July Love from Lizi kit - 5 cards

Hello crafty friends. I hope you are all keeping safe and well. I have been having fun with the July Love from Lizi card kit, to which I am subscribing. It's always a surprise to see what is included. I'm often struggling to use the papers, since lots of layers are not my thing. However, this particular kit spoke to me because of the beautiful colours and floral designs of the papers, as well as the floral-themed stamp set. I even ordered the add-on 8x6 paper pad ... and used it!

So here are the first 5 cards that I created.

For my first card, I fussy cut one of the floral borders from the 12x12 sheet that was included in the kit. The border did not need much dressing up, except for some simple ink blending (Speckled Egg DOI), a green glittery peel-off strip from the kit and a stamped sentiment from a NBUS Pinkfresh Studio set that came with a UK crafting magazine.

Challenges:

SSS Wednesday - Midsummer blues

Shopping Our Stash - #426 KISS (Keeping It Simple Sister)

Aud Sentiments - #257 Anything goes + a sentiment

NBUS #17 

Both the card kit and the Pinkfresh stamp set are NBUS

My second card features 3 letter box images that I fussy cut from the 12x12 cut-apart sheet from the kit. The background paper is from the add-on 6x8 paper pad. The sentiment stamp and pink card base came in the kit. 

This card will probably go to Georgia, a sweet young lady at the local courier's office. She is always asking what is in those boxes that I receive every month.

Challenge:

Watercooler Wednesday #284

The cut-apart sheet contained several floral clusters in addition to a huge number of single images. I have been fussy cutting quite a few of these images while relaxing out on the terrace. It's a very sturdy paper, so I had no problem foam-mounting it onto an (equally sturdy) quarter sheet from the 8x6 paper pad. A stamped sentiment and a few sequins from the sequin mix from the kit were all I needed to finish my design.

I was determined to do some colouring using the floral arrangement stamps. I stamped each of the images onto the smooth side of my Arteza watercolour card and coloured the images using Inktense pencils and a water brush. I die cut both panels using the same die from my stash (Catherine Pooler) and matted them with papers from the kit. I used cream cardstock from my stash to match the colour of the Arteza watercolour card.

I finished off the first of these with a sentiment and an mdf butterfly from the kit. I also added some streaks of clear Nuvo Christal Drops (included in the kit) to the water in my vases.

Challenges:

Penny Black and More - Say it with flowers

Colour Crazy - wk31 Anything goes colouring

For the second card, I decided to move my watercoloured panel to the lower right-hand corner and finished off with a sentiment from a sentiment stamp set by Simon Says Stamp as well as another butterfly from the kit.

Twofer butterflies

Hi there. I'm popping in with my cards for this month's Twofer Card Challenge and combined it with a number of other fun challenges. My biggest problem was to decide which butterflies to use, since I have quite a collection by now. In the end, I decided to go with a NBUS stencil and stamp combo that I recently purchased from Love from Lizi.

For my Friend card, I blended CP inks (Melon Ice, Tiki Torch and Coral Cabana) through my square stencil at the top of my white panel. After removing the stencil, I spritzed the stencil with water and created a mono print onto watercolour card. I placed my clean stencil back onto my panel and did some more ink blending. I used one of the stamps from the accompanying stamp set to create my topper. To finish off, I popped up a sentiment strip (coloured with Melon Ice ink) and added a few Studio Calico sequins.

For my encouragement card, I used the mono print. I placed the stencil back on top and traced the outlines with coloured pencils and then die cut my panel and frame using an MFT die. I popped up the frame using a pink foam frame that was left from another project and then decided my butterfly panel needed something extra. So I stamped the bodies of the large butterflies using the matching stamps. The set comes with complete butterflies as well as separate bodies, which I love. I stamped my sentiment (SSS) and adhered my panel and frame onto my card from hammered cardstock. 

My twofer is playing at:

Twofer Card Challenge - #29 Butterflies

NBUS - #16 Anything goes with NBUS

My encouragement card is also playing at:

CAS Mix Up - Stencil tracing

And my friendship card is also playing at:

Fusion - Summer

I was inspired by the summery  citrus colours 

Uniko - #60 In my garden

IMHO, no garden is complete without butterflies

Nativity

Hello crafty friends. I cannot believe it's been almost a month since my last post. I have been colouring and crafting, but was not in the mood to post anything. However, I really wanted to play along with some challenges, so I am now posting a card that I created today.

I used distress inks (antique linen, scattered straw and speckled egg) and my Tailored Expressions  blender brushes to create a background and then stamped the scene in Versafine black ink. The stamps are from a large NBUS set that came with a UK magazine (Creative Stamping #77) including sentiments by Phill Martin.

I'm playing at:

CAS Christmas - Nativity 

LIM - #424 OLC Christmas in July

NBUS - #16 Anything goes with NBUS

ABC Christmas - N for No fuss

AAA Cards - #170 Maxi white space