Mint Butterflies.

We are now into week 3 of the Butterfly challenge with 2 more weeks to run.

#129 Spin The Butterfly Wheel with M for Magic Window card.

Here is my next inspiration card for you.
I have used the following from the wheel:
Magic Window/Markers Pens/Mandarin/Magnolia/Min/Butterflies.

I have made the card 5.5" sq.  Design paper is Minty Madness No5. From Funky Hand(no longer in business). The stamps used are a set by Marianne Design CS 0927 which I have coloured with my marker pens and then outlined with a silver gel pen.  The butterfly circle is a Spellbinders Decorative Elements 'Butterflies circles' die cut set.  I die cut the sentiment by Britannia Dies 3 times, twice in mint and once in mandarin cardstock then layered up with the mandarin on the bottom very slightly offset to give the shadow effect.

 Here is the card just beginning to open up.

 The flowers are from the same set as the butterflies. Coloured with a mandarin marker pen but because I was colouring on top of  green cardstock they look a dark red.

 The magic begins as the card opens further to show the magic shutter and the picture below shows the card fully opened.

There is a tutorial over on the challenge blog under the card shapes tab at the top of the page for making a Magic Window card.
I hope you will come on over and have a play with the Butterflies.

Entering into the following challenges:
Always Fun challenges #130 Anything goes.
Dream Valley #210 Things with wings.
Colour Crazy #38 Anything goes.
Crafty Catz #476 Anything goes.
Creative Fingers #171 Anything goes.
Polka Doodles Craft Challenge #39 Anything goes.
Pixies Crafty Workshop #362 Use your snippets (white card oddment for the circle die).
Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends #114 Anything goes.
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge # Anything goes.
Love To Craft #39 Anything goes.


                                              

Icicles

Icicles is the theme set by Lorraine  for the Christmas Card girls to show out next cards. I already had this card made from a work shop I had attended so I am  hoping that the snowflakes are going to count as icicles otherwise I will use the trump card of  Anything Goes. My shoulder is still painful so am finding it quite a task to craft for long periods or to use the big laptop. I try to get myself comfy in a chair and use my ipad instead.

Card uses  all stamps by Woodware. The plaid background has been made using an embossing folder from Creative Expressions called Distressed lines. You ink up the folder with your chosen colour and place paper between the folder and emboss as normal. Re ink the folder and turn your paper 90 degrees to get the checkered pattern. The distressed effect is quite striking. I stamped an icicle stamp over the top in a random pattern. The wreath was inked using an oxide ink pad and then the red accent was added using a distress marker pen.

Entering into the following challenges.
Scraps of life By Scrappy Mo # September Rudolph Day.
Merry Little Christmas #14 Anything goes.
The Holly and Ivy challenge #56 Anything goes.

Charmed

Already into the second week of the Butterfly Challenge which is
#129  Spin The Butterfly Wheel with M for Magic Window Card. 
The challenge is running for 4 weeks this time round so there is plenty of time to enter.

Here is my inspiration card for you.
This time I have chosen the following from the wheel.
Magnolia/Mint/Mandarin/Marker pens/Metal charm/ Butterflies.

The digi image is Cherry Blossom Cluster from A Day for Daisies coloured using Marker pens. (I actually coloured this up August of  last yr and it has been sitting in my images to use box waiting for just the right moment to come along). I have teamed it up for this card with a digi paper from Computer Scrapbook.Com by Correen Silke and called Sunday Gardens. Backed onto mandarin card stock and then onto a Magnolia cardbase.  The small butterflies were in my outcuts pile (from a circle die cut) and the pearls from my stash. The metal heart charm came from by stash of charms.
I decorated the inside of the card using  the left overs and an SU punch for the larger butterflies.

Ship Ahoy.

It was our Son in Law's  Birthday recently and this is the card I made for him.  The ship stamp is by Inkylicious from their Twinchies stamp range.  I stamped onto a piece of design paper which looked a bit like sea water which was in my stash. I was trying to give the effect of looking out to sea from a porthole. Not  turned out quite as I had it planned in my head but I was pleased  with the end result.
The papers are all from The Works. The black dots on the port hole are glossy stickers from my stash.  Sentiment die cut is by Xcut which I mounted onto a snippet of black card.

 I found this perfect ships anchor paper in my stash so used it to decorate the inside of the card along with the remaining piece of green design paper that I had used for the ship.

 Side ways view of card.

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!)