A screwed up butterfly!

Hello!

I hope you have had a good week? Mine has definitely had ups and downs, but I have some quality time with Mike to look forward to this weekend!

Today I am sharing a card I made on Wednesday. I really do have a thing for the Butterfly Framelits at the moment, so here they are again!

I really do love how delicate this particular one is...very lacy looking! I did something a little different with this one...I die cut the top butterfly then drew round it and cut out the bottom solid one. Then, whilst I was rubbing out the pencil lines, I annoyingly caught the edge and creased it! But, then I had an idea...I screwed the butterfly up, as you would, but nope, I didn't throw it away!

Instead, I inked the butterfly with Melon Mambo, and it really brought out the creases to look like folds of the wings! I also inked the die cut one, and then rubbed with Versamark and heat embossed with Dazzling Diamonds Stampin' Emboss. 

The window was created by using the Window Frames Collection Framelits, and I stamped the flowers from Painted Petals in the window. I finished with Rhinestone Basics Jewels and the sentiment from Butterfly Basics, which I fussy cut out using my paper snips.

I should say that this card is an A5 card, which is why I can get all the yummy white space with such a big butterfly!

I have a couple of challenges I would like to enter my card into...

Colour Throwdown #331

The Paper Players #233

Creative Card Crew - Birthday with a Sentiment

Less Is More - Wings

I hope you have a lovely day today and a fab weekend planned!

New Home Stampin' Framed

Good afternoon all!

I am sat in my craft room today whilst Keiran and his friend Emily are playing in his bedroom. We have already made 32 rice krispie cakes and had a walk out :)

So I thought I would take this time to blog a little gift I popped in the post all the way to America today, for a friend I met playing Dice With Buddies on my phone lol! Linda has recently moved house so this is a little housewarming gift for her...

I have made her a little frame and matching card, using Butterfly Basics and Painted Petals stamp sets.

Purple is her favourite colour so I'm sure she will love this delicious Blackberry Bliss colour! I used some of the paper from Painted Blooms DSP and some gorgeous Blackberry Bliss Stitched Satin Ribbon. The sentiment is from the retired Holiday Home set.

The framed sentiment is from Feel Goods and to clear emboss it I dabbed the stamp with Versamark before my coloured ink. Then when I stamped it I could add Clear Stampin' Emboss and heat it to give a little shine. I finished with the butterfly stuck on the front of the glass.

I used the sketch at Atlantic Hearts to create the card...

I'm off to get tea on the go now...maybe I will craft later...

Have a lovely evening!

A pair of new babies!

Hello everyone!

I had a little play making new baby cards yesterday... can you spot how I used the Painted Petals stamp set??

I used the cute bunny and the sentiment from the lovely Baby We've Grown stamp set...I really love this little cutie!

And yes, you got it! The stripes are from the Painted Petals...I simply ink, stamped and repeated lots of times over the card base before adding my sentiment panel. I punched little notches out at the top of the panels with the 1/4 inch handheld punch, then wrapped and tied the Baker's Twine. 

I decided to make one in each colour so I have a couple to add to my stash...that's a great way to build up stock. I just need to book into a couple of craft fairs to sell them now!

I mentioned yesterday that I am going to try entering more challenges in the future... well I am entering these into a couple...

CASe This Sketch #108 

Less Is More - Little Ones

EDIT* I got an honourable mention at CAS(E) This Sketch!

Before I go, have you seen the fab new Weekly Deals this week??

Check them out and grab yourself a bargain!

I'm starting my first day of 5 days off today...yay!

Have a good one!

A summery Birthday!

Good morning!

First of all, I would like to welcome my newest follower, Petra. I popped by her blog last night and wow! Such a lot of gorgeous cards...do pop and have a look. I hope you find lots to inspire you here Petra!

This morning I have a lovely spring like card to share with you...

I have used Painted Petals for this, along with some summery colours; So Saffron, Pear Pizazz and Perfect Plum. This stamp set is a 2 step stamp set, so I stamped the leaves first, then added the flowers. 

I added my sentiment from Teeny Tiny Sentiments; this set is an old favourite of mine as the sentiments are such nice size. I punched it out with the Word Window punch and finished with some Candy Dots.

Are you doing anything fun today? I have my last shift at work until next Monday...yay! I booked the days off with the intention of decorating my house, but I have finished that so I get lots of 'me' time! 

Have a lovely Tuesday and I'll see you tomorrow!

Amazingly Amazing!

Hello all!

It's Thursday so it's time for our new challenge at CAS-Colours and Sketches, and as it's the fifth week of the month, it's a double!! 

I have used our sketch this week to make a card for my wonderful Mike, just to let him know how much I appreciate him!

I used Work Of Art for the zig-zags and the sentiment from Painted Petals. The sentiment is exactly what I want to say to him!

I finished with a couple of dots punched using the 1/4in punch, which is in the Weekly Deals this week, reduced from £8.25 to £6.19...what a bargain!

What are you making this week? We can't wait to see! :)

Did you get any snow last night? We actually did! Well, as I write this post and schedule it to publish this morning, we had about 2 inches...snow day! Hope you have a good one, whatever you are doing :)

A little bit of spring!

Good morning!

I don't know about where you live, but it has been freezing here...literally! We have highs of 1 degree C...I know a lot of you are reading from much colder places, but it's cold for us!

So this morning, I am here to brighten your day with spring flowers! These are samples of the cards we made in my craft class on Friday. If you would like to come along next time, you can find details of future classes on the tab at the top of this page :)

I have used the beautiful Painted Blooms DSP as my background, on a Hello Honey card base. I'm not one for using DSP much, but I really do love this one! Isn't it beautiful?!

I stamped the two step flowers and sentiment using the matching Painted Petals stamp set. I using Stampin' Write Markers so I could ink up different parts of the stamp in different colours. I finished with a little Basic Pearl.

I made two similar cards as I need to build my stash a bit, and this is a great way to do that, without making 2 the same! Which one do you prefer?

I really love this set...it is totally full of spring and colour! At least when I get up in the morning, it is sort of getting light, so I'm starting to look forward to spring! :)

If you would like to order any of the products I have used, please do click on the links to the right to browse the catalogues or buy direct from my online shop :) >>>>>>

I hope you have a lovely day!

Was Mike right??

Hi everyone!

How is your weekend going so far? I didn't post anything yesterday because myself, Mike and Keiran had a bit of a 'family' day...we went to the park (and it was freezing!), then went and did a bit of food shopping, and finished off going for coffee and egg custard, before heading home for tea and telly! It was a really lovely day!

When Mike arrived at mine on Friday evening, I was in the middle of making the card I am about to show you, and I was sat moving sequins around the card as I couldn't decide where to put them!

Come have a look at the card...

I used one of my new stamp sets from the Spring/Summer catalogue...one that appears to be quite popular with my customers...I have already sold quite a few of these sets! It is Painted Petals and it was the first set that caught my eye. It's a two step stamp set, where you get to 'build' the flowers just how you want them. It's is another set that is available in all 3 stamp materials...Clear Mount, Wood Mount and Photopolymer, as well as a digital download for MDS!

I used Rose Red for the flowers, and Pear Pizazz for the stems. I embossed the card blank with the Spring Flowers Embossing Folder, then I added the Bermuda Bay Baker's Twine on my stamped panel, and that's where the faffing with the sequins started! Then Mike walked in and just popped them under the twine! Just like that!! Anyway, I rather liked them there so thanks Mike! What do you think? Would you have put them elsewhere?

Have you had chance to take a look at the new catalogue, or the Sale-A-Bration brochure yet? If you haven't, and would like a copy, please do get in touch...I'll happily pop one in the post for you. Or if you can't wait (like I couldn't!) then just click on the links over on my sidebar on the right >>>>>

I shall leave you to your crafting/browsing now, and finish watching Indiana Jones with Keiran. Enjoy your Sunday!