Glittered Jade Butterfly

This card was made in two stages. I originally made the background and layout for my spring wedding carriage card but it wasn't quite right so i ended up taking that image off (and creating a new background for it) and replacing it with this glittered acetate butterfly that seemed a lot more in keeping with this background.

Products used:

• Stamps: PSX Butterfly, Hero Arts Foliage and Script Background Stamps.
  Paper: Acetate, Coredinations cardstock and stamped/embossed backgrounds
  Embellishments: Card Candy, Ribbon
  Tools Used: Green Peewee Glitters, Nestabilities, Encore Metallic Jade Ink, Clear Glitter Embossing Powder, clear detail embossingpowder.

I am entering this card for these challenges.

• Cupcake Craft Challenge #94 - Dazzle (Mon 7 June)
• Everybody Art #94 - Things with Wings (Tue 8 June)
• One Stop Craft #59 - Make Your Own DP (Sat 5 June)
• Challenge Up Your Life #22 - Critters and Bling (Sat 5 June **)

Carolyne

Wedding Carriage

This card was made as a spring wedding card, i have reused an old layout I really liked from a challenge a couple of months ago.

Products used:

• Stamp: Lilly of the Valley
  Papers: DCVW Nana's Nursery (Boy)
  Embellishments: Card Candy, Ribbon
  Tools: Prisma Pencils, Clear Glitter, Nestabilities

I am entering this for the Stamptacular Sunday challenge #64 - I Do (Sun 6 June)

Carolyne

Popcorn Reading

Haven't managed to upload anything for a week or so as all the cards I've done have had a lot of mirror card on and i've not figured out a way to successfully photograph them yet without the reflection ruining the pitures.

Decided to try out one of the Popcorn stamps I bought aged ago, i bought about a dozen of them but have only used a couple of them. I tried colouring this one with Prisma Colour Pencils which had worked a lot better than my previous attempts at colouring Popcorn.

Products used:

• Papers - Paper Adventures, HOTP
• Stamped Images - Popcorn the Bear
• Embellishments - Black pearls, Black Grosgrain Ribbon, Satin Edged Organza Ribbon.
• Tools used - Primsa Pencils, Paperstumps (for blending), Nestabilities

I coloured the images using Primsa color pencils and blended using sansador, the image and backing panels and background paper with black card and finished it with the two ribbon and the black pearls.

I'm entering this for these challenges:

• Allsorts 50 - Animals (Sat 1st May)
• Sketch Saturday 101 - Sketch (Sat 1st May)
• The Crafty Pad 69 - Ribons (Sun 2nd May)
• Pile It On 17 - Boyish Colours (Sun 2nd May)

Carolyne

Springtime Fairy

Yet another image I've never used before, I used promarkers again on this one and although I wasn't sure whilst i was colouring it I think it's ended up ok.

Products used:

• Papers - Daisy D
• Stamped Images - Whiff of Joy
• Greeting - Cuddly Buddly Stamp
• Embellishments - Paper Roses, Punched out leaves
• Tools used - Promarkers, Distress ink (Bundled Sage), Leaf Punch, Nestabilities, Sanding block.

I coloured the images using Promarkers and used stickles for her wings, cut the image & greeting and some mats out using nestabilites, edged the main image & greeting with distress inks, distressed the mats using a sanding block and finished it with punched out leaves and paper roses.


I'm entering this for the following challenges:

• Whiff of Joy 75 - Green & Yellow (Wed 14th April)
• Sketch Saturday 99 - Sketch (Sat 17th April)
• ABC Challenge - S for Sparkle (Wed 14th April**)
• Cute Card Thursday 108 - Touchy Feely (Thurs 15th April)

Carolyne

Bumblegirl

This was yet another stamp that i had to have when i saw it and months later had still failed to use (I have no idea why as I think she's really sweet). As she's such a strong and modern image I decided to use promarkers for this one to give a brighter look.

Products used:

• Papers - Anna Griffin and Deja Views
• Stamped Images - Sugar Nellie Gorguss Girl
• Embellishments - Gingham Ribbon and adhesive gems
• Tools used - Nestabilities, Promarkers, Stickles, white pen for stitching

I coloured the images using promarkers and added stickles to her wings. The image was cut and bordered using nestabilites and the two square patches were edged with mock stiching using a white pen. I finished the card with a toning gingham ribbon & bow and corners made from adhesive jewel corners.

I'm entering this for the following challenges:

• Everybody Art 86 - Paper Patch (Tue 13th April)
• Allsorts 48 - In Stitches (Sat 17th April)
• Papertake Weekly - Cutie Pie (Tues 13th April)

Carolyne

Butterfly Girl

Haven't done any card making for a week or so (I managed to burn my hand on a frying pan so was out of action for awhile).

I've had this stamp for a while but have never got round to using it before and thought she went really well with the soft pastel look i was going for with this card.

Products used:

• Papers - Melissa Frances and K&Co
• Stamped Image - Sugar Nellie Homegrown
• Embellishments - Paper Roses, Punched out leaves, Ribbon
• Tools used - Primsa Pencils, Distress inks (Bundled Sage), Leaf Punch, Nestabilities, Paperstumps (for blending), white pen for stitching.

I coloured the images using Primsa color pencils and blended using sansador cut and bordered it using nestabilities and also cut out the two exra circles of co-ordinating decorative papers, edged them with distress ink and finished with punched out leaves and paper roses.

I'm entering this for the following challenges:

• Sweet Sketch Wednesday 45 - Sketch (Wed 14th April)
• Stampavie and More 90 - Butterfly (Wed 14th April)
• Your Next Challenge 14 - Stitching (Wed 14th April**)
• One Stop Craft Challenge 76 - Things With Wings (Sat 17th April)

Carolyne

Schoolgirl Tilda

This cards is using an image that someone had stamped for me quite a while ago (before i bought any Tilda stamps). Unfortunatley at the time I wasn't happy with any of the images I coloured as they were stamped on the back of hammer card and I couldn't get a good effect with the watercolour techinques i was using.

As i thought this image was really sweet I thought i'd give them a try using my Prisma Pencils - The effect isn't quite as good as on the smooth white card i've been using to stamp on but I think its turned out ok.

Products used:

• Papers - Paper Adventures, Papermania & DCWV Cardstock
• Stamped Images - Schoolgirl Tilda
• Embellishments - Pearls, Paperflowers, Ribbon, Beadcap and Pearl Brad
• Tools used - Primsa Pencils, Swirl Stitching Template, Paperstumps (for blending), Nestabilites

I coloured the images using Primsa color pencils and blended using sansador, cut the oval mats with nestabilties, used a swirl stitching template to guide what pattern to lay the pearls in and finished it with layered paper flower bead cap and pearl brad.

I'm entering this for the following challenges:

• The Sweet Stop 50 - Sketch (Sat 3 Apr)
• The Play Date Cafe 23 - Blue (Wed 31 Mar)

Carolyne