Monthly Archives: June 2011

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Butterfly Thanks

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Doesn’t this butterfly look great??

It’s an idea I’ve CASED from Kirsty Brown. Kirsty was one of the Australian Demonstrators at Convention who did a Workshop WOW presentation for us. You can check out the card she did for the presentation here. Kirsty used a technique on her card but I decided to just use some of our gorgeous Designer Series Paper instead. I will be making more though and will definitely put the rest of Kirsty’s presentation idea into another.

I’ve combined Kirsty’s idea with a challenge, surprisingly so, for my creation today.

The challenge is from The Paper Players and is Challenge #50.

So would you like to see the whole card?

Here it is.

I’m not sure I like how the sentiment ended up on this one but it’s actually covering up a ‘first’ idea which I didn’t like at all.  You may also notice that the inside has an edge of the image stamped down the side and some of the DSP the butterfly is cut from along the bottom to carry the look through.

Supplies:
Stamp set: Notably Ornate, Thank You Kindly
Card: Basic Black, Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla, Love Letters DSP, Neutrals Pattern Stack – Very Vanilla, Regals Pattern Stack – Riding Hood Red
Ink: Basic Black, Riding Hood Red
Accessories: Big Shot, Beautiful Butterflies die, Basic Jewels – Pearls, Very Vanilla 1/8” Taffeta Ribbon, Stampin’ Dimensionals, 2-Way Glue Pen, Snail Adhesive.

I’d love to hear what you think of my creation so please leave me a comment.

Till next time….

Bleached Elements

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I’m having a lovely day today although the weather is not as good today as the beautiful day we had yesterday.  I took my middle 2 girls to the movies this morning and saw X-Men: First Class which we all enjoyed and have then come home to create again.

I’ve gone with another challenge for this card I’m going to share with you. This time it’s a colour challenge from Cards & Things Challenges.

Here are the colours for this week’s challenge #81.

I was a little stuck with what to do with these colours but I pulled out my Elements of Style Stamp set, some embossing supplies and my bleach and had a play.

I’m still unsure on this card but the more I look at it the more it’s growing on me.

I’ve stamped and embossed in clear the flower image from Elements of Style onto the Peach Parfait cardstock and then bleached the image using an Aqua Painter filled with bleach. It’s been ages since I’ve played with bleach but Kirsty Brown wowed us at Convention with it so I thought I’d have a go.

Supplies:
Stamp sets: Elements of Style
Card: Crumb Cake, Poppy Parade, Peach Parfait, Very Vanilla
Ink: Versamark, Poppy Parade, Peach Parfait, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Large Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Clear Embossing Powder, Embossing Buddy, Heat Gun, Sponge Dauber, Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Don’t forget to leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Till next time….

Hello

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I had a lovely day yesterday although I didn’t get as much crafting time as I had hoped. Unfortunately I didn’t realise how low our food supplies were getting and therefore needed to shop. I also relaxed with a movie during the day while my girls were at school and then the youngest 2 had a school disco in the evening.

I did manage to get one card done for this weeks Color Throwdown Challenge #144.

These are the colours we were provided with.

This is what I came up with.

A very simple card but I quite like it and hope you do too.

Supplies:
Stamp sets: Hello Blossoms
Card: Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Melon Mambo DSP (Brights Pattern Stack)
Ink: Certainly Celery, Pumpkin Pie & Melon Mambo Stampin’ Write Markers
Accessories: Certainly Celery 1 1/4” Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Basic Jewels – Rhinestones, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots.

Till next time….