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Presenting Mabel's latest kit: the silk & gold Quatrefoil.
Treat yourself (and the recipient of the resultant card) to a bit of luxury with the soft feel of silk on silk and the little touch of bling that gold thread brings!

Lovely! I know this design has been around for a bit, but today I did wonder if your designing is constrained by the type and size of aperture cards available now -- nothing like back in the day, I seem to remember.

I have actually found a new supplier who has a good range of sizes and apertures, albeit at rather higher prices than I used to pay - but at least I can get them! So no constraints there, fortunately
Also, I tend to design first and decide what to do with them afterwards....

A lovely card and kit. As always.

Carole

Very beautiful

Your flower fascinated me, so I looked at four-petalled flowers and discovered that there are plenty of them in nature and some are really fantastically beautiful. Plus I learnt that poppies have 4 petals- I would have bet my old hat that they have more petals. I also discovered that there are quite pretty flowers with two petals all in all! Thank you, Mabel, without your wonderful flower I would not have discovered such interesting facts about flowers. Did you consult google or did you design the flower on your card from your imagination?

Stunning!!

Lyudmila, I'm pleased this design led you on such an interesting journey of discovery! I have to admit I didn't do any botanical research - the four-petalled flower, with or without the small leaves in the corner, is quite a well-known motif in medieval manuscripts (that's also where I got the name "Quatrefoil" from). It's good to hear it could have been a real flower, because medieval manuscripts are not always known for their accurate depiction of nature....

Love the story. And that picture would be a fun embroidery project.

A bit late in a reply to this... but Nancy Spies has copied a whole bunch of these wonderful creatures from manuscripts and made them into designs. Ask the library to find you Here be Drolleries and/or Here be Wyverns. You will find rabbits jousting from the backs of lions, along with wonderful alphabets, architecture, and various patterns from cloth. They really are wonderful books.

Must look that up, thank you! Tanya Bentham has done a few as well.