little bit of sunshine

A card full of sunshine and butterflies today, using a challenge theme of zigzags. I can't believe I have no papers with zigzags on, I then went to The Range to see if I could find any washi tape or anything with zigzags. Big fat zero on all accounts!!

Anyway, inspiration struck as I looked around my drawers.... seeing my pinking scissors, well they are zigzagged shaped sort of.

I had bought the butterflies for another craft project, but they were perfect for this sunny day card, certainly brightened up my day making it.

 

Create & Craft Gingham card

white card

doily

pre-coloured flowers

stick on butterflies

black button

gems

 

entered into: butterfly challenge = z is for zigzags

 

puss in pumpkin

Inspired by a tag on Pinterest. I used the colour challenge over at fripperies and butterflies facebook challenge and came up with this.

lime green card

Docrafts flowers coloured with promarkers

Docrafts ribbons

star cluster stamp Teddy Bo & Co

Versa ink black

Build a flower die (little black centres)

Violette Stickers from The John Grossman Collection

corner punch from X cut

hole punch from X cut

left over black card

 

 

As the black card was snippets from another project, I'm entering this into:

 

snippet playground as well.

its all about the numbers

A little-ish absence from crafting, still not back to 100%, but getting a little bit inspired again.

A card done for Mrs A's challenge to use numbers.

 

BoBunny 'Isabella' paper pack

White card

Butterfly die (freebie)

Wildflower Wood pearls

peel offs

 

 

I diecut the butterfly, then without removing it from the base plate I embossed it to make a more stand out feature.

 

 

entered into: butterfly challenge = n is for numbers

Friend

Card done today for a 'Friendship' swap over on DoCrafts using the current challenge over at Butterfly challenge blog - embossing.

 

white card stock

orchid white pearlised card Hobbycraft

"             "          paper     "    "   

stick on butterflies

sentiment from Debbi Moore

Wildflower Wood pearls

Organza ribbon

Crea Motion embossed card

pearl heart - gifted

 

entering into: butterfly challenge - e for embossing

pretty easel

Easel card today, quite bright colours, picked 2 colours to use from this palette -

given to us for Septembers colour challenge over at fripperies and butterflies

 

image from Fripperies & Butterflies

paper from KaiserCraft

coloured  doily pieces cut out from Jodie Lee paper

posy

sentiment from DoCrafts

doily

 

entering in: fripperies and butterflies over on FB - colour challenge

camoflauge

Starting this atc, I had no idea what I was going to end up with, I resized and coloured the image first, then spent about half an hour humming and ahhing with different backgrounds/embellishments and nothing would work. Then I found this gorgeous tissue/mulberry paper (I have no idea what it is).

'Bat-erfly' from Delicious Doodles

orange, black, canary yellow promarkers

 

not much to this atc, as I found it more effective with no embellishments, love the depth to the wings.

 

entering into: wicked wednesday = orange and black

wings of love

As its cold and rainy today, I thought I'd do a nice cheery card - lovely pastel yellow, reminiscent of a sunny day. When I planned this card, the panel was vertical but I couldn't make it look right so I turned it horizontal.

 

 

 

Do Crafts "Summer Bloom" paper pack

Layered butterfly sticker

Do Crafts 'Sunshine' gems

Eastern Treasures ribbon

Do Crafts sentiment

white card

gold tissue/mulberry paper

 

 

 

entered into: butterfly challenge - k is for knots