flying butterfly pop-up card

Hi friends. 

Lately I've been working on cards that are a bit different than your typical A2.  I love cards that have something unique about them.  Splitcoaststampers has a tutorial section that has fun techniques, as well as cards that have unique folds or are interactive.  Of course, there are many other sources for fun cards as well.  Pinterest is another favorite of mine, although sometimes it's disappointing to follow a link only to find no instructions. 

The instructions for this card I have to show you today were found on Jill Berry's blog.  The way the card is put together makes the butterfly wings flap.  Very fun. 

I made one for my man for valentines day, and he couldn't figure out how to make the wings flap, so I decided to add the word pull on each edge. 

Isn't it fun.  If I knew how to do a video, I'd show it in action, but I haven't figured that out yet.  Maybe someday... 

Thank you so much for taking time to stop by. 

fan club challenges part 3

Hi friends.  Here are some more of the cards I made for the dare to get dirty challenges on SCS. 
Some butterflies from Our Daily Bread Designs. 

I'd never inked this bee stamp before. 

The dress form and ruler stamps were rummage purchases this summer.  The button is made from layers of cardstock. 

Thanks so much for stopping by. 

faux washi tape

Hi friends.  Today's technique challenge on SCS was to use tape. 

I like the look of washi tape, but don't have very much.  Since I have no blue, and that's what I wanted to go with my card, I made my own washi tape using scor-tape and a coffee filter.  I filled one side of the filter with the scor-tape.  Then I used several different blue distress stains to color the filter.  After drying it with my heat gun, I cut apart the strips of tape and then stamped some patterns on some of the strips, using ribbon stripes from Gina K Designs.  The one real disadvantage of this faux washi tape is that it is permanent; you can't lift it off and move it like regular washi tape.  The coffee filter is also less transparent than regular washi tape. 

I inked the background (leaf & floral - hero arts) with bashful blue & misted lightly with water before stamping. 

The main image is from don't worry (our daily bread designs).  I used inktense pencils and a water brush to color it. 

Thanks so much for stopping by. 

butterflies

Hello my friends.  Although it's still Monday, by the time I finish this post, it will probably be after midnight, so technically I'm not doing two posts in one day.

This is a card for another challenge from Our Daily Bread Designs.  This challenge was to make your own embellishments.  I made some faux brads by punching out little circles of black card stock with my crop-a-dile and then covering them with two coats of clear embossing powder.

The butterflies (ODBD) are stamped on shimmery white card stock that had been spritzed with water and then dropping ink refill on the wet card stock and allowing it to run and blend together.  I cut them all out and mounted them on mega classic ovals from Spellbinders, using some dimensional tape underneath the wings.  Behind that is a lotus pendant (Spellbinders) die cut from Basic Grey Indian Summer paper. 

Thanks for visiting.

make music

Happy Monday, my friends.  The weather here has been lovely - cool nights and warm days.  I love fall.  I am loving the wonderful colors on the trees.  Today, my challenge card for Our Daily Bread Designs is all about fall colors. 

My card base is cajun craze.  The background is wrinkle free distress - a piece I had done about a week ago while playing with my distress inks.  Colors are mustard seed, rusty hinge and shabby shutters.  The edge is faux stitched and sponged with ruby red ink. 

Stamps used are ODBD Don't Worry and Sing to the Lord. I stamped the flowers twice, once on the background and once on a piece of white.  I colored the flowers with sponges using summer sun, tangerine tango and ruby red ink and cut them out to glue over the image stamped on the background.  The stems were colored with certainly celery and old olive. 

The black gingham ribbon is retired SU.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you have a wonderful week.

don't worry

Happy Wednesday, my friends. It's another gray day here, but it's great to know there's a silver lining behind those clouds.

I have a card today that I made for a challenge on the Our Daily Bread Designs blog - ODBDSLC57 - no coloring.

I stamped the flowers in royal purple stazon on a piece of pattern paper from a really old stack. Then I die cut it with spellbinders labels six. For layering, I also cut a lacey circle from eggplant and embossed it with textile embossing folder, and cut a parisian motifs from ivory. I used dimensional tape between the layers. I also added some pearls on the ivory and dp layer.

I stamped the sentiment in dusty concord distress ink and added a row of pearls by that. And then I added a very thin strip of eggplant cardstock for a little balance.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a blessed day.