most beautiful day

 hello crafty stampers!

It's that time again for another Just Us Girls challenge and I'm really enjoying being the guest designer for the month of November! This week we are making a mini slimline card - easy right?

Since we can put any design on the card, I decided to use one of my new butterfly dies, which is quite tall. This card size is ideal for a large image as it has lots of tall space. I thought it should be the hero of the design, so I kept the other colours muted.

I began by stencilling the leaves using Altenew Foliage stencil with distress oxide ink. I blended part of the design then moved the stencil down to blend another part, making the overall foliage taller. Then I stamped the pink flowers using Paper Rose Solid Flowers and Leaves with distress oxide ink. 

Some pink distress oxide inks were watercoloured onto a card panel, then the butterfly was die cut from it, making sure to keep all the little die cut pieces. I also die cut a butterfly from black card, popped out the die cut pieces and adhered it over the pink die cut. The butterfly was popped up on foam tape so it was hovering over the leaves. The sentiment from Altenew Beautiful Day was stamped on white card using memento tuxedo black then die cut using Paper Rose Stitched Rectangle die and adhered to the panel.

Come join in the fun with Just Us Girls challenge this week. We can't wait to see your mini slimline design!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

make fun

 hello there stampers!

I'm joining in the fun today over at the sisterhood of snarky stampers. This fortnight their challenge is #197 R is for Rude and Edna is showing her true colours!

So many choices for rude cards, I found it hard to choose! hahaha

I began by blending distress oxide ink using Paper Rose Striped stencil over the card front. Then stamped the Darkroom Door Flourish texture stamp in the same colour. The image is printed from the net and fussy cut, and the foliage was die cut using Altenew Leaf Mix die set from a coordinating card colour. The sentiment is a Tim Holtz Big Talk sticker, mounted on card, edges inked and popped up on foam tape. Nuances of Bette Davis!

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spread your wings

 hello lovely stampers!

I am sharing a simple card with you today. I took the challenge from PerfectlyCAS for this month:

  

I am loving using the distress oxide inks - the layering ability is fantastic.  I used 2 or 3 colours on my butterflies to get a graduated colour effect. Lots of inky fun!

I started by blending using the cloud stencil to make a background. Using my MISTI, I stamped each butterfly several times with parts of it inked with colour. The fun part is deciding which beautiful colour to use next! The sentiment was put among the butterflies to tie them all together. Lastly I mounted the panel onto a mint macaron card base.

Thanks for stopping by!

supplies:

darkroom door stamp: Wildflowers Vol 1

my favourite things stencil: rolling clouds

distress oxide inks: scattered straw, dried marmalade, spun sugar, abandoned coral, seedless preserves, tumbled glass, salty ocean, peacock feathers, chipped sapphire, black soot

so proud of you

 hello!

Feeling crafty today - that's probably a good thing.  I thought a challenge would be fun and I found one that enticed me from the lovely people on PerfectlyCAS. 

The first challenge for 2021, #11: 

I like this CAS idea of using only 1/3 or less of the card, which suits my (emerging) style.  Not always, but I think the cards I like most are simple and surrounded by white space. I'll try to do more of them and see where it leads... 

I've always liked the look of a single leaf. There's something natural and powerful about it. It says 'This is me, just as I am".  No pretence.

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supplies: 

Craft giraffe stencil: circles

Altenew inks: dew drops, galactic stream

Altenew stamp: sentiment strips

Stampin Up! stamp: Loyal Leaves

be strong

Happy Sunday!

I was hankering for a little card making, having been too busy organising christmassy things the last couple of weeks...ho hum. So this afternoon I snuck off to my favourite room to do some creatin'!

The lovely people at CAS(E) this Sketch #401 had a retro challenge CTS #147 this week and it got me thinking. 

I thought some stencilling would be fun - as well as therapeutic - and ended up stencilling it all.  The flower element I had no problem with as I love to use garden themes and nature in my cards, but the elements at the top didn't really go with the nature theme...or did they? 

Never one to shy away from a challenge (pun intended) I thought I would use negative space for the top element. That way it is there, but not the focus - perfect!

I love the juxtaposition of leaves and geometric shapes. The colour of open sky, but the shapes of conformity. I tried to give a sense of movement both with the leaves gently floating upward, and with the windswept shape of the sky.

The message is simple - in this noisy world of self aggrandisement, my card hopefully serves as a little reminder that you can just be you and I can just be me. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

cardstock: balmy blue, whisper white

stencils: Altenew Foliage, Altenew Colour Block Triangle

ink: Altenew sea glass, balmy blue, soft sea foam, shaded spruce

stamp: Altenew sentiment strips