birthday butterflies

 My card making is very much budget based. I don't have the money to buy expensive ink pads and refills. I bought the above inks from Target  - 20 in a pack for $8. I simply pressed my finger in the ink then onto the card as a base to stamp on.

Triple B June challenge -       photo inspiration.

the butterfly stamp is from memory box and the flower and sentiment are from issue 256 of simply cards and papercrafts.

 

guest designer spot

I have a guest designer spot this month for 'Lets Craft and Create '.

Challenge 232   'A penny for your thoughts ' Use a sentiment - AG is always an option but look through your sentiments in any form and make them  the star on your card.
 

Tag it

I messed about cutting this paper with scissors to get this pretty edge, sadly not much is on show.

Let's Craft and Create - challenge 231 - tags  
 

warm hands at christmas

 ABC Christmas challenge J & K- just enough or knitwear- this stamp came from Creative stamping magazine issue 113 - coloured with water colour paints.

It's hard to see but I did edge the centre panel with very pale blue ink-  the lighting was not very good , the colours are actually very vibrant. The gold is a bit bright so at the moment I don't know if I like this or not.

A touch of gold

I embossed the brown panel with an art deco style folder, then rubbed with gold gilding paste.

 

Freshley Made Sketches -  734 - using the above sketch - 

I did wonder if I should have picked a coloured cardstock for the background but the patterned paper has white so I suppose it works.

a trio of stamped butterflies

I have a few diamond stencils - not sure which one this is- script stamp is from Indigo Blu - sentiment stamp  is from simply Cards and Papercrafts issue 256 and the butterfly stamps are from Creative Stamping issue 146,tiny butterfly punch also used.

Triple B - challenge for April - mood board
 

a trio of butterflies

 I tried the 'milky mist embossing technique as shown here by Bibi Cameron. I didn't have the right inks but gave it a go anyway. My inks were a cheap set of 20 for $8 from Target, I used lilac,blue and yellow.

The embossing folder is a phill martin one for the" sentimentally yours "magazine. The butterfly die is by lou collins for "die cutting essentials"magazine.

Let's Craft and Create challenge 230 - a/g or butterflies.

lilac and green bookbinding card

 Australia Post have this thing about square cards costing more to post so a bookbinding card gets around that. I suppose you could also put a square card in a regular rectangle envelope.

Let's Craft and Create challenge 299 purple and green . 

a couple of pretty papers and some dies. I chose this sentiment stamp as it can be for so many occasions, birthdays,mother day or an anniversary. You can add the specific details inside before you send it.

what are they called ?

 

I'm sure there must be a name for this  where you score an A4 piece of card vertically and horizontally then cut away a quarter of the card. Cut a circle or any shape from the front panel ,decorate around the aperture and add a greeting on the second panel behind. The card then opens normally to add a greeting inside.

I made two - one landscape and one portrait. 

It's taken a long time but I think I am just about over my sweet kitty dying. I think I must have been feeling low before  she died and that was the final straw to make me really sad and unhappy with life. Autumn is just around the corner here in Tasmania and here I am just doing the Spring clean and trying to sort out the garden- I really haven't wanted to do anything for the past few months, so now I'm playing catch up.