Fluttering butterflies

Good Morning everyone

My 4th niece Kitty-Bea will be 5 this week - thats scary where the years go, I got to spend some lovely time with her and her sister last week for half term and they are getting so grown up. 

For Kitty-bea's card from my parents ive gone for full on butterflies with a surprise hiding inside with a spiral pop up design

6x6" white cardbase.  I picked a paper with subtle rainbow hues for the front and die cut lots and lots of butterflies from patterned papers in a rainbow of colours.  Die cut the birthday sentiment and 5 today from white card matted onto gold glitter card circles and then arranged the butterflies.  I added a touch of glitter glue to the butterfly bodies.

and inside.....I actually did the inside first and then decorated the front.  I used panels from the same soft rainbow hued paper.  I then die cut a circle from acetate Id saved from some plastic packaging.   I then used scissors to cut a spiral into the middle of the circle.  Using red liner tape I attached one end of the acetate spiral to one side of the card, once that was secure i added red liner tape to the other end and closed the card onto it, doing it this way meant it was lined up perfectly so closed nicely without catching. 

I added large die cut gold glitter flowers over the ends of the acetate spiral to hide the glue and help keep them in place, i added a few more of the gold flowers around the panels.

I then arranged the butterflies onto the acetate spiral, gluing 2 back to back so that they clamped the acetate between them and looked nice from all angles.  I added lots of little butterflies and some flat orange gems to the centres of the flowers. 

Computer printed sentiment die cut into an oval to write the greeting on to finish. 

You can see the flying butterflies better here

Not having made anything like this before i was rather pleased with the effect and i think Kitty-Bea will have hours of fun opening and closing it

Items Used:

Sizzix  butterfly die set

memory box mini butterflies die

flower & birthday sentiment dies

Sizzix  oval die

Ranger stickles 'unicorn'

Papermania orange glitter dots

12x12 make&create paper pad 'ombre'

Thank you all for stopping by once again, I hope you all have a good week. Emmaxx

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Red Poppies

Good Morning everyone.

When looking through my large dies i found these spellbinders grand labels4 that ive hardly used and knowing how much they cost all those years ago im now on a mission to get some use out of them...hopefully you won't get sick of seeing them😁

For these 2 little cards, i die cut the labels 4 and folded in half.  1 is die cut from card coloured with brushos and 1 is plain white using the brusho'd card for the mats. The poppies were die cut from scraps of white card and coloured with alcohol markers.  Stamped sentiment and mini butterflies i had on my desk to finish.

This poppy was smooth white card coloured with alcohol markers. I added a little glitter glue to the butterflies for a little sparkle.

It stands up well.  Think i will make a few more like this for a bit different shaped card

Are this poppy was cut from a scrap of pearl cardstock, i used the same pens to colour them both and it looks totally different.  The pearl still shines through when the light hits it.  

Showing it stood up, i added a coloured paper insert to pick up on the colour of the poppies

Items Used:

Spellbinders Labels4, Grand labels 4 & fancy labels 4

Pennyblack poppy die

Brusho's

Alcohol markers

CraftUK hammered white cardstock

Thank you all for stopping by once again. Hugs Emmax

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Tulips

Good Morning everyone, i hope you had a good weekend and not too much snow - so far no sign of the snow in Cornwall.

Its not often i use a magazine freebie or actually any craft product not long after receiving it but this lovely tulip embossing folder and tulip die inspired me

Card size 6x5"  I used white pearlescent card.  The embossing folder actually has a circular section in the middle which i didn't want to use here so i cut 3 panels and just placed them where the tulips are on the folder.  For this card i decided to use the debossed side, i took alcohol markers and added a little touch of colour to the flower heads and leaves - as its pearl cardstock the pen is slightly slower dying that i then had time to gently smudge it with my finger to give a nice soft edge to the colouring.  I added those 3 panels to a purple paper and then my cardbase. 

I made a pot for my tulips using an oval shape die which i cut down and added a little strip of paper to the top to add a rim to my pot.  I then die cut lots of pieces for the tulips, coloured with alcohol markers - the shimmer from the pearl card still shows through the alcohol markers. I then arranged them.  Stamped greeting and a few mini butterflies that were left over from a previous project to finish.

Just a close up - i added a couple of tulip buds - i just cut down the main tulip pieces after die cutting.  Not sure i will use the tulips too often as a bit too fiddly for me but the embossing folder is gorgeous. 

Items Used:

Tulip magazine freebies - Simply cards&papercraft issue 213

Sizzix oval die

Memory box mini butterfly die

Clearly besotted sentiment stamp

Payper box White pearl cardstock

Purple patterned paper - the works

Alcohol markers

Thank you all for stopping by. I hope you are holding on in there.  My dad & I got our texts this week to book our vaccinations so getting there slowly.  I hope you all have a good week.  Stay safe.  Hugs Emmaxxx

 

Fairy Shaker card

Good Morning everyone.

Thank you for all your amazing comments on my memo block last week.   Today im sharing a shaker card made with the fairy in the jar die.  Do you remember my fairy suncatchers? Well i made this fairy at the same time, i coloured the back of the acetate with alcohol inks in sunset colours and have now made it into a card. 

 I added the words ' Leave a little sparkle whereever you go' which is similar to my cats life motto of 'leave a little fur whereever you go'😊

7x7 scalloped cardbase.  I first die cut my jarred fairy from black card and backed with acetate, i then coloured the acetate with alcohol inks.  I die cut several more of the fairy die from black card and cut out the fairy so i just had the outside jar, i glued these together to make a little stack, i then used this instead of shaker tape and glued to the back of the acetate - as the outline of the die is so thin it would have been hard work trying to stick foam around it.  I then filled it with micro beads and glitter and backed with white card. 

I matted a piece of patterned paper onto black card and then the cardbase.  I added a strip of black dotty paper across the bottom to 'stand' my jar on.  I then die cut lots of those little left over scraps of paper into ivy and little butterflies and arranged them around my jar after inking the edges of the ivy.    

Close up on the fairy. I paper pieced the flower on the jar with scraps of glitter card & I added glitter glue to her wings to add more sparkle  Once again i don't recommend capturing your fairies in jars, this lady is free to come and go as she likes😁  

Items Used:

Intricut (hobbycraft) fairy in a jar die

Ivy dies (brittania & joanna sheen)

Memory box mini butterfly dies

Tim Holtz alcohol inks

Tim Holtz chit chat stickers

Pattern paper

7x7 scalloped card - craftUK ltd

Diamond stickles 

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you all have a good week whatever you get upto.  Spring is on the way and the nights drawing out a bit. Hugs Emmax

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Alice Shaker card

Good Morning everyone.

Today im sharing a shaker card i made for my nieces 4th birthday, can't believe Alice is 4, she is growing so fast. Alice's favourite colour is purple so ive used purple mirri card, sadly the photos don't do it justice. 

A5 white cardbase. I first started by printing the name Alice direct onto some lilac birthday script cardstock.  I picked a font that would be easier to cut out with a craft knife as i don't have any large alpha dies. Once printed i carefully cut around the inside of the printed line so that it left the outline to help define the word for little Alice to read.  

I then backed this piece with acetate and then foam tape, i went around each individual letter with the foam tape. placing this face down I then put different shades of sequins and micro beads into each letter.  I backed this section with lilac cardstock. I then mounted this whole panel onto purple mirri card and added to the base card. 

I computer printed the sentiment and age in grey with a black outline onto white card, cut out and mounted onto more purple mirri card.  I then die cut lots of tiny butterflies from the purple mirri card and added around the cardfront. 

You can make out the purple better in this one

A close up on the shaker part.  No matter how many shaker cards i make its always a case of either not adding enough shaker bits or adding too many, sometimes i get it just right.  Could have done with a few more sequins in the 'A' but im sure Alice won't notice😀

This is just to show you the font i printed direct onto the lilac card.  In my graphics program serif craft artist i edited it so that i just had a thick outside line and the middle was blank, this made it so much easier for me to hand cut it with a knife, i cut inside the line.  Not being very good with a craft knife i needed it as simple as possible. 

Alice's birthday is on Saturday and i have my invite, so looking forward to that. 

Items Used:

Anna Marie birthday script cardstock

Mirri card - chocolate box purple

White card craftUK ltd

Memory box mini butterfly dies

Acetate

Shaker pieces - sequins, glitter, micro beads

Thank you for all stopping by and your well wishes, im on the mend.  Mojo not completely returned so ive been having a serious sort out of my craft stash - a job well done i think.  I hope you all have a good week and can keep cool if its hot with you. Emmax

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Neon Butterflies

 Good Morning all.

Now that the problem with the challenge link up tools seems to have been sorted out i can once again join in some challenges.  So i really wanted to join in the neon rainbow over at rainbowcardchallenge

I do have some neon card somewhere - obviously in a very safe place😀, i then had a brainwave and found my neon highlighter pens and had a play.  Only a couple of the colours seemed to like playing with water so i decided to just use them like marker pens to colour in white card.  Im rather pleased with the effect so think i shall have to use the pens again in the future. 

I also decided to make an Acetate card blank for a change too.

I folded a piece of A4 acetate in half and cut to 6x6" for my cardbase.  I die cut a white frame and attached to the acetate front with foam tape.  I then die cut lots of butterflies from white card and coloured them with my neon pens, on some i coloured the solid base layer and on others the fancy lacy top layer, I then glued the 2 layers together.  I then arranged them on my acetate front.  I then die cut lots of tiny butterflies and arranged.  Neon glitter gems to embellish.  

'Embrace Everyday' chit chat stickers attached to a little patterned paper and then the card front to finish.  I went with Embrace Everyday as the butterfly makes the most of their short lives and we need to appreciate everyday and the magical world that is around us.  

From this angle you can hopefully make out how i only attached the insert to the spine & left the rest loose so that the light can shine through the acetate and the butterflies kind of look like they are floating.

It took me ages to find a suitable patterned paper to use as my insert to match in with the rainbow theme and that went with the butterflies.  I decided on this watercolour effect paper in a bluey/purple shade to add the last couple of rainbow colours.  So i folded the single sided paper with the pattern on the outside so the pattern shows through the acetate. 

Butterfly close up, i added two layered butterflies to the middle one.  I only glued them all in the middles so the wings are free.  I added a touch of glitter glue to the centres of the small butterflies. 

Just a photo to show the neon highlighter pens i used and the butterfly dies.  The sizzix butterfly set is one of my most used as you get several sizes and a bottom solid layer and a fancy top layer which can also be used on their own.  And of course my memory box mini butterflies - again one of my most used dies. 

Items Used:

Sizzix Butterfly die set

Memory box mini butterfly dies

Square frame die

Hunkydory acetate

Papermania 12x12 patterned paper

Papermania Neon glitter gems

Stickles Glitter glue - diamond

Tim Holtz chit chat stickers

Neon Highlighter pens

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and get to see some sunshine. Emmax

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Poppy Birthday

Good Morning everyone.  I hope you had a good weekend.

Today im sharing a birthday card made with the lovely poppy die. Mostly made out of snippets and left overs again.   Always feels good to make a small dent in the scrap box😀.  That is my plan for this year to try and use as much of my scrap box as possible.......

5x7 White cardblank. For the background i started with 2 pieces of small card, the green script piece and blue polka dot, in the end i cut the green piece in half lenghtwise and the polka dot in half shortwise.  This just meant as i knew they would be part hidden behind my topper that i could 'stretch' them to make the pieces look bigger.  I mounted them onto a piece of chocolate birthday script card and then the base. 

The white window die cut was left over from my Christmas cards.  I backed it with a piece of beige birthday card.  I die cut poppies from red and yellow left over pieces.  The red is candied apple oxide ink and the yellow is fossilized amber and marmalade oxide inks, they had been stenciled over the top in the same oxide inks.  I added one whole poppy die cut to the left panel and then made up the rest and the yellow ones by cutting the die cut poppy up into the poppy heads and then arranged them in the window panels.  

Green foliage die cut from green inked card scraps and mini butterflies also from little scraps of blue inked cardstock. Glitter glue highlights and gems to finish.  I haven't added a main sentiment as the background is covered in Happy Birthdays to get the message across. 

Close up, you can really see the stencil detail in the poppies.

Items Used:

Pennyblack Poppy die

MFT window frame die

Memory box tiny butterfly dies

Foliage die

Birthday printed card, polka dot card - Anna Marie designs

Oxide inks

Stencils

Stickles glitter glue, diamond & waterfall

Thank you all for stopping by, i always enjoy reading your comments too.  I hope you all have a good week.  Hugs Emma

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alohafridaychallenge/139-in-garden.

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Alices 3th Birthday

Good Morning all, i hope you've had a good week. 

Today is my Niece Alice's 3rd Birthday,  She is Unicorn and Flamingo mad so i had to make cards with them on.  Purple is also her favourite colour. So we have purple flamingos which she always calls 'Mingo's' 

I first die cut a dark purple spellbinders labels 1 die cut, approx 6x6" in size and folded it in half.  I then die cut the next size down from white card and the next size down from this fabulous purple pattern paper.  I thought it had a bit of a tropical feel.  

I then die cut a smaller scalloped labels 1 and added it to the front with foam tape.  I die cut 3 'Mingo's' from card coloured with violet oxide ink and purple pixie powder.  I added these to the front.

Computer printed sentiments die cut into circles.  I added touches of glitter glue to the background flowers - what little girl doesn't love glitter.

Showing it stood up.  Only the bottom half of the white panel is glued to the purple base.

A close up of the purple Mingo's, i had also cut 2nd wings for them and shaped before adding to the body.

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and onto the second card i made - yep Unicorns.

The glitter unicorn is actually a sticker i found in a discount store, i used a purple pen on his mane, horn and tail. 

White die cut stepper card, i then die cut a cloudy sky paper and added to the front.  I turned the circle birthday sentiment into a shaker pouch.  I added orange card behind to act as the sun, i filled it with orange micro beads and silver glitter.  I added this to the cardfront and then added the unicorn.

I die cut  'Alice & 3' with alpha dies from silver glitter card and purple card and offset,   The number 3 i mounted onto a white circle and then silver circle.

Lots of tiny butterflies cut from orange card.

Just showing it stood up

Close up on the shaker part.  Hopefully Alice enjoys shaking it.  

Items Used:

Presscut stepper card die

MFT birthday circle die

Flamingo die (magazine freebie)

Spellbinders grand labels 1 & scalloped labels 1

Spellbinders circle dies

Memory box mini butterflies

Crafters Companion Alpha dies

Silver glitter Unicorn sticker

Thank you for stopping by and all your comments, I always appreciate them.  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  Emma

Flower Pots

Good Morning everyone and im back, glad to see my scheduled posts went ahead as planned while i've was 'away'.  Thank you to those of you who popped by, I will catch up with you all soon.  

Today im just sharing a little best wishes card i made for a friend just to let them know i was thinking of them. 

DL white card blank.  I cut a white panel slightly smaller than the card front and stamped my greeting, I then embossed the top section above the sentiment with a brick style embossing folder.  I die cut the flower pots twice from white card, i coloured all of the first one with alcohol pens and then just the pots on the 2nd one.  I then cut the pots out and mounted on top of the first one with glue gel to add some dimension. 

I die cut lots of little butterflies from scrap of card coloured with the same colour pens.   

A close up of the flower and pots, this shows the true colour better.  I added touch of glitter glue to the flowers. 

Items Used:

Unbranded Flower pot die
Memory box mini butterfly dies
Sizzix embossing folder
Phill Martin sentiment stamp

Thank you for stopping by, I haven't done any crafting for about 3 weeks now so need to find some mojo. I hope you all enjoy the bank holiday weekend. Emma



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