Thinking of you...

Happy Monday!

I have missed playing along with the Time Out challenges for several weeks now and can finally hop in with this luscious photo.  I just adore the colours and geometrics!  I added some sparkle to my butterflies after seeing 

Jennifer McGuire show us this easy way and I decided to just line them up and sew them on with some fine silver thread that I have.  My background pattern was made with a SSS stencil and several ink colours (SU Cantaloupe, Regal Rose, Tangelo Twist and PTI Hibiscus Burst) that I sponged onto a white panel and then trimmed down. I adhered to a white top folding card base after popping up on some coaster board.  The sentiment is from Avery Elle's More Stories that I have recently purchased and fallen in love with!

This card is headed over to...

Avery Elle-Sparkle

Time Out-Photo Inspiration

Thanks for taking a peek and I hope that your week is off to a great start!

Coral and Navy and Kraft...the Challenge

Happy Sunday :)

Such cool colours for The Challenge this week...I could not resist !

Ranger liquid platinum embossing of the K and Company? butterflies and SSS sentiment from Thinking of You 4X6 set on kraft CS that had been stamped with SU Crumb Cake ink with a very old SU background Cheesecloth stamp.  The butterflies were stamped onto PTI Vintage Cream CS, fussy cut and I had coloured with SU markers.  The center panel is adhered to a slightly larger PTI blue panel and then I decided to bring a little more of the navy colour in with a Derwent Inktense WC pencil in India ink colour.

I am also sending this over to Addicted to CAS where the cue word is Butterfly.

Butterfly Birthday

Happy Monday!

Frigid temps here today and looks like tomorrow too. A couple of great days for staying in and crafting.  I have been having fun with watercolouring "parts" for future cards and today's card uses one of these so called parts.  The fabby 

Miss Darnell is hosting over at Inkspirational and the inspiration photo had me pondering from day one.  

I have come up with the above. All parts of this card have some sort of texture and that's what I was aiming for based on the inspiration.  I started with a sheet of card stock in my stash from PTI.  It's hard to see, but it has a grey-ish blue tint from the pattern on it.  I believe it was some sort of a grid cs to use with their Guide Lines stamps.  I was never able to quite figure out how to use the stamps with it, but lets just say that this is a NBUS item now put to use.  I used an old EF called Debossed Exotics for even more texture and then used an old SU Linen background stamp and stamped over the whole card front with Dove Gray from Staz On.  If you click on the pic you can make it out.  The PTI butterfly was cut twice, once in grey vellum and another time in a metallic chartreuse.  After cutting the chartreuse, I also used the die with a tan embossing mat to dry emboss the butterfly.  The butterfly's body is made up of one of my watercolour leaf sprigs that I heat embossed with Ranger liquid platinum and used distress inks on watercolour paper.  This little leaf sprig is quite old and I don't remember if it was from a Hero Arts set or a K & Co. set.  If anyone knows, let me know...pretty please.  I hand cut the sprig and layered over as the body.  It has a slight arch to it and I like the organic feel.  The PTI Birthday wishes sentiment is also heat embossed with Ranger LP onto a scrap vellum strip and a little sewing on the edge with metallic silver thread finishes it off.  The card is also headed to the following challenges.  Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope that you are having a great start to your week!

Hugs-Chriss

Less is More is looking for wings

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday is looking for texture

CASe this Sketch 81 -Fusion

Good Morning!  Here is a card that I made for the dual CAS(E) this Sketch 81 and FUSION inspiration photo.

 The butterfly was truly an inspiration as well as the votive holder.  I started by using this ancient brass stencil and dabbed Versamark and then embossed in gold.  You can see the stencil photo at the end of the post.
I cut out a parchment coloured velum panel using a PTI die.  I also used a gold foil card stock to die cut my Memory Box butterfly, some MS hearts and the large PTI Scribbled circle die.  I cut that Scribbled circle die up to layer a portion over the stenciled gold pattern and used the other cut portion over the top of the velum die.  I tacked down my hearts at the top of the velum panel and stitched, leaving the thread as "tails" for some extra drama.  Lastly, I added my butterfly after adding the same velum backing to her and I popped her up on a thin strip of foam.  I have not decided on a sentiment...
Thanks for taking a peek today and I hope that you are having a wonderful week so far!   Chriss

Donna's Butterfly

It's my very dear friend's birthday tomorrow.  She is in the Toronto area and I am in Austin, so she won't get this on her birthday, but that's ok because she is on a cruise with her family for her 50th!

We will see each other at the end of May and celebrate then...oh my...we have known each other since we were 2 years old.  The sketch is borrowed from Card Positioning Systems #109.  Here is my card for Donna's 50th.  The colours are inspired from this beautiful Basic Grey Marrakech dp.  I used my new Peony Nesties from Spellbinders that I embossed with 2 of the smaller peony dies and the tan mat from Spellbinders (cant't really see in the photo) for the butterfly mat.  Thanks for taking a peek!

ch{{rs, chriss

~recipe~

stamps K & Co. butterfly, SU sentiment from So Many Sayings

paper SU always art., baja breeze, barely banana, BG Marrakech

ink SU baja breeze, basic gray

access. Spellbinders peony dies, CB textile folder, dew drops, MS fronds, butterfly punches, Copic markers, slot punch from SU