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Happy Sunday!

Checking in quickly to share my watercolored butterflies using Wplus9 Flora & Fauna 2 stamp set. The colors were inspired from Dawn, so love her watercolor techniques.

I stamped the butterflies with Antique Linen distress ink, then played with the colors in my watercolor palette.

For my kraft card base, I embossed them with an embossing folder. My sentiment is made from thick letters from my previous stash.

 

Entering this card to

• Time Out Challenges – Challenge #35 – Nature with optional twist of Animals
• Stamping Sensations – July Challenge – Feature a Creature
• Take It Make It Challenge: July, Take A Stamp, Anything Goes

 

 

Garden Fairy

Hi everyone!

I’m featuring this pretty stamp set, the Special Edition Stamps – Garden Fairy by the very talented lady Clare Brown.

First up, I stamped the fairy in white cardstock and colored it with promarker. I then added a Wink of Stella Clear glitter pen in the wings to give some subtle shine.

The papers are from the Tropical Favourites kit, also from Sarah Hurley 🙂

I stamped the banners in different inks and fussy cut them. I added them on top of the card panel for some additional dimension and texture too. I think the stamp set will be great also for a fairy theme birthday invitation, or a girl’s invitation set, an accent for a tag or an accent to a girl’s scrapbook page.

So here it is

I’m entering this card in Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge, Anything Goes.

Also in Crafty Sentiments Designs, Use a sentiment challenge.

World of Imagination Blog Hop

Hey there!

You may have made it here from Carol’s blog, so happy to welcome you here at my place.

It’s an exciting day today as we show you so great new products from Sarah Hurley that the team is drooling about.  I’m sure that you will love them all as much as we do.

We are celebrating the launch of the new “World of Imagination” range on the 10^th (that’s tomorrow yey!) this is a range that Sarah has been working on and we’re very happy to share it to the world with this initial launch.

One of the great range of products is this card.

These large greeting cards can be personalised and come with a large badge – perfect for Birthdays or any occasion, there are also Party Invites to match!

The Mayor of Make Believe will be waiting for you at the 365 blog to see what you thought of the range, tell him what you would like to win and we’ll pick one lucky winner to win the prize of their choice 

This closes on 15^th at midnight GMT.

From here, your next stop is Clare Newcombe!

Thanks for stopping by  🙂

Stripe + Polka dots challenge update

I had recently checked the Embellish magazine blog and saw the Stripe + Polka dots challenge winner. There’s a number of cards that really stand out and I was so happy to be picked as one of the challenge’s ‘What’s Hot’. You can see my entry here and all other challenger entries here.

Polka dot + stripe

Joining in for Embellish magazine Stripe & Polka Dot Color Trends Challenge.  I have used my Papertreyink border die for the dots instead of the actual polka dot, and used minimal stripe in the gray thin strip + the sentiment base.

I have seen a lot of card designs online and though I admire layer cards too, I can say that my card style leans more on a clean & simple design. That’s apparent here isn’t it?

On my interpretation here.

Happy anything day

My interpretation

Embossed card: CFC69

This week, I’m making cards with embossing technique. Be warned, I have a lot of photos here. I don’t have much embossing folders but I was able to borrow some from my crafting buddy Chekai. See the light blue background with numbers? I kept it as the main focal point for the card. It’s from an embossing folder from Cuttlebug.

CAS-ual Fridays challenge for the week is to use embossing: heated, dry or otherwise. The Hello stamp comes from my very first stamp set bought sometime back.  Good that I was able to use it here at last.  I love the pop of color from the button that I diecut from ‘My Favorite Things’ button dies and B&W twine.

Embossed background

Embossed detail

I did another embossed version in a mini squared card.  This time I used Retro Sketches challenge # 28. I love their clean, clear sketch challenges too. This card is more of an autumn color. The embossed background is again from Cuttlebug embossing folder. Also, I used a thick vellum to impressed the circles from Papertreyink Sunshine impression plate. The detail maybe a little difficult to see in the photo but the vellum has a touch of texture too. I love how you can create texture and dimension even into a small card.

Retso Sketch # 28

Embossed background

Embossed background

Embossing using impression plate

Another card with selective embossed detail is seen here. This time using floral embossing folder from Cuttlebug. The selective embossing gives more character to very plain Kraft cardstock isn’t it?

Embossing in card

Pinwheel Color Trends Challenge

I’m joining again in Embellishment Blog, Pinwheel Color Trends Challenge. I used papers from Stampin Up! and sentiment stamp from Hero Arts. I die cut the cloud and zigzag line next to the ribbon from Papertreyink.

My pinwheel’s embellishment button came from my previous stash when I played along the buttons challenge.

My Pinwheel card

My Pinwheel with handmade button embellishment

Pinwheel detail

Make It Monday #79: Fabric Die Cuts

I missed a number of card challenges during my short holiday break but now that the routine starts to go back to normal, I’m beginning to do some creative works again. This week Im playing along Papertreyink’s Make it Monday # 79, Fabric die cuts. The challenge is to use fabric die cut into your card.

Here I used a fabric by Sandi Henderson Meadowsweet  collection. This is the vibrant green strip on the left, die cut that part using Papertreyink half & half die. The Happy birthday sentiment & stamp is also from Papertrey Tags-its # 1 stamp set. The circle and red background (this red background is a fabric die cut as well) is also from Papertreyink die cuts + the zigzag detail on the end. The green paper background is from Echo Park Dots & Stripes.

For the other details, the running strip in the bottom is a fabric tape  I got from my stash along with the button & twine.

I love the final outcome of this challenge. The colors are vibrant,just perfect for my friend’s jolly personality who’s celebrating her birthday very soon.

On to the card photos..

Fabric die-cut in cards

Fabric die-cut into card

Die-cut fabric

Using Fabric in card

Buttons Color Trends Challenge

I recently stumbled upon Embellishment magazine blog challenge and decided to play along the latest challenge for the week.The challenge is to use buttons, die-cut, stamp or stitch. It’s really up to one’s preference but it must have buttons  and follows the color pallette of the challenge.

My card is very straightforward. I used diecut cardboard buttons and the effect is similar to a chipboard. A cardstock and designer paper was used on top of the cardboard giving it color as per the challenge color pallette.   I embossed the main card base with Cuttlebug Swiss dots for added texture.

Diecut Buttons

Buttons

Inspiration Sketch challenge II

I have created  one more card for the Inspiration Sketch # 69 at Papertreyink. I used the doily as one of the circles and PTI die and stamp to go along with it.

Card II challenge

Using Papertreyink stamps

Details