Butterflies

Hello my crafting friends, I am well excited today as I have been asked to be a Guest Designer for http://happylittlestampers.blogspot.co.uk/ July blog challenge, how great is that?! Those of you who know HLS blog will know the cards have to be CAS (Clean & Simple) and this Months challenge theme is STAMPING.
 

So this was the card I made for their challenge 'Stamping'. I inked up my Butterfly stamp with three distress inks, Crushed Olive; Dried Marmalade & Peacock Feathers, spritzed over the stamp with 1 spray of water then stamped onto my White Card, this gives a lovely water colour effect to the image and would possibly look even better if using water colour paper/card.

I pierced round the edge of the image and just stamped a simple sentiment in the bottom corner, matted it onto some White card with Foam Tape and there you have the finished card.

Quite a simple but effective card don't you think? I hope I have inspired you to have a go?

Those of you who are regular to my blog would have noticed two previous posts using this stamp, I did these all at the same time but chose this one for my Guest Designer spot as it fitted the Challenge theme. 

Items Used:

White Card

Crafty Individuals Rubber Stamps Butterflies
Tim Holtz Distress Inks Crushed Olive; Dried Marmalade & Peacock Feathers

Justrite Large Fancy Sentiments

Ranger Archival Ink Black

Water Spritzer 

Foam Tape

Piercing Ruler

Do go over to http://happylittlestampers.blogspot.co.uk/ and take a look at all the beautiful ideas from the Design Team and why not enter yourself, its fun to do and not hard so its all about the taking part. The HLS team area fantastic bunch and I am sure they would love to see your entries.

I must apologize for not blogging so often of late or commenting on your posts, please know I am not ignoring you, I love this crafty friendship but as you know I am now on Sheena Douglass Design Team  and we have quite a lot to do at present, cannot tell you anymore but its going to be fabulous, watch this space as they say lol!

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Glazed Butterflies

Hello my crafting friends, good of you to join me today, I hope you are all safe and well, if not plenty of hugs coming your way.

Today's post is another card I made a while back using the butterfly stamp I bought but this time I added a background of modeling paste through the honeycomb stencil.

I started with some basic White card cut to size to form the base. Using another piece of White card I added the modeling paste through the stencil and once dry stenciled some Peacock Feathers over the edges and rounded the corners.

I inked my butterfly stamp up with three distress inks; Crushed Olive, Dried Marmalade & Peacock Feathers, spritzed it with water then stamped onto White card, this gave a beautiful three colour effect, once dry I applied Glaze over the top three times, fussy cut it out and mounted on top of the honeycomb paste using foam tape then attached this to my base card, again using foam tape.

There you have the finished card, dimensions are 6"X4"

Items used:

White Card

Crafty Individuals Rubber Stamp Butterflies C1-347

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Crushed Olives, Dried Marmalade & Peacock Feathers

Dina Wakley Media Stencil 

Maimen Modeling Paste

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Butterfly Kisses

Hello my crafting friends I hope today finds you all safe and well, if not I send you plenty of hugs.

Today's card features a lucky buy that I saw  in my local craft shop. This Butterfly stamp was an ex-demo and reduced from £6.99 to 75p!!! Yes you did read correctly, I did ask before buying it whether the price was right and the Lady said it must be if that's what it says so I snapped it up before they changed their minds lol! It had only been used once so I was quite chuffed with it and thought it quite a pretty butterfly stamp.

Now before I stamped the focal image I sprayed some diluted water colour paints onto my Cream card, let it dry then stamped my Butterfly stamp using a Veramark ink pad and heat embossed with Black embossing powder. I coloured in the Butterflies using Promarker Pens. I then die cut the channel in the card.

On more card I sprayed the diluted water colours again but using different colours, more Blues and Purples this time. I attached the Butterfly stamped card over the top leaving the channel to show the sprayed coloured card underneath.

I stamped my sentiment up the top using Archival Black then matted it onto more Cream card for the base and there you have the finished card.

Items Used:

Crafty Individual Rubber Stamp Butterflies

White Card

Printable heaven Leather Look Cream Card

Cream Linen card-own stash

Spectrum Noir AquaTints Bright & Beautiful-diluted for sprays

Promarkers

Versamark Ink Pad

Archival Ink Pad Black

Papermania Embossing Powder Black

Spellbinders Boarderilities Curved Boarder Two

Cuddly Buddly Clear Stamps Little Poppets Birthday-Sentiment

I would like to enter this into http://addictedtocas.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/challenge-65-butterfly.html
http://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/happy-little-stampers-june-sketch.html
http://happylittlestampers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/hls-june-cas-challenge.html
http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/challenge-283-clean-simple-cas.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx