Butterflies for Less is More

It's a long time since I played at Less is More, but I has a spare hour or two so decided that I would join in with their current challenge of butterflies. I also needed a female birthday card!

 

I searched through my dies for some butterfly ones - I think these are some very old ones from Spellbinders and also rummeged in the snippets drawer and found a piece of brusho'd paper that had been much of a success. I cut the two embossed butterflies out and glued them flat straight onto the card blank. Then I had just enough left to cut out the openwork top layer of both and attached them by just glueing the body down. The hemp card blank is another old item from my stash which came from Card Creations before it changed hands, sadly I don't think they stock them any longer.

 

Challenges:

Less is More - Butterflies

Allsorts - Butterflies

Moving Along With The Times - Anything goes

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge - Anything Goes

July Rudolph Day

It's Rudolph Day again- well actually it was yesterday, but we have until 31st to enter! I was recently looking through some old cardmaking magazines and saw an idea for using designer papers which I thought was a great way of using some up.

So I raided my stash of Christmas paper and made one. The black borders were some very old stick on ribbons and the sentiment was cut from black glitter paper.

Then I made another.

The sentiment  used the same die  and the borders were from the same set (ex QVC, I think).

And then I made a third while I was on a bit of a roll.

 

Challenges:

 

Rudolph Day - Scraps of Life by Scrappymo

Christmas Craft Creations

Christmas Rose

I made this card a couple of weeks ago after I received this lovely die from Charlie and Paulchen.  I cut the flowers out of snippets of white card then inked them with some distress inks. I think I used Tattered Rose.

 

It took me a while to work out how to put the cut out bits together ( it would have been useful to have a little guide put in with them). I mounted them onto a snippet of distressed looking red scrapbook paper and wrappedsome gold ribbon round it. Then as I still thought it didn't look very Christmassy added some gold rhinestones. Maybe it also needs a sentiment on the front.

 

Challenges:

 

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Christmas Florals

Crafty Catz - Christmas in July

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

Snippets Playground- Christmas in July

Allsorts Challenge - Christmas in July

NBUS

Oporto Port House

I hadn't realised how long it has been since I last did a blog post. Note to self - must do better!  no cardmaking has been taking place but I have done some more scrapbooking, an online art course and some major clearing out of books and magazines stored in the garage!  Now I only have to contend with the fact my craft room is like a sauna, despite having the window open, blind down and fan on! Anyway on to crafty things and here is another layout for my Canaries Cruise scrapbook.

Our first port of call was Oporto where we did an excursion to a Port House( I had to look up what they were called) which included sampling some of their products. As Roy is totally teetotal I had double tasteing!

The embellishments were cut out on my Cameo.

Rudolph Day June

Another quick and easy card for Rudolph Day! I have to admit I'm really liking these Masterpieces Made Simple from Penny Black.

 I matted this one onto white and then gold before adding to a premade card blank. The sentiment is a peel off from many, many years ago!

 

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

Another Wreath!

When I was looking for the wreath die for my previous card, I came across another one. Again it is a magazine freebie and also NBUS!

I used the Penny Black border die again this time in red but left the wreath and sentiment in white. Apart from putting the glue on the wreath it was a fairly simple card to make.

 

Challenges:

Cas Christmas Challenge

NBUS Challenge

A CAS Christmas Wreath

I was really pleased to see that the CAS Christmas Challenge was back after their break. This month they are looking for wreaths. This was a good opportunity for me to get out some more NBUS!

The wreath die was a freebie from a magazine quite a while ago. I cut everything out in white then coloured it with copics. The Noel die is also NBUS . I cut that out twice to add some dimension. The snowflake frame die is from Penny Black and has been used quite a lot.

 

Challenges:

CAS ChristmasChallenge

NBUS challenge.

Snow Globe

This has to be the fiddliest card I've ever made! mainly because some of the pieces were so very tiny. I cut all the pieces out of white card as I really wasn't sure which piece was what or how it all fitted together. When I had worked that out I coloured the pieces with watercolour pens.

Glueing the very tiny pieces like the window frames was very, very fiddly. If you use this Tim Holtz die set you need a lot of patience! Since making it I've discovered that he has got a tutorial on putting the pieces together to make a clock. Will I use the die again? Probably but not very often!

 

Challenges:

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour.

Happy Little Stampers Christmas

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies.

NBUS challenge 

Superhero Twins!

Those of you who have been reading my blog for some time will know that my neighbours have twin boys. Unbelievably they have just celebrated their 5th birthday and will shortly be moving to a bigger house.

These are the cards I made for them this year. Both were created with Craft Artist with the superheroes fussy cut and attached with a springy thing. I'm sure there is a technical term for them!

 

Challenges:

Seize the Birthday

Rudolph Day - May 2022

Well here we again- Rudolph Day time! Actually I’m a bit late this month. I had to tidy and clean all the pastel dust up after doing a painting. The dust gets everywhere so there is no way I can do any cardmaking or scrapbooking till I’ve got rid of it all.

My card this month uses a NBUS die from Charlie and Paulchen. I have to blame Chrissie Stokes for introducing me to this company as she has been using quite a lot of their dies recently. I just thought I’d have a quick look at their site and of course one or two of their dies just happened to jump into my basket! I decide a fairly simple design would work well and used some old SU plaid paper for the mat and to cut the trees. 

Challenges : Rudolph Day

                     NBUS challenge