Butterfly Birthday Card

Hello everyone - hope you are having a good week so far.  I'm really hoping we get some nice warm weather soon, but until that happens, here is a butterfly card I want to share....

I stamped and layered this butterfly which is a made from a wooden stamp I have had for about 10 years.  It was and always will be a favourite.  I have coloured this in with ProMarkers.

Challenges:-

Butterfly Challenge - C - I've chosen 1st prize of Circles with a Butterfly
Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes - option of Embellish it
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
Digi Choosday - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Passion for ProMarkers - Springtime


Thanks for looking and have a great day

Zig Zagging Along

Good afternoon all.  Hope you are all OK.  Have you enjoyed your sunny weekend.  We did.  We went to Goyt Valley this weekend and I will show some photos on here as soon as I have sorted them.  I also have one of my cat Suki basking in the sunlight.  Did her old bones a load of good.

Here is a zig zag card I made.  I wanted to try something a little different as I am always doing square cards (which I love doing of course).  I found the instructions for this card in an old magazine.  It was Quick Cards Made Easy.  Took me a while to do though lol.....

It is a nice effect and I have given this a bit of a shabby chic feel.  The papers are a combination of Prima and Paislee 12 x 12"s.  The sentiment is a freebie that came in a set from a magazine and I used my circle and scallop circle dies to frame it.  The butterflies are a Papermania Urban stamp.  I have coloured the butterflies with pro-markers and then I stamped some more butterflies onto acetate and attached to the top of the coloured butterflies.  I don't know if you can make out the acetate in the picture.

The pearls, lace and flowers are from my stash.

Challenges:-

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes / Punches and/or Dies

Craft Your Passion - Pearls and Lace

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes
Crafting Musketeers - Anything but Square

Crafty Girls Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenges - Things with Wings

Love to Scrap - Anything Goes

Pile it On - Shabby Chic

Polkadoodles Challenge - Things with Wings

Totally Gorguss - Lace

Thanks so much for looking and have a great day

Fly Away Butterfly

Hi there,

Well it's half term and already my lad and his friend are turning the house upside down and making so much noise, my heads gonna burst.

Anyhow onto my butterfly card.  This is my favourite stamp to use as I like layering up the wings and adding the glitter bits to the circles.  Also think this stamp helps make gorgeous birthday cards for friends and family.

Challenges:-

Cutie Pie Challenge Blog - Spots and Dots

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Keep it Simple and Sweet

Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenge - Use a Diecut or Punch - I have used die cut circles and die cut scallop circles and a Fiskars border punch
SisterAct Card Challenge - Anything Goes

The papers are Echo Park and as usual I have used my pro-markers to colour it in.

Thanks so much for looking and have a lovely day.

Decoupaged Butterfly

Hello there, hope you are all good today.  I've not long returned from a session at the gym called Yogalates.  I now make myself go to this twice a week because I really do need to shift my butt and get fit lol.

Anyhow, I was inspired to make this card because of some papers that were free in the centre of a crafting magazine, details below.  I thought they were gorgeous and I don't really like to use these papers because they can be a little flimsy and difficult to work with, but I couldn't resist them.  You can download the papers from the website but it can get a little expensive printing out papers, with the cost of the ink.  I tend to like to stick to printing digi stamps out with our printer.  I actually did get to make 2 cards with the papers.  The other card will be on my blog sometime this week.

Challenges:-

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Decoupage (My butterfly wings are decoupaged)

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Make it feminine

Divas by Design - Use Ribbon

Card Mania - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Month long challenge

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

Moving Along with the Times - Girly Cards

Emerald Faeries - Things with Wings

Brown Sugar Challenge - Anything Goes

Items Used:-

Handmade base card

Hero Arts butterfly rubber stamp

Papers from Quick Cards Made Easy, January 2014 issue

Ribbon and gems from Meiflower Crafts

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Card and glitter from stash

Pro-Markers:-

Baby pink, rose pink, leaf green, grass, forest green, lemon and ice grey 1

Thanks so much for looking and have a great day.

LOTV Teddy Bear and Martha Stewart Butterflies Birthday Card

I did this card for my sister and I am also going to enter it into the Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog as I think it is a nice Spring themed card.  I made it for Lashan.  Thank You for looking.