Floral Get Well

I was having one of my regular tidying sessions and came across this pretty floral image from Lily of the Valley (I think) so decided to find a few more bits and pieces to make a card.  I cut out the picture and the backing using dies from Stampin' Up, and the label for the sentiment was cut from the same scrap of pink.  Backing paper was from my stash and I also had a couple of stray corners to use up so popped them on.  I'm off now for yet another desk clearing exercise because my actual working space has reduced to such a tiny space .... again ... it happens to most of us I guess!!

Butterfly Challenge

I wanted to make a card for the Butterfly challenge HERE where the theme is alphabetical and this time around it is for Buttons and/or Bronze.  All sorts of ideas were going through my head until I remembered I had some paper with a design of pearl buttons but of course it took me a while to actually find it!!  Once found I then had to think about the bronze aspect and luckily I have some bronze acrylic paint which I used to paint onto a piece of black card.  When this was dry I die cut a couple of butterflies and lightly sanded to show up the embossing before backing them with a cream layer.  For the cream layer I embossed the card using the die and then carefully cut out with scissors. I've used a brown card with a slight bronze shimmer to cut out an oval and die cut a cream floral spray to which I've added the butterflies.  Scraps of the card were used for the sentiment and some matching gems added.

Background - paper from K & Company acquired many years ago!
Butterflies - Crafter's Companion die
Floral Spray - Tonic die
Sentiment - stamped and cut with Stampin' Up punches

Pixie Snippets Playground 220

I can't believe it is time for the Snippets challenge again but it really is Sunday again already - time flies when having fun doesn't it!!  For my card this week I've used up various bits and pieces, some of which were left over from previous projects because I always seem to make too much background or cut too many die cuts and of course when building a card there are always opportunities for changing my mind leaving me with piles of snippets..  I had a spare and lonely flower which had been stamped and embossed before cutting out with scissors and found a toning piece of background paper before scrabbling around amongst my snippets to find enough bits for the rest of the card.  The square frame turned out to be wrong for a previous card so that was brought into play; I had a die cut border strip lying around so I put some double sided sticky onto a scrap of white card before cutting a backing for this border using the outer edge die from the set.  The sticky was then exposed and matching silk glitter was applied to this piece before using it to back the fancy part of the border.  The sentiment was one left on a sheet which I'd printed; this was die cut using an oval and finally I found two more snippets of the white pearl card to cut a backing for the sentiment and a couple of leaves.

Do take a look at the pretty card from Di this week - who doesn't just love House Mouse??

Frame - Sue Wilson Noble pierced squares dies
Border - Gemini die from Sue Wilson
Ovals - Spellbinders dies
Flower - Sue Wilson stamp (shaded peony), leaves Britannia die

Snippets Time Again

Another week has just flown by and it is time for the new challenge in the Pixie Snippets playground and Di has made us a pretty Easter card for inspiration this week - also of course using items which form the prize if you are lucky enough to get your name picked in the draw.  For my card this week I used a fairly large snippet to die cut a background square which I inked to show up some of the detail before removing the die. This was backed with another large snippet of coloured card. The flowers were stamped onto snippets of white card and although there is a matching die set for these I don't have it so they were snipped out with scissors.  The centres were die cut from snippets of coloured card to match up with the ink used for stamping the flowers and sentiment.

This card also fits the floral theme on Stamping Sensations this month so I'm popping it on there as well so two challenges covered with one card!

Background - Create-a-Card die by Crafter's Companion
Flowers - Shaded Peony stamps from Creative Expressions
Sentiment - Stampin' Up stamp on die cut using Marianne die
Flower Centres - All about the middles dies by Tattered lace
Colour - Pool Party card and ink pad from Stampin' Up

Layered Stamping

Layered stamping is so much easier these days using photo polymer stamps with no need to fiddle about with stamp positioning gadgets although of course I do find them useful when I can't see through the stamps and often make use of the one I have.  I spotted a card similar to this on You Tube and decided to make my version but in different colours and with different stamps details of which are given below.

Floral Stamps - What I Love set by Stampin' Up
Other Stamps used - Textured edges Creative Impressions, splats from French Foliage SU
Greeting - wooden stamp with no name on die cut tag (Sue Wilson die)

Using My Prize

As well as the lovely heart stamp set used on yesterday's card I also won a Gemini die as part of the prize recently and that is what I've used on this card.  The card was inspired by one spotted on my friend Jill's blog where she had used three circles for her flowers and this is my design using the same stamp set.  Jill has also made two other cards using these same floral stamps so do take a look.  The flowers were stamped onto white card before cutting them out using dies and adding pearls to the centres.  The blue layer was cut using the border die and the top section was embossed.

Stamps - Wild About Flowers by Stampin' Up
Dies - squares by Crafter's Companion, Border Gemini die by Sue Wilson
Embossing Folder - Sue wilson

Pixie Snippets Challenge 218

My lovely Pixie Snippets prize arrived during the week and I've used one of the stamps on this anniversary card along with some snippets of paper and card.  The hearts were stamped onto the background then stamped again on some toning paper so that I could paper piece them.   The die cut couple were cut from a snippet of white card and backed with card in the same design as the paper pieced hearts, with the largest heart then being cut from a left over snippet so that it could be raised up for dimension.  Details of items used are below as usual..

Papers and card - printed from Funky Hand Papercraft Factory programme
Die - Tonic
Stamp - Woodware Wedding hearts
Sentiment - computer generated, Sue Wilson Die and Stampin' Up punch