Monday, May 21, 2018

Twofer - Butterflies

Hello!

Time to play in Darnell's Twofer Card Challenge #5 - Butterflies.  This challenge is thoroughly enjoyable ... making two cards for one challenge.

The cards presented are in the Birthday and Get Well categories.   The common element is the solid butterfly die cut from MFT Fancy Butterflies.

Card 1 - Happiest of Birthdays.  The butterfly was cut from a watercolor panel spritzed with water and color shine and half of it was adorned with gear die-cuts cut from the same watercolor panel and embellishments randomly placed for a mixed media look. A gear and enamel heart embellishment were adhered to the center. The butterfly was attached to an embossed wood-grain panel then adhered to the larger stitched rectangle panel. A simple birthday sentiment finished the card.

Card 2 - sending get well wishes. The butterfly was cut from a Distress Oxide Ink blended panel.  The companion to the solid die-cut butterfly was cut from vellum.  A few gemstones in the colors of the solid panel were attached to the spine. The butterfly was attached to a framed panel with an embossed inset using the MFT Grosgrain Texture Board.  A simple sentiment completes the card.

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Card Stock - Recollections
DP - Vellum - Recollections
Dies - MFT
Stamps - MFT
Embossing Folder/Board - MFT; The Paper Studio
Inks - Distress; MFT
Embellishments - from stash
Other - Color Shine - heidi swapp


Saturday, May 12, 2018

CAS Watercolour - You Did It!

Greetings!

The CAS Watercolour Challenge for May is Rainbow.  My rendition includes the following:

On a white panel the rainbow explosion was created using a stamp from MFT Distressed Patterns using a variety of Distress Inks. After stamping, each of the colored areas was placed lightly into water spritzed onto my craft mat to enable the colors to slightly blend/run.  When the rainbow panel was dry, it was over stamped with a Water Droplets Background stamp.  The white panel was created using Stitched Cloud Edges die and trimmed with black using the same die. The sentiment is from Hero Arts.

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Wish everyone a wonderful Mother's Day!

Card Stock - Recollections
Dies - MFT
Inks - Ranger - Distress; MFT - Hybrid
Stamps - MFT; Deep Red; Hero Arts