Craft Addiction UK Wings of Elegance

Hi Lovelies..

Sorry I've been quiet for a little while, we were away for a few days, but now I'm back after having a lovely holiday.

I was inspired for my card today when I saw Christine Stokes using some scrap coloured card she'd created, that she hadn't thrown, but when she cut these beautiful butterflies from it, looked fabulous!  Now I have a whole lot of scraps... so I dug this one out - it's been hanging around in my craft room for a couple of years, so I'm not entirely sure how I made it!  I think I used alcohol inks onto glitter card - but when I'd done it, I wasn't happy with it, so in the scrap pile it went!

All I did was diecut the butterflies from it, edging them with gold gilding wax.  I adhered two sizes together, then added tiny pearls to the body, which I then added to the butterflies.  Then I cut three long strips of watercoloured card, which I'd splattered with gold, adhering them to the  card panel.  The butterfly was then added at an angle.

Lastly, I stamped the sentiment below the strips, and matted the panel onto pink cardstock.

Card Info:

Dies - Craft Addiction UK Wings of Elegance, 

MFT Stitched Rectangles

Watercoloured Card

Gold Watercolour Paint

Gold Gilding Wax

Pearl Gems

Hope you like my make today... I'll be back very soon with a blue version!

Happy Crafting....

Creative Depot Flowers

Hi Lovelies...

Today, I'm sharing a card I made with a floral die that has been in my stash for a few years, but it had 'disappeared' - in that I had no idea where it had been put!  Anyways... it turned up when I was looking for something else... so I thought it was about time it was used!

I'm back in my pink zone today, so firstly, I did some Distress Oxide blending on a card panel - splattered with gold watercolour paint.

I diecut the flowers 3 times from white cardstock, adhering them together.  Then I diecut just the flowers from coloured vellum that I'd previously printed out.  I splattered the vellum with gold, before adhering the flower heads to the white flowers.  I coloured the stems and leaves with Copics.

Then I created a square - using a square, scalloped frame, backing that with a panel of embossed hearts.  I adhered the square to my card panel, then adhered the flowers to the square.  Lastly, I diecut the word 'happy' to add to the square, and also added a gold bow to the flowers.

Card Info:

Dies - Creative Depot Flowers - CD-DI-949

MFT Stitched Square Scalloped Frame

Simply Graphic 'happy' word die

Hearts Embossing Folder (no name)

Distress Oxides - Tattered Rose and Worn Lipstick

Gold Watercolour Paint and Cord

Hope you like this card as much as I enjoyed making it - obviously it's my favourite colour, with a hint of gold!

Hugs and Happy Crafting...

Simon Says Stamp Posy

Hi Lovelies..

A relatively simple card from me today..  using this gorgeous little die from Simon Says Stamp called Posy.  

I diecut it three times from white cardstock, adhering them together to give a deep shape.  Then I diecut the flowers again from a purple smooshed background - adding the insides of the flowers into the white flower shape.  I decided against adding any green for the leaves - it seemed that the monochrome looked better to me. I adhered all this to a rectangle of purple cardstock, matted with gold mirri card, then added that to a further card sized piece of purple card.

Lastly, I added a little sentiment which I'd heat embossed in white onto the purple card, again, using gold mirri to matt.

Card Info:

Die - Simon Says Stamp Posy

Sentiment - MFT 

Distress Oxide - Dusty Concord

Gold Mirri Card

Hope you like my make today!

Big Hugs..

Pink and Main My Little Love Bugs - Heart

Hi Lovelies...

Well, I was having a little sort out of my desk the other day, and I came across this little pair canoodling in a corner!  They were already fussy cut and coloured up, so I though it was time that they hit the spotlight on my card today!

I used a Slatted Heart die over some shaded patterned paper to match their colouring.  I added a small sentiment from MFT, then adhered the panel to the background with foam tape.  Lastly, I added the lovey dovey pair, and my card was done!

Card Info:

Image - Pink and Main My Little Love Bugs

Sentiment - MFT

Dies - Craft Addiction UK Slatted Heart, 

Lil' Inkers Stitched Square

Colouring - Copics

Glitter for Wings

Hope you like my make today - I really love this stamp set, they're so darn cute!

Big hugs.....

Simon Says Stamp Cosmos Duo

Hi Lovelies......

Today I'm sharing a card I made with the Simon Says Stamp Cosmos Duo.  I've again used a slatted die from Craft Addiction, this time backing the slats with some patterened paper.

 I shaded the flowers carefully, then coloured the centres with a deep yellow, and the stems green.  I used a Waffle Flower sentiment stamped and heat embossed in white, and cut with the matching die.  I backed the panel with pink card to bring out the shades in the circle.

Card Info:

Dies - Simon Says Stamp Cosmos Duo, 

Craft Addiction UK Slatted Circle,

Lil' Inkers Stitched Square

Paper - Craft Consortium Ink Drops - Candy

Sentiment - Waffle Flower Birthday Wishes Set

It was rather difficult to get a good photograph.. I really am going to have to invest in better equipment I think to get the true colours of my makes!

Hope you like my card today..

Happy Crafting...