Thursday 12 June 2008

Slightly challenged......

I'm not normally one for doing card-making challenges (I tend to just go with an idea that pops into my head, if you see what I mean!) but the current one on the Scrummy Stash Cafe blog really grabbed me yesterday. I sat down to make one card, and ended up making THREE!

First of all, I dug out this butterfly iron-on motif that has been sitting in my stash pile for at least four years and stuck it with foam pads onto a piece of olive-coloured pearl cardstock, which was trimmed with my scallop scissors. This was then stuck onto a piece of darker green cardstock that was slightly distressed with gold ink. This was then mounted onto patterned paper (from a Sizzix pad I think!) which was trimmed with deckle scissors and inked ever-so-slightly with green ink. Last but not least, this was mounted onto more pearl cardstock and decorated with gold Stickles.




Next, I cut an oval shape from my new Costco papers, mounted that onto a blue card (which I stamped with silver flourishes from Gel-a-Tins) and framed with a selection of Prima daisies in muted blues and greys - and just a touch of yellow for colour. These were then decorated with Icicle, Silver and Dark Blue Stickles.



And last but not least, I used up the scraps of paper (Costco again!) from my last card making session. These were both rounded, mounted on each other, and then mounted on a piece of Cuttlebugged card (which had also been chalked). The final touches were two of my own crochet flowers (held together with a brad) and - of course - some Stickles!!! It was Copper this time....just in case you wondered :-)


After all that hard work, I made a couple of very simple 'male' cards, including this Father's Day card requested by a colleague - I hope her hubby likes it!!! In fact, if anyone knows who makes the beige letter stickers that I used here, please let me know, as I need to find some more and can't remember where or when I bought them!!!

That's all for this week folks - thanks for looking!!

8 comments:

jenny said...

Fab, the butterfly card is just gorgeous!

Unknown said...

Loving your work X

Unknown said...

Your cards are absolutely fabulous (dah-ling!!) Donna x

Fay aka Beautifullily said...

Love the butterfly card, so pretty

Maria McPherson said...

Oh these are beautiful! Well done on being so productive! Thanks for taking part in our challenge. Maria x

Claire aka Feline said...

Fab cards but my favourite has to be the rugby playing bear...love him and he's in a red kit :) xxx

Paige said...

Such pretty cardsa nd you seem to have had another very productive day :) Like the other posters i LOVE the butterfly it's beautiful!!

Anonymous said...

Fantastic work!! :) thanks for taking part. :)

Vanessa.

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