Flight of the Butterfly with Bakers Twine

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Just a quick and easy card today made with one of the first stamp sets I ever bought - Flight of the Butterfly. Here I just stamped the butterfly outline 10 times on a mixture of Subtles designer papers and Vellum Cardstock, then I punched them out using the butterfly punch.

Placing the butterflies in matching pairs, I tied them together with Cameo Coral Bakers Twine before glueing the bottom butterfly on to the card.

I love the greeting trails that come with this stamp set.

Hope you like today's simple card. 

Love Elizabeth X

Rock n Roll Kissing!

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Today I am sharing the second of the September class projects. This is the technique project, and we used the kissing technique. In fact we used the Rock n Roll technique too - there was no stopping us!

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The base of this card is in the stunning Rich Razzleberry. We used the Flower Accent and the two small background stamps, Dot Dot Dot and Fine Flourish from the mini catalogue. We also popped a Flight of the Butterfly stamp on too.

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We layered and used dimensionals and curled the petals to get a pretty 3D look.
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And talking of 3D - my next post will be our 3D item from the September classes.

Butterfly Thank You Cards

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Today I am sharing some thank you cards I made for my lovely friends and customers. I always send a thank you card with every order - and these were the ones I made for July deliveries.
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The sentiment and background of these cards is the lovely Fresh Cuts stamp, done in Rich Razzleberry ink. I then overstamped with a mini butterfly in the same colour and then highlighted the dots with a white gel pen.


The butterflies are from Flight of the Butterfly, stamped and punched using the co-ordinating butterfly punch. Finally the sentiment was punched using the word window.
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Hope you like!

Can you hear me????

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Well my cold has gone - but after a busy week full of meetings and classes my voice has disappeared. I can only whisper and it SO sounds as though I am putting it on! It has been like this since Wednesday evening, so I am trying to stay quiet and hope I can be heard on the phone by Monday :D

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So a few projects - firstly this is what we made at my March classes...

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They were fun projects to make although when I was cutting out all those fence panels for four classes I did wonder if I had given myself a hard task! The basket is a scaled-down version of my butterfly basket from last year.

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The next card is done using the babywipe technique, with reinkers dripped on to a babywipe and then stamped using the Pick a Petal stamp set from Stampin' Up! Everyone did such a great job with this project and the finished cards were all so different in layout - I wish I had photograped them all to show you. That is something I love about crafting.



My next card was made for a lovely couple we know who recently became engaged. I used the champagne glasses from the Cheers to You stamp set and coloured them with versamark before topping with Dazzling Diamonds.
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They are layered up using the stunning Bride designer paper and finished with a white satin ribbon. I am very pleased with how this card came out.

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I have had a request by one of my lovely class ladies for next month. She wants a good card for a man - and I am very man card challenged! So if you have a good one on your blog - leave me a message I will come and get some inspiration. You could be famous around here next month!

Thanks for visiting.

More Projects to Share

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Well the one thing the snow has done is kept me in my craft room - so lots more projects coming up! We have had a thaw now and the sun is shining.
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My first two projects are especially made for Julie, who has just bought the wonderful Flight of a Butterfly set, the matching punch and some vellum cardstock - which works so well with those butterflies. Of course with the Sale a Bration promotion, Julie also got a free stamp set Happy Moments, which has those fab flowers that I used for the background.

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The base card is made in Pretty in Pink cardstock, layered with Lovely Lilac and the images are stamped in Rose Red ink. The flowers are watercoloured using Pretty in Pink and Rose Red ink, and the butterflies are punched and layered with a punched layer of vellum, joined with gold elastic to for the antenae.
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The 'for you' sentiment also comes from Happy Moments. I just inked the edge of the butterfly stamp, so there was a clear space to stamp the sentiment in the middle.

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The next one is another idea with the same supplies.

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This is a card cut at 3.5X3.5 inches in both Lovely Lilac cardstock and vellum cardstock.

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Next I punched the butterfly shape in the vellum. By layering the vellum over the cardstock, I gently marked the location of the butterfly with a pencil and used this mark as a guide when stamping the butterfly outline using Rose Red ink on the lilac card. (I rubbed out my pencil marks once the ink was dry).

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I stamped a few of the small butterflies on the inside layer and then stamped two on Whisper White cardstock and hand cut them for the outside. The 'thank you' sentiment from Happy Moments was stamped on the vellum and allowed to dry. (Stazon ink will dry quickly, but waterbased inks take a little longer on Vellum.

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Two quite different effects with the same goodies. I look forward to seeing what other ideas Julie comes up with. Happy stamping Julie! :D

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Next I am going to share a little project I made with the Birdcage image - also from Happy Moments, (this set hasn't made it off my desk and into my cupboard yet! LOL)

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The little cards are each made at 3.5X3.5 inches square. I used the Bella Toile background stamp in Chocolate Chip on Blush Blossom to make some backgound paper. I find Blush Blossom is a lovely soft colour to work with and it goes well with the Choc Chip and Creamy Caramel that I used to layer these cards.

I used my tag punch to make this little card. The top is tied with gingham ribbon and linen thread - all from Stampin' Up!

This one has five embossed dots made using a crop a dile with the mat pack - then coloured with a dauber to make them pop. I finished with the stitched grossgrain ribbon in Chocolate Chip.

The box is finished using the Eyelet Border Punch. (You can see that bit better on the picture at the top). I also stamped the box lid with Chocolate Chip ink and that Bella Toile stamp - it gives a lovely subtle effect when you use the same colour as the cardstock. The Happiness Always sentiment is another one from the Sale a Bration stamp set choices. Click here to see how you can get yours for free!

I want to end by saying thank you to all you wonderful people who leave comments on my blog. I love to read them and really appreciate you taking the time to leave a message. Thank you! X