Flowers And Butterflies

Good afternoon!  

The sun has actually made an appearance....twice today lol  

This has been one of the wettest and dreariest Springs I can recall.  And a bit chilly too!  

I suppose summer will appear like *snap*  

Hope we'll be ready for it!

I have 3 cards to share with you today!

This first one will be entered into the following Challenges;

Paper Smooches, May Flowers.

Stamping Sensations, English Garden.

Scrapy Land, Anything Goes!

I stenciled a PTI leafy design using Wild Wasabi ink for my background. 

 Added some texture with a Couture Creations Embossing Folder, Flint.

Paper Smooches; Foliage 1 & 3 dies, Sentiment Sampler stamp set.

Amalgam Black ink.

Gina K Designs, Birds And Blossoms stamp set.

Spellbinders Classic and Scallop Ovals dies.

Memory Box, Homespun Heart die, cropped--I made it into a little flower near the sentiment.

Frantic Stamper, Mix N Match Poppies dies.

Amalgam Black ink.

Foam Dots for dimension.

Black and White checked Ribbon.

Sentiment by Hero Arts, Everyday Sayings.

This card will be entered into the Challenge at Gina K Designs, Things With Wings.

I used the Gina K Designs stamp sets;  A Year Of Borders and Take Flight.

Stamped in Amalgam Black ink and colored with Copic Markers.

The front of the card is nothing special, just pretty little butterflies.......

BUT the inside.......POPS.......literally!

Using the Dies R Us Butterfly #2 set, I cut 7 butterflies in rainbow color.

Using Gina's Connect Glue, I adhered them all together in the rainbow order:  ROY G. BIV.

That Glue is AHmazing!!!

I also stamped a large butterfly and my sentiment.

It just POPS!  

And still folds flat for mailing.....pretty cool, huh??

My last card will be entered into the Impression Obsession Challenge, Blue and Yellow.

I used the Impression Obsession stamp and die sets; Hanging Basket.

I stamped the hanging basket in Amalgam Black ink.

Then just kept adding stamped flowers and foliage in all shades of blues and yellows.

Inks in; Crushed Curry, Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist, Pacific Point, Pool Party and So Saffron.

I then die cut the hanging basket and placed it over my stamped one.

Stamped 3 of the larger flowers and fussy cut them out adding some foam for dimension.

Adhesive Pearl for the hanger, colored with a Copic Marker.

Stamped my sentiment and a few falling leaves.

Inside another little flower and leaves.

Layered my white panel on to blue, yellow and another white piece of card stock, 

then adhered to my base.

As I was playing with flowers and butterflies I had a little visitor....not sure if he should be out and about during the daylight hours.....and he definitely should not be heading under my deck.  YIKES!

Shouldn't he be playing 'possum' ?!?!

Thanks for popping in!

Enjoy~~

Let It Snow, Fa La La And All That Jazz

Hello!  Well it was 54 degrees today, did a little Christmas Shopping.  I love walking in to stores that have the wreaths up and their doors open.  Tis The Season!

Today's card will be entered into the Challenges at Mod Squad, Here Are The Ingredients, You Make The Card; hosted by my BFF, Barb Campbell, Dies R Us, Christmas and Simon Says Wednesday, Let It Snow.

Here's Barb's Recipe Card:

I have added the following ingredients;  Pattern Paper, Ribbon, Rubber Stamp, Flowers, Favorite Color (Red At Christmas Time), Glitter, & Die Cut.  7 out of 9, not bad!

 

I have always admired window scene cards and shaker window scene cards, figured it was high time to make one myself.  I will admit the scene is off......can you figure out why?  ;)  I used stamp sets from Gina K Designs; A Year Of Flowers, Peace & Joy, and Winter Wonderland.  The window is a Cameo cut.  Images colored with Copic Markers and fussy cut out.

 

Sponged the background panel with shades of blue ink and stamped my pine trees, which became the inside of my Shaker.  I first filled this with blue and white sequins and lots of snowy glitter, but the sequins kept getting stuck, so I dumped most of them. Spellbinders Fancy Ribbon die, which is what my sentiment is stamped on.  Added a bit of ribbon and used Sakura Glaze Pens, white on the holly berries and yellow for the poinsettia centers.  I made the icicle strip at the top with glossy Accents and Glitter, super easy and very effective!

 

Thanks so much for popping by. 

 

Did you figure out what is wrong with my scene?  I'll let you know in my next post!  ;)

 

Merry Merry!



CAS 3

Yup, back again with another CAS creation!

This card will be entered into the Challenge over at CASology, Stripe. 

 

I have a stripe of color topped with a stripe of shells.  I just LOVE this shell border stamp from Gina K Designs, A Year Of Borders, the sentiment is from By The Sea.  I took 2 scraps of paper and tore the edges, taped them down on the card stock and then sponged some blue ink in between the paper.  A simple technique, but looks very pretty.  Works in any color and for every image.  I also added a wee bit of Stickles to each shell, hard to see in the photo, of course.

 

Another low key, no fuss no muss (except for that little smudge of black ink on the left, grrrrr!) CAS card.

 

I will say they come together rather quickly!  ;)

 

Thanks for coming by, hope you do something today that makes you HAPPY!

 

Enjoy~~