Pink Painted Butterflies

Good morning all and I hope you are having a good Good Friday! It is actually nice to have some lovely weather on a bank holiday too I cant quite remember when that happened!

Whatever you do and however you choose to spend the day, enjoy it and kick back a little if you can!.

I have a few jobs I need to do but then I can get on with some crafting and who knows I may sit outside for a while...wasps and bugs allowing. That's the downside of being extremely allergic to things....I need to cover up which seems to defeat the object of sitting out! But it's nice to see sunshine.

I was looking through my projects and I found this one I had made in March in preparation for the live shows from the NEC and thought it looks perfect for a day like today. As usual the ingredients and instructions are below.

Ingredients.

Oval  Picot Die and matching plate

Rectangle  Picot Die and matching plate

Linda's Butterfly Plate. GRO-AN-40817-03

Wing Tool

Drop tool

Perga Liners

Fine Paintbrush

Indian summer  designer card

Pastel brads

1. Working on plain parchment, cut an oval using the 5th die and the rectangle using the 4th die.

2. on the rectangle emboss the double lines. IN each corner use the drop tool to make the little flowers . Emboss white work in them. Put to one side.
3. On the oval emboss the 5th and 6th double lines.  Semi perforate around the insides of each double circle using the wing tool and emboss the lines around the perforations.
4. Emboss the flower and butterflies in the inner oval avoiding the perforations. Add colour to the flowers on the reverse then paint the butterflies on the front using Pergaliners. Re-perforate using the wing tool.
5. Cut the designer card with the 2nd picot die. Layer up the two pieces of parchment and attach to the card with brads.

6. Mount on a card blank.

Have a great day everyone

Happy Crafting

Happiness is....

Hello to you all. I have been a little busy this last week so haven't really had much time to blog ...sorry! However I have a few minutes now so thought I would share something with you. 

I am off out later to meet up with a few friends in Hobbycraft in Stockport. We take stuff to do but probably chat more than craft...Hahaha! But it give us a chance to share ideas and look at things each other has done.

Anyway here it the project I want to share with you today. 

Ingredients.

Nested Square plate GRO-PA-40037-03

Happiness is a butterfly GRO-WO-40523-04

Butterfly Plate  GRO-AN-40943-01

Large Dragonfly plate GRO-PA-40899-01

Basic Piercing Grid diagonal GRO-GG-40383-14

Rainbow River  Designer Paper

Perga Glitter

Sticky ink

Mapping pen

1. Working on plain parchment emboss the 5th square. Emboss the poem and the butterflies in the square. Emboss the butterflies on each corner of the frame. Add the centre one on each line then add the ones in between to make the frame.

2. Emboss the dots in the butterflies with the poem and on the alternate ones in the frame.
3. Perforate around the frame and in the butterflies using the bold 2 needle tool. Cut away waste leaving the outside edge until last.
4. Attach to a piece of designer  paper with brads and mount on a 7x7 card blank. Add dots of perga glue under the cut out butterfly centres.

5. Add sticky ink with a mapping pen to the butterflies with dots in and add perga glitter.

Hope you have a great day whatever you are doing

Happy Crafting

 

Phoenix rising!

Hello and welcome all to today's blog!

It is all getting exciting now on the wedding front and I know over the next few weeks I am going to be mighty busy! But that's good as it keeps me out of mischief! I hope I still have time to do the occasional blog for you all! 

I was looking through things I haven't blogged yet and things I had! I noticed that I had blogged the Groovi version of the Phoenix but not the Stamp version so that is what I have for you today.

Ingredients.

Phoenix  Stamp

NDC 42 fireworks stencil

versamark pad

Clear detail embossing powder

Adirondack inks Black dark blue and indigo

Artistry ink Golden turmeric and blaze

Theuva Card

Brayer 

1. Working on Theuva  card cut to 14cm x 20cm, stamp the phoenix stamp with archival ink. and mask off. This is only for the positioning.

2. Attach the stencil and add yellow and red ink. Wipe the stencil clean then reattach.

3. Sponge versamark through the stencil . Remove the stencil and the mask and emboss the fireworks with detail clear powder. Repeat this process to make the embossing smoother.

4. Use the brayer to make a night sky. Use a mix of indigo , blue and black ink to do this.

5. Add hills at the bottom of the card using torn paper and the ink on the blending mat with the brayer. Wipe the ink off the embossed areas.

6. Mat onto black card then mount on a card blank.

7. On smooth decoupage card stamp the phoenix 5 times and colour with promarkers. Cut out and layer up over the stamped image using 3D foam pads.

For those of you who find the brayer scary you could do the sky with brushes but it would take longer to build up the depth of colour! 

I hope you have a good day whatever you are doing! Happy Crafting.