groovi dt samples - frilly circles, sprig and nested octagens

Home from a lovely break and the journey was uneventful.  

A beautiful sunny day but chilly still it was nice and toasty in the car!  You know how I am always saying it rains a lot here ?  well we drove all the way down in lovely weather until we hit Lancashire then the heavens opened and it rained all the way to Preston!!  it fined up a bit but as soon as we parked up and needed to unload the car - down it came again ...

I have had a busy old afternoon finishing off the groovi samples I have been doing whilst away for a groovi workshop next week in Fleetwood  

Any way I thought today I would blog this card from Maria's show on Wednesday 

I started by using  the frilly circle but I just did the outside then I went around one of the octagon lines that looked about right then I did a smaller one and then moved it around you can see from the pic how I did it 

I did a frame to fit around the edge using the lines from the border plates and then added a rope border inside the two sides .  Next came the sprig plate  followed but the line sentiments - without the lines.

Finally I added the flowers but also did some extra so that I could layer them up 

I cut out the flowers, added some white work and some colouring for the leaves.  I pierced around the edge and snipped out but I also used a fine grid to pieced between the octagon frame 

groovi dt samples - Holly

Final one from Barbara's show on 3rd January 2016

I thought I would see if I could make the frilly circle frame match the nested oval.

So I started by doing the oval then I used the frilly border a little at a time - I kept make the circle on the plate match the oval - if you know what I mean

Any road up it worked a treat and I was happy.

Next I added Holly and the fence is made using the border from Douglas for the fence.  The landscape plate came next to create the path and a couple of hills.

I pierced around the edge and snipped it out.  Before colouring in  I chose a shaving foam background from my stash.   then decided it would be nice to add some green for the hills

At this stage I decided to cut snip out the sky so that the shaving foam background could be seen more clearly.  I then laid the oval on top and to see where to add the green ink  using a clarity brush

I coloured in Holly and the path

I then made the blue skies separately, coloured in and cut them out .

I used these to hide the glue to stick it all together