Best of Butterflies meets Gorgeous Grunge!

Hello everyone.

It's time for a new challenge at CAS-Colours and Sketches and this week it's colours. 

I have used Gorgeous Grunge (again!) and one of the butterflies from Best Of Butterflies.

I stamped the butterfly onto Vellum Cardstock to try and give it the translucency and delicacy that butterflies have.

The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Sentiments.

This is a very simple card today that just sort of 'happened'! I actually ended up making 2 cards this time, as I stamped the sentiment in Basic Black instead of Basis Gray! Here is the other one...

Which card do you prefer?

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I'm off now...only 2 more shifts until Telford this weekend! (In case you don't know, it's where lots of SU! Demos get together and do training and crafting together...can't wait!)

Have a great Thursday!

A bit of masking with In Colors

Good morning!

It's Sunday and I haven't entered the challenge at Less Is More yet! So here is my entry into Chrissie and Jen's theme challenge this week, which is

MASKING or STENCILLING

Funnily enough, I was showing on of my team, Serena, how to use the masking technique only the other day!

I already kind of decided what to do when I started making this card, but as I was looking for something to make a masking area from I found my Chalk Talk Framelits and decided to give those a try. So I firstly stamped my flower from Flower Shop in Summer Starfruit, then punched a flower out of plain paper using the Pansy Punch. I also cut the label from Chalk Talk out of plain paper and position both over the stamped flower. TIP: If you add a little Tombow Glue to the back of each shape and allow it to dry before sticking it down, it becomes repositionable.

I then stamped the Hardwood Background stamp in Midnight Muse over the top, added a Papillon Potpourri Butterfly and my sentiment. I really like how this card turned out...might try some more masking this week!

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I enjoyed my little bit of crafting this morning, before work! Whatever you're doing this weekend, enjoy!

Gift Packaging

Good morning!

Did you have a good weekend? Did you get some of the sun? We did yesterday, and it was the first real feel of spring...lovely! :)

Today I have a gift bag I would like to share with you. I had a request to make one, so this is a prototype, and we are looking at making some for our church fete this summer to use as secret tombola prizes instead of the usual 'rubbish'.

This is made from one 12x12in sheet of Designer Series Paper, with no waste at all! The top is created with the Scalloped Tag Topper punch. 

I used the Chalk Talk bundle to create the tag, which I stamped with Gold Encore and Midnight Muse. I finished with a button and some Island Indigo Bakers Twine.

If you would like details on how to make this, I did you a little video! Yup...I am nice to you!

I hope this tutorial was useful. Sorry about the misplacement of the tape at one point!

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Today's Love Life, Live Lent, is to be creative! I think I've covered that one here right? ;)

I have this week off other than tomorrow so I hope to get lots done! I have 2 wedding orders to complete, one to design, and a few cards too...busy, busy!

Have a wonderful Monday!

A man card! (with glitter!)

Hello!

I have a man card to show you today! It's the second one this week!!

I have used Midnight Muse DSP (from In Color 2013/14) for the background on a Whisper White card base. I stamped Dictionary onto the banner shape using Smoky Slate and added a few splodges of Gorgeous Grunge, also in Smoky Slate.

The sentiment is from Label Love and is embossed with Pewter Stampin' Emboss. I finished with a few stars cut from Silver Glimmer Paper.

I'm entering my card into these challenges...

Stampin' Celebration - #74

Paper Craft Crew - #75

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I hope your Tuesday is a good one! :)

Blue Butterflies

Hello!

Oooh it's Thursday...guess what that means?? A brand new challenge at CAS - Colours and Sketches! We have had Christmas off and now we are back with our first challenge of 2014, and it's a sketch...

Here is my card...

 I used Gorgeous Grunge in Tempting Turquoise and Midnight Muse and the sentiment is from Simply Sketched.

The butterflies are from Papillon Potpourri and I used the generational stamping technique (stamping several times with one inking of the stamp).

As I have used shades of blue I am going to enter my card into the challenge at Less Is More.

Supplies used

I have a card delivery to make today, then if I'm lucky, I'll get a chance to play with all my new Spring/Summer sneak peek items...eeek excited much?!!

Have a fabby day!

Sale-a-Bration Sneak Peek!

Well hello everyone!

How are you? How was your Christmas? I hope you had a lovely one and that it was full of wonderful memories!

I had a fantastic time and Kerian had a wonderful time too! As expected, he got a tonne of stuff! We shall be clearing out some of his old toys to make room for the new I think!

I had a couple of hours in my craft room today, whilst Keiran played with his new toys so here is one of the cards I made...

I have used Gorgeous Grunge and a new sneak peek set! This is Banner Blast from the upcoming Sale-a-Bration catalogue, and the best thing? It has a cute little matching Banner Punch!

I am entering this card into the challenge at Colour Q this week...

...and also the Less Is More Challenge which is to use any previous challenge. I have gone for Week 7 - Masculine

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Thank you for popping by today. I shall see you soon :)