More green and pink

 Hello lovely crafters, 

It seems I can only use green and pink just now. I will try something different next.

There were a lot of changes with this design. The gingham was going to be on the inside, then the outside then both. The flower was at the top and butterfly at the bottom. Large butterfly, small butterfly, die cut words... If I was starting again I'd do things differently but never mind that now. 

I've embossed the outlines of the flowers with gold and then coloured with inks and brushes (lovely soft brushes won in The Playground. Love them and use them at every opportunity 😊).

I followed Mrs A's instructions to make the gap card and cut my stamped Gingham paper to cover the front and used the 'gap' piece on the inside. I also used the die cut words on the inside in the end. 

All the stamps are Inky Doodles including the gingham stamp. I can't resist them.

I'm entering this in Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge:

I've used a butterfly, pink gingham stamping, Gap card design, Geranium (pink) and Granny Smith (green) inks and gold embossing. 

I'll also hop over to Pixie's Snippets Playground as I've used snippets, of course, for all the flowers and die cuts. 

Thank you for visiting, enjoy your day. x

Stencilled flowers

 Hello lovely crafters. I hope everyone is safe and well. 

I have two cards today for the fabulous Twofer challenge. 

I decided to use a flowery Gina K stencil which was a Christmas gift. I've resisted getting into stencilling until now as I knew it would result in collecting more stuff but now I've got the bug and will be collecting more stuff. Must use the ones I have first though!

Though the cards are different they do have many similarities and I should probably have tried harder to make them different. I've even used the same colours. 

For the first card I used the whole of the stencil and some bright inks with soft blending brushes. It's mounted to give a tiny border of pink. Then as usual I struggles as to how to finish the card. Eventually I remembered this Happy Birthday die so that is cut twice or three times, glued together and coloured with the same pink ink. I used a strip of the same card just to make it stand out a bit more. 

For the second card I used softer colours and, using a combination of masking and concentration, managed to blend over part of the card and not get ink in places I didn't want it! 

I kept the large die cut white so it doesn't dominate. 

I wanted a flower at the bottom right but could not work out how to use the stencil for that. (If anyone else knows, I'd be interested). I looked through all my stamp sets and eventually found this Paula Pascual one which fitted well. I definitely need to use that set more. 

So these are my two cards for two different occasions. I love all the cards showing up in the gallery. 

I'll also be sharing it at NBUS challenge as that is the first outing for my stencil.

and Shopping our Stash. This time the challenge is to use something new though I really do mean to use what I have more. Again. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x