A 6x6 card blank stamped with a flower design in Stazon Vibrant Red, then using a Spellbinders die topper first in black then white, with love in black in, four little red gems to finish.

Amanda xx

Orange peel and M for matching pair

Well, it was a waste of time writing about work in the last post but one, the whole 'doing contract hrs from now on' didn't pan out *lol* back to 24/30 hrs after just 1 week. And ended up working 7 days non stop due to *cough* higher management mucking up the rota. Two days off together were BLISS and I've recharged my batteries..... for now *g*

Actually made a card as well, and got mucky in the process (the best bit).

Over at  Mrs A's buttefly blog, the new challenge is 'M for matching pair and/or the colour orange peel'. As I read it, bright orange splats popped into my mind. I know plain weird eh?

So out came the Vermillion acrylic paint tube and everything did indeed go splat!

I used the vermillion and teamed it with lamp post black paint, and for the 'matching pair' two plain wooden butterfly embellies painted in the Vermillion many times to get the bright orange colour.

The sentiment stamp is from Visible image and stamped in black stazon, finally used a bright orange promarker to edge all the papers.

entering in Butterfly Challenge = Matching pairs and Orange peel

May partner card

On the ball this month, made this earlier on  using another stamp I got gifted.

Penny Black wooden stamp

watercolour pencil

Dovecraft fibres

large white pearl

patterened grey card from stash

Little bit different from what I normally do, I do like stamping but don't get to do it much plus I don't buy a lot of stamps, mostly get them free with magazines so taking full advantage of the Carrier Bag.

Wanted to keep it clean and simple with no colour so opted for black flowers. Used a black watercolour pencil... but couldn't find a small brush, ended up using an ear bud to swirl the colour round!

P is for punches & pink

Had a lovely week off last week with Andrew, only been in my new job for 2 weeks so I was so pleased that they honoured the holiday. Lovely just to chill in the sun, and potter around. (not sure if I posted on here what happened with my last job, but that's a post for another day) Today is all about the butterflies!

 

 

The challenge for this fortnight is P is for punch and/or pink - I used this stamp again, its turning into a favourite, this time I paper pierced it with matching ink to paper - Hot Pink and Christmas Green pigment inks from DoCrafts, the paper was also from docrafts capsule collection. Love the effect.

 

To incorporate the Punch bit of the challenge, I used a small butterfly punch I had given me - and punched through the white card, putting a piece of the same pink paper underneath to match the Rose.

 

I've had the backing paper for years and it was one of those I liked but never could never match to a card design. To finish it off, I added 4 little pink gem stones and 8 white pearls in the corners.

 

Again with the off cuts/inking testers from this card, I made a small tag to match, only adding a stamped 'with love' sentiment in the same Hot Pink ink.

 

                                  

 

entering in: butterfly challenge = P is for punch and/pink

Y is for Years & Yellow

Using a feebie embossing folder and accompanying stamp, I made this lovely 80th birthday card.

 

The yellow was water coloured but I didn't like the result so ended up going over the pencil with a promarker.

 

entering in: butterfly challenge = Y is for Years / Yellow

 

happy card

Whilst mooching YouTube, I watched a lovely stamped card tutorial by Dawn's Stamping Thoughts and decided to have a go.

Changed the colour of the card to my favourite, only because I had the cardstock on my desk and thought I'd go with that.

 

 

purple card

white card

Smile stamp by 'From the Heart Sentiment Collection'

Fleur de Lys stamp

Stazon Vibrant Violet ink

The Hobby House lilac gems

 

 

birthday card

Different card today, not vintage, no doily, no butterflies and coloured in! I got to play with my promarkers. Yay!!

 

Bugaboo image 'cheetah heels'

promarkers

cream organza

creata mirror card

The Hobby House taupe & champagne gems

Create and Craft 'Happy Birthday' stamp

Jet Black stazon ink

white, cream paper

grape & glitter

Odd combination! Over at Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge the theme for this times challenge, which ends this evening is G for the colour grape and/or glitter.

I was going to do a card but took a hint decided to do another altered playing card, after posting my first ever one the other day.

Do Crafts Geometric Mono stamps

Stazon ink: vibrant violent, blazing red, jet black

Indigo Blu sentiment

Hot off the Press 'Soft Nostalgia' paper pack

Glittery foam butterfly

I put a thin layer of white Gesso on the card, as it is quite shiny and the ink etc would rub off. Waited till it was dry, doesn't take long, then randomly stamped the red triangular pattern on, again waited a few minutes so I didn't smudge the ink and then did the same with the black honeycomb stamp. Waited then stamped the sentiment 3 times, unfortunately  the purple wasn't that bright against the background and you could hardly see it, so I then had to have a rethink. Decided to stamp onto a scrap piece of card and then using the red ink I smudged lightly to blend it in with the background - made a sentiment topper.

Stuck the butterfly on, then fussy cut round some flowers from the  paper in the HotP kit to fill the spaces.

entering in: Butterfly Challenge = G is for grape/glitter

S is for stamping & sapphire/playground 217

I had planned to do a different style of card for this challenge, one I watched on YouTube, but when raiding my offcuts/snippets drawer realised I wouldn't have enough of the blue card to do it so had to wing it *lol*  and this is what I came up with:

 

Royal Blue pigment ink

Sentiment stamp by Jenny Ellory

Butterfly stamp by BoBunny

blue card stock

white & blue gems

The snippet of blue card stock was what was remaining of an A4 sheet, I made a 6x6 white card blank and then measured and cut a square of the blue exactly 1 inch smaller, then gutted the middle as I needed it for the die cut butterfly.

I stamped the two butterflies using the pigment ink, then decided I would put the sentiment in the middle (and not use the butterfly) but I noticed a teeny tiny smudge of blue ink in the space which I could see a mile off but no one else would probably have done! So I reverted to plan A to put the die cut there.

Matted and layered the card then attached the die cut with my Pritt stick, so I could best position it.

I then stamped the sentiment in the corner, stuck some white gems on the butterfly and decided to pop a blue gem on each of the stamped butterflies. And finished off by blinging up the corners.

entering in: Butterfly Challenge = theme + butterfly + colour

Head Shot

Finally managed to finish my atc for this weeks challenge, started it yesterday morning and had to leave it and go back to bed. Still feeling rough with the dreaded Flu, wish it would go.

 

Indigo Blu stamp

Stazon Jet Black

purple and lime green promarkers

butterfly cuts

silver Stickles

 

entered into: Wicked Wednesday = Head shots

 

You animal

Very quick post tonight as I'm not well and just typing this feels like I've wrote War and Peace.


Love this stamp. A quick black & white atc done for this weeks challenge.

 

 

entering in: Wicked Wednesday = you animal

 

 

 

signing off to go and collapse on the sofa.........

 

 

happy holidays atc

vintage themed freebie stamp from a magazine

brad from Dovecrafts "Tis the season"

promarkers

create Christmas paper

 

 

entering into: wicked wednesday atc challenge - winter holidays

Sweet tweets

Using Hot off the Press "Sweet tweets" design pack, put this card together for February's partner swap over at card exchange uk (yahoo group).

boy, oh boy

5x5 white card blank

Teddy Bo & Co stamp and papers

promarkers

navy card oddments

white card oddments

acetate markers

peel off sentiments

bow

gems

 

(for teddy I used soft peach over coloured with pastel beige, for his woollies - pastel blue with cobalt blue edging and hat. For the peel off sentiment to match I just coloured over it with a blue acetate pen)

 

entered the boy into: catch the bug - birthday week - sketch Sunday
                                  cardz 4 guyz - happy birthday
                                  pink gem - 111 for the boys
                                  polkadoodle digi choosday - week 2 for the boys

silver is shiny

I was asked to do a Silver Wedding Anniversary card. I didn't want to do anything overly fussy so I kept in clean and simple.

 

5x5 white cardstock

Fanciful Flourish clear stamp

embossing ink

Silver embossing powder

silver ribbon

gems

peels offs

 

 

Fliss

My next door neighbour little girl is going to be 5 soon, so wanted to do a fairy card for her.

 

5x5 white card

stamped image from Wee Stamps

promrkers

papers from the Loving Life Collection

peel off sentiment

white flowers coloured with promarkers

 butterfly

buttons

 

entering Fliss the fairy into the following challenges

 

polkadoodles - birthday girl

teeny tiny

With off cuts of card and papers, I did these 2 mini cards. Am using some mini envelopes from last christmas for them to go in.

 

 

 

 

 

Both cards used:

 

Nitwits "Thimbles n threads" paperstock & stamps

buttons

promarkers

stazon ink (red)

pigment ink (black)

an englishmans home is his castle

Inspired by a card whilst flicking through back issues of Crafty Stamper, I made this card for a colleague at work who is moving.

 

 

 

5x5 brown cardstock

brown packing paper

brown twine

button

Sizzix backing paper

stamped image by The Octopede Factory

alphabet stamps

black Stazon ink

promarkers

 

entering this card into anything with a B @ glitter n sparkle

 

purple murtle of course!

Another card, a different main colour - purple! Couldn't pass this weeks challenge by at Polka Doodles. Murtle would never have let me hear the last of it!! (and by pure coincidence I'm wearing a purple top)

 

5x5 lilac card

white flowers coloured by promarker & acetate pen

purple satin buds

Stamped image & sentiment by DoCrafts in purple Stazon ink

backing paper from Kaisercraft - christmas

purple mirror  board by Creata

embellishments

entered into purple challenge @ polkadoodles

all white?

Suffering from a bad epsiode of Depression this last week, resulting in a panic attack at work (they are so patient with me) and the Negative and tears spewing forth,  I have increased my meds up to try and combat it. I know they are starting to work as I am now feeling rather spaced out. (in a good way!). I should get used to the higher doseage soon.....

To occupy myself I made a card, ironically as the colour associated with Depression is black, I plumped for a challenge using white on white. Sounds simple. It wasn't.

Anyhoo, after two false starts, this is the card I came up with, the topper being part of one of the others I scrapped.

different shades of white card

white tissue paper

dove stamped with black Stazon ink

white embellishments.

 

enetered into white on white challenge @ delicious doodles