Beautiful Butterflies Liftables

Hunkydory beautiful butterflies, did you get yours from my last shows?

I hope you managed to get them. I thought I would play a little bit more when I got home, I love colouring and faffing with paper but the beauty of the Liftables is if you don't want to faff you don't have to.

First a bit of cutting, I thought I would just cut and see what happens.

I was pretty pleased with how this one turned out.

The next is from one of my shows.

 

This was another from my shows but I decided to add some colour to the butterflies with the Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens

A close up of the simplicity of this card, let's call it child play.

 

Now while I had the sparkle pens in my hands I thought I would keep going and made this.

 

So very vibrant, just adding water and saturating the background before adding one or two drops from the Sparkle pens.

The next is using Copic pens and pan pastels

 

 

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Brusho Art Flowers

Time to take it a little step further and introduce some stamps into the equation.

 

Choosing the colours was the first job, flowers - crimson, scarlet, vermillion, gamboge. Leaves – leaf green and lemon.

I used a stamp set from Papertrey Ink to stamp out the flowers, leaves and the swirls on the background in stampendous Frantage Shabby white embossing enamel.

This time I wet the porous card and sprinkled the powder in the places that I wanted the colour, i felt that I had more control of where it was going.

I cut out the leaves and flowers and laid them how I wanted them then added them with pinflair glue gel to give dimension.

Brusho Art

I took the plunge and opened my pots of Brusho paint which had been sitting on a shelf for around 5 years, mostly because I never had the time to explore them.

I took a pokey tool and made a hole in the top of each pot and then started to play, I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do with my pieces of background art but here it is, my first Brusho art.

I have to be honest, it felt good to get my hands dirty and my fingers are now stained with blue, turquoise and black paint but I’m sure it won’t take long to get them cleaned up.

I used the La La Land tree die on one piece of the background and die cut a couple of trees layering them up on another background and then used some snowtex paste to add some texture, finished with lots of distressing and matting and layering and a couple of gems on the trees.

I think the packaging may have changed since I purchased mine but you get the information on it.

Wedding - At the Altar

Cream and Old Gold

I think that this is one of those timeless stamps that you just can't get tired of I 3d the brides dress to give it a little dimension the stamp is coloured with distress inks in walnut and antique linen, the embossing was done with the Victoria cuttlebug embossing plate.

I kept the whole them in creams and old gold and added a bit of love to bring it all together.

Aquamarker Card, Blog Candy and Tutorial

Coloured with Aquamarkers, ribbon ruffled down the card pretty paper cut at corn to slot the coloured image in. Gardeners string with an anchor charm threaded through and a bit of love to bring it all together.

Below I have added a video tutorial showing how i created the sky, sea and sand with the Aquamarkers, Letraset has given me some sets to give away.

Blog candy now Closed

So leave me a comment telling me why you would like to try these and post about the candy on your blog or shout out on your facebook profile with a link to here by Monday 26th July and I will choose 3 lucky winners to receive a set each. I will draw the winners on Monday at 10pm GMT

Watercolour Daydream & Vintage Blog Candy

I'm keeping to the watercolour theme and showcasing the 2nd card but this time with a Faye Flower in yellow.

Soft and dreamy the stamp is by Stampin Up inked in teal ink the blended with a water brush to soften the image, sponged edges of the pastel lemon card, pearls, punched leaves and a Faye Flower and then a bit of love to bring it all together.

AesaLina Compton from Pixel Petals is offering a $10 voucher to spend in her shop all you have to do is comment on my cards yesterday (Tuesday) and today (Wednesday) and tell me what you like best from her shop and I will pick a winner on Thursday

Isn't the Faye flower in yellow really dreamy?

Good Luck everyone.

Watercolour Card & Vintage Button & Blog Candy

Soft and beautiful, today's card is made with the Penny black dandelion stamp inked then spritzed with water to give the watercolour effect.

Check out the vintage button, very unique and very beautiful the maker of the button has her own shop and i have another card with her beautiful flowers planned for tomorrow.

AesaLina Compton from Pixel Petals is offering a $10 voucher to spend in her shop all you have to do is comment on my cards today (Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday) and tell me what you like best from her shop and I will pick a winner on Thursday

Attention to detail...

A vintage button, this is a hand made button made by a very clever lady who has all sorts of clever hand made items in her shop, her name is AesaLina Compton and her shop is pixiepetals.etsy.com

A punched flower kissed with a bit of aqua ink.

Good luck everyone

Clarity Cottage Card

A country card made with the Clarity Cottage & Waymarker Set stamps quite a homespun feeling to this card, stamped and coloured with Promarkers and watercolours, Stampin Up papers, ribbon, buttons, twine, spiral punch and a bit of love to bring it all together.

Attention to detail...

Notebook edging made with the Stampin Up Spiral Punch and some faux stitching.

A rolled up distressed corner and a few buttons to make the card pop.

Tranquility - Boat Scene

Tranquility at its best.

Teal and Kraft Card and Espresso and Ocean tides ink pads, button and twine and twill tape a bit of blending, a boat scene stamp, Nestabilities label dies an argyle embossing folder and a water brush all helped to make this card.

Most of the image was water coloured but for those eagle eyed amongst you, you will see the edging to the Argyle Embossed Kraft card and the shading below the boats, this was both done with Promarkers.

The Boat scene stamp has no maker on the side of it, it was bought a few years ago at a craft fair. The other stamps (Compass and round swirls ) are from the Father Knows best stamp set by PTI.

If you would like this card leave me a comment and I'll do a draw for it.

Flippin' Men & Women Stamp Cards

A couple of cards I made on Create and Craft this afternoon.

The first card below was made from the extra embellishment stamps from the Flippin' Scales stamp sets, coloured with Promarkers then the icing was glittered with Stickles glitter glue and the Cherries has Glossy Accents added to them to give them the shine.

This one is the Flippin' Bathtime Stamp it was shaded with the ink it was stamped with and a water brush.

Dont forget to pop over to the other girls Blogs on the Design Team.

Toni

Karen

Lydia

Cheers - Flippin' Men Stamps by La Pashe

Another one of the new Flippin' Men Stamp sets by La Pashe, I love the many colouring techniques that can be used with stamps to personalise the images to your own taste.

Base card was scored using the ScorPal then a gold ribbon tied around the card into a bow.

The image was stamped in versafine then coloured with watercolour paint, the Cheers! was stamped then mounted onto black card stock as was the image then layered onto the card using foam pads.

I used the border stamp (pint glasses) and the Quote stamp on the insert of the card.

Coexist - Fur Fear

I have to say this is one of the scariest projects I have done the digi image is by Mo Manning and is called Coexist and doesn't it just make you say "awe"?

Well I have been dying to give this one a go but I have a fur fear, no not really, just the thought of how to tackle colouring it sent me in a spin. I wasn't going to let it beat me so here is my result.

Teamed with 2 pretty papers a ribbon and a button to finish.

Attention to detail...

So I thought I would give the attention to detail to the fur.

I did colour with Promarkers but I just wasn't getting the effect that i was after so I remembered what Jim Harker (artist for La Pashe) told me.

He said "there is no law against mixing mediums" so that is exactly what I did, I used watercolour pencils on top of the Promarkers and I have to say that I am quite chuffed with the result

I'd love to hear your comments on this one, I love reading them

Charlotte Beauty

I used a brayer inked with pale plum ink onto the Victorian A2 embossing folder by Cuttlebug before embossing the card, then using the same ink I stamped the penny Black footnote stamp at the bottom of the card.

The Image stamp Charlotte was inked with Perfect Plum ink then I used a Koi Brush to draw the colour into the image.

recipe:~

Stamp: Charlotte by Stamp It, Penny Black Stamp, Footnote

Tools: spiral punch by Stampin Up, Embossing Folder Victorian by Cuttlebug, koi watercolour brush

Inks: Perfect Plum & Pale Plum both by Stampin Up

Card Cream By Papertrey Ink

Attention to detail...

The ribbon was a find I made in a local haberdashery, it is kind of weird, it is and open weave lace cotton and is very soft to the touch.