Butterfly Beautiful

 

Inspired by a colour challenge with pink & teal.  Base card stamped and clear heat embossed with the word.  Banners diecut and stamped. Word stamp: Simon Says Stamp Beautiful flower, background stamp Soft Plaid Simon says Stamp.  Butterfly stamped and clear embossed (an old Hobbycraft stamp about 2007).

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Sweet Icecream

 

Sweet colours and sweet flavours...splat!! I guess we've all had this happen to us when we were kids.

I hardly ever work in pastels, but this was fun. 

The patterned paper is double sided (Heidi Grace), cut to fit the top-fold card base with a narrow border, then sliced & diced from corner to corner, then two of the panels are turned over to the reverse side.  A pink PPaper border across the middle to hold the icecream image which has been matted on gold, coloured with Copics in my favourite flavours - pistachio and raspberry ripple- and popped up on foam. Not sure about the image, because I dragged it out of my BITZ box... I think it may be Bugaboo? If you know please let me know. The sentiment is diecut and stacked x4 (Three Button Studio) from a patterned paper snippet of green with pink dots - yum.  Sequins in the same flavours added.

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August Hello

 

I made this for a NZ cardswap - the theme was stuff relating to the month of August.  I chose the green faceted embossed metallic panel to represent Peridot, dark red to represent Spinel, (both August gemstones) and the stars to represent the Perseids meteor showers (with sparkles) that occur during August.  I used the flowers because it's nearly spring here in NZ.  A drop of Glossy Accents on flowers for dew drops.  The Hello senti was sent to me by Jude.

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A Sunny Hello

 

An extra sunny hello to you!

I used a sunny patterned paper that had shiny parts to peek through the suns rays.  The diecut panel (unknown) is ink blended, stamped with a typed background with friendship words (unknown).  A stacked sentiment die and gold Nuvo Drops.  

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Hello Orange

 

Very Orange. Quite CAS.  Not a colour I would choose to work with normally, but I found the background (from a calendar long ago), and the orange card with the hole already cut (Spellbinders), in my Bitz Box.  With the smooshed stacked bold sentiment (also from the bitz box) it all came together nicely.  I do like it when the Bitz Box provides the goodies.  Fake splatter with a metallic gold pen.

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The tale of a tail

 

A celebratory card.

The background is full of inky goodness using colour fusion powders & DI's.  The tail was diecut,  embossed with Distress Inks, misted with Perfect Pearls..  Sparkle is Opal Dust.  Sentiment diecut from white sparkle card.  Droplets added.

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Tulip Butterfly

 

Another Tulip card in the Parkinson's fundraiser series.

Tulips are stencilled, stamped then diecut.  Background is stamped with DI's, gold embossed edge.  The background is stamped again to get the separate butterfly which is inked, gold embossed and fussy cut.  Sentiment is Hero Arts stamped, gold embossed.

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Enjoy the Ride

 

A funfold for son's birthday, and yes, he rides.

The bike is stamped over DOxideInked paper and fussy cut.   Patterned paper on panels, double diecut cheers. Added to panel on flap of 3 fold card fold.  Card is held closed with small piece of magnet strip.  Added the star so it looks like the bike is bursting out.    A large "Happy Birthday - enjoy the ride"  greeting inside the card.

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Birds Nest Hair Day

 

CAS, that's it. I do enjoy doing these simple designs.  This could be for any occasion.

Stamped (Katzelcraft) image, masked then ink blended (DI's) then stencilled.  Some Copics involved in shading areas.   

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Wacky Bird

 

We love to see yoour critters ....  Any critter will do as long as it is the feature of the work.  

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The Woodware Bubble Bird is stamped onto card that has been wet and sprinkled heavily with Colour Infusions powder, then fussy cut.  The panel is smooshed DI's also stamped with the bird to get the texture of the edges, as well as stamped with circles. The circles on the bird are outlined with gold pen and white pen.  Feathers outlined in gold pen, leaves in gold pen and green pen.  Eyes outlined in white pen.  Stamped sentiment  is my new TimHoltz/SAnonymous Tiny Sentiments, chopped up.  Yay, we now have a craft shop just down the road that stocks all things TH!! 

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Big Tulips

 

Another of my tulip series for Parkinson's fundraising.

This is a stencil, stamp, die set (unbranded) which I have coloured and splattered with DI's.  The  background is softly ink blended, dotted with Sakura metallic pen.  Sentiment is   .. .

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Sunshiny

A little bit of sunshine goes a long way.  Simple MFT image, paperpieced clothes (stamped on a scrap of smooshed offcut) and the rest coloured with Copics.  This is such a happy card.  I inked the edges of the base card with DI's to match the sky and define the edge of the panel.  The colour is a bit off, the outfit is really strawberry red.  I like the dancing butterfly that looks like a spot of sunshine too.

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Young at Heart

 

The stamped image (popped up) and sentiment are from Art Impressions, coloured with Copics.  Background made using watercolour paper and blue and green Distress Inks puddled and printed.  The yarn is some I've had for years.  I like the simplicity of this card.

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Thinking Tulips

 

I've been starting to make cards to fundraise for our local Parkinson's Support Group (my hubby has Parkinson's).  Their symbol is a red tulip, so I started there.

Diecut tulips (a couple of different die sets) with a soft grey stencilled background to set them off, a little charcoal satin bow and simple embossed sentiment.  The dots on the tulips are Sakura gel pens and they only show up/sparkle in certain lights so I got lucky there.

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Birthday Birds

 A bit of embossing, a bit of scrappiness, limited palette, a bit of bling and some birthday wishes.

I started with a blue panel and random white strips arranged in a zigzag pattern, then embossed it (EF is Ultimate Crafts).  Matted on a darker blue with distressed edges.  Diecut birds and sentiment, and some bling.

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Froggy Summer

 

I love frogs.  I used to pay schoolkids to bring tadpoles to put in my pond so I could watch the tranformation happening.  Magic.   This froggy is in holiday mode, all set for a cool dip.

This image (I think ? by Stampede or Eureka, no longer in business)  is particularly cute, this beauty in her polkadot bikini (discovered in my Bitz Box).  The background is on watercolour card, scribbles with Distress Crayons, spritzed and smudged.  Miss froggy coloured with Copics and fussy cut.  

I went back to check on my digi files and sadly can no longer find it - my computer decides when stuff disappears!  I lost all my A Day for Daisies images too. Now I can't even go back and buy more.   :-(

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