Lovely red colors! It is amazing how much climate can do, my Jude never really had that red tint, he sort of turned from green to some yellow-brownish (he did not defoliate completely yet). My MAC is still green though, just looks a bit more floppy than yours. :)

Tiara is beautiful and its a joy to see such a gorgeous bloom first thing this morning. Its sunny here today and the temp is supposed to be 60. I was planning to work in the yard today but my 16 year old got up with a fever of 101.6 and I'm trying to cough up a lung so something tells me we'll be going to the Immediate Care clinic. Strep is going around his school. Yuk. As always your pictures are beautiful and always a joy to wake up to. Thanks Lucy.

I love your card! What a cute idea. I've been planning to make some cards with raised designs. I'm not sure what they are called, but the end result is a 3D scene. I think I'll try the movable parts cards too. Do you have any other ideas? I've been wanting to make the puppets from photos. I'll try to find the website with instructions and post a link. they are so cute!

I haven't seen any stamping on Mulberry before. I knew I wanted the paper but tried to use a vellum on top and that didn't look right so I just tried it out. I was happy with how it turned out. The crinkled paper I got in package of Decorative papers by Black Ink from Michael's. I think there was only one sheet in the pack. I did have some other very nice gold papers which I used on some of the cards. I also got some gold tissue that has dull/shiny surface from the tissue area at Michael's. I cut it to the size I wanted and then crumpled it up into a tight ball in my hand and then spread it out flattening it. I used the same techniques on cards a couple of years ago.