Floating Butterflies...

Happy Saturday,

Todays card is made using a waste piece form making a card earlier in the week.  The pice had three butterflies cut from it and I thought it was  same to waste it.

I embossed the piece with an old spellbinders brick pattern embossing folder and shaded it with spun sugar distress ink.

I backed this with velum and added fragments of gilding flakes behind this to add some shine behind the butterflies ( more evident in real life than the pictures)  I then added in 3 butterflies ( cut with the random dovecraft die I bought on Ebay) into the apertures with 3mm white stick on pearls for the body.


















I added the flower that I had made up ready in my bit box ( spellbinders Carnation I think) along with a few 'tails' of satin ribbon.


To finish the card I shaded through a scrap of card cut with the butterfly die with spun sugar distress ink and added this, with a folded corner, to the front of a card blank.

A little mixed media (ish) for me but I do like the way its turned out!


Enjoy...

Decorative Champagne...

Happy Thursday,

I thought I would share this card that I made with the exact same dies and colours as yesterday but with the added Champagne pearl card to soften it.


I cut the twisted palm die twice in white card and shaded through the die using the victorian velvet distress ink.  I added these across the front of a panel of the champagne pearl card to which I added two scored lines at the top and bottom ( i seem to have really embraced the scoring technique this week!)

Next i cut the two largest dies in the decorative labels 5o dies set however this time i shaded between the dies with more of the distress ink.  I placed these over the twisted palm overlapping these in the centre.

I then cut the next 2 dies in the set again in white and shaded through each die.  `I mounted these in the centre ( with foam tape) to make the central element as shown.

I made up a large flower using various petals in the Prima flower set this time delicately shading just the edges of the petals with the distress ink.

I placed the flower on top of a bow made of twine, pearls and satin ribbon.

Enjoy...

Swirl Bliss...

Happy Bank Holiday Monday,

As promised today I am sharing new projects I have made!  I thought this was a great opportunity to show some of the cards and projects I have made with dies and products form various companies I have bought over the last year or so but haven't been able to use or blog.  I know that most crafters see something and buy it only for it to languish in their stash I know I'm terrible for this not being able to go into a craft shop without buying something.

Today's card is made using a Spellbinders die designed by Becca Feeken one of my favourite crafters and designers.  A simple colour combination of ivory sky blue and periwinkle hopefully lets the beauty of the die shine.





I started by cutting the long die in the Spellbinders Swirl Bliss die set into a piece of ivory card four times does the length of the piece.  I then backed the central 2 panels with sky blue and the outer 2 sections with baby blue card.

Next I matted and layers this onto more layers of the ivory, sky blue and baby blue to make the base card as shown.  I added a strip of navy organza ribbon and finished it with a bow and some pearl swirls from my stash.  I then made up the flower using spellbinders carnation shaded with broken china distress ink.

The sentiment (from my lily of the valley clear stamp set) is stamped on a stitched flag and shaded with the distress ink.

Enjoy...