Muse butterfly

I was inspired to make this card by Marion Vagg's beautiful design at Challenge 81 on the Muse blog.

I used 3 layers of vellum for my butterfly and inked through a Tim Holtz stencil with 3 shades of distress ink as I wanted the colours to get darker towards the bottom of the card.

Materials used:-

Lawn Fawn "stitched party banners" circle die
Sizzix frame list butterfly die
Die-namics banner die
Tim Holtz layering stencil - Latticework
Distress inks - tumbled glass, broken china and peacock feathers  
Sentiment - Stampin Up "so happy for you set"

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Noel card

When I was blog hopping recently I found another Christmas card challenge blog.  This is the first year I have made my Christmas cards throughout the year and I'm finding I can take more time over these instead of rushing to make them in November!

Challenge 38 on Festive Friday is to use black, kraft and white on your card. The cards produced by the Design Team were inspirational! My style tends to be CAS and I think this style suits the colours of the challenge.

Materials used:-
Noel stamp - Stampendous
Music stamp - Stamps Away "Music Background"
White embossing powder

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Good luck cat

This weeks challenge on Less is More foxed me for some time as the theme is animals. (Excuse the pun!) I'm not an animal person so have very few animal stamps. However I remembered I had a cat stamp in my stash and thought it would be suitable for a good luck card.

Materials used:-
Cat stamp - free stamp from Craft Stamper
Sentiment stamp - Stampin Up So Happy for You set
Embossing folder - Stampin Up
Circle die - Lawn Fawn Stitched Party Banners
Banner die - Die-namicsLess is More

Foliage One Layer Card

I am late in posting my entry to Less is More this week as I am just back from holiday. Week 184 challenge on LIM is to make a foliage one layer card. I decided to use the maple leaf stamps by Clarity stamps as I love the effect they produce. I masked off a panel and then stamped the leaves with various distress inks. Finally I scored 3 lines but these don't show up very well on my photo.

Materials used:-
Clarity stamp set - Autumn Maple Leaves
Distress inks - squeezed lemonade, worn lipstick, spiced marmalade, wild honey and dried marigold
Archival ink - coffee

Watercolour butterfly

This week we are being asked to play with watercolours over at AAA cards. I love using distress inks to create a water coloured effect as I did on this card. For the background I painted 2 colours of distress ink on watercoloured card and then spritzed this so the colours blended. I then used the same distress inks to paint the butterfly.

Materials used:-
Butterfly - Uniko Studio "English Country Garden" set
Sentiment - Stampin Up
Distress inks - peacock feathers and mustard seed

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Butterfly card

Another CAS card today as I am still on holiday and so have limited crafting supplies. It is probably good to be challenged in this way! I stamped the butterfly and then coloured it with Spectrum Noir pencils - these blend beautifully. I pierced around the panel for added interest.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• CAS on Sunday where challenge #39 is Butterfly
• Less is More week 183 which is a colour challenge
• Uniko Studio - #12 Anything Goes 

Materials used:-
Butterfly stamp - Uniko Studio "English Country Garden Butterflies"
Sentiment - Stampin Up
Spectrum Noir pencils
Stampin Up piercing mat

Thinking of you

Challenge #38 on CAS on Sunday is to make a sympathy card. I wanted a watercolour effect for my card so I used watercolour card and distress ink to create a very simple card.

Materials used:-
Flower stamp - Penny Black Daisy Fields
Sentiment - Stampin Up
Distress ink - peacock feathers; some watercolour paint for the leaves

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