Magic Window Card.

It is a new challenge over on the Butterfly Blog. The letter is M and the card shape is Magic Window Card.
As usual there is a tutorial for you over on the blog and you will find it under the card shapes tab at the top of the page.
The challenge is running again for 4 weeks so this gives plenty of time. I hope you will give the card shape a try as it is not as difficult as it appears.

My card for your inspiration uses:
Magic Window Card/Mandarin/Magnolia/Mint/Butterfly.

 I have used a paper from my stash to decorate the front of the card. The small orange butterflies are the waste from a circle butterfly die( which I use for making up  the butterfly wheel for each challenge). Larger butterflies are an SU punch. Pearls were from my stash.

 Here you can see the card opening up to reveal the sentiment behind the magic window.  The sentiment is from a stamp set by Julie Hickey called circle Sentiments.

I bought loads of bulbs yesterday at the garden centre so before my enthusiasm runs out I need to start getting them planted.
 Hope you will come and have a play with the new challenge.

Pocket card

Our theme this time with the Christmas Club Girls is Anything Goes. I recently went to a workshop run by the fabulous Jane Gill from Woodware and this is one of the cards we made. I didn't manage to get all my cards finished so I brought them home and spent time afterwards just adding the finishing touches.

This card uses a card shape folded from only one piece of square card stock which then becomes  a double pocket card. A simple but ingenious fold.
Here is the front of the card.
The woodware stamp used is called Garland and the sentiment is included in the stamp set. We used a variety of oxide ink pads to create the backgrounds and then spritized with water afterwards.  The garland was then stamped using distress ink along with the sentiment. I added the red stickles glue at home as I thought it needed a bit of glitz.

 The inside showing the pocket flaps. Stamp used here is called Berry Sprays which was stamped using a grey ink pad. Again when home I added glossy accents to the berries which you can't see very clearly here but they really do shine IRL.

 Jane provided us with all the cardstock and tag shapes so we only had to stamp and assemble but as we had to share the tools/stamp sets quite a lot of nattering went on between getting our cards made.

Of course I couldn't come away without buying the stamp sets we used  in making our cards. I will show the other two cards on another post later in the month.
Off to see what the other girls have come up with as we didn't have a set theme this time round.

Lattice Works

I don't know how time does it but it gets shorter and shorter. It is week two already of the current Butterfly Challenge.
Here is my next inspiration card to show you.

I have used all the elements of the Butterfly Wheel.
Lattice Card/Layers/Lace/Lapis Lazuli/Languid Lavender/Laser Lemon/Butterflies.

I have made a square lattice design this time but still using my Crafts -Too Stitched Hole Rectangle die cut for the framework. Done is white card stock.The design paper behind the lattice is a freebie from Making Cards Magazine May 2015 called 'Wonderful Watercolours'. I thought it looked so pretty with the three colours of  butterflies using my SU Punch. The lace is a silver filigree design from my stash along with the pearls. Happy Birthday Sentiment was also found in my stash.  I used white cardstock for the base card which I edged round with a dauber using 'Stormy Skies' Distress ink. I also attached the lattice frame to another piece of white card slightly bigger than the frame and used the dauber around that too.
Hope you will come and join in the fun. Challenge runs for another week.

It has been a hectic past week here with a builder who were supposed to turn up to give a quote  for a concrete base never showing up so I had to do a quick search around for another builder. Fortunately I found one who came round within the hour, gave me a quote 2 hrs later and did the work 2 days after that. The base is now drying out and  awaiting the arrival of the new shed (which has now morphed into a summer house) to be made and then installed hopefully in a couple of weeks time. (We are 50th in the queue when I checked on Monday!)

Lattice Butterflies.

It is a new challenge over on the Butterfly Blog. The letter is L and the card shape is Lattice card.
As usual there is a tutorial for you over on the blog and you will find it under the card shapes tab at the top of the page.

My card for your inspiration uses:
Lattice card/Lapis Lazuli/Laser Lemon/ Languid Lavender/Layers/Butterfly.

I have used a die cut by Crafts-Too 'Stitched Rectangle'  for the lattice frame. The tutorial shows you in detail how to apply the strips to make the lattice design.  The flowers have been die cut from cardstock (that I had coloured using dioxide inks whilst at a work shop earlier in the yr).The die is by Spellbinders 'Blooming  Rose. I used both of the flower shapes and the double and single leaves.
The pearls are from my stash.  Sentiment is by Creative Expressions. I die cut three times and layered up for dimension. Butterfly is by Memory box  'Isabella/Pippi'.

My foot is back down to it's normal size now. Thank You for all your kind comments.

I hope that you will come and have a play using the new challenge  which is running for two weeks.

Lots of Snowmen.

It is time once again for the girls in the christmas Card club  to show our next cards. It was my turn to choose the theme and I went with Snowman/Snowmen.
Apologies for being late getting this posted up but I do have a sick note!. Got bitten on the foot during the week and reacted badly as I always do. Picture at bottom of post.

Anyways back to my cards. Woefully behind with my christmas card numbers so decided to make as many as I could. Managed seven in total.  Here they all are. The  digi images I have used are pre coloured and are by Sassy Cheryl from the Paper Creator.

Card1.

Uses Decked out for the Holidays and the stamped sentiment is by Inkylicious. I have used my John Next Door small scallop card die to create the base card which is made from a design paper pad  from The Works. Stitched die is by Julie Hickey from the set Layers,frames and banners rectangle dies. I like to further enhance the stitched holes by using a toning thread to go around the edges. Takes time but I like the effect it gives.

Card 2.

Uses Smooth  Move. (I definitely needed the first aid kit ). Gold stickers from my stash. The papers are by LOTV from their Krafty Christmas pad. Stitched rectangle dies are by Crafts-Too. I fussy cut the snowman's head and boots out again and layered on top of the image using 3d pads. You can just see the layers in the second picture.

Card 3.

Uses Twiggy the Snowman and again a paper by LOTV. Sentiment is by Stephanie Weightman from Tattered Lace.  Gold tree stickers from my stash.

Card 4.

Uses Once Upon A Star and the brown spotty paper  by LOTV. Red spotty paper an oddment in my stash. Image has been cut out using Spellbinders Marvelous squares die cut and agin I have used toning thread to stitch around the edges. I like to leave a few threads hanging for interest. (Just in case you thought I had forgotten about them).  Gold sentiment from my stash.

Card 5.

Uses Hanging stars and again I used the same papers as card 1. I have made the card a free standing  design so the signed greeting will go on the back. Again used the Julie Hickey  stitched die and contrasting thread around the edges.  Sentiment came on a freebie sheet of stamps from Practical Publishing 2018.

Card 6.

 Uses one of my favourite images by Cheryl called  Snowmen Selfie. I have used my Xcut nesting rectangle dies to cut into the image and then layer each one with LOTV paper and then re  assembled.
I love the effect this gives. Red spotty paper from my stash along with the golde sticker stars and sentiment.

Last card No 7. 

I really couldn't leave this chappie out. He is called Just Chillin and was how I felt last night when I had finished (totally creamcrakered) so I left them on my desk to take the photos this morning.  Had a bright idea of taking photos outside but didn't realise how windy it was until the white card I had propped up behind them kept blowing down onto the card just as I took the snap so  The Doc obligingly held the card up for me. Cards are not looking at their best but time was of the essence.
Sentiment and icicle stamp by  Stephanie Weightman and the black ribbon was on my desk from a shop bought garment tag. (Waste not ,want not).  Again I  fussy cut his head and boots out again and layered up.

And finally not one to be kept for the family album. It took till yesterday for me to be able to get a shoe on my foot. Apparently I am in the blood group that the mossies particularly like and they will bite you even through thick socks and leggings. The redness and swelling  is not from the bite itself but my own  bodies alergic reaction rushing to repel the invader and has a medical term  Skeeter  Syndrome.   Perhaps I need to wear a space suit whilst outside!!

Off to see what the girls have come up with and don a space suit!!!!

Kinetic or Knot

Week two of the Butterfly challenge and as promised I am back to show you a simple Kinetic Slider card. You will find the full instructions /tutorial over on the Butterfly challenge under the card shapes tab or select here to be taken straight to it.Scroll down for the instructions under Version II .

I have used Kinetic card/Key lime/Kobe/Kobi /Butterflies from the wheel.

The image is by W plus 9 from their Flora and Fauna stamp set. Coloured using my promarkers. and a gold gel pen. Butterfly is a Dinky Die by Xcut.  This is a single layer die but I drew round the die to make the solid background which I coloured with a gold pen and then added platinum stickles to show through the die cut pattern on the top layer. I used my SU punch 'Large Word Window' to create the slider element and a gold sentiment sticker and gold edging from my stash.  The butterfly moves freely between the flower heads using the slider element.

My second card uses Kraft/Knot/Key lime/Kobi/Kobe/Butterfly.

 Design papers are  by 'The Works'. I distressed the edges using my T.H. Distress tool.The butterflies are two different dies by Dovecraft cut from the kraft card and then replaced back into the apertures after a bit of bling was added to them. String was from a clothes tag which was in my stash. As the SU punch was still out on my desk I used it to cut another label and adhered the rub on sentiment by 'Pebbles' onto it.

Do hope I have inspired you to play along.
I am in the wars again as I have been bitten on my left foot (whilst out in the garden enjoying the nice weather) and the inevitable happened my foot swelled as I reacted badly to the bite so now back on steroid cream and pills to counteract it. I wouldn't mind so much but the little suckers get to me even with me having woolly socks on which is not much fun in hot weather.

Kinetic Card.

It is a new challenge over on the Butterfly Blog. The  letter is K and the card shape is Kinetic. Before you go running for the hills though please take a look at my card below which is a very simple card to make.
Kinetic  just  means a card with a moving part.  I have a step by step tutorial for you over on the Butterfly blog and you will find it under the card shapes tab at the top of the blog. 

My card uses Kinetic card/Key lime/Kobe/Kobi/Butterfly from the current wheel.

 Here is the card closed. I have used design papers from The works, Heart shape die cut From John Next Door, Butterfly die from Elizabeth Craft Designs and a Britannia word die.

 Here is the card beginning to open

 At the half way mark.

 Nearly there.

 Fully opened.

There are lots and lots of ways to make a moving card and lots of inspiration on You tube.  I hope you will give this card a try. Next week I will show how to make a simple slid mechanism for a kinetic card. Have fun and see you soon.