It's a circles themed challenge at Addicted to CAS! How will you use circles in your clean and simple design?
I chose to do some ink blending in my favourite colours... I kept the ink blending rather light to keep it from being too overwhelming.
Good morning friends... I'm here today to share my card for the Rainbow Connection Instagram Hop. Each month, a group of us play with the colours of the rainbow creating a somewhat clean and simple card.
I started with this beautiful butterfly, stamped on a white piece of cardstock. I did a reverse mask and did some ink blending on it to create my rainbow I then overstamped the butterfly to make sure that the outline was nice and crisp.
It's time for a new colour challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches... some more rich, fall feeling colours to play with for this challenge... How will you use them?
I like the colours, but I'm not sure I'm ready to break out the fall themed cards quite yet... Instead I used the colours on some pretty butterflies!
Today we are celebrating Julie with an Instagram Hop! Be sure to head on over to her account to wish her a happy birthday!
Some of her favourite things are shaker cards, the colour pink, dogs and sunflowers... I focussed on the colour pink!
Each month, I play along with a group of online friends sharing a little sunshine on Instagram with the cards we make. We make cards that we would send to someone having a bad day or needing a pick me up. My card today uses some soft greenery and a big beautiful butterfly
Another Instagram Birthday Hop to share with you today... this time, for my friend Kelley! She and I are birthday neighbours as my birthday is tomorrow!
I did a super cute mini slimline for Kelley with a piece of rainbow pattern paper that I honestly fine overwhelming in anything but small amounts. I think it was perfect for this card!
I am combing the Rainbow Connection Instagram Hop with a card for the BYSHCardmakers Linky Party today... What's better that some rainbow snowflakes?! I cut the snowflakes out of pattern paper and am in love with how they turned out.
There's a wonderful new colourboard challenge at AAA Colourful that starts today... what a beautiful photo Jane chose for us to be inspired by...
These colours are not ones I use very often... but wow they look good together!
I'm here today to share my creation for the CASE It Instagram Hop... each month several of my online friends and I choose a card that inspires us on Instagram and we use it to create something of our own. Sometimes we copy the card outright, sometimes we each use elements to inspire something of our own.
This month I was inspired by my friend VonMarie... this is her card.
I loved the distressed strips of colour and the big beautiful mostly white flower. I changed it up a little bit by using some different shades of colour in a smaller aspect and instead of a flower, I used a big butterfly.
Each month I play along with a group of creative friends on Instagram where we create and share cards of encouragement... a card we could send to someone who might be going through something tough.
This month, I chose to play with a black and white card and I really like how it turned out! I even used some bling again!
It's been a busy few days here on my blog... lots of hops and challenges to share! This one is for the Clean and Simple Instagram Hop! This month, our theme is Pattern Paper... wait, what?! How do you use pattern paper on a clean and simple card?! I'm also entering this card in to the current challenge at Just us Girls. Their theme is "summer" and what says summer more than butterflies and beautiful flowers?
It's easy... you use it sparingly!
For my card, I used this gorgeous floral paper and placed it directly on my card front. I die cut the butterfly out of a smaller panel and put it on top of the pattern paper. In retrospect, I wish I'd used some foam adhesive to add some dimension.
I messed up my calendar and almost missed making my design team card for this weeks' sketch at Atlantic Hearts! We did a mini road trip in the new car last week and thankfully I booked the entire week off work which meant I was able to get myself on track to share a card with you.
Let's look at the sketch...
And here's what I did with it... I took some inspiration for colouring from a card I found on Pinterest. I added the waves embossing folder to create some movement for this gorgeous butterfly! I have a little tip for you. I, personally, hate stamping with anything but my Versafine Clair black ink. It's so crisp and clean! But you can't use your Copics (or other alcohol markers as the ink will bleed). So, I use my Misti, stamp my image lightly with Memento... I colour the image and put the piece back in my Misti and stamp on top of it with my Versafine Clair. And BOOM! Crisp and beautiful!
I struggled a bit with my card for the Birthday Bash Instagram Hop... I always struggle with this hop, but usually it's because I completely forget about the moodboard that goes with the challenge. This month, I remembered the check the moodboard and knewa floral card would be easy. And it all should have been easy as I LOVE shades of blues and pinks and purples... but I was running out of time and my ideas weren't coming together. I almost feel like this is a frankenstein-esque project! I really wanted to LOVE the goild foiling on that dark blue floral...
Hello creative friends... I am here as the host for the current challenge at CAS on Friday. We are sharing sympathy cards with this challenge. Always a difficult reason to make a card so I like to have a few on hand in case I don't feel like creating one when it's needed.
I have two things I like to do with sympathy cards... My only rule (for myself... not you!) is that most sympathy cards should be subdued in colour. It just feels "right" to me. I get it. Others feel differently. I also love butterflies in sympathy cards... something beautiful, something that comes from a change in life. I honestly believe my Mom visits me in the form of a butterfly.
I stamped these grungy stripes using the same coloured ink... but for two of them, I did a second generation stamping (meaning I inked up the stamp, stamped it off on scrap paper and then stamped it on my card front). I stamped the butterfly on top of it.
I finished off the card I shared yesterday using the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and I wasn't thrilled with it... so I decided to play with the sketch again. I'm also playing along with the April challenge at All About Paper Craft Challenges!
We have a wonderful new clean and simple challenge at Addicted to CAS...
I don't have a lot of family themed stamps or dies... but I was able to make a card for someone's Mom (since mine has passed). I started with a stencil and three colours of Distress Oxide Ink and did a little partial blending. I stamped this gorgeous butterfly on top of it and finished it off with the simple sentiment.
Happy Sunday, creative friends... it's time for a new colourboard challenge over at AAA Colourful! I can't wait to see what colours YOU pull out of this fabulous graphic!
I see sunshine glinting off of what looks like ice bubbles... I used a kraft coloured cardstock as well as a pretty but muted yellow and a deep dark blue.
This month for the Clean and Simple Instagram Hop we are playing with the theme of friendship. I chose my favourite colour combination and some simple floral dies to create a card to send to a friend...
This week for the This or That Instagram Hop, we are choosing between Leprechauns and Gnomes. I LOVE gnomes but I don't use them very often in my creating. I bought this gnome die a few years ago... I just had to have it... and then I used it once or twice and never again. For today, I played with some fun pattern papers to create this cutie.
It's time for another Mini Slimline Instagram Hop.... my creative friends and I all love making mini slimline cards, so we commit to making at least one each month to share in this hop.
I created a card a few weeks ago for the Pattern Paper Instagram Hop where I cut a rectangle out of a piece of fabulous 6X6 paper... and there was this small part left that I just couldn't throw out... it was a little too small for my mini slimline so I played with some matted layers to create this card to share with you.
