Big and Bold butterflies

Hi, I'm on the Elizabeth Craft Design blog with instruction for these 3 cards.  Go check it out!

Just Because

Hi, just popping in to share another version of a card I made a while back because I thought of another word die combination: Just because. I went with blues and greens for my color combination and added a stitched circle but otherwise it's a very similar card.

My first Quilling project

For Mother's Day, my boys got me a quilling kit so I spent some time playing with the basic shapes.  I made enough to form a very simple bouquet.  I definitely need more practice and less glue but despite being super time-consuming, it was rather addictive.  Oh, dear, like I need another hobby.  Let's just call this an extension to paper crafting.

I used Tombow Multi-media glue on a white card base I used MFT Stitched rectangle die.  I think quilling on a card is great because it's not really thick and all those layers should hold up pretty well if I were to mail it... except maybe those stems.

If you have any favorite youtube videos or instagrammers, please share!  I'd love to be better at this.

Challenge I am playing in:

Simon Says Stitches

Something wonderful is about to happen

There must have been a challenge on Instagram about butterflies and rainbows - I saw a lot of cards on there with that theme - or I'm just drawn to those!  Here's my take on that theme - inspired by those same cards.

I made a rainbow wash with Zig clean color brush on watercolor paper and die cut the Butterflies spray from it.

 After stamping in the center of the panel, I die cut out the wreath to help place the butterflies in a circle.  I initially planned a circle without a wreath but I liked how the wreath tied the blank space together.

To fill in more of the blank spaces, I used my Copic markers to color some pearls in different colors.

This came together very quickly- lots of white space but colorful and with butterflies - my kind of card!

Always Believes Stamp

Butterflies and Stars Spray dies

Rosebud Wreath dies

Love you, Mom

My mom is a wonderful gardener - her entire hand is green, not just her thumb.  She can stick a cutting into the ground and it will take root and bloom.  It's a bit ridiculous actually.  But she loves flowers and they bloom like mad for her.  

Me... well, let's just move on to paper crafting where even I can get those cymbidium orchids to bloom in any color I like.  For this card, a 5x7 card which is a bit bigger than my normal, I went with a very pale palette.  I wanted it very soft so I kept everything very neutral and even the orchids are a soft white/pink.  

I stamped "love you" in black Versafine ink and then clear embossed a heart over it.  I then sponged a soft light green to bring out the heart.  The wood panel is a Tim Holtz new 3D embossing folder that I sponged in a soft tan and green ink to bring out the grains.

Lots of matting layers and then inside is a sweet note for mom sponged in the same green.  There are a few videos out there on how to make the orchid by Susan's Garden Notes (a line of beautiful flower dies in Elizabeth Craft Designs) but I chose very pale pink for the flowers and used Zig Clean color brush for the inside of the flowers.

Don't you love the sentiment from A Mother's Greatest Mastepiece by Quietfire Design inside?  

Happy Mother's Day to you!

Cymbidium Orchid

Love and Hearts Collection 

A Mother's Greatest Mastepiece