Butterfly

A simple butterfly card to share with you today with some die-cut layers.  Backing paper is from a pad which I've had for such a long time - think it was from K and Co. Core-dinations card square layer cut using  Tonic dies; circles are from Spellbinders.  The image is an embellishment from a Polkadoodle CD and has been printed twice so that it could be cut out and layered with a simple sentiment added.

We are back to sunshine although thankfully not as hot - enjoy the weekend whatever you are doing.

Silhouette

The idea this week on Make My Monday is to use a silhouette on the project so I've used one of my favourite silhouette stamps - the agapanthus from Stampendous which is a versatile image.  This time it was stamped once then repeated without reinking which gives some perspective.  Distress inks were dusted across the cut out shape (Stampin' Up label from Sizzix), then I simply added a sentiment and a couple of  stamped and punched butterflies (SU).  Background paper is from Prima, overstamped with the agapanthus.

House of Cards

We are into the second month with House of Cards and this time we have a sketch to follow and as this is the first week of the month we are back to CUTE AND FUN.  I've chosen an image from Polkadoodles - well two actually because I've combined the girl with the fence because I thought she needed something to be sitting on.  Backing paper is from a free pad I acquired recently and an EK Success punch was used for the border strip.  The simple addition of a couple of punched flowers with card candy centres; a computer greeting and there we have an approximation of the sketch.  Do take a look to see how their design team members have interpreted this by folllowing the link above.

Eat Cake!

I have another House Mouse design to share today - just love this little mouse tucking into the doughnut!!  The backing paper is not stuck on at a jaunty angle - that's the way it is printed as a sort of wavy gingham.  Border is an X-cut punch and the words were produced on the computer to fit this oval punch from Stampin' Up.  Have a good weekend - what's left of it.

Addicted to Stamps

As the theme this time on Addicted to Stamps is 'anything goes' I decided to show this card which should fit the bill.  The image from Polkadoodle is one I'd stamped a while ago which came to the surface during my tidy up and hadn't been coloured. I used Coloursoft pencils and then added a bit of glitter to her glasses and the spots on the toadstool.  Various oddments of paper were gathered together and combined along with some paper clay roses (coloured with Distress marker to match) and a couple of stamped and cut out butterflies.  These had been made ages ago when I acquired the stamp set from Clearly Besotted and were lurking in a little plastic box just waiting to be rediscovered!

Men Only!

There is a new challenge called The Male Room which launched today in which everything has to be male orientated - it seems male projects are the ones which people struggle with so it will be great to see lots of inspiration from the design team and of course the people who join in. For the first one they've eased us in gently with an 'anything goes' theme and for my card I've used a free stamp from Docrafts (Papermania) which has been stamped three times, embossed and layered for dimension.  I designed the background paper using various blend modes in Craft Artist so I didn't want to cover too much of it with lots of embellishments. I simply added a computer greeting with a couple of die cuts which I 'found' when tidying my work space.  I really enjoyed making the backing paper and was prompted to do this because Michelle has been on Create and Craft this week with Craft Artist pick of the week and seeing her demonstrations always fires me up to use the programme more. It is a shame really that there has to be so much 'waffle' in these shows rather than 'wall to wall' demonstrations but sadly that's the nature of shopping channel shows - after all they are there to sell!!

More Paper Piecing

This second card for the Make My Monday challenge is the more traditional kind of paper piecing, where a pictorial image is stamped and some of the elements are then re-stamped and cut out of coloured or patterned paper.  This was a free stamp which came with a magazine a while ago and not used until now but I thought it would be ideal for this technique where I've cut out the clothing and the little patches from coloured paper.  The remainder of the image was coloured with Coloursoft pencils.