Butterfly Love @ OSAAT

Good afternoon!
Told you I would be back today with another card to share :) I have my second Design Team card with One Stitich At A Time and I think it turned out so pretty (I'm a bit biased though lol). Our challenge this week at OSAAT is Challenge #128 'Use a Digi'.

 I made an easel card for the DT this time (I just love this type):

View of whole card

 

Close-up of shimmery bow and flowers

 

 

Close-up of the image

 

Isn't this glittery flower just gorgeous?

 

Another picture of the whole card

 

Challenge #128 is being sponsored by:

If you enter our challenge with a Stitchy Bear Store product you could win our mini collab set of images used by our DT this week. Dont forget to put a # after your name if you use one of our products in your entry, just so that Choccy doesn't miss you.

If you havent got a SBDS image you can still enter and will go into a separate draw to win $3 to spend at our store :O)

Make sure you stop by all the other DT creations for this challenge and give them some love ;)

 

Card Recipe:

Image: SBDS 'Butterfly Love' by Stitchy

Patterned Paper: Bo Bunny 'Sophie'

Cardstock: Bo Bunny Double Dot 'Coffee Vintage'

Ribbon: Recycled

Flowers: Prima (pink) & EK Success Jolee's Boutique (glittered)

Ink: CTMH 'Cocoa'

Rhinestones: Dollarama

Stamps: CTMH  'Say it in Style' & 'Curly Sentiments'

Medium: Copics - C1. C3, C5, E31, E33, E39, G00, G02, G05, R000, R01, RV52, RV63, RV66, RV69, Y15 & Blender Pen

 

 I am entering my card into the following challenges:
The Paper Shelter - #78 - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - #231 - Bling It Up
Addicted To Stamps - #37 - Recycle Something (the ribbon is from roses my hubby sent me)
Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - #13 - Add Some Bling or Sparkle
Forever Friends - #43 - Anything Goes
The Crazy Challenge - #127 - Anything Goes
Pile It On - #35 - I Spy Something With P..... (Prima flowers, Pink & Patterned Paper)
The Poodles Parlour - Winged Things
3 Girl Jam - #1 - Butterflies & Bows
ATC's & Cards With Attitude - #21 - Anything Goes
Crafting Life's Pieces - #50 (I left the sketch right side up this time)

Psssst!!! Also, you still have plenty of time to enter the current challenge over at Technique Tuesday - Baby Wipe Re-inker. It is an awesome technique! So, dig out those re-inkers and give it a try; you know you want to.
Thanks so much for stopping in today to look at another card of mine. I am hoping to get back again this week with another card; maybe a Christmas one next time. Until then.......
Hugs xo

Analogous Holiday

Hi again! I am back with yet another Christmas card; I am having a lot of fun with all of the Christmas challenges this month. Did my title stump you? When I first saw the word 'Analogous' it sure stumped me! According to my friend Mynnette, "Analogous colors are colors that sit in a group of three right next to each other on the color wheel. We usually use these combinations when doing monochromatic artwork." Mynnette challenged us to do just that, in blues, for this week's Make My Monday challenge. I was able to do that and combine a few more challenges besides for today's card.

Here is my newest card:

Front View

Close up of Glamour Dust on wings & around ovals

Close up of tag with sentiment

Inside of card

 Challenges I am entering with this card:
Pile It On - #30 Tag, You're It
365 Cards - Day 146 Geometry (I used a square, oval & rectangle)
Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Use Non-traditional Colours
Lollipop Crafts - #84 Christmas in July
The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - #12 Tags
Addicted to Stamps - #35 Christmas in July
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Card Makin' Mamas - #50 1, 2, 3 Recipe (1 - image, 2 - designer papers, 3 - embellishments)
Stamping For Pleasure - Rudolph Day - Make a festive card
Cardz TV - Challenge #12 Anything Goes
Always Playing With Paper/Merry Monday - Merry Monday Sketch With a Twist

 Make My Monday - Analogous Colours in Blues

Thanks so much for stopping by again today.

Hugs xo

Cascading Flowers Card

Hello!
I have another new card to share with you again today. Photographing this card was difficult because it kept turning out too bright. All the yellow I guess :( Playing with the brightness setting did not help at all so I finally gave up.
When choosing the colours for this card, I used the Colour Wheel Challenge over at Make My Monday. This week, the colours are yellow, purple and white or cream. I went with a bit of white. The style of this card is "Cascading" and you can find Mynnette's awesome tutorial at Technique Tuesday.
Well folks, grab your sunglasses because here come the VERY bright pics of my card:

Full Front View

Close up of skeleton leaf at top of card

Close up of 2 butterflies and some bling

Close up of handmade tag and more bling

Well, now that I have blinded you all, here is the list of challenges I am entering my card into:

Addicted To Stamps - Challenge #34 Card For Someone Special

Technique Tuesday - Cascading Flowers Card

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - PWC #215 Bling It On

Paper Shelter - #73 Anything Goes

Pile It On - #30 Tag You're It

The ABC Challenge - T for Two (I used 2 butterflies)

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop Blog - #12 Tags

Make My Monday - Colour Wheel Challenge Complimentary Colours Purple & Yellow

I have to dash off for now but I will be back later with the list of supplies I used. Thanks for stopping by again today.
Hugs xo

Puttin' On The Glitz

Good Evening! How are you? Things around here are very sparkley these days. In case you haven't noticed, I have been using a lot of glitter on my cards lately. My poor hubby is reminded every time he looks at himself in the bathroom mirror; although he no longer asks why he has a red, green or blue sparkle stuck to some part of his face, lol.
Now that we have all had a bit of a snicker, lets get to tonight's card shall we. It is another Christmas card that I am sharing and it has a TON of glittery goodness on it :) I even managed to make this one without ANY flowers. This card is pretty CAS I think; funny how that style can sometimes be the most difficult to create. At the rate I'm getting the Christmas cards done with all the fabulous Christmas challenges on here, I may acutally get them sent out this year!
Here is my card:

View of Entire Card Front

Close-up of handmade embellishemnt

Close-up of bird I cut from patterned paper

Even though this is a terrible photo of my card, it does give you an idea of just how much glitter is on the card and how well it sparkles.

Supplies List

Cardstock for base of card and Kraft coloured:  Recollections

Patterned Paper and bird image:  K & Company

Red Glittered Cardstock:  DCWV

Ribbon:  Michael's Crafts

Spellbinders Nestabilities:  "Labels 17"

Punches: "Curly Label" Stampin' Up & "Snowflake" Paper Shapers

Bee Creative Tape Sheets

Red Brad:  Stash

Garden Green Ink pad:  CTMH

Burnished Velvet Technique: Jewel Glitter Ritz in Empire Green, Spice Brown & Celadon

For my glittered card base, I covered the base with Bee Creative Tape sheet cut to fit and covered that with Celadon Glitter Ritz. The glittered embellishment in the upper right corner was made by punching the Curly Label from kraft cardstock and Bee Creative tape sheet. After applying the punched tape to the punched cardstock I used a piece of the non-stick peel off portion of the tape sheet to punch out a snowflake shape and placed this on the center of the taped label. I then covered the exposed tape sheet with Spice Brown Glitter Ritz. Next, I peeled the non-stick snowflake shape off and covered that exposed tape with Empire Green. To complete the burnished velvet technique, use your finger to rub all over the glittered areas to make it sparkle like wild. I added a metalic red brad to the center of my snowflake and some ribbon, thus creating a handmade tag. My tag and bird were attached to the card with 3D foam tape squares to add some more dimension and depth to my card.

I love using the Glitter Ritz and can hardly wait to get more colours to play with. If I happen to notice that some of my cards aren't as glittery after awhile, I just have to rub the Glitter Ritz again and voilah, glittering like new again! I also keep all of the protective covering that I peel off of the Bee Creative tape and use it to punch various shapes from for creating different shape patterns in Glitter Ritz later on. These tape sheets are one product you don't ever want to use in your Cricut machine. The adhesive is super strong and difficult to clean off regular punches, never mind a Cricut blade!!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - June Embellishment Challenge

Crafty Hazel Nuts Christmas Challenge - CHNC challenge 78: let's get inky

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Challenge # 11- Lots of Layers

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Cupcake 198... Birds of a Feather

Pile It On - Challenge #26 - Make your own embellishments

Robyn's Fetish/IDIC Challenge -  # 113 - "NO FLOWERS ANYWHERE AT ALL"

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - It's a Bingo Challenge ( I used the top row: Glitter, Brads & Ribbon)

Fashionista Challenge -  #4 "Winged Things"

Always Playing With Paper - Merry Monday #26 Using their sketch

Well friends, thats it for me tonight; I'm pooped! I haven't been sleeping well the past couple of nights. I think Mynnette and I share this insomnia pattern since she has been complaining of the same troubles lately, lol. I am off to try and relax a bit before fighting with the Sandman again tonight.

Thanks so much for popping by to check out my card.

Hugs xo

Christmas Card

Christmas in purple is something I have wanted to try for awhile now and today, I did. I used the sketch provided by the very talented Mynnette at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.
 Here is the sketch she drew for this week's challenge:

I had a lot of fun with this challenge and the sketch was so easy to work with so I plan to use it again for sure. Just today, I stumbled upon another challenge blog that looks like a lot of fun called
The Squirrel and the Fox. They are located in Australia so you will have to figure out the time difference to enter their challenges. Their current challenge is "Winter or Summer" which gives you a nice choice on what to make. The blog is run by Linda and Tracey and Tracey spells her name just like I do, lol. Pop over there and have a look around as their DT has some awesome creations to share with you.

Here is my card:

View of the whole card

A view of my card from straight on

Close up of the top and some of the flowers

Close up of the bottom

Card when it is closed

I used an image by Sarah Kay again, ( I really like alot of her stamps), and I stamped it onto Copic paper with Momento Black ink. Naturally, I coloured my image with Copics (boy have I fallen in love with these markers...lol!).
Copic Colours: B00, B02, B06, BG10, BG15, BG18, C3, C5, C7, E000, E23, E29, E31, E33, G02, R000, R46, RV23, V12, V15, V17, Y06, YG63, YG67.
Papers:  lilac cardstock - Co'ordinations; striped paper - Bo Bunny; other patterned paper - Paper Pizzazz.
Spellbinders Labels 17 to cut out image and paper behind it.
Flowers:  white with puple spots, lilac & solid purple - Prima; large white flowers - Dollarama.
Rhinestones & ribbon - from my stash.
Snowflakes - K & Company.
Sentiment Stamp - Stampin' Up 'Snow Swirled' stamp set.
Ink for sentiment and distressing edge of lilac cardstock - CTMH Pansy Purple.
Today was also the first time I have ever used my Cuttlebug. I have used Cuttlebugs that belong to other people before but never mine. I have all kinds of embossing folders and currently own 3 different Spellbinders sets so this tool is going to come out of its box a lot now lol.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - sketch challenge #6
Addicted To Stamps - Challenge #31 - Bingo This time I used the top row of the Bingo card: Lilac, Monochromatic & Bling Bling
Simon Says Stamp - Diamond Jubilee - Use Crowns and/or Gems
Crafty Card Makers - Distress It
Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Challenge #11 - Lots of Layers
The Squirrel and the Fox: Challenge #19 Winter or Summer

Well, thats it for me for today anyway. Thank you so much for stopping by to visit me again. I truly enjoy having all of you come by and leave me little comments; I read each and every one of them.
Hugs xo

Summer Flowers

I have always admired handmade flowers. Just think of it.....you would always have a flower to match whatever project you are working on, no matter what paper you were using, if you were able to make the flowers yourself! Well, I finally found some time (courage) to try this little project and I spent a couple of hours doing just that, making flowers. You know what? I don't know what I was so afraid of. These 10 flowers were easy peasy and I will definitely be making these again. In fact, it is the next workshop I will be teaching my Stamping 6 Group, and they are going to love them too.

Here are my very own handmade flowers:

All but 1 of these flowers is made with Close To My Heart patterned papers, cardstock and inks. Some of the flowers have stamped centers, also from Close To My Heart. The rhinestones in the centers of 2 flowers are bitty sparkles from CTMH and so are the brads I've used. I have used the 2 inch scalloped circle punch from CTMH for making 5 of the flowers and the buttons, embroidery floss, silver bow and pink butterfly are from my stash. The sticks the flowers are mounted on are from Michael's and the styrofoam inside the pouch is from Dollarama. I used the George and Basic Shapes Cricut Cartridge to cut out the petals I used to make the purple rose and tCricut Art Philosophy cartridge from CTMH for the pouch. One of these flowers is even made from used dryer sheets!
I am entering this project in the following challenges:
The Ribbon Carousel Challenge -RCC54 - Fancy Flowers with Andrea Ewen 
The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop Blog - May Challenge # 10 - Blossoms and Butterflies
Fashioista Challenge Blog - Challenge # 3 Simply Summer

Addicted To Stamps - Challenge # 31  BINGO - I used the bottom row on the card: "flowers, distressing and no card"

            
 Well, thats it for me tonight. Thanks so much for stopping by my blog.
Hugs xo

A Mother`s Day Card

I finally got another card made! Only 1 more left to make for a Mother and I will be ready for Sunday.

One of the challenges I chose to work with this week is Card Makin`Mamas Challenge 44 - Spring Photo Challenge. Their photo this week caught my attention immediately. Here it is:

This cake looks so yummy. The inspiration I took from this picture is the colours and flowers.

Sketchy Colours had a sketch challenge for us this week. Here is the sketch Marianne designed and gave us for inspiration:

Here is my card:

I just love my Sara Kay stamps and decided to use Zoe Gazing at the Butterfly as my image. I coloured her with the following Copics: B02, B06, B12, E31, E33, G02, R000, RV19, RV23, V12 and Y06. other than the copic paper for my image, all of the other paper is Hot Off the Press. The flowers are Prima and the ribbon is Offray. I used a doily again which is Wilton. I decided to try adding paper leaves with my flowers so I cut them out on my cricut using the Reminisce Accents cartridge and CTMH green cardstock. The gems in the centers of my flowers and up the right hand side of my card are from my stash as is the pink butterfly.

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Card Makin Mamas - Challenge 44 - Spring Photo Challenge

Sketchy Colours - Sketchy Colors #116

Addicted To Stamps - mother's day (card for a woman)

Dream Valley -Challenge 31 - For a Special Lady

Paper Sundaes #119 - Mother's Day

Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - May Challenge # 10 - Blossoms and Butterflies

Well folks, thats it for me tonight. Thank you so much for stopping by to have a peak at my newest card.

Hugs xo