Watercolour Butterfly

 Hello lovely crafters. 

I made this card for a friend who has had horrible surgery, and though I have posted it off today, I confess I really wanted to keep it!

I stamped the butterfly and embossed in clear. The after spritzing the paper (very) loosely dabbed orange at the bottom and yellow at the top with a brush. 

When it was dry, I ironed off the embossing. (Hot iron, with card placed between sheets of clean paper). An then added a tiny amount more stamping - a couple of swirls and some crackle. 

A Paper Smooches sentiment it's off in the post. 

I'm linking this to CAS Mix-Up challenge which is:

Check out the beautiful work by the DT. 

Thank you for visiting, enjoy your day. x

Butterfly challenge with new stamps

Hello lovely crafters, 

I recently went to a local craft fair. I was very restrained in my buying and chose this set I knew I could use in several different ways plus the die. It's a new to me brand called Rainbow Designs. All the stamps here are from that set apart from the butterfly and the squiggle which are Inky Doodles. 

Mrs A's Butterfly challenge, with the Letter G, gave the perfect opportunity to use them. I've already made a paper pieced flower card which looked pretty good. ( In my opinion 😊).

I was inspired to use all the options though that is not necessary to join in the challenge. 
Incredibly I forgot to stamp the butterfly. It was supposed to go around the edge with the flowers so I added it afterwards but it does gives some extra dimension. 

So I embossed in GOLD, coloured in GRAPE and GREEN (Brushos) added some GLOSSY ACCENTS with GLITTER and finally a few GEMS and the Butterfly, of course. 
I sprinkled the glitter onto the Glossy Accents while it was still wet and then it dries into it. 
FYI Biodegradable glitter is now available!

I hope you like it. I think anything looks good embossed in gold and I love to paint inside embossing as its so easy!

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x

Also linking to 

Pixie's Crafty Workshop - use snippets

Crafty Cardmakers - Explosion of colour

Spring colours

Hello Lovely Crafters
I've made a card using spring colours and I think it's very cheering. My daffodils are starting to flower which certainly lifts the spirits after all the bad weather. 

I made this by embossing the image in clear powder, using Brushos to colour then ironing off the embossing powder when the paint was dry. (Between pieces of scrap paper - please don't blame me for sticky irons). I know I've described this technique before and I'll try and find that post.  I didn't paint with Brushos but rather sprinkled them in the general area where I wanted the colour and allowed them to spread with water. 

I have not added a sentiment to this yet as recently I wanted a card and found that my whole stash said 'Happy Birthday' or 'Congratulations'. I think I wanted 'Sorry you are leaving' so congratulations didn't strike the right note. 
I think perhaps it looks a bit unfinished but maybe not. 
I used a Woodware stamp which I won in the Playground several years ago. It still comes out from time to time and is great for this technique.
I'm popping in with this card as I have used snippets of card and ribbon. 

Also Mrs A's Butterfly Spin the Wheel.

I haven't managed many of these choices.I tried to make the card rectangular but still finished up with a square. I tried adding navy but is was better without. So just two colours and a butterfly. 

Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day. x