Just a Note

Hello everyone, I hope you had a great weekend.  

I have two more designs today using Chocolate Baroque's beautiful Harebell Butterfly and Briar Rose Butterfly sets.

I created the background by blending Distress Inks and then flicking a little water over top.   The image from Harebell Butterfly was stamped with Coffee Archival Ink and coloured with Prisma pencils.  I stamped it a second time and decoupaged the butterfly, added stickles and pop it up.  I also outlined the sun with a white pen.    The die cut frame is Spellbinder S5-090 Romantic Rectangles.

The above CAS style card was created by using a circle cut into cardstock and sponging Distress Inks over top.  I stamped with a fragment from Texture Fragments.   After removing the 'mask' I stamped the image from Briar Rose Butterfly with Cobalt Archival ink and coloured with Prisma Pencils.  The sentiment is from Mackintosh Sentiments.

Thanks for your visit and have a great day,
Shirley

Beautiful Butterflies

Hello everyone, I hope your week is going well.

I have two designs today using butterflies from Chocolate Baroque's new Harebell and Briar Rose Butterfly sets.

I created the above background with Peacock Feathers Distress ink using the Acrylic Block technique.   I stamped the Big Bold Background - Leafy Trails with the same ink.   The butterfly from Briar Rose Butterfly and the smaller one from July Fairy were embossed with gold, coloured with Tombow markers, cut out and popped up over the background.   The sentiment is from Loving Sentiments.  

I created the background above with the same technique but with Mowed Lawn and Peacock Feathers Distress Inks.   I stamped foliage from Briar Rose Butterfly around the background.  The butterflies from both sets were stamped with Cobalt Archival Ink, coloured with Tombow markers, cut out and popped up over the background.   The sentiment is also from Loving Sentiments.

Thanks for your visit and have a great day,
Shirley

Summer Fairies by Chocolate Baroque

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well. 

I have a few designs to show today using Chocolate Baroque's beautiful Summer Fairies Collection.    

The first design above features the beautiful fairy and butterfly from July Fairy and the Freesia from June Fairy.    The sentiment is from Fairyland Words.
 
I blended Peacock Feathers Distress Ink at the top and Mowed Lawn on the bottom of the background.  I used a ripped piece of cardstock to vary the shades.  I also used Mustard Seed Distress Ink with a piece of cardstock with a circle cut out as a mask for the sun,  which I also outlined with a white Gelly roll pen.    The Freesia was stamped with Mowed Lawn Distress Ink.

The rest of the stamping was done with Cobalt Archival Ink and the colouring with Intense pencils.   The butterfly is decoupaged and popped up.  I also used lots of stickles on the fairy wings and a little on the butterfly.  I added holograph glitter with a glue pen on her dress.

You can see the glitter in this close up below:

This next design above features one of the silhouette fairies, vine & miniature sunflower from June Fairy along with flowers from Sunny Sunflowers (which compliment the Summer Fairies very well). 

The large background above was created with Mowed Lawn Distress Ink using the Acrylic Block technique.   I also stamped the Vine and Freesia with Mowed Lawn DI.

The smaller background above was created with Mustard Seed DI using the Acrylic Block technique.  The flowers were stamped with Peacock Feathers, Mustard Seed and Mowed Lawn Distress Inks.  The Fairy was stamped with black Archival Ink.  I bleached her wings and added Diamond Stickles.

The little flowers and leaves were coloured with Distress Inks as well.  I highlighted with a white Gelly roll pen.    The flourish are die cut using Crealies CL CS 02.

The third and last design today features the beautiful August Fairy and the mushroom from November Fairy.  Joy is from Artistic Expressions.

The background was created using Lemon, Calypso Teal & Cut grass Dylusions Inks.   I spritzed with water and then sprinkled course sea salt.   After letting it dry & shaking off the salt,  I stamped the images with Cobalt Archival Ink.   I bleached out the colour from all the images and then painted with Dylusions Inks (on my craft mat, using water & brush).   When everything was dry I outlined with a white Gelly roll pen and added stickles to her wings. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirley

Masculine Design

Hello everyone I hope you are enjoying the weekend.   I would like to welcome a couple of new followers, thanks for your interest in my blog :)

The weather has been beautiful here most of the time, it's wonderful after our tough winter and cold start to Spring.   I've been very busy and haven't had as much 'crafty time' as I would like, but have a 'quick make' to show today.   This card would be suitable for a man, I used a fabulous vintage set of stamps by Chocolate Baroque.

The background is again using Distress Inks with an Acrylic Block.  The images are from Eccentric Edwardian, except Best Wishes which is from Loving Sentiments. 

Thanks for your visit and have a great day,
Shirley

Vibrant Flowers & Butterflies

Hello, I hope everyone is doing well.

My designs today feature vibrant colours with the gorgeous and versatile Briar Rose Butterfly and Harebell Butterfly sets by Chocolate Baroque .    I'm drawn to greens & blue but there are lots of other beautiful colours to play with.

I'm entering this first design below into this week's  Less is More Challenge as the theme is to 'use more than one stamp'  -  I've used 3 on this card.  I haven't had a chance to enter this challenge for a while, it's a great blog to see gorgeous CAS designs. 

The background above was created by blending Ripe Persimmon and Picked Raspberry Distress Inks over a circle cut in cardstock.  I stamped a fragment from Textured Fragments with the Picked Raspberry ink.  The flowers from Harebell Butterfly were stamped with black archival ink.  The sentiment is from the fabulous Mackintosh Sentiments.

And below is definately not CAS in the same vibrant colours:

The large background is Ripe Persimmon and Seedless Preserves Distress Inks that I stamped onto my craft mat and spritzed with water.   I dragged the cardstock through the ink and when dry I stamped the branch with both colours.

The smaller background is using the same technique but with Ripe Persimmon and Picked Raspberry Distress Ink.   I used the Harlequin stencil by TCW to add the diamond pattern.

I stamped the gorgeous image from Briar Rose Butterfly with Cobalt Archival Ink and coloured with Prisma Pencils.  I stamped the image a second time to decoupage the butterflies which are popped up over the background.   I added stickles to the butterfly wings.


Here is a look at the fabulous Briar Rose Butterfly and Harebell Butterfly sets

If you have time to visit the CB Design Team we have lots to show this month, my teammates have created beautiful designs.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirley