Butterfly Swirl

Morning my crafting friends, hope this finds you all safe and well, if not plenty of hugs to you.

Today's post is another card I made with the left over from a sheet I had coloured for my friends Birthday card, you can see it HERE  I used up every little bit I could, I think I just have a couple of feathers and a swirl left lol!

I did not want to cover up the background so I just added an Art Deco Swirl and a MDF Butterfly that I had coloured with Promarkers  then matted and layered it onto White card.

For the background I took a sheet of Leather Look card and inked it with Crushed Olive and Peacock Feathers, blending them together as best I could, using a circle die I bleached (painting with water then blotting using kitchen towel) inside the circle, I splattered some drops of water over the card and blotted them before I dotted glue over the the sheet using a glue pen then heat embossed with embossing enamel, that was how the background was achieved.

Items Used:

White card

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Crushed Olive and Peacock Feathers

Spellbinders Standard Circles Large

Sailor Rollerball Glue pen

Stampendous Embossing Enamel Shabby Green

Crafts Too Art deco Swirl

MDF Butterfly (Poundshop)

Promarkers

I would like to enter this into http://ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/ttcrd-challenge-april-28-may-4.html
http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/#Anything Goes
http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/anything-goes-challenges/wiw-april-anything-goes-challenge/
http://craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/challenge-259-always-anything-goes.html
http://houseofcardschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/may-challenge-bokeh-effect.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Friends in the Sun!

Morning my crafting friends, hope today finds you all safe and well, plenty of hugs to those who need them. 

Well a few more days and it will be the end of another month, I had better start thinking about starting my Christmas cards lol! I know some of you have started already, I did intend to make one every week from January but that did not happen lol!

Well today's post is not a Christmas card, far from it. Some of you may remember a card I made of Two Cats in the Moonlight, you can view it HERE, at the time I said I would make one with the Sun so here it is.

I did make this one just after the other but waited to post it as I did not want to post the same image close to each other. 

I cut a piece of White card to size and coloured the Green landscape first using masks and two different colour Green Distress Inks, then the sky using Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I then embossed the stencil with the same card, placing the stencil over the top again I coloured the tree in with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. Removing the stencil I coloured the Sun in with Squeezed Lemonade and Scattered Straw going over the edge of the embossing hoping to create a haze, not sure I have achieved it! 

Using Promarkers I coloured in the leaves and the Cats, I added a little Yellow Promarker across the top of the branch and on some of the leaves. I did not colour in the 'Friends' as the colours from the sky and the sun did this for me so I left it as it was.

I decided to turn this into an easel card so matted it onto some Black card, made the easel card out of Cream card and attached some Black card on the base that I had die cut with SW French Collection and added a boarder on top for the stopper that had been die cut using SW Spanish Collection.

Hope you like this version, I am sure it would also look good with a sunset behind too maybe over the sea!!!

Items Used:

Sweet Poppy Stencil Friends

Sue Wilson French Collection Corners, Boarders and Tags

Sue Wilson Spanish Collection Corners, Boarders and Tags

Creative Expression Gilding Wax Spring Green

White card
Black card
Cream Card

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Scattered Straw, Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass, Crushed Olive, Forest Moss & Vintage Photo

Promarkers

Foam Pads/Tape
Clarity Masks Hills

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Feathers

Hello my crafting friends, good to have you here with me today and I hope you are all having a good weekend.

May I give a warm welcome to my newest follower Jenny L. great to have you on board Jenny. Jenny has a wonderful blog of her own so please do take a look you can view it HERE

Tomorrow would have been my parents 69th wedding Anniversary had they lived to celebrate it, I often wonder what they would look like now, its also coming up to my 10th wedding Anniversary on the 7th May so I had better get my thinking hat on for a card for Hubby lol! Don't know where those 10 years went!

Now I had this small piece of card, that I had stenciled through with modelling paste, that I wanted to use as well as some feathers I had die cut, one being from the coloured background I made for my friends birthday card a few weeks ago, you can view it HERE. I did cut the edge of the feathers down to the spine so they did have the effect of real feathers and once cut they did seem to find there own shape which was rather nice.

I coloured the card with the paste on in Chipped Sapphire, Iced Spruce and Peacock Feathers, matted and layered it onto some embossed card and Teal card.

I added a banner with the sentiment then arranged the Feathers on top so the ends went under the banner and stuck these down.

Inside I added a piece of Teal card followed by a piece of White card to write on.

A tiny card made up of odd bits in my stash box of left overs, I quite like the feathers and may make up a stash for future use.

Items Used;

Crafters Companion Pearlescent Card Teal

White Card

Sue Wilson Embossing Folder Eternity

Clarity Stencils Tangle

Maimer Modelling Paste

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Chipped Sapphire, Iced spruce and Peacock Feathers

Spellbinders Shapeabilities Feathers

Creative Expressions Foundation Card Teal

Creative Expression Unmounted Stamps Classic Sentiments

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Oldies Friday!!!

Hello my crafting friends, its 'Oldies Friday' again, I have manged to find another oldie for you.

Thank you for all your wonderful comments, its so lovely to have you visit me and I love to view your beautiful creations too.

KAREN & KARENLOTTY Here is the link for the supplier of the Leather card HERE  Not sure whether they still stock it but if you e-mail them I am sure you can get some, they will keep you updated on anything on offer too.

I cannot remember how long ago I made this one, must be at least two-three years ago. I die cut the the panels at the front and put behind some card I had coloured, adding some boarder dies at the top and bottom as well as the two outer corners. All of these dies were Spellbinders.

Not sure whether the Yellow ribbon goes with it but I obviously thought it did at the time lol! I have no idea who I sent this too but I can only apologize lol! I think I can say I have improved since those days. NO you say, WHAT?!!!  Seriously, it has taken a lot to put this on here but it is 'oldies'.

Well I look forward to seeing some of your 'oldies' and new creations. I will post some better ones next week...promise!

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Treasured Friend

Hello my crafting friends, good to have you visit me today, we are getting better weather here, sunny but still a bit chilly, at least it is dry!

Thank you for all your wonderful comments, I do appreciate them. Its lovely to see comments from new people too, all are welcome to browse, comment and follow should they wish I welcome you all.                 

Today's post is a very simple and easy one to do, have I told you before I love the 'Leather Look' card I got from Printed Heaven, I haven't??? Oh well you are missing out...lol! I won't bore you with all that again but I decided just to put a couple of colours in the corner along with a sentiment, added some drops of water and left it at that.

Two of my favourite distress inks are Seedless Preserve and Peacock Feathers so I used these together, I love the look the water drops give and the sentiment just finishes the card.

Items Used:

Printable Heaven Leather Look Cream Card

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Peacock Feathers and Seedless Preserve

Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps Natures Sentiments

Ranger Archival Ink Black

I would like to enter this in http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/ 
http://www.throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/84-announcement-anything-goes.html 

Thank you for looking,  Jacquie xxx