Butterflies and brick

 

Look at that , two posts in two days. Just like old times. (I've had a slight lull in work, but I don't expect it to last long.)

This card features an awesome butterfly die-cut  that someone gifted me with.  It was cut from white cardstock, and I colored it with what I've heard called the Smoosh-spritz-drag technique -- smoosh Distress inks on a non-absorbent surface, spritz with water, and drag the paper through it. First I used a couple blue Distress inks, and followed with a blue distress oxide ink. The main panel is a piece of ivory cardstock on which I inked brick shapes using a Stamplorations stencil. The sentiment is from Stampin Up.

This card was inspried for the Butterfly Challenge. Mrs. A's shape/technique this time is what she calls an inside out card (definitely check it out here) but I didn't have a really good long die cut to use, so I when with a straight card this time.

This card is entered in these challenges 

Butterfly Challenge #152 -- (Category 2: Inking theme and ivory/iceberg colors)

Word Art Wednesday #479 -- anything goes 

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2108 -- anything goes 

The Paper Shelter #458 -- CAS

Crafty Sentiment -- anything goes 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes

Christmas carolers

 

I have a CAS Christmas card for you today. I created this little scene through the magic of masking. The carolers are from The Artful Stamper and the trees are from a Whimsy Stamps set. I stamped the carolers first, made a mask to cover them, then added the trees in a couple different colors of green. The sentiment is from Stamplorations.  I wanted to keep this clean and simple, so I simply used a bright red snippet to one side for a serious pop of color.

This card is entered in these challenges:

ABC Christmas -- C is for Christmas

Rudolph Days -- anything Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenged #530 -- anything Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes

The Paper Shelter #458 -- CAS

Crafty Sentiments -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2108  -- anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #479 -- anything goes

I could make one if I wanted to

       And when I say "I could make one if I wanted to" I mean a snowman, not a card featuring a snowman. Like most of the country, we have a ton of snow just outside our door right now. But I'd rather stay inside and make a card, thank you very much.

       This card features a stamp set I got recently from Stamplorations, and I used the Bugaboo Stella sketch for this week. It's a CAS design, with the snowman and sentiment on the same white snippet, with another snippet with a line of snowmen separating the image from the sentiment. (That snowman paper is from a 6x6 pad, and since I usually make A-2 cards, there's typically a strip about that size left over.) Up in the right corner there's a plastic snowflake.

        Hope you are staying warm and dry (unless, of course, you want to make a snowman).

                

This card is for these challenges:

Bugaboo/Stella Says Sketch #904 -- use sketch

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #529 -- use green

CRAFT #587 -- anything Christmas

The Holly and the Ivy #88 -- anything Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper

Word Art Wednesday #479-- anything goes

Stamplorations Never-ending challenge - use Stamploration productions

Crafty Sentiments -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2107 -- anything goes

Subdued Herringbone

 Mrs. A's Butterfly Challenge has presented me with another interesting technique to try. The theme this time is Herringbone, and she presented 3 ways to do a herringbone pattern, all different from the way I learned.. I tried the one she called the quilter's version, probably because it calls for several squares of patterned paper to start.

I cut up a couple snippets of coordinating papers, one dark and one light.  I used less of the dark paper after trying a couple arrangements. For embellishment I added twine and a butterfly (cut from yet another snippet of coordinating paper).  If I decide to add a sentiment, it can go in the lower left corner.

This card is for these challenges:

Butterfly Challenge #151 (butterfly, twine, herringbone and Hansa yellow)

Pixie's Snippet Playground #395 -- use snippets

Crafts Galore #84 -- anything goes

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned papers

Word Art Wednesday #475 -- anything goes

Simon Says Stamp, Wednesday Challenge -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2105 -- anything goes