Pink Butterflies

I have another card to show, and this time I have used a sketch in order to participate in Stampin Royality Challenge 56. I hope it’s ok that I turned the square.




I love butterflies, so I’m happy about how the card turned out.
I’m adding this card to Crafty Creations Challenges - Let's heat it up, since my card has warm colors and I also heat embossed all of the butterflies.





EK Success Border Punch Open Scallop

These are the supplies I've used:

Paper: Bazzill cardstock, Prima "Flirty Little Secret - Ruby". Self-made paper using "Pink Bubblegum" Glimmer mist by Tattered Angels.

Stamps: Amy R Butterflies from All That Scraps (Discontinued). I stamped the butterflies with Ranger distress Embossing Ink, added Bridal Embossing Powder and then heated it up with my heatgun to get the result shown. The sentiment was stamped using Tsukineko Memento "Rich Cocoa"

Punches: EK Success Open Scallop Edger Punch

Dies: Spellbinders Lacey Squares.

Embellishments: Basic Grey "Swish" half pearl embellishments. Flowers from Kort&Godt.

Thank you for being my friend

I have another card to show today. I’m adding this to City Crafter Challenge Blog ~ Week 41 Sew Fun! This is the first time I applied sewing on my card, and although I need some more practice, I really like the look. I’m also participating in Paper Sundaes Challenge 53
These are the supplies I used:

Stamps: I don’t know the name of the stamp with the dancing figures, but I got it from Kort & Godt. The butterfly is Heartfelt Creations’ HCPC 2264: Swirl Mystique Butterfly precut set. I stamped the butterfly with Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Pad. I then added Bridal Embossing Powder and heated it up with my heatgun. The sentiment is from AmyR Stamps Friends Sentiments from All That Scraps.

Dies: Spellbinders Nested Hearts Shapeabilities. Spellbinders Nested Butterfly Shapeabilities.


Thanks for looking!

Friends are the flowers in the Garden of Life

Hey, I’m back! I’ve had some time off from school the past 2 days and I’ve outdone myself with creativity. So now I have a few cards to show off. I feel such a development with my card making, the first cards I made are so different from the ones I make now (and I’m thankful for that).

I decided to play along in the Paper Players Challenge this week, which is a sketch.
I’m also participating in Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge – FTTC102, where you’re to add some kind of hardware to your card/project. I really like my metal flower!

These are the supplies I used:

Paper: Prima Jack n’ Jill Collection “Summer Meadow”, Kort & Godt “Fryd Oliven”, Bazill Bling

Stamps: AmyR Stamps Friends Sentiments from All That Scraps.

Dies: Spellbinders Lacey Circles Nestabilities, Spellbinders Fancy Tags One

Embellishments: Flowers from Kort & Godt, metal flower from Panduro Hobby. Ribbon, pearls.

A Black and Purple Affair

I have a new card to show today, and I’m gonna enter it to several challenges:
Totally Papercrafts Challenge #42: Make a card with a black and purple color theme."Just Us Girls" technique challenge: Make a gatefold card.Cute Card Thursday Challenge 138: Anything goes.Crafty Creations challenge 93: Use buttons.Wee Memories Challenge #31: Use patterned paper.
City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 30: Make a Thank you-card.

I made my card to apply to all of them, and this is the result:
Front:

Stamps: AmyR Stamps Friends Sentiments from All That Scraps, stamped using Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black.

Dies: Spellbinders Labels Three, Labels Nine and Fleur de Lis Pendant.

Embellishments: Favorite Findings Buttons - Victorian Hearts from Joann's. Ribbon.

Paper: Bazzill Cardstock, Daisy Bucket Black Tie Affair.
Punches: Martha Stewart Doily Lace Deep Edger Punch and Martha Stewart Doily Lace Edger Punch.

 Inside:


I really like black and purple together. I notice that my ribbon looks a bit blue in the pictures, but I can assure that it’s purple in real life.
Thanks for looking!


- Kaia -

A lot of purple flowers

I decided to join in on the Timeless Tuesday Challenge(FTTC91) over at Flourishes this week.
I’ve also added my card to Wee Memories scrappy Saturday challenge, this week’s theme is “Free for All”.

For the Timeless Tuesday Challenge, the card submitted were supposed to be inspired by a Cafe Baudelaire print (click on the picture to get to this picture on Etsy).

Now how was I inspired by this picture? I noticed the soft purple color and wanted to use a lot of purple on my card. I also saw how the motive was framed in, so I wanted my focus point to be framed in as well. The folds on the dress inspired my ribbon. Then there was also some flowers, so flowers became a big part of my card too.

This is what I came up with:
Front:
Stamps: I used “Floral Swirl” from Clear Dollar Stamps as my background. I first used my minimister filled with Tim Holtz Dusty Concord Distress Reinker and water, and sprayed the background. I dried it with my heat gun and then stamped the image. The background was colored by Letraset Promarkers, color purple, amathyst and Marsh Green. My sentiment is from AmyR Stamps Friends Sentiments from All That Scraps.
Dies:Spellbinders Lotus Borderabilities Petite, Classic Lace Border Grand, Big Scalloped Border Grand, Fleur De Lis Pendant and Fancy Tags.

Embellishments: I used Tim Holtz Liquid Pearls White Opal to mark the center of my flowers, as well as a brad to hold my ribbon together.

Detail:
Inside:Stamps: Again I sprayed white paper with Tim Holtz Dusty Concord Distress Reinker and water. I stamped HCPC 3323 - Large Elegant Word Background PreCut Set with Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Pad and used my heat gun to dry it. You can’t really tell from my photo, sadly.
Dies: Spellbinders Decorative Photo Corners.

Thanks for looking!

For a sweet friend

This is the card I’ve been working on most recently. I’ve finally included the supplies I’ve used. My favorite is the sentiment: “A friend is somone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words”.
Front:



Stamps: to make the background I used the stamp “Floral Swirl” from Clear Dollar Stamps. I stamped the image with Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Pad. I then used my heat gun to dry the ink. Afterward I dipped the sheet of paper on my crafting mat, which I had sponged with Walnut Stain Distress Ink Pad (also from Tim Holtz) and sprayed water on with my minimister. I then dried the paper with my heat gun.

For the sentiments, they both came from AmyR Stamps Friends Sentiments from All That Scraps. Both sentiments were stamped with ink pads from Tsukineko Memento. ”For a sweet friend” was stamped with “Rich Cocoa”, and the other sentiment was stamped with “Rose Bud”. I bought the inkpads from Joann.com. I also added some Victorian Velvet Distress Ink around the rectangle.

The little leaf under "A friend” is from the Rosebud Scrolls set from Clear Dollar Stamps. I’ve sadly forgotten where I got the two other small decorative stamps next to it, so if anyone recognize them, let me know so I can give credit to the company.

Dies:I’ve used several dies from Spellbinders, including a little die from the Renaissance Hearts Shapeabilities Pendants, a die from Labels Nine Nestabilities and one of the Large Decled Mega Rectangles. The flowers were made using several sizes of the Peony Nestabilities. I used a pink stamp pad from Colorations to color them, called the “jumbo washable ink pad”. I bought this ink pad at a dirt cheap sales price at the local book shop, and it was definately worth the very little money I spent. After finishing the flowers, I added some Tattered Angels Glimmer mist (Color: Pink Bubblegum).

I also used a die from Heartfelt Creations called HCD 702: Decorative Butterfly-Border Diecuts. To add some color to the butterfly I used the jumbo inkpad, and also added some color from the Brilliance Pigment Ink Stamp Pad (color Pearlescent Orange), and some Smooch ink (color: Molasses) by Clearsnap.

I bought the ribbon at a local store and I don’t remember the name of the company.

 Inside:

Dies: The flowers were created just like the ones in the front. Using glue dots I fastened them to a Spellbinders die, the Large Decled Mega Rectangles. I cut out 2 of these, just one size bigger than the one at the bottom. That way I can write a note to my friend in the middle.

At last I decorated a bit with a few rhinestones called Basic Grey Bling It! Rhinestone Embellishments (Color: Pink).

That’s it for now, but I’ll hopefully be back soon!