Getting Inky Again

Hi Crafters,

My cards today are using various makes of butterfly/ fairy/ mythical stamps and Distress Inks.

They have all been sprayed with Pearl Diamond Spray & Sparkle so they're really shimmery in real life.

I really enjoy my time spent getting inky and messy whilst creating these fabulous backgrounds to use in my cards. I have some more backgrounds saved up for another day, so watch this space :)

Lorraine

xXx

Still Getting into the Swing of it...

Hi Crafters,

...I thought I would bounce back in to the New Year and carry on blogging as before but here we are January 13th and I've only blogged twice this year so far!

Just realised it's Friday 13th too, shhh, it's unlucky to write that down, don't tell anyone :o)

I've been creating but I just haven't had the time to blog them yet, so be prepared, there may be an avalanche of posts here soon.

Today's card is quite a simple design, or it was in my head when I started, but it turned out to be quite time consuming to cut out and ink each die cut and fit foam pads to the back side in all the tiny spaces.

Recipe

Dies - Spellbinders Shapeabilities Pendants Fleur de Lis & Labels Twenty Two

Memory Box Leavenworth Butterfly Trio

Spun Sugar Distress Ink

Glitter Card

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Catz - #353 ATG twist Butterflies

Brown Sugar - #233 ATG

Crafting When We Can - #135 ATG

Glitter 'n' Sparkle - #221 ATG

Crafting From The Heart - #142 ATG

In The Pink - #110 ATG

Moving Along with the Times - #36 Something in the Air

We've had the first snow of the year this morning, only a little splattering thank goodness but I hope all my blog buddies around the country are ok as I know further West and North have had it really bad.

Lorraine

xXx

An ATC Inspired Card

Hi Crafters,

Whilst making my latest set of atc's for the swap group over at Jo's blog I had one left over so decided to make it in to a card.

Recipe

Stamp - Personal Impressions - Butterfly Flowers

Archival Brown Ink embossed with clear EP

Inking and colouring of image - Distress Inks

Britannia Die - Happy Birthday Die Cut

Stampin' Up Modern Mosaic Embossing Folder for Background

The background was created by embossing with the EF and then inking gently over the raised parts with Vintage Photo DI and then clear embossing powder added to define the pattern.

The image itself was stamped and heat embossed then I coloured the butterflies and flowers with Distress Ink markers. All matted and layered on to brown and gold card.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafting From The Heart - #90 ATG

One Crazy Stamper - Feb. ATG

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Things With Wings

Butterfly Challenge - #48 Butterflies + S is for Stamping

Well folks, what a mixed bag of weather we've had today. Woke up to a very sharp frost this morning but then the sun came out and it was glorious although still very cold. Mid morning we had sleet and rain a little bit more sun and this afternoon we've had hail and snow flurries. I wonder what tomorrow will bring?

Hope you are all fine and warm.

Lorraine

xXx

Take Flight Butterfly

Hi Everyone,
Although it's winter outside my thoughts are with Spring days, colourful flower borders, birds and butterflies. I really can't wait for the better weather to arrive. So with that in mind I created this birthday card.

 

I used my Spellbinders Butterfly Magic die and then cut out another butterfly and layered it on top. The background was plain white card inked with Distress Inks and mica powder for the shimmer.

I'm entering this in to the challenge at Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes.

I'm off to catch up with some blogs now so see you all soon,

 

Lorraine