Butterfly suncatcher

Good Morning everyone

Its the first Friday of the month, so time for a new challenge over at Creative Artist Mixed Media challenge where the theme is always anything goes as long as you mix your medias

Ive had these empty mini perfume bottles for years, with the idea of using them for a project so the time had come to have a go......Ive made a butterfly suncatcher out of printed acetate & alcohol inks and used the mini perfume bottle for its body.

Approx size 6x6" (15x15cm)  I used a lovely printed acetate by stamperia which is really thick & strong.  I made a butterfly template from paper, drew around it with alcohol marker onto the acetate and cut out....removing any access pen marks with blending solution.

I then coloured the back of the acetate with Ranger tim holtz alcohol inks using a rainbow of colours.   Once dry I used a alcohol marker blender pen to remove some of the colour from some of the patterned areas which I then coloured with contrasting colour alcohol marker....this helps the pattern stand out a bit more and makes it more interesting to look at than block colour.

I added chuncky gold glitter paste around the outside edge of the wings - this really is glittery when the light hits it.

I filled the perfume bottle up with mini gold tube beads, wrapped with a little gold craft wire, adding a loop to the back to hang it up from.  I then adhered the bottle to the wings with some pinflair glue gel which I know lasts well in a hot sunny window so won't fall apart as the little glass bottle is quite heavy in weight.  To finish I added lime green cabochon gems to the top and bottom wings

You can see the colours better here.  What with the glitter paste, gems and gold beads the light really dances around and sparkles.

Not the best photo but this is showing it in a window with the light coming through.  With the weight of the bottle it hangs forwards a bit which actually looks like a butterfly in flight

Showing the first stage of colour with the alcohol inks

and the little bottle

Items Used:

Stamperia 'clear print' acetate 'sleeping beauty' range SBA410

Ranger Tim Holtz alcohol inks

Promarkers

Cosmic shimmer Ultra sparkle texture paste 'sahara gold'

gold tube beads

Gold soft craft wire

Mini glass bottle

Hop over to Creative Artiste Mixed Media to join in with your anything mixed media projects - cards, atc's, Journals all welcome as well as assemblage pieces - as long as you use at least 3 different medias.

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2025/04/ellibelles-garden-party-no-2-anything.html - #2

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https://creativecraftinguncles.blogspot.com/2025/04/64-anything-but-card.html

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https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/ltccb-86-anything-goes-ltccb-85-winner.html

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https://paper-rocks-scissors.blogspot.com/2025/05/may-4-challenge.html - I used scissors to cut out the butterfly from acetate

 

A Partridge in a pear tree

Good Morning everyone

My first Christmas cards this year using this fab partridge in a pear tree die from crafters companion. 

approx size 6x6"

I had this matt metallic silver card for nearly 15 years so decided it was time i did something with it - So i coloured it with my alcohol inks in shades of blue and green - this totally transformed it into something i liked.  I then cut the partridge die from this card.  

From cream pearlised card (another one that needs using up!!) i die cut my base card and a smaller frame.  As the partridge die cut is square, I adhered the frame over it and then cut off the excess at the corners and then added to the base card.

I die cut just the partridge part of the die again, added more colour and detail with alcohol markers so that it stands out and then decoupaged it onto the base image.  I added green alcohol marker over the pears in the background and then covered them with stickles glitter glue.

Stamped sentiment and added top and bottom of the frame to finish.

When the light hits it it comes to life with the metallic which still shines through the alcohol inks

Items Used:

Crafters companion die - 12 days of Christmas range 'Pretty Partridge' 

nesting die set

Tim Holtz Alcohol inks

Alcohol markers

Ranger stickles 'crystal'

Thank you for stopping by once again.  I hope you all have a great week. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/10/cut-it-up-challenge-314-inspired-by-song.html - 12 days of Christmas song

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https://kraftychickschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/10/krafty-chicks-challenge-737-

christmas.html

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https://12monthsofchristmaslinkup.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-115-anything-goes-christmas.html

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https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2024/10/october-2024-challenge.html

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https://creativeinspirationchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/10/creative-inspiration-challenges-19.html

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https://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-602-fur-or-feathers.html

 

Happy New Year

Good Evening everyone

I hope you all had a good Christmas, due to life and ill health I haven't been able to post for a while so im doing a mass upload of my Christmas cards so that I have a record of them.

Wishing you all a Happy and more importantly a Healthy New Year. 

Christmas Poinsettia's

Using up offcuts of acetate, i had some folded thin strips which i adhered between folded strips of white pearl cardstock - these were also offcuts from making card blanks.  Sentiment stamped with iced spruce distress ink using Lisa Horton stamps 'festive flurry sentiments'.  Tim holtz tattered poinsettia die used to cut more offcuts of acetate which were coloured with red alcohol inks. 

Version 2 - the holly was die cut from silver mirror card which was coloured with green alcohol inks  Cheerylynn holly die    Gold gems added for some bling.  I used lightly patterned papers for  my inserts which show through the acetate panels

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Christmas patchwork

Using Lisa Horton 'Diagonal square background' 'LHCCD073'  I die cut lots of little offcuts & scraps from various Christmas papers, green pearl card, red satin card and gold mirror card and paper pieced them together.

Ideal for batch making and very therapeutic to make.

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Nativity

Woodware 'rejoice' stamp set  I have stamped the image onto white vellum and coloured the back with alcohol markers.  Used DL nesting dies to make a frame and mounted onto a white card blank.  Touch of glitter glue added.

The same but different colourway

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Winter berries

aall&create stamps 'squiggles' #498, MFT christmas sentiment die, star die.   I stamped the berries with a green ombre ink pad and inked the edges with the same ink, matted onto a dark green pearl cardstock and then my white base card.  I then raided my scrap box and die cut the sentiment from red satin card and the star from white and gold mirri card and layered up.  Glitter then added to the berries to finish. 

Sadly the photos don't do the satin & mirror cards justice

This version is gold mirri for the sentiment, red satin for the star outline and gold glitter card for the stars body.

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Father Christmas

Using Katzelkraft stamps 'reindeer sleigh' 'SOLO144' , hunkydory snowfall acetate I stamped the image and watercoloured with my derwent inktense pencils and cut out.  I used an Ivory violet pearl cardstock for the base, frames and sentiment.  Using a Christmas paper pad from the works (called let it snow) for my inserts which also acted as the background showing through the snowfall acetate on the front. Sentiment is an old magazine freebie which i stamped with a blue ink so softer than black. 

Different colourways

Thank you all for popping by.  I look forward to getting back into blogland and seeing all your creations this year.  Happy Crafting for 2024! Emmax

 

Shell Nymph

Good Morning everyone

I was honoured to be invited to be a guest designer at creative mixed media challenge

........  I got this lovely pink ink 'shell nymph' stamp for Christmas and decided to make a little wall art with her.  The idea to do an alcohol ink background onto the glass of a picture frame came to me in the middle of the night - I love the effect so think i will be trying it out again. 

Frame approx 7x5"  I first stamped and watercoloured my image with inktense pencils and cut her out and sealed with glossy modge podge.   I then took the glass out of the frame and used alcohol inks on the back of it with colours to co-ordinate with my image, adding some blues and green that you find in the sea.  I stencilled some seaweed onto the front of the glass with 'diamond' cadence dora paint which has an amazing shimmer finish when it catches the light. 

I put the decorated glass back into the frame and started building up my scene, adding shape to the nymph and attaching onto the glass with glue gel.  I then dug through my collection of beached combed items to add some shells, sea glass and small piece of driftwood, i also added a couple of stamped shells from the stamp set.

Too finish i added touches of glitter glue to her wings and tail.  I now think this will make the perfect present for my eldest niece when her birthday comes around. 

I added white paper behind the glass in the frame to really help the alcohol ink colours pop

this is the glass once decorated with the alcohol inks on the back and stencilled seaweed on the front.  This dora paint is really sparkly but hard to capture in the photos

and just showing it in the frame before decorating.  The recess of the frame is nearly 2" deep so a good platform for my little scene.

Items Used:

Pink ink stamps 'shell nymph'

Foliage stencil

Ranger alcohol inks

Cadence Dora paint 'diamond'

Derwent inktense pencils

White posca pen 

Shells, driftwood, seaglass

Please do pop over to https://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.com/ to see the gorgeous design team creations and join in.

 Thank you all for stopping by.  I hope you all have a lovely Easter weekend whatever you get upto.  Hugs Emmaxxx

Embossed acetate

Good Morning everyone

In my January craft sort out i came across these dry embossed alcohol inked acetate panels that were already attached to black card frame - I made these panels years ago and they just got hidden away so now was the time to use them.  I also came across these lovely mechanical butterfly die cuts that a crafty friend had sent me and the 2 just seemed the perfect match.

I first die cut acetate into spellbinders label1 shape and put through a sunray embossing folder, i then added alcohol inks in pinks & purples and let them do their magic.  I die cut a label1 frame from black card and adhered the acetate to the back of it, added foam tape around the frame edge, then a white die cut to the back and then glued flat onto a larger black die cut.  By adding the white layer behind the acetate it helps the ink colours to really pop.

I die cut my card base using a larger spellbinders label 1 from white card.  I added the butterfly die cut with some aurora borealis gems on his body.  Some white pen dots to each corner & a tim Holtz chat sticker to finish.  This card might have taken 4 years to come together but i was pleased with the outcome and its always satisfying to finish a half done project.

This really shows the vibrancy of the alcohol inks and i love how the light plays on the acetate with the different heights of the embossing

and a 2nd version which id used more sunshine colours - i guess at the time i thought sunray embossing folder so sunshine alcohol ink colours😀

Items Used:

Spellbinders labels1 & grand labels1

Sunray embossing folder

Butterfly die cuts 

Tim Holtz alcohol inks

Tim Holtz chat stickers

Acetate

White & Black cardstock

Posca white pen

Thank you for stopping by.  Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/01/miucb-63-anything-goes-optional-no.html

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https://creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/01/challenge-60.html

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Oh Christmas Tree

Good Morning everyone

Today is a couple of Christmas cards using alcohol ink coloured mirror card and a glitter texture paste stencilled background which is very hard to capture in the photos😀

White linen card base.  I took a piece of white card and lavinia pods stencil with stamperia artic ice texture paste and put to one side to dry.  On gold mirror card i added various green alcohol inks.  Once both were dry i cut the icy background to fit my base card and added little piece of green mirror card behind top and bottom and adhered to base.  I die cut a wonky stitched square from green mirror card and a larger white linen card, i mounted both on the card front, along with another little offcut of of the green to the top to just help break up all the white.   I die cut a little tree from white and added to the green square.

Stamped sentiment die cut into a stitched circle adhered to the top left corner.  Green glitter dots to embellish to finish.

I think you can just make out the icy stencilled background, it really does sparkle in the light

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and version 2, blue & purple alcohol inks onto silver mirror card.  I used a snowflake stencil and added the arctic ice direct to the card front.  Once dry i added a white die cut square and smaller square die cut from the blue inked silver mirror card. I added thin slivers of the blue mirror top and bottom. Stamped sentiment added with foam tape, i used a hole punch on off cuts of the mirror card to make little faux gems to finish.

I think you can just make out the snowflakes in the background and how the light really plays on the alcohol inked mirror card

Items Used:

Tree die - very old magazine freebie

Wonky stitched square dies

Stitched circle die

Tim Holt alcohol inks in blues and greens

Stamperia artic ice texture paste

Lavinia stencil 'pods'

Funky Fossil stencil ' snowflakes'

Clearly besotted sentiment stamp

LOTV sentiment stamp

CraftUK ltd white linen cardstock

Ranger stickles - lime

Thank you all for stopping by.  Emmax

Id love to enter my first card in the following:

https://christmaskickstartchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/11/challenge-68-trees-trees-trees.html

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https://52cct.blogspot.com/2022/11/november-stash-challenge-dt-call.html

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http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/2022/11/one-word-prompt-shine.html - My mirror card is shiny as well as the icy texture paste background

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https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2022/11/anything-christmas-or-winter.html

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