A Couple Of Firsts!

 Evening, it's me again. Wasn't sure if I was going to share this or not but it contains a couple of firsts for me so if I didn't share it, you wouldn't know if  I ever get any better with practice lol!

It's the first time that I've used white embossing powder, or sea foam white to be prezact  lol! , I've been meaning to open the pot for ages but kept forgetting, then yesterday I saw the lovely Eileen's card  boy oh boy is this lady talented! Anyway, when I saw the LIM theme this week, I came up with this idea. The other first for me was using masking fluid, I stamped, embossed and coloured my butterfly, painted masking fluid over it so that my colouring would be safe when I sponged distress inks over the area. I then used the negative of my die cut to ink the centre of my flower. I can tell you it's fun removing the dried fluid to reveal the butterfly again, if you've never used it before,  check this out, this lady is the queen of masking fluid!

I'm using this card for the following challenge:-

LIM128, One layer shaped card.

I do wish that I'd thought to add some shadowing around the wings to help "pop" the butterfly from the flower, oh well, maybe next time!

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Sorry, Just Had To Be Done!

I'm sure you know what it's like, you really need to tidy and get your bench in order but then you find the perfect remnant, along with another and before you know it,it's joined by the perfect stamp and sentiment.

It just had to be done, I knew that the scalloped punch remnants would make perfect waves!

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

LIM125, Jen's Birthday,(Apparently she likes fish)

AC, Water fun,

CWWC47, KIS,

PBAM June, CAS,

BT, Water.

Anyway, the bench is a little tidier and luckily I found a card that I'd made for a friend's birthday this week but forgotten I'd done it. I really need to get my act together ! 

That's it from me for today,

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

A Different Shape

Evening, sometimes you just have to go with it, I'd shared that I was having a bit of a creative blip, I now know why,

I was putting myself under too much pressure, leaving the cards that I needed too late so that I HAD to create instead of giving myself time to get creative.

That was how I felt when I made this card, Under Pressure, especially as it was for a lovely friend who often orders cards from me.

I'm not entirely pleased with this but I have to tell you, that I have now got several cards ready to share and let's just warn you in advance that there's a lot of Patchwork involved!

Anyway, this little card has an embossed background which I highlighted by running round the edges of the circles with a clear glitter "Gelly Roll Pen", it doesn't show too well but it's sparklicious!  Hand cut bunting ,some new dies and some Prima flowers from a long neglected hoard and some large flat backed pearls.

 



 

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

ATC26, Anything goes +sentiment,

Fairytale 54, Embossing,

Fussy and Fancy 75, Pearls and flowers,

SCT26, Use stash,

CYPC135, Hexagons.

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

 

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