Marianne's cards 'n stuff

Friday, 21 April 2017

Fluttering by

Hello and welcome. I'm fluttering by today with lots of butterflies.

I started by creating a rainbow panel using my distress oxide inks and a blending tool. Next, I spritzed water on through a stencil (not really visible though) and blotted up the water using a paper towel. I then die cut my panel using my NBUS Bitty Butterfly coverplate die by PTI. I also die cut a second panel from white Neenah cardstock. I trimmed of the lower part of my A2 panel to create a square card and adhered it to my card base. I adhered some of my rainbow butterflies flat into the die cut apertures (inlaid), while popping up the wings of three of my butterflies using clear foam tape. For the white butteflies I added a second butterfly on top of the inlaid one for a little added interest. The sentiment (English country garden - butteflies by Uniko) was stamped in black onto a strip of vellum.

Challenges:

LIM - #324 Spring walk

CAS Mix up - Stamping, inlaid die-cutting + sponging, vellum

STAMPlorations Things with wings Spring hop

HLS CAS April - Blend

HLS Anything goes with dies

Friday, 14 April 2017

A little bit of kindness

Hello and welcome! After a busy week I managed to squeeze in a little crafty time tonight to create a card for this week's LIM challenge and a few other challenges.

For my card, I manipulated one of the digital images that Beverley of Uniko designed for Simply Cards & Papercrafts last year (see the Uniko blog for a link to these digital freebies) using Word. I rotated the image so that one of the blooms was positioned the way I wanted and then placed a white circle/oval on top of the second floral and the sentiment to obscure these, and layered another sentiment on top before sending it to my printer. I did some simple colouring using Copics and added a little extra interest by going over the entire image using a Spectrum Noir glitter brush and rounding the top corner.

Challenges:

LIM - #323 One layer - Curve

Uniko - #40 Spring/Easter

AAA Cards - #87 Shiny Spring

ATCAS - #108 Smile

ATSM - #237 Make your mark

Sunday, 9 April 2017

Rise and Shine

Hello there! Just popping in with a quick card and post.

For today's card I used an image and sentiment from the (NBUS) digital set that Julee Tilman of Verve Stamps offered as a freebie in support of the recent Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. I coloured the image using Copics and die cut the circle using SSS Stitched circle dies. I die cut two panels from 2 NBUS paper pads (Studio Calico and Crate Paper) and adhered everything to my card base using this week's Mojo Monday sketch.

Challenges:

Mojo Monday - Sketch 491