Timelessly Elegant Butterfly

Good afternoon all!

I hope you are well? Isn't it nice to finally have summertime here in the UK? Ok, so the weather is still not quite there yet, but it's so nice to have the lighter evenings isn't it?!

Anyway, I came into my craft room this morning to make a card for my niece's 2nd birthday tomorrow, and came up with this...

Ok...it's a birthday card but not quite right for a 2yr old right? Hmmm....back to the drawing board then! 

Anyway, how did this card come about? Well as it's Saturday I thought I'd pop and see what the challenge at Less Is More is, and it's White Space, but not the colour white, so that inspired a coloured card base and the challenge at Freshly Made Sketches gave me my layout....

Then I thought I'd use some DSP and Timeless Elegance was at the top of the box, then I just fancied a pop of colour, hence the Blackberry Bliss butterfly from Watercolour Wings. 

I'm hoping you can see above the subtle sparkle from my Wink Of Stella pen...I used the clear one to give some shimmer to my butterfly.

And above you can see the Gold embossed sentiment from Teeny Tiny Sentiments...perfectly tiny enough to give a message without taking anything away from the main panel.

If you'd like to order any of the items I used today, please do click on my link just over there on the right. >>>>>

And thank you if you do! :)

I am really happy with this card! Now I better go get my niece's card made!

Have a lovely Saturday!

This year's Teacher gifts using Watercolor Wings.

Hi everyone.

I back again this evening to share with you the teacher gifts Keiran and I made before the school holidays....

I picked up these jars from Home Bargains and filled each one with scented candles. 

We then decorated the lids with DSP and Washi Tape, then added some butterflies from Watercolor Wings, die cut with the matching Framelits. The little on top was made using the Label Bracket Punch and popped up on Dimensionals.

I printed off this lovely sentiment then die cut it using one of the Chalk Talk Framelits and attached it using Stitched Satin Ribbon and Linen Thread. 

They went down a treat and Keiran and I really enjoyed making them! 

Have a lovely Sunday everyone!

Thank you and goodbye to a special stamper :(

Good morning everyone.

I'm sorry I haven't been around over the last 10 days or so....I am going through an incredibly difficult time at the moment, and I'm not crafting or functioning well in general at the moment.

This morning, however, I decided to distract myself a little by blogging a card I made a few weeks ago that I designed as thank you cards to my customers for placing orders with me...

I used the gorgeous Watercolor Wings for this, along with one of the lovely Fun Frames embossing folders.

I would also like to dedicate this card to my Stampin' Up! 'Mum', Vicky, who has sadly left SU! to concentrate on her family and other things. I would like to thank her for introducing me to Stampin' Up!, and to a beautiful CAS style of crafting. I will miss you and your anecdotes Vicky. I hope you keep well and can return to SU! one day xx

Fluttering embossing!

Hello all!

Today is another challenge over at CAS-Colours and Sketches...here are some lovely colours to work with...

and my card...

I went for a pretty much one layer card today, because I wanted to showcase this fabulous new Fluttering embossing folder! The brilliant thing about this folder, and pretty much what sold it to me, is which way up the design is, so you can emboss the front of a card blank, as I have, and the embossing will be the right way up! How often do you have a great idea for a card then realise it won't work because of the way the embossing folder works?? Preoblem now solved...thank you Stampin' Up!

Of course, it isn't foolproof....I managed to de-boss my card by using the folder the wrong way round, but hey....it works for this card! The 'happy' was die cut from some old DSP, using Hello You Thinlits, and the 'birthday' is from Endless Birthday Wishes. I finished with Bermuda Bay Candy Dots.

I did, of course, have a piece of DSP with the word 'happy' die cut from it, so I decided to use it to make another card for this challenge...

This time I added a butterfly from Watercolor Wings and a different 'birthday' from the Endless Birthday Wishes.

These are such lovely, vibrant colours to work with and I hope you enjoy using them as much as I have!