Anniversary Butterflies

A variation on my Love Birds cards today with the hearts just tied to a tree branch and butterflies instead of birds.
 

Finally Finished Project

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

Some of the bits for this project have been sitting in a cello bag for the last 4 years, lol. The background is one of Leonie Pujol's stamps (Flights of Fancy), clear embossed on white card and then inked over with distress inks.

I also clear embossed one of the leaves that I die-cut from snippets of green patterned paper. 

The little orange butterflies were cut from a tiny scrap of textured card using Impression Obsession dies - it shifted slightly as it went through my machine so the corner of one butterfly was missing but as I didn't have enough card to do another one I tucked it underneath one of the leaves to disguise it.

Other ingredients:

American Crafts ribbon

sentiment stamp from Personal Impressions.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

Pixie's Snippets Playground #390

Sisterhood of Crafters embossing

Pammies Inky Pinkies 2046 Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe

Katrina x

Happy Mother's Day

Hello lovely peeps

I made a few different versions of these as I didn't have a great deal of time to make them and my mojo went on a break. This one was my favourite because of how one of the shrink plastic butterflies turned out.

Flying Free for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

I've got another Leonie make to show you today, using some of the stamps that were launched on 18th May



I stamped several of the butterflies onto Sheena's stamping card, masking with sticky notes as I went.
They were then coloured in with Spectrum Aqua pens
Peacock Blue and Evergreen
Sunset,  Sunflower and Topaz
Boulder for the bodies

After colouring I painted Pebeo drawing gum over the top to protect the colours.
I made my own spritzer by soaking a piece of kitchen towel in Peacock Blue aquamarker and placing it into a spritzer bottle with water.
 

I spritzed all over my card and made some little inky puddles on my craft mat with a green aquamarker and clear wink of stella which I flicked all over the card with a wet paintbrush before drying with a heat gun

I cut the card down but left some wing tips poking out over the edges

I matted it on top of some white card which was embossed with a Crafters Companion Hessian folder before I tore the edges.

I stamped and coloured a few extra butterflies onto lightweight watercolour card and cut them out for decoupaging on top, and then wrapped cheesecloth around the card so it looks like they're escaping from a butterfly net. 

The whole thing is mounted onto a 7x7 card blank and then to finish off I stamped 'Free' with black memento ink and added some clear dew drops

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Simon Says Stamp (Wed) Mask It
Double D Challenges PEACH/CORAL & BLUES!
Southern Girls Layers
Little Claire's #69 Butterflies
The Corrosive Challenges #6 Lots of layers
Stamping Sensations  Feature a creature
Sparkles Forum Challenges # 80 Animal Magic
Crafty Catz #328 - Add a Butterfly
The Ribbon Girls June any card
Make My Monday - Photo Inspiration

Before I go, I'm excited to tell you that Leonie is launching some brand new dies and stamps this Wednesday evening on Hochanda at 8pm, with further shows on Thursday (9th June) at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and 7pm. I'll be posting some of my samples here while the shows are on.

Hope you can join me again soon,
Katrina x

Off She Flew for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, hope you are well.

Welcome to my two new followers, I'm thrilled to have you :)

Today's card is using stamps from 3 of Leonie's new stamp sets.

  

First I made my own ink spritzer by colouring a piece of kitchen towel with a Spectrum Aqua pen and placing it into a spritzer bottle with water (a brilliant tip I got from the colourist Sarah Hurley). I think for this card I used 'Evergreen'.

I put a Clarity seedheads stencil on top of a piece of Sheena's white stamping card, spritzed through it then removed the stencil & dried the card with a heat gun.

Next I stamped parts of the 'Flights of Fancy Background' and some butterflies from 'Flight to Freedom' onto tissue paper with black archival ink.

I glued the tissue paper onto my background with Mod Podge and doodled some lines around the edges



Next I stamped up one of the fab sentiments from the 'Off she flew' set onto white card. I wanted to have the lines separated but there is not a lot of space in between the lines on the stamp, so I inked up the sentiment one line at a time by covering the other lines with post-it notes. After stamping one line I cleaned & dried the stamp before inking up the next one.

Once that was done I coloured in a Gorjuss stamp called 'My Own Universe' with Graph-It markers

I stamped butterfly wings onto vellum and attached them to the back of the cut-out image.

I added some Crystal Glamour Dust to her wings for a little touch of bling

The finished piece was then mounted onto a 7x7 white card blank

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

Crafty Sentiment Designs - Something with Wings
Creative Moments #93 Anything Goes w/optional twist Black, white & 1 colour
Country View Crafts' Challenge Use a Stencil
Little Claire's #69 Butterflies
Penny Black and More Anything Goes with Stamping
A Beautiful Mess #2 Anything Goes (Always)

 Glitter n Sparkle #189 Anything Goes
Sisterhood of Crafters No designer paper
Creatalicious Challenges #91 - Anything Goes with optional no design paper
Stamping Sensations  Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

With all your Heart for Leonie

Good evening lovely peeps.

Leonie is launching her new stamps this evening on Hochanda TV and they are all gorgeous. I anticipate another sell-out (possibly before the end of the first hour). 

This is my favourite card out of all the ones I made and I was chuffed to bits to find out that it features on the packaging. How fab is that? What a huge honour.

So, here's a little bit about how I made it.  All the stamps I've used are in the Flight to Freedom set.

I wanted a colourful inky background so I dug out my mini Distress Inks (spiced marmalade, mustard seed, worn lipstick) and some glossy card.

To start off I stamped the smallest butterfly all over my card with Versamark ink. I then dabbed my 3 ink pads randomly around my craft mat, spritzed them with water and dragged the card through it to transfer the colour.

Hmm, OK but a teensy bit abstract and I don't like the way the colour has pooled.
So I grabbed a fresh piece of glossy card, spritzed some more water onto my mat and dragged the card through (no butterflies this time)

Much happier with the second one, so I stamped a few hearts along the bottom with worn lipstick and then stamped the sentiment on using Timber Brown Stazon

Next I stamped some butterflies onto super smooth 120gsm paper with Cocoa Memento ink and cut them out.

I've mounted the card panel onto dark brown paper and then onto a 7x7 card and (after 30 minutes arranging and re-arranging, lol) I glued the butterflies on top.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes
Love to Scrap  #78 Anything Goes
 The Crafty Addicts #15 Anything Goes/Add a Sentiment
Sisterhood of Crafters No designer paper
Creatalicious Challenges #91 - Anything Goes with optional no design paper
Little Claire's #69 Butterflies
Penny Black and More  Anything Goes with Stamping
Stamping Sensations  Anything Goes
Open-Minded Challenges #5 Favourite technique (making inky/spritzed backgrounds)
613 Avenue Create  #176 Anything goes
 Fab 'n' Funky #305 - No Designer Papers
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #278 Anything Goes

Thank you so much for popping by today. I'll be back tomorrow with another of the samples I made with this set. Leonie has more shows at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and 7pm on Hochanda, and my teamies have some fab samples to show you on their blogs.

Jane - Isleofcraftycreations.blogspot.co.uk
Elaine - Cakecoffeecraft.blogspot.co.uk 

  Nick - http://nickinbarnsley.blogspot.co.uk

Katrina x

Butterfly Parcels

Morning lovely peeps.

A quick sneaky peek of my Mum's birthday card. 

I cut the base shape from a folded sheet of strong A4 card. The 'parcels' are rectangles cut from Prima papers and edged with distress ink. I've tied ribbon around them before attaching to the card base.

I stamped and embossed the butterflies onto acetate with Versamark/white embossing powder and cut them out. They're attached with PVA glue at the centres and I've added a few gems for butterfly trails.

The flower was a pale pink shade that didn't match, so I coloured it with a Graph'It marker.

The tags are from the LOTV sentiment tags set, stamped onto matching papers.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

In The Pink #82 - FANCY FOLD / SHAPE
Allsorts Challenge Blog #336 - Ribbons and Bows

Creative Inspirations #335 - Anything Goes + Option of a Sketch!
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #253 Use 3 of something
The Ribbon Girl - November Anything Goes
 Dream Valley #119 - Shaped Card 
That's Crafty! - Tag You're It!

Crafting With Friends #10 - Anything Goes
Scrap & Craft Inspiration #15 Shabby Chic or Vintage 
Crafting by designs (monthly) - Anything Goes in November

That's all for now, hope to see you again soon :)

Katrina x

Butterfly Heart

Hello lovely peeps, hope you are all well.

Before I show you my second LOTV card for May, I'd just like to tell you about the current special offer on their website. There's 15% off selected products, including the Perfect Pair paper pad that I made my door hanger with.

So, onto my card. Sorry the picture is a bit dark, we haven't seen much of the sun here lately!

I covered a 5.25" square card base with a paper from the Antebellum paper pad (which is also included in the offer) then tied some ribbon around the spine of the card.
I used some low-tack tape to temporarily attach a heart die to the front of the card, then filled the space with butterflies. These were cut with another paper from the Antebellum pad and an Impression Obsessions die. I folded each one around my pokey tool and dipped the centres into some PVA glue.

 I stamped 'with love' from the Handwritten Phrases set with Versamark and sprinkled on white embossing powder before heat-setting.

There is a 'for you' tag in the Sentiment Tags set but I decided that the font from the Sentiments to fit scroll set matched better. So I took the 'for you' from the scroll set and stamped it inside the blank tag from the Christmas Sentiment Tags set. I don't half make life difficult for myself sometimes :D

Well, that's all from me for now, I'm going to be a good girl and go do my arm exercises.
Katrina x