Card Chain Challenge - July reveal

Hello everyone. I was supposed to have posted my card for last month's Card Chain Challenge yesterday, but better late than never...

I used this beautiful NBUS butterfly die that came with an issue of Die-cutting essentials. I tend to buy back issues of UK crafting magazines when they are on offer and select them for the free stamps or dies. And this die was too good to miss, don't you agree? 

After die-cutting my panel, I masked off a rectangle on  my card base so that I could do some rainbow ink blending using my Catherine Pooler inks. I also die cut one of the separate butterflies and blended two shades of ink to match my background. I also used the dark purple ink to stamp my sentiment (Concord & 9th) onto a scrap of cardstock. I embellished the panel with a few of the left over small butterflies.

My card was inspired by the card sketch and the friendship theme.

There's still a few days left to sign up for this month's card exchange. You can sign up for individual months, so you can join in when you have time and skip one or more months if you cannot or don't want to play.

While I had the die and inks out, I decided to make a second card for my sister's birthday. I kept it very simple, with a black heat-embossed sentiment strip and some sequins in matching colours.

I'm linking up this card at:

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes

NBUS #29

Allsorts 635/6- Anything goes with the option of roses

Twofer birds

Hi everyone! I'm back at long last! For the first few months of 2021 I have been struggling with my energy and mojo. On top of that, I got a frozen shoulder (in my dominant arm), which forced me to take a 3-week break from work as well. Being forced to do nothing did help me to destress and focus on me, which turned out to be beneficial in more than one way. About two months ago, I felt like I was slowly coming out of hibernation. My energy levels are better now and I finally started decluttering my craft room and house. That's why I decided to take part in a virtual retreat last month, hosted by Ingrid Blackburn, Justine Hovey and Laurel Beard. It was a great way to get creative again. I created several backgrounds and even completed a few cards that I hope to share soon.

Today, I had given up hope to take part in this month's Twofer challenge, but when I was doing an inventory of my DO inks, I needed a small stamp and one of the stamp sets I grabbed was the Birdie Banners set by Concord & 9th. And then it hit me: BIRDS! I started by creating my Christmas tree using the solid stamp and CP inks. The card was so much fun to make and fairly quick as well. I finished it off with some gold splatters and a gold-embossed banner sentiment (another oldie from SSS, Small folded banners holiday). I used a stitched die (SSS) to die cut my panel and mounted it onto my A2 card base using a tape runner.

For my birthday card, I used part of a panel that I had created this afternoon by dabbing up the left-over DOI after blending another background panel. This time, I used DOIs to stamp the balloon and bird bodies, for a more solid impression on the smooshed background. I added some splatters on this card as well (DOI) and used foam tape to mount my panel onto my A2 card base.

It feels so good to be creating again!

Hope to be back soon with more creations!

I'm linking up my cards at:

Twofer card challenge - #40 Birds

CCC Reveal February

Hi everyone. It's hard to believe it's already March. These past two months have wooshed by without me sharing (or creating) any cards. Except for this one card that I created for the Card Chain Challenge. This time, my card went to GerJanne in the Netherlands.

I followed the sketch for this month as well as the love/friendship theme.

For my background, I used one of the macramé builder dies that I just could not help ordering as soon as they were released by The Greetery last November. I'm hoping to create more cards using these fab dies soon if and when my mojo returns.

The hibiscus stamps and dies are by PTI, while the sentiment is CUTplorations die.

I'm also linking up my card at:

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes

NBUS #24

STAMPlorations - Anything goes with STAMPlorations products