Green watercoloured butterfly.

Hi everyone, I've had this diecut panel and a sheet of watercoloured paper lying around for ages and thought I'd combine the two for a card.

The diecut was layered twice to give some dimension. I painted some watercolour paper with Kuretake gansai paints and the gold flecks are from some gold Finetec watercolour paint.

I embossed the butterfly to add some more interest and added a sentiment sticker .

Here's another pic that shows the shimmer from the gold paint.

The challenge at Less is More is anything but stamps.

I often create cards with diecuts and sentiment stickers so this challenge is great for me!

At CAS watercolour challenge the theme is butterfly. 

That's my other favourite image for cards!

At Seize the Birthday I've gone with the no toppings option of anything goes.

And at Addicted to Stamps & More it's also anything goes.

Supplies:

Memory Box ringo tiles border and Moonlight butterfly dies; Summer fun set embossing folder;

Kuretake gansai and Finetec watercolour paints; sentiment sticker.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Owl and tissue paper moon.

Hi everyone, I have a friend who loves owls and am hoping they like this card!

It's a similar design to one I created earlier this month, using crinkled tissue paper glued to a circle, sprayed with brushed pewter stain, then embossed with liquid platinum powder to give it lots of shine and texture. Loll has a great video tutorial on this technique. 

The sentiment is stamped in versafine and embossed with fine silver metallic powder.

Here's a closer look at the moon.

I'm linking up to the challenge at The Male Room where the theme is mixed media.

At Addicted to Stamps & More it's anything goes.

At Poppystamps the theme is to add bling.

The brushed pewter distress spray stain, liquid platinum and silver metallic embossing add lots of sparkle and shine, so I hope that counts as masculine bling!

Supplies:

Poppystamps wise owl die: Memory Box woodland branch die; Spellbinders circle die; tissue paper; multi matte medium; brushed pewter distress spray stain; versamark ink and liquid platinum embossing powder; Hero Arts shoot for the moon stamp, versafine ink and wow fine silver embossing powder.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Butterflies on distressed timber.

Hi everyone, it's the end of the weekend and the end of school holidays for me.

I did get some much needed work done around the house and rested a lot, so I feel ready to tackle Monday head on lol!

I wanted to play along with the distress challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday. So I've used a few distress inks on this timber stamped panel and distressed the edges with a tool. 

I decided on blue butterflies as this card has such a masculine feel. They are fussy cut and  coloured with inktense pencils.

At Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media Challenge the theme is texture.

I've used stamps, distress ink, inktense pencils, and my texture elements are distressed edges and the frantage enamel embossed sentiment.

I'm also joining the take it make challenge at Craft Stamper Magazine. The theme is anything goes as long as there is stamping on your project.

At Seize the Birthday I'm playing along with the anything goes no toppings option.

Supplies:

 Darkroom Door timber stamp; antique linen, pumicestone, weathered wood and vintage photo distress inks; Hero Arts antique engravings butterfly stamp; Stamplorations birthday die; versamark ink and aged black frantage enamel embossing powder; inktense pencils; happy sentiment sticker;

Tim Holtz distressing tool.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Distress Oxide Butterflies.

Hi everyone, these butterflies were diecut from a panel inked with distress oxides and gently spritzed with water. I like how the colours are soft and pastel.

I'm linking up to the CAS watercolor challenge where the theme is butterfly.



I didn't want to risk stamping on this embossed background, so I stamped and heat embossed on tissue paper and glued it onto the base with multi medium matte glue. Tissue paper is the theme at the CAS mix up card challenge, so I'm linking up there. (Not sure if my tissue paper is enough of a focus to qualify though.)



My elements are dry embossing and die cutting to go along with the stamping and tissue paper.

I'm also joining the anything goes with stamping challenge at Craft Stamper,



and the anything goes challenge at Bizzy Bec's Store Blog.



Supplies:
Memory Box Moonlight butterfly die; distress oxide inks; Stamplorations noteworthy sentiment stamp; versafine ink & clear ep; tissue paper & multi medium matte; Stampin Up petal burst embossing folder.

Thanks for visiting,
Cathy x

Tissue paper moon - go after your dreams.

Hi everyone, it's been ages since I've posted, although I have been slowly adding cards to my stash!

I wanted to play along with the latest challenge at CAS Mix Up card challenge where the theme is to use tissue paper. Loll and Bonnie have provided some great tutorials on this technique that were really helpful.

I scrunchled up some white tissue paper and glued it to a diecut circle. Then I sprayed it with some brushed pewter distress spray stain and sprayed some water onto this to dilute the colour.

 I dried it with my heat gun then swiped some versamark ink over the raised ridges and sprinkled on some liquid platinum embossing powder. I used an old soft paintbrush to remove some of the powder before heating it with my heat gun. I love the veiny effect! I then used a Spellbiners circle die to make the circle smaller (this tidied up the edges nicely!)

I've used stamping, heat embossing, tissue paper, and die cutting as my elements.

Edited to add, here is a closer look at the tissue paper.

The branch and bird are diecut from  2 different shades of grey card, both scrappy snippets, so I'm also visiting the snippets playground at Pixie's Crafty Workshop. I've layered them both onto a black diecut to add some dimension.

I'm also linking up to the Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies Challenge.

I've used Spellbinders circle, Poppystamps nestled bird and Memory Box  woodland branch dies.

Stamplorations CAS challenge has a challenge open while they are on Summer break so I'm linking up there too. The sentiment is from the Stamplorations Noteworthy set, stamped in versafine ink and embossed with liquid platinum powder.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Butterflies & Texture Paste.

Hi everyone, I'm having a restful weekend in the craft room.

It's been such a busy week at work that housework can wait lol!

Edited to add: Just had a request to make my pic bigger so I hope it's not too big now :)

This tag was made from a texture paste disaster! (I'm afraid to admit I never throw anything out.)

I diecut an area on the card that was ok and blended on some distress oxide inks. I spritzed with water until I was happy with the colours.

The butterflies are stamped,embossed and fussy cut. I chose yellow and grey inktense pencils that matched the background pretty well and blended the colours out with a water brush.

 The edges of the bottom tag are painted with pewter twinkling H2Os then brushed with iced spruce oxide ink, just to tie in with the colours since white was too stark.

The theme at CAS Mix Up Card Challenge is to use texture paste .

I've also used stamping, watercolouring with DO inks and inktense pencils and fussycutting.

At Addicted to Stamps & More the theme is to make your mark.

I've used inks and inktense pencils.

At Seize the Bithday it's anything goes birthday.

Supplies:

Antique Engravings butterfly stamp, versafine ink & clear ep; iced spruce & fossilized amber distress oxide inks; sienna gold and charcoal inktense pencils; Tim Holtz dot fade stencil; antique silver crackle embossing paste; pewter twinkling H2Os; sentiment sticker and brad from stash.

Thanks for visiting,
Cathy x

Dragonfly Birthday

Hi everyone, this is my last card as a party guest with 

Seize the Birthday. It's been so much fun and my stash of birthday cards has increased as a bonus!

The theme this time is anything goes, so it's an easy one to play along with.

I've used a new to me die from Stamplorations for the bold birthday, and

  stamped and fussy cut Indigo Blue dragonflies and painted them with twinkling H2O's. They are so sparkly in real life, bit hard to capture in the photo.

I've stencilled texture paste through a stencil to give some texture to the background.

I'm also linking up to the CAS Mix Up Card Challenge.
I've used stamping, texture paste, fussy cutting and die cutting.



At Addicted to Stamps and More the theme is to make your mark. I've painted with twinkling H2Os.
They are also celebrating their 5th birthday so congratulations to Kylie and the team!



At Stamplorations CAS Card Challenge it's anything goes CAS with the option of masculine colours.
I've used  blue and green, so I hope it's still masculine even though there's a sparkle!



At CAS Watercolor Card Challenge the theme is Summer. Dragonflies remind me of lazy Summer days! I've used twinkling H2Os as my watercolor element.

Supplies:

Indigo Blue dragonfly stamp; versafine ink & clear ep; Stamplorations birthday die; twinkling H2O's; Tim Holtz spatter stencil; texture paste; happy sentiment sticker.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Experimenting with brushos & texture paste.

Hi everyone, I had fun playing with some silver embossing paste and brushos with this card.

I didn't want to waste the panel I'd made so thought I'd punch out some shapes and this is the result.

I'm linking up to the challenge at Stamplorations CAS Card Challenge where it's anything CAS with the option of masculine colours. The black brushos have split into blue and grey with a splash of orange so I'm playing along with the twist.

I'm also linking to  CAS Mix Up Card Challenge. I've stamped the sentiment, used silver texture paste, brushos, a punch and spattering in the background.

Supplies:

Stamplorations Noteworthy stamp; versafine ink & clear ep; Memory Box diamond stencil; silver crackle embossing paste; black brushos; SU hexagon punch; birthday sentiment sticker; brushed pewter distress spray stain for spattering in the background.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Stencilled one layer shells.

Hi everyone, I'm back with another card as party guest at Seize the Birthday.

I've gone with the toppings option this time, one layer. But you can always play along with anything goes birthday.

I very rarely make one layer cards, it's way out of my comfort zone lol!

 I wanted to try something other than stamping so I used a sponge dauber to add distress ink with this stencil, then added some white prismacolor pencil to try and give some shading. 

Not sure if I'm totally happy with my efforts, but I had fun trying this!

I'm also linking up to the 3rd birthday celebrations at AAA Cards, congratulations!

Supplies:

Dreamweaver shells stencil; distress inks; prismacolor pencil; stately embossing folder;

sentiment sticker.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Dolphin splash.

Hi everyone, I've spent the afternoon playing with distress inks and some dies that I had to have but hadn't got around to using yet!!

I started with a pale blue piece of card and added some tumbled glass and stormy skies DI to both layers and then added chipped sapphire to the bottom layer. Next I spritzed on some water, I love the patchy look it left. I diecut an extra set of ripples and glued them on for more dimension in the water.

The dolphins are diecut from some silver shimmer paper an popped up on foam dots.

I'm linking up to a few challenges.

At Simon Says Stamp Wednesday the theme is anything goes.

At Happy Little Stampers Watercolour challenge, it's also anything goes with an optional twist of masking.

 

The Male Room wants us to use diecuts from our stash.

I've used Memory Box splashing puddles and diving dolphins.

At Outside the Box the theme is celebrating birthdays.

Supplies:

 Memory Box splashing puddles and diving dolphins dies; distress inks; sentiment sticker; silver shimmer paper.

Thanks for visiting,

 Cathy x

Patterned Pinwheel.

Hi everyone, I've been playing with pinwheels and thought they's make a cute baby card!

This patterned paper is from my ageing stash! I need to find some pinks and purples so I can make some for a baby girl.

I'm linking up to a few challenges:

At Simon Says Stamp Wednesday it's an anything goes theme.

At Simon Says Monday Challenge the theme is going around in circles.

I've used a tiny bubbles embossing folder and I may stretching things a bit, but pinwheels go around in circles. I wish I could work out how to make them spin on a card!

At Just Us Girls the theme is diecuts.

I love dies and I've used 3 on my card.

At the Stamplorations CAS challenge for June it's anything goes CAS with the optional twist of masculine colours. I've used blue.

Supplies:

Paper Smooches welcome die: Memory Box parker alphabet dies; Stampin Up pinwheel die; tiny bubles embossing folder.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x