Flutterby sponged butterfly

Hooray hooray for the weekend! Happy birthday wishes to my Aunty Rosemary too!

Here is a card that came about by trial and error. I found a cut out of a butterfly where the butterfly had been removed and then the original piece remained. This was laid over a piece of Whisper White card and then sponged with Peach Parfait and Poppy Parade inks. Once complete the stencil was removed and then cut out carefully with scissors.

This was layered on Peach Parfait cardstock that had been cut out with a framelit on the Big Shot. By the way, the sewing on the framelit was NOT real. I've totally lost my sewing mojo at the moment so I had to draw it on with a Peach Parfait marker.

The Poppy Parade base had a swirl stamped in the same colour from Everything Eleanor - what can I say, the stamp set was on my desk!

I hope you've got nice plans for the weekend. I'm off to a baby shower this afternoon which should be fun!!

Hello!

Hello all! Today is a cheery little card made my new favourite set: Everything Eleanor.

To make the card base a piece of Wisteria Wonder cardstock was folded in half and then cut using the scalloped square die in the Big Shot, ensuring that the folded edge was kept in line with the last scallop so the folded edge was kept in tact.

A piece of Whisper White was had the swirl stamped in Certainly Celery. To give background flowers, the flower image was stamped in Perfect Plum ink and then stamped lightly on a scrap of paper before stamping onto the Whisper White piece. This gives a more faded look.

A few flowers were stamped in Wisteria Wonder and then cut out by hand. At first I thought this would take ages but actually the nice curvy lines mean the flowers were a doodle to cut out. These flowers were raised up on Dimensionals and then finished with a couple of rhinestones.

Did you guess where the sentiment was from? It's Pennant Parade! I wanted a cute little word and this one fit the bill perfectly when stamped in Perfect Plum.

Little leaves

Hello all! Yesterday my lovely friend Fiona of Oakfield Crafts came to visit and we had a bit of crafty time together.

This is one of the cards that I made. It features the leaves from French Foliage. The splattered background is also made by a stamp in the same set. The base is Pear Pizzazz and so was stamped in the same colour.

The leaves were stamped in Pear Pizzazz and Certainly Celery and then cut out using a 1 1/4" square punch. These panels were raised up using Dimensionals to give the card interest. A simple card but I can image it would look great in autumnal colours too.

Check back tomorrow for another card made while we chatted!

Sending sympathy and prayers

Greetings! Not to be too morbid but it's always good to have a sympathy card in your stash of ready-made cards. It's really lovely to be able to send something beautiful from the heart to the people/person who is suffering most of all at a sad time.

This card is another inspired by Pinterest and feautures the special stamp set this month: Reason To Smile. Quite a nice link to a sympathy card, actually. Remember there's only a week or so left to get your hands on this fabulous stamp set. If you scroll back through my posts this month you can see how varied and stylish this stamp set can be. (If I do say so myself!)

The framelits were layered up with a blender pen-ed image. The mat was run through the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder on the Big Shot to add interest to the rather monochrome colour scheme. Texture is really important if the colour scheme is not very broad.

A smaller flower image from Reason To Smile set was stamped on the base in Marina Mist to match the cardstock base. This gives yet more detail to the card without going over the top. The Marina Mist was matched with a little Lucky Limeade for the stem, sentiment (from Petite Pairs, naturally!) and the punched strip along the width of the card. The organza ribbon makes sure the Lucky Limeade doesn't get too overpowering.

Fingers crossed this card will sit in my stash for a long while, but it's comforting to know I have a card prepped and ready.

3D flowers

Hello all! Hope you have been having a good week so far.

Today's card (based on one I saw on Pinterest) features a stamp set that used to be in a Spring Mini catalogue and was so popular it's been in the main catalogues ever since: Vintage Vogue. Such a beautiful set. There are two flower images that have been layered on top of each other and have a matching polka dot brad. The colours are: Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral and Wisteria Wonder. The bakers twine is matching in Lucky Limeade and white stripes.

To give interest to the Basic Grey base, there is a heart embossed strip on the base along with a white embossed sentiment from Petite Pairs. I couldn't resist a little bling with a rhinestone too.

Background Resist technique

This card features the technique: Background Resist. The words were from French Foliage in Early Espresso. I then used the solid bloom stamp in Reason To Smile (special offer set this month only!) and used Versamark and Cherry scented embossing powder to create a solid flower image.

A sponge dauber was used to apply Wisteria Wonder ink in a soft layer. This made the flower image come to the foreground and allow the words underneath to be seen too. A quick sentiment from Petite Pairs was added along with a piece of ribbon tied in a bow.

NB. The card was altered from one on Rubber'n'Ink.

I'm here for you!

Hello and Happy Sunday! Another week in August has passed and the flowers from the set Reason To Smile are only available for another 12 days!!! This card was based on one by Kimberley Van Diepen but I changed it quite a lot. The flowers were two step stamped: the base solid section was stamped in Lucky Limeade and then the fine outline image was stamped in the same colour on top. Easy peasy! Some of these were cut out and had Dimensional foam pads and pearls added.

The yellow panel is from Everything Eleanor and was stamped in Daffodil Delight. The bird and branch images are also from the Everything Eleanor set, and the sentiment is from Petite Pairs.

Don't forget you can buy the Reason to Smile set or get it FREE with an order of £60!!! Contact me if you'd like to place and order and get some last minute bits from the Summer Mini catalogue as this also ends on 31 August.