K @ Butterfly Challenge

Today's card is for Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge, and its the letter K for Kinetic, I'm really enjoying learning how to do these card shapes. Full details are on the butterfly blog.

So again, I chose to do the card shape plus butterflies, I was going to do this black & white but then decided to do it red & white, although the ink looks more burgundy to me, so I stuck to that shade.

Swirls & card verse Honeypot Crafts

Main topper from magazine freebie

Stazon Blazing Red ink

Tattered Lace mini dies

Pink & White pearls

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Amanda xx

Z is for Zero and/or Zucchini

Zucchini??? Sounds like it should be a vegetable? Sure there's something similar...

Its actually hues of yellow through to green, which meant I had an ink pad exactly for this challenge, I bought it for another colour challenge, can't remember now, but once I got it home I realised it wasn't what I had wanted to use.

Very simple to do, I stamped the ink pad round the sides of the card, used another piece of card cut to size and stamped the Butterfly on it. Waited for the card to dry and then stuck the butterfly down. Finished off by adding the gems and sentiment.

the Butterfly stamp is a prize from a previous Butterfly challenge -  for doing both the letter and the colour.

To fit the challenge I have used the yellow to green stamp pad and the zero is in 2017.

I accidently smudged an edge of the white card as I was putting it on the card, so I softly smudged the rest of the edges to match.

6x6 white card blank

DoCrafts shading pigment ink

white card

Sheena Douglas large Butterfly stamp

The Hobby House taupe gemstones

computer generated sentiment

 

 

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mothers day card

Mothering Sunday is this weekend in the UK. Sunday 6th, so I needed to make a card for Delia.

And shock!horror! going doily free for this.

baking paper - Gecko Galz 'Coquette' design kit paper no5

image - Gecko Galz 'Victorian Spring' design kit icon no 20

old postcard

Wildfire wood white pearls

Lace

flower lace

hobbycraft small white posy

encore metallic ink in bronze

pigment ink in black

Xcut corner punch

Using CAP2, I resized the backing paper to fit a card slightly smaller than A5 and then sized the image. Printed out, cut out and then fiddled with the design till it ended up as you see in the finished project. I choose a blank backed postcard and then rounded the edges using my corner punch. I smudged both inks over it to make it look a bit shabbier, did the same with the image as the whiteness was too much against the other colours used. I stuck the postcard down, then lay the lace over and then finally glued the image down. Everything else was then stuck down.
The sentiment was done in CAP2 also, colour matching the blue from the little girls bow.

Hope Delia likes it as much as I do.

I is for ink

Following on from the atc, this is the card I was doing when the idea of the background for the atc popped up.

I spotted a card somewhere on the grand old web which had a similar design effect and thought that would look nice on card for 'I is for ink', but because I didn't have a stamp design like that, I had to come up with an alternative............ bubble wrap!

 

piece of bubble wrap

Stazon Blazing Red, Vibrant Violet and Jet Black inks

HobbyCraft white pearls

Create and Craft sentiment stamp

 

I inked the bubbles up a couple of times with the Red and then pressed the wrap to the card with a little bit of pressure to ensure (ie hope) it printed and then carefully peeled it off.

I wiped the remaining ink off the bubbles and repeated the process with the Violet.

 

Before I stuck the backing paper down, I inked the edges of it with the Violet.

 

Using the B'fly die, I cut two from the white card snippets in my stash, and sponged the Violet ink over them, this is where I had the idea for the atc as it left a lovely white outline surrounded by the smudged ink on the scrap.

 

Placed the b'flies onto the design and glued down so the wings were raised up slightly, then stuck the gems on them.

 

Finally I stamped the sentiment on.

 

Pretty simple card, looking at it now, I think next time I won't use as much ink on the bubblewrap and make it look more faded.

 

I didn't put an insert in, but I did use the same technique using a Tattered Lace mini b'fly die and the Violet ink.

 

As this is going to be a birthday card to a friend and I had already wrote in it before taking the photo, I have rubbed out the wording.

 

 

 

Update - I now have a similar designed stamp which came free with the latest issue of DoCrafts. Happy coincidence ; )

 

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