Blingy Butterfly #124

 I've scheduled today's post as I'm off at Stamford today providing a craft stall and make & take at a Lacemakers Guild.  This is the project that we'll be making.  This is a lovely little card design that I've used many times as you can adjust it so easily to suit your own stamps.  It works very well too with flowers - and not just stamps but die cut ones too.

I started with cutting a card blank - size it to suit your envelopes (allowing room if you plan to stick your flowers/butterflies off the edge of the card).  I like to make these on a vertical fold card.  I started by stamping my butterfly  - a Woodware set called Bubble Butterflies.  These are such a versatile design and they are also available as a peel-off sticker too!  You can colour the bubbles with whatever you like - Promarkers, Stickles, Liquid Pearls, Sakura Pens or use Large Gems or Card Candii - or a mixture of everything!

Before I decorated it I cut out my butterfly shape.  I then used a mixture of everything to decorate is sticking to my blue, green and red theme.

I stamped the Chocolate Baroque Floral Edges border in Versafine Blue and then the Amazing Greeting (Saluations set from Woodware) in Versafine Green I tied a blue ribbon around the top of my card.

Once dry I stuck my butterfly onto my card. 

here is another variation of the same design....

happy crafting

Jane
www.aldridgecrafts.co.uk

Woodware Rosehip Wreath stamp

Yes... I got a new stamp... can you tell!   One of those stamps that you see and straight away have loads of card ideas.  I had a fab crafting session at the weekend and managed to create these 7 cards.... and I still have more ideas I haven't had a chance to create yet!

We'll be creating a Rosehip Wreath card at this week's Attleborough Craft Club (this Friday 6.15-8.30) as part of the make and take - so if you fancy a dabble, come and join us (call 01953 454976 for info).

If you would like this stamp - click here to find it on our website! - it's a bargain at just £4.05!

Now ... onto the cards...

Silver sparkle embossing powder, watercoloured Stardust in the background, Berries coloured with ProMarkers

Background created with Distress Paints, Embossed in Black, Liquid Pearls for berries

Embossed in Black, Colour added with Promarkers, Accented with Crystal Stickles.  Memory Box Dies used - Precious Snowflakes, Tessatina Border and a little card candi to finish

Embossed in White.  Edged with Brilliance Moonlight White.  Die used is the tessatina Border from Memory Box cut into little squares

Stamped in Plum Archival ink onto an old dictionery page. Accented with gold liquid pearls

Embossed in Silver, Patina Gilding Wax added to the background, Gold liquid pearls on the berries

Stamped in Archival Library Green, Berries coloured with Sakura Glaze Hunters Green

One stamp - so many possibilities!

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happy crafting

Jane
www.aldridgecrafts.co.uk