Butterfly Challenge #194

 It's quite a while since I took part in the Butterfly challenge so I thought I'd pop in with this recently made card.  The theme is D for decoupage, die cuts and a range of colours, details of which you can see by following the link.  I'm playing along for fun because I only managed the die cuts and of course butterflies 😊.  I cut an oval aperture into a piece of cream pearl card and backed it with a leafy die cut.  Two butterflies were stamped, coloured and die cut and the sentiment was cut twice and glued together to give it a bit of stability.

Leaves - die by Stampin' Up
Oval - die from Tonic nested ovals
Butterflies - stamps and dies from Globleland (Amazon)
Sentiment - unbranded die

Rudolph Days Challenge

 The Rudolph Days Challenge is a great opportunity to make Christmas cards through the year, thus hopefully avoiding a mad dash in December..  You can read all about it if you follow the link.  I've made a Christmas scene here and haven't added a sentiment because it sort of speaks for itself.  I cut the frame into a piece of white pearl card and backed it with some snowflake design paper; added a die cut hill and then the little reindeer on his sledge.  I felt it just needed something extra so added some tall trees and a tiny bird from my bits box to perch on the lamp post.

Frame and Trees - unbranded dies
Sledge and Reindeer - Gummiapan dies
Hill - die from MFT set

Allsorts Challenge #773/4

 The theme for the two-week  Allsorts Challenge  is **Keep it Simple** or of course there is always Anything Goes as an option.  I've been trawling through my collection of magazine give-aways and have pulled out a set from 2018 which I thought deserved an airing.  It's a collection of dies including the pretty cut our circular design and a selection of small leaves, flowers and butterflies.  I cut a backing to fit my card and backed it with an embossed panel before cutting out leaves and butterflies from some scraps (snippets) of card which had been coloured using Pixie powders. A simple computer sentiment and that's it - a simple card for the challenge.

Dies - Card Making Magic magazine free gift 2018
Embossing Folder - not marked possibly Creative Expressions