The Big 0.

Here is some more inspiration for you for week 2 of

 #69 Butterflies + Z is for Zero and /or Zucchini.

(The definition for Zucchini as a colour is hues of yellow through to hues of green

and I will accept either or both colour ranges.)

You still have until Tuesday 10th January to enter.

Onto my first card which uses a Hunkydory pre coloured image from their  'Little book of Shimmer'.

I took my inspiration from the yellow on the birds and also that I wanted to make an Anniversary card. I've teamed it with two different shades of green cardstock which didn't really photo very well.

The one below is taken with the flash on but is still not a very good colour comparison. The flowers were made from an old christmas decoration that I found in the box when we got it down from the loft  to decorate with. I pulled all the single silk flower heads off the garish plastic centres that were supposed to be berry heads  which have now gone in the bin and also salvaged the leaves to use on a  future christmas card. I layered 3 flowers up (for each flower) and threaded new pink stamens through them and as the centres are a pale yellow they match in well. The little pink butterflies were waste scrap from a Tonic border punch and had been safely stored away in my stash. Used my Presscut Rectangle dies Stitch hole  die cut to frame the picture with. Silver stickers also from my stash. 

 

Entering the card above in the following challenges:

Crafting by Designs # Anything goes,

Double 'D' Challenges  # Anniversary/Bogaversary/ Birthday.

Inspiration Destination #119  Anything goes.

Brown Sugar #232 Anything goes.

Jo's Scrap Shack # Anything goes.

My Second card for you uses a NBUS stamp that I purchased quite a while ago and not used.

It is by La Blanche  and I believe the flower is a dog rose as the package it came in doesn't have any information on it.  I stamped out onto cold press water colour  paper and have coloured in using my distress marker pens (in shades of yellow and greens)  plus a brush and a pot of water.  Once dried I added  in the veins and flower definition using a gold gel pen. I fussy cut out the image (mainly because I made a pigs ear out of marking blobs of colour on  the rest of the water colour card and the more I tried to dab it off the worse it got). I didn't entriely waste the paper though as I scribbled more of  the pen colours onto it and managed to cut the butterfly (Pippi/Isabella  dies by Memory box) from the scraps.  The design paper is from my stash and was an unknown magazine freebie.I used green and yellow card stock for the rest of the card and Britannia 

word dies to make the sentiment.  Iv'e used the same stitched die cut frames as above.   

Entering the above card into these challenges:
Crafty Gals Corner #104 Use something new.
Crafty Creations #332 Anything goes.
Creative Knockouts #175 Anything goes.
A Bit More Time To Craft #35 Anything goes.
Creative Fingers #122 Anything goes.



My last card just uses green card stock which I  used with my Scor pal to create the nine box framework. I then played noughts and crosses (with myself, I really should  get out more) using  a die cut alphabet by Craft Emotions. The shiny embossed butterfly is from a craft sheet by Tbz-Kaart.nl and thee colours of the butterfly just fitted the challenge perfectly.

Entering this card into the challenges below:

Penny's Paper Crafty #310 Anything goes.

Moving Along With The Times #36 Something in the air.

Crafty Catz # Anything goes.

Crafting With Friends #34 Anything goes.