Flutter By

Happy Monday everyone! It's half term break here where I live so a week off work has to be good :)
I've had this card in mind since I chose the lovely Meljen Designs Fancy Butterfly as part of my winner choice of Digis.(Does that make sense?)

I just loved playing around with the image to achieve the background paper,I just added a touch of colour with the Copics,layering up with a selection of papers from a Dovecraft 6x6 paperpack.

I decoupaged the butterfly for the focal image and added stickles to the edges of the wings.

The black rose was made using off cuts from when I had an evening dress shortened,this is so easy to do,I've fancied giving it a try ever since a fellow Southern Girls DT member Patricia made one in the "Use heat" Challenge a few weeks back,there's a link to a tutorial on her blog.

I added a few gems and pearls to the front of the card and on the inside I added a layered panel of the printed image so that the bottom printed image shows through the top layer like a water mark,I hope you can get the idea of what I mean from the photo.

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

KB Cute Monday 4,Glitter,

StampsRus 15,For the girls,

Guylous 1,Anything goes,

TTT,Show us what you got,
Crafts And Me,Spread your wings,

Four Crafty Chicks 25,Butterfly,

DDCC100 Glitter and bling,

Allsorts 91,Inspired by nature,

Wee Memories 44,Oh my crafts (My inspiration was simply the Meljen image)

Delicious Doodles 13,Glitz, Shimmer,Bling,

Pollycraft 81,Diamonds and pearls.

Now I made this card this morning,I particularly wanted to enter this week's challenge over at Meljens,I love to be able to use the challenge blogs images whenever I can. I took photo's of the card,wrote it and popped in the post for a birthday on Wednesday,then this evening when I wrote my post and started to link to the challenge blogs I realised that although the card was for a birthday I'd omitted to put a greeting on the card and that was the challenge stipulation. AAAAghhhhh!!!!!!! don't you just hate it when that happens!!!! Oh well,I suppose I could always make another card for next weeks challenge,I've still two more new images to christen.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Give Me Your Answer Do.

Yes I'm back with a new song on my mind today,see if you can guess what it is lol!
Another of Gayles lovlies,and this one is called "Sweet Daisy" If you check out the rest of the DT cards here,you'll see that she actually does have a printed mouth, I was given her to play with but given a version without a mouth.You can see my other card using Joleen from the new range of little girl digis.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
Mami Doodles 20,Flowers,
ResQchallenge 71,Things that make you happy,(Flowers do it for me:)
Simply Create 37,Bright,
Stampin With The Dragon,Birthdays,
Wags and Whiskers 48,Punches,
Sassy Studio 60,Punches,
Creative Cottage 33,Fabulous florals,
Forgotten Scraps3,Florals.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x
p.s. if you still haven't guessed what my song for today is,it's that old time favourite,"Daisy,Daisy"

Introducing Joleen

Good afternoon,I find myself humming Dolly Parton whilst I'm trying to write this post so please forgive me if I make no sense. Actually,I never make much sense so what's new :)
Thought I'd introduce you to Joleen, one of the latest digi releases by Gayle Bond,available exclusively at Scrapbook Sisters. It looks like I've given her a bit of a tan here,must try harder at getting good skin tones with the old Copics, anyway,Gayle has just released three new images,check out the cards that the rest of the design team have been making with them here.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
Totally Papercrafts 54,Do it with digis,
C4C75,Use Dies,
Card Makin Mamas 15,Birthday,
Fairy Knoll 38,Birthday,
Digi Doodlees 47,Anything goes.
Thanks for stopping by,you've made my day,
Julie.x

When Is A Tag Not A Tag?

When it's a card!

Nice to see you this evening,I've been playing and boy have I had some fun. I only tend to get my Cricut out on a Friday, it's my day off and as the weekend is nearly upon us it means a more laid back evening, so I've taken over the dining room,spread out my stash and got creating.

I'm more than a little happy with the result,I've been wondering what to do for my BIL's card for weeks then suddenly a spark of inspiration after visiting the lovely Linda,my blogging buddy who has a bit of a thing for tags. I cut the tags and the stars and scallops using Plantin's School Book Cartridge.The DP is Prima Marketing Cavalier Collection"Riviera"

I was desperate for some string,somewhere in one of my drawers is a length of rope from when I shortened the new overhead airer where I have put it I have no idea,I'm sure DH won't notice that I've removed a little more :)This was just perfect as it divides into strings

I hand cut and stamped some bunting ,adding some fake stitches and went mad distressing all of the edges. The scalloped edge was double cut to layer up after I'd run the cream through the cuttlebug using my Swiss Dots embossing folder. I then just added a selection of ribbons and rope and gathered them with a big button. Boy does this card make me happy.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
Card Makin Mamas 15,Happy Birthday,

Crafty Catz 70.One for the boys,

Prairie Fairy 46,In the fine print,

Phindy's Place 43,Monochrome,

Tellens Place,Birthdays,

Pixie Dust 62,Don't be square,

TTT,Show us what you got,

FabNFunky 60,Make your own,

Stampavie 129,Monochrome,

Challenge Up Your Life 37,Monochrome.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Paris

Nice to see you this evening. I've been working on some cards that I can't share till after tomorrow so instead of a card I thought I'd show you another layout. I can't remember who the papers are by but somehow it seemed just perfect to use a minimalist approach for this layout. I just did some major distressing using various ink pads.

Not a favourite thing for me to do but I cut out the tiny flowers which I placed under my photo and cut out the scalloped strip from the DP.
I made this layout whilst attending one of my fortnightly Scrapbooking classes at Scrapbook Sisters though this one was freestyle.

I'm going to use this for the following challenges:-
C.R.A.F.T.90 , Not a card,

PCJ4,Anything goes(The challenge is sponsored by Sarah Paris,apt as my photo was taken in Paris I thought!

A Spoon Full Of Sugar 139,Anything but a card.

A big thank you and hello to the new followers that I've gained over the last couple of weeks,I'll call by your blogs very soon and leave you some love.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge 23

Happy Wednesday! A nice change for me today as this weeks Challenge at Scrapbook Sisters is Baby Baby, I haven't needed a baby card for a while so thought I'd keep to a simple design to add to my card box. I used a stamp from my stash, some pink gingham paper and 3 buttons. Simple but effective,I like it.....

Hope you join us for this week's challenge,don't forget to see what the rest of the design team have come up with.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Butterfly Daydreams.

Nice to see you again this evening. Just a quick post sharing a card I made using one of the stamps I received as blog candy from the lovely Brenda a couple of weeks ago. Brenda has some amazing blog candy this month too,check out my side bar for a link to it. Do go and call by and leave Brenda some love, she is unable to craft at the moment due to illnes, she makes some amazing cards and is Queen of the Speedball!

I also recieved amongst my goodies some lustre rub ons,I'd never used these before but they've given a lovely pearly sheen to the paper pieced butterfly and flowers.

I decorated the inside of the card to match the front.

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

Allsorts 90,It's all about the sentiment,

Our Creative Corner,Cut it out.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x