Serene In Green

Good afternoon all and hope you have a lovely sunny day as we've had on the South coast. I actually managed to eat lunch in my sun lounge as it was so warm.
A quick post today with my entry for this week's Play Date Cafe challenge which is a colour splash - black and white with a splash of whatever you fancy this time.

As you can see, I decided on green for my simple card. I made a background panel with white card embossed with the gorgeous Craft Concepts Wings butterfly folder and adhered this to a white ribbed card  with a small piece of green paper trimmed with the Martha Stewart Arch Lattice border punch peeping out.
I stamped the grasses from the My Paper World set (Flowers and Butterflies I think) in black and cut this out with a Nestabilities scalloped circle doiley . I die cut a further one from green paper and stuck them together so that the circles overlapped. I stamped the butterflies from the same set and coloured them with a Meadow Green Promarker. The stamp set is from the Craft Barn.
I made a central partial border with a strip of green card and a piece of white punched with the Martha Stewart Linked Trim double edge punch (my new toy and I love it!). I finished off with some green pearls.

Thanks for looking,
Fliss xx

Paper Scraps Galore

Hello everyone, hope you've all had a good start to the week and have somewhat better weather than the rain we have on the South Coast.
I'm a happy bunny as most of the nasty book work is now out of the way and I've got a bit more time for some crafting. I've had a great time playing with some more of the paper scraps that you may remember from last week and have made a few cards for various challenges.
First up is a pink and green combination (one I really love) that I've made for the Craft Barn Wishing Well Challenge 2 which is to use your paper scraps (do have a look as there are several tutorials with some very inventive use of those never ending bits and pieces). I'm also going to enter this one in the current Papertake Weekly Challenge which is Anything Goes + Flowers.

Most of the scraps involve Distress inks - no surprise there! This is combined with some gold embossing and scraps of paper made using my Distress Ink Grunge Background Technique (see side bar). I stuck the finished weaving to some double sided adhesive film and sprinkled Ranger Tarnished Gold embossing powder in the gaps and melted. I finished off with some paper roses and pink pearls. The sentiment by Hobby Art was stamped on a further scrap and embellished with more pearls.

The next card is for this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge which is black and white with a splash of lilac and chosen by Sarah Anderson with this lovely photo inspiration:

This card came about as I had a piece of decorated card intended for another project which wasn't quite right for it but it came in very handy here. The black and white design is some roses from Clearly Inspired's Stencil Flowers set and the border came from an Artemio set.
I cut out a heart shape using a template I made a scrap of lilac card in my scraps box which was stamped with Hobby Art flowers in lilac. I embossed this with the Cuttlebug Kimmy Luvs folder and added a mat of plain lilac. An old earring in purple shades added a finishing touch.
The greeting was stamped on a further scrap of lilac card with Memento Grape Jelly ink and is by Anita's.

Finally, I have a card made using the sketch for this week's Clean and Simple Challenge and makes use of yet more scraps.

The scraps used here were made by applying inks direct to hammered texture card which leaves a slightly bobbly textured pattern. I then stamped the Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz flourish on with a darker toning ink. I can't tell you which colours I used as it was a while ago but I think the inks are VersaMagic chalk inks.
To finish, I simply added some matching threads and a Hero Arts greeting panel coloured with a Promarker.

Thanks for looking,
Fliss x

Walkies Card

Hello everyone, hope you're having a good weekend so far and the weather isn't too bad. It's just windy here at the moment after yesterday's horrible rain and I got totally soaked when I popped out to do a bit of food shopping - so wet I had to change clothes when I got home as my jeans were dripping wet half way up the legs!
I've managed to finish a card for a few challenges using a sweet image as bought last year and had yet to use. Partly as it's more cute than I normally go for but something about it appealed to me. I've used the colours from this week's Play Date Cafe challenge:

I've combined the colours with the lovely sketch from Papercraft Star:

 

I've moved the sketch around just a little so that my image is facing onto the card:

The stamp I've used is by Penny Johnson for Stamp A Vie and I stamped the girl and her little dog in VersaFine Smokey Gray ink. I then coloured the image with Prisma pencils, blending with Zest It and I found a great tutorial by Chris Dark for The Craft Barn on colouring with pigment pencils really helpful. I need a lot more practice before my colouring is as good as Chris's and you can find the downloadable PDF here.
I made the card up using papers from the Die Cuts With A View Linen Closet collection which I really love as the colours are so soft and pretty. The blue scalloped border was embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder and I added a further scallop punched with a Martha Stewart deep edge punch.
I finished off with some lace and a flower made from some vintage French bias binding that I found in a flea market in Brighton a while back - the centre is an altered Prima flower with a vintage button.

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:
The Play Date Cafe Challenge 64 colours
Papercraft Star Sketch Challenge 28
Lets Ink It Up Challenge 8 - Anything Goes
The Craft Barn Colouring Challenge
Thanks for looking!