Kaleidoscope of butterflies

Good Morning everyone, i hope you had a good weekend.

For Christmas one of my brothers and sister in law gave me a beautiful set of stamps by Aall&create with these giant butterflies.  So for my SIL's birthday this month i decided to use the main butterfly.

8x8" card.  The butterfly was stamped onto white card, watercoloured with inktense pencils and cut out.  I cut a piece of white card to fit the base and used a cloud embossing folder with the letterpress technique of adding blue ink to one side and running through my machine, this gave me blue sky and white clouds. 

I matted that onto black card and then the base.  I die cut a white and black oval frames and added with foam tape.  I then added the butterfly with glue gel.  I stamped the sentiment onto die cut cloud to finish. 

Version 2 is the butterfly stamped onto white vellum and coloured with alcohol markers and white pen for the berries.  I coloured it from the back.  Glitter glue to the flower centres to finish.

Version 3 is stamped on white vellum but i coloured it with acrylic paints again on the back, which is easier as don't have to worry too much about staying in the lines which im not very good at.  I used XL oval dies to make my oval cardblank and frame, i embossed the middle with a floral burst embossing folder.

and version 4.  This time stamped onto acetate and coloured with alcohol inks on the back which gives a fab stained glass effect.  I added white paint to the berries first and then the alcohol inks, this kept the berries white.

Items Used

Aall&create butterfly stamp #322 'floral wings'

Crafters companion cloud EF

Creative Expressions floral burst EF

XL Oval dies

Cloud die

Clearly besotted sentiment stamps

Acetate, vellum

CraftUK ltd smooth white card

Black card

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you are all holding in there and have a good week.  Hugs Emmax

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Digger Male Birthday card

Happy New Year everyone, may it be a good one.

So today im sharing a card i made for one of my brother's birthdays.  He uses a digger sometimes for work.  Ive placed it in some rolling hills of the Cornish Countryside! 

Lasercut digger from ebay cut in black, i covered it in glossy accents.  Memory box circle burst for the sun cut into blue cardstock, MFT cloud die.  Border dies cut from green brusho cardstock.  Stampin up sentiment stamp.  Ive placed silver holographic behind the 'sun' to catch the light. 

Thank you for looking.  Emma 

A Jar full of Wheat

Good Morning all on this grey day.  Today im sharing this jar full of wheat which could be for any occasion.

 IO Wheat die, cut several times and coloured with brusho's, they are perfect to get the different tones and colours in the wheat.  Jar die cut from white card and coloured with tumbled glass distress ink.  Little tag with computer printer sentiment. Cloud embossing folder edged with tumbled glass distress ink to tie it in with the jar.  Wood grain embossing folder, inked with rusty hinge and vintage photo distress inks. 

and a close up of the wheat.  

Thank you for looking. Emma