Butterfly love

Hello there!

Its Ria here. For today, I continue my love for Sarah's Butterflies Stamp Set.

I just wanted to play with the stamps and colors so what I did, I randomly stamp the butterflies in different colored inks. Quick and easy to do. You can even do a lot of these to make a set of cards.

For the sentiment I heat embossed the Happy Birthday greetings one of the banner from Sarah's previous kit. I also stamped the heart in two colors and added them as accent above the sentiment.

Here's a closer look at the stamped butterflies..

and the final card..I added some sequins for some texture.

That's it for now and have a nice weekend!


Supplies used:

• Sentiment from Charm Street Cuties Thinking of You stamps set
• Butterflies Stamp set
• Sequins

Butterfly Birthday card

Hello there! Its Ria here today.

 I’m sharing today a quick birthday card using double stamping. 

I have this Large size butterfly stamp from Sarah that has been calling my name for some time to use up. Rather than stamping only in one color, I double stamped the same butterfly with 2-3 different ink colors to give some color variation.

After stamping the base color (lighter shade), I stamped another darker color on top of it to give different color look. I then fussy cut them and made another stamping that went beneath the other butterfly. This adds dimension and another color underneath the top butterfly.  

I added Wink of Stella clear glitter pen on the butterflies for subtle shine.

For the card base, I used three (3) different patterned papers from Sarah. I also have a yellow satin ribbon that I added in the strip to make cleaner division between the patterned papers.

Some red, pink and white sequins were added for some finishing touches. And the white embossed sentiment of course to complete the card.   

That’s it for now and I hope you can experiment with double stamping. It’s fun!  J

Enjoy the rest of the week!

Supplies used:

• Large Tiger Butterfly Stamp
• Sentiment from Charm Street Cuties Thinking of You stamps set
• Satin Ribbon
• Sequins

A simple water colour card.

Today I'm sharing with you this water colour effect card which is created pretty simply using only spray inks.

I chose to use this huge butterfly as it has a large surface area. Stamps with a larger surface are better for this to work properly.  

Spray the stamp while it's on the block with your chosen colour of ink. Don't hold the spray too close otherwise it'll result in too much ink puddling. It might stain your stamp afterwards but that won't do any harm.

Stamp down onto some water colour paper. The result won't be perfect but you're not aiming for perfection anyway.

Let it dry or dry it with a heat tool, then spray some ink into a mixing tray. Use a paintbrush dipped in water to paint the colour into the background. I watered the ink down a bit to make the colour a bit less bright.

Flick on a few ink spots and you're done.

Have fun with your inks, you can do so much more than just spray with them.

Jaine x

Lemon Butterflies

Morning All. It's Lisa here today and I have made a birthday card using the April A Few of My Favourite Things kit.

A little while back I was lucky enough to play with some cork sheets for a magazine commission, it was fabulous and really versatile, so I was more than a little bit excited to see some in the kit. Here I have used it to stamp and colour on...

I love the texture the cork adds to CAS layout.

The butterfly was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured with ProMarkers. 

Here's what I used:

• A Few of My Favourite Things Kit

• Sentiments Stamps
• Butterfly Stamps

• 'Jet Black' Archival Inkpad
• 'Tuxedo Black' Memento Inkpad
• ProMarkers: Gold, Canary and Tulip Yellow

• 5" Square Kraft Card Blank

• Wink of Stella Clear Brush Pen
• Viva Decor Pearl Pen Black
• Pearl Beads

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Watercolor background

Hello! Happy Saturday! It's Ria here today.

Watercolors are very popular right now in card making and I have seen a lot of beautiful creations using this medium. I recently got a set of Prang watercolor set that I wanted to try although I already have watercolor pencils and distress inks that can also be used in watercolor techniques. I have used Prang (Prang is a watercolor brand) back in the days when I was still at the Arts school so it hold a special place in my heart :)

So finally today, I had the chance to try watercoloring in my card background. I initially used the Prang watercolors but I find it a little light. It may be because I put too little of the colors. I wanted to test each of the watercolor types on hand but for now, I  just wanted to have a free play.

Here's the Prang watercolors that I got more than a week ago at the local art store and the Sarah Hurley's Butterflies stamp set that I'm also using:

The started off with the Prang ovals to color my base paper. I used watercolor papers as this paper type can hold a lot of water without tearing them apart.

I later moved to use the distress inks I have, putting some inks down in a plastic sheet and sprayed them with water. I then dip my paper into the wet ink and just had that fun moving the paper around and continue to do so after the first, second coat dries.

I did try out some reds in a another sheet of paper just to see how it works. I then chose to go for the Peacock feather distress ink for my project today. 

I then stamped the butterfly with a pigment ink, then run a wet brushed to fade the corners. Pigment ink also reacts to water so this one also gives that watercolor look on the stamped butterfly. I did this to the other two butterflies in the bottom of the card.

   I fuzzy cut this butterfly together with the other ones on this card project.

I then stamped my sentiment, also from the same Butterflies Stamp set and adhere that directly to the watercolor background. I just added a small stamped butterfly to fill that open space.

And this is what I came up with.

A closer look to the butterflies.

I hope this inspires you to create. Remember, the current challenge for this month is Anything Goes. There's still time to play so go ahead and try something out.

Until next time. Happy weekend!  

Butterflies Stamps Shrink Plastic Charm bracelet

Good morning everyone, hope you are well :-) Its Elaine here with my inspiration piece for you today.
I decided to share with you a make using one of my favourite mediums for crafting which you can use to create lots of different looks and for lots of different kinds of crafts! Its a great way for using your existing stamps in a new way too :-)
What youll need to create something like my project is Shrink plastic, stamps (I used Sarah's butterfly rubber stamps here), Stazon ink pad, hole punch, scissors, glittered gel pens, jump rings, bead spacers, tiger tail, crimps, toggle clasps and basic jewellery tools.
First of all youll create your shrink plastic charms. Choose your stamp and ink up with Stazon. Stamp onto the rough side of the shrink plastic. Next colour your butterflies should you choose to do so (you can see I left one uncoloured on the end to show the look without colour) I find glittered gel pens work the best with this, but do be careful not to smudge the ink as it dries.
Cut around your butterfly but leave a border around the top to punch before you cut all the way round. Punch in the centre, then cut carefully around this hole, leaving enough plastic to keep this intact.
Follow the shrinking instructions on your shrink plastic, then place in a heavy book when warm to make sure they dry flat.
Take your finished charms and your jewellery kit and add jump rings to the holes. I added two jump rings on each charm to give a good swing from my bracelet. I then created a design for my bracelet using Rose Quartz, pearls and bead spacers with butterfly charms placed equally between this design. Finish with your clasp.
You can always use shrink plastic to make your own embellishments for cards, scrapbook pages-anything you can think of! You could even use without a hole and stick it directly onto a project with strong glue.