MIL's Lace

It's the 2nd week of my Butterfly challenge

#29 Butterflies + L is for Lace

Here is some more inspiration for you.

1st up is a Side Stepper card.

Very easy to cut this shape using a ready made card blank.

You just need a pencil, ruler, sissors and Scor-pal.

Decide where you want your split to be and mark a line 

just under  half the depth of the card using pencil and ruler.

This card was 4.25 so I made my line 2.00.

Cut with sissors then open card blank out flat 

and score each side of the split using Scor-pal.

Finally fold on score lines to make the folds as shown.

Simples!

I decorated the side of card using lace I had

salvaged from MIL's . I love this piece 

of lace so I use sparingly.

How and what I made the Butterflies 

from will be revealed in a future post.

Sentiment is by Hero Arts.

Gems from my stash.

Entering into the following challenges:

Through The Craftroom Door # Anything goes.

Creative Card Crew #86 Fancy folds.

Suzy Bee's Bloomin #77 Anything goees + use some lace.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop. Use your snippets. (Lace and butterflies from snippets.)

Scor-pal #14 Spring and/or flowers. (We have an abundance of butterflies in our garden).

2nd  card 

Again uses up some of MIL's Lace.

This was a snippet of cream lace which 

I wrapped round a piece of card and matted

onto black card stock.

Card base was a ready made cream card

which I  then adhered the black card onto.

Butterfly die is by Cheery Lynn Designs DL 113AB

In order to attach to lace I drew round the butterfly 

and cut a cream backing which I first glued to

the butterfly and then using d/s tape onto the lace.

Sentiment shape is made using SU punch 

and gold sticker lettering.

Pearls from stash.

Entering into the following challenges:

Cheery Lynn Designs #182 Anything goes.

Crafty Boots # Things with wings.

Craft Your Passion #259 Anything goes.

Aud Sentiments #130 Things with wings + a sentiment.

Crafty Catz #276 Things with wings.

Bloomin Hot.

My last card to show you as 

Guest Designer for April over at

Crafting From The Heart.

Thank you Fiona for inviting me . Iv'e had fun.

Both the image and paper are by 

Deedee's Digis

one of the sponsors for this weeks challenge.

I coloured the image using my  Spectrum Noir Pencils

by picking out the colours in the design paper.

Card is made from Cream cardstock.

The corners were punched out using my corner cruncher

Sentiment is by Woodware.

Edges were coloured using  Deistress ink 

and pearls are from my stash.

Close up of image.

I think I'm slowly getting to grips with colouring!

Entering into the following challenges:

Love to Scrap #52 Anything goes.

My Craft Creations # Anything goes.

Night Shift Stamping # Use a digi stamp.

Digitally Sweet challenges #137 Anything goes.

Frosted Designs # Spring.

Fussy and Fancy #137 Springtime flowers.

My Time To Craft #289 Spring flowers.

Scribble and Scrap #43 Anything goes.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #174 Use up your snippets (scrap of white card for wording)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends # Anything goes.

Wish Upon A Star

Time once again for the girls in

the Christmas Card club to show 

their creations. 

It was my turn to set the theme

and I have chosen 'Stars'.

I have had these stars in my 

used Christmas card box for ages and they gave me the idea.

Card was originally going to be a Joy fold but as I

started to make I realised I would be covering up 

a large portion of the stars so disbanded the  middle flap.

I'm calling this a Half Fold Card!

Stars on white background is the reverse side of a card.

Red and gold card is from my stash.

Sentiments are Outline stickers by Daisy and Dandelion.

Large star is from a card which I centred the die cut over

to get the star in the centre of the design.

Die is Spellbinders  Marvelous Squares.

Inside of card.

As I was about to put everything away I found 

this star Embossing folder

by Crafts-too 

so made another card.

Sentiment is a gold sticker by Docrafts.

Entering the first card into the following challenges:

Hiding In My Craftroom #197 Any holiday.

Crafty Hazelnts Extra # Anything goes Christmas.

Rudolph Day # Anything goes Christmas.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #174 Use up your snippets (parts of christmas cards).

Steel

Internet is still very adhoc.
The good news is that it has been escalated 
to service level 3 and a ticket raised
so all will be sorted!!
That was 2 days ago!!!!!!

Thank goodness I  have

 enough  cards/projects in draft form

 to keep me blogging for a while.

Whilst we wait here is 
an Anniversary card to celebrate

11 yrs which is Steel.
I wanted to keep the card quite simple 
and let the elements do the talking.

The backing paper is silver holographic

which I have been hoarding for years

and the trellis die is by Tonic from their Souree Set.

The entwined hearts

 (created by cutting one and wrapping through the other)

came from my good blogging buddy Miss Di (xxx).

The numbers came from a sheet of silver card

but there is no name on it and I can't remember 

where I purchased from .

Grey pearls from my stash.

Cream card is linen effect from The Works.

Entering into the following challenges:

The Paper Shelter #120 Celebration.

Inspiration Destination #30 Anything goes.

613 Avenue Create #120 Anything goes/diamonds.

Sister Act #103 Anything goes.

Brown Sugar #143 Anything goes.

Butterflies with Lace.

It is new challenge time over at 

my  Butterfly Challenge with the theme being

#29 Butterflies + l  is for lace.

I have made another Trifold card 

this time using Kanban Background  card 

called English Riviera  Roses - Blue

for the base card shape.

The lace is very old at least 30yrs .

Butterflies are toppers from Studiolight.

I have used Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles

to mount on white and pink cardstock.

Sentiment is a stamp  by Woodware.

Sorry it is slightly out of focus. I am having to quickly 

take photos and store on draft as and when

the internet is up and running  so always racing 

against the clock and card has been sent so cannot retake.

Ribbon and pearls from my stash.

Entering into the following challenges:

Craft your Passion #258 Anything goes.

Love To Scrap #52 Anything goes.

Use Your Stuff # Anything goes.

Tuesday Throwdown #241 Up In TheAir.

Through The Craft Room Door # Anything goes.

Deep Ocean Challenges #102 Shaped card.

Creative Card Crew #85 Sentiment.

Scrapping 4 Fun #40 Lace or ribbon.

Chocolate Coffee And Cards# Use a die cut.

Suzy Bee's Bloomin  Challenge #76 Use a die or punch.

Toadstools

This is my 3rd week as GDT for April

over at Crafting From The Heart.

I have chosen a digi called 

Butterfly on a Toadstool

to work with .

Card shape is a variation of a 

Tri fold card. This one is a lot larger

Than my previous ones. 

I used my promarkers to color 3 of the image 

and then cut and layered 2 up on top of the

original for a 3D effect. 

Red papers were in my stash and the grey 

flowered design is called hydrangeas by

Pink Petticoat from their 

Isabelline collection. 

Sentiment stickers and pearls are from my stash. 

Entering ino the following challenges:

Iil Patch Of Crafty Friends # 8 Anything goes. 

Hiding In My Craft Room # 196 Free style.

Sister Act # 102. Anything goes.

Digitally Sweet # 136 Things with wings.

Penny's Paper Crafty # 223 Anything goes. 

I love Promarkers # 265 Many Happy  Returns.

Crafty Creations # 287 Seeing Spots.

Aud Sentiments # 129 Use a Birthday sentiment. 

Double Dutch Fold.

Making the most of my Internet 

being up for first time in days to

quickly post this card.

The  Craft Club that I do swaps in

required us to include 10 embellishments in with

our January cards for our partners in turn to create 

2 cards for the February swap using those embellishments.

This is the second selection that 

I received from my Partner Merry.

The blue card is from my stash and was used to make the base card. 

The pretty rose patterned card is the notelet that Merry enclosed along with the 

embellishments  and I thought it much too pretty not to reuse. 

As the pattern was the same on the back of the card I cut it down the middle

to use on each of the cards that I made .

I decided to make another new card shape.

This one is called a Double Dutch Fold.

I cut the printed acetate panel in half  and just 

had enough to cut one piece in half again.

The flower petals , paper button and twine 

decorated the front and I 

the rose patterned card for  the inside.

I even made use of the little flower charm.

This card went to Mandy as part of the swap.

Entering into the following challenges:

Lawn Scaping #103 Dimension.

Inspiration Destination #29 Anything goes.

Cute Card Thursday #369 Charmed.

Moving Along with The Times # Anything but a square card.

Scrap and Craft #7 Tie it up using ribbon or twine.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #172 use up your snippets (possession is nine tenths of the law)

Little Claire's #3 Shaped cards.