps this week and found I have 253 of their individual stamps plus lots of their clear background and sentiment sets, tickets, Chinese ladies etc, eek, how did that happen?