Flower Power!

Hello and good morning!

Today's card is another floral one since yesterday's card put me in the mood to color flowers again, this time a hibiscus.  I've been wanting to color this image for the longest time, and the technique I used lends itself perfectly to stamps like this.  That technique is the Copics "flick" technique from each end of the petal in two different colors.  For this flower I used R24 (red) and YR04 (orange), plus greens for the leaves, which are separate stamps that I masked for this image.  I then colored the background with blue chalk.

How's THAT for in-your-face color?  I was inspired to go bold because these flowers typically come in bold colors.  I've met very few shy hibiscus..es?  Hibisci? 

The interior of the flower is green flocking, and the stamen is gold glitter.  The sparkle is gorgeous in real life.

The bee is a die cut from the SB Fanciful Flight set, and I applied gold Perfect Pearls to him for some metallic shine.  The sentiment is heat embossed.

I used Dew Drops on the red and green papers, and I already had light green ones on hand but only bright pink as well, so I colored them with Copics R89, and voila, red Dew Drops!  Gotta love alcohol ink.

Here's a peek at the inside where I've used some of the scraps left from the front designs. 

That does it for this simple card.  It's pretty straightforward (can you believe no ribbon, bows or extra flowers??), but of course it took all day yesterday as, once again, I had to fit the crafting in when the baby slept.  (The new puppy for those just coming on board.)  Thankfully she took several small nap-lets.

Thank you so much for taking the time to join me.  Here's wishing you a lovely day full of crafting and anything else that makes you happy.  As for me, I think I'll try a shaped card next.  Hope she takes longer naps!

Happy crafting!

Supplies:

Stamps: Hibiscus (There She Goes Stamps); Make a Wish Quotes (Fiskars)
Ink: Versamark; Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper: X-Press It Blending Card; Basic Black (SU); Sugar Rush (Basic Grey)
Extras: Dies: Fanciful Flight, Labels Eighteen (SB); Circle Stax 1 and 2 (Dienamics); black ep, Perfect Pearls, Copics, glitter (Art Institute), flocking, chalks, Dew Drops, dimensionals.

Challenges entered:

Alota Rubberstamps #101 - Multiples of 3 (dew drops, 3 patterns designer paper)
Incy Wincy Designs - Pop It Up
Love To Create #53 - All That Glitters
Crafty Cardmakers #85 - Blooming Images
Timeless Tuesday #208 - Use Red
Creative Card Crew #30 - Birthday
City Crafter #147 - All That Glitters
Frosted Designs - Be Bold
Allsorts #194 - Things With Wings


SSS 198 - Sketch with Spin (Birds and/or Bees)

Musical Butterfly

Hello and good morning!

Well I finally did it, took a couple of days over the weekend, and got all the Christmas decorations down.  And put the house back together, too, because the two are not mutually inclusive.  OK, I still haven't swapped out the Spode Christmas dishes in the Welsh cupboard for the regular ones, but come ON - I needed some craft  time!  You get it, I know you do.

Today's card is a simple one, a thank you card.  Not a lot of pictures, not a lot of words.  Not a lot of embellishments, either.  Just a simple, straightforward card.  I've been wanting to use the SB dies Fanciful Flight for the longest time and thought the butterfly might look nice dressed up in musical notes.  Specifically, that from my old music books from 1970.  Yep, 43 years ago, when I took piano lessons.  I'm using the old exercise books because these fingers won't be dancing over those scales ever again, so why not get better use out of the books than letting them languish in the garage?

I used the trick of punching out three butterflies then layering them wing to wing to wing so that the middle die cut is popped up rather than lying flat.  That's why it looks a little 3-dimensional.  I layered three center diecuts as well, then adhered them to the bottom layer and embossed the whole thing.  Then I lightly dry-sponged the raised areas with Shimmer Paint.  I also glittered up the butterfly somewhat.

I cut a piece of soft wire and twisted it for the antennae and attached it between the layers of the head, then placed a pearl on top.

A layered greeting with inked edges and a couple of pink pearls, and that was the card.  See?  Just a simple little thank you card without a lot of fuss.  Sometimes simple is good, too.  (Though not too often.) 

Thank you so much for joining me today and I wish you a lovely day doing what you love to do, whatever that may be.  As for me, I think I will start crafting with music more often.

Happy crafting!

Supplies:

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU)
Paper: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, CME - Rich Browns (Flourishes), SU Subtles stack (for 1st layer), 
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, TH Victoria Velvet
Extras: SB Fanciful Flight, Dienamics Oval Dainty Doily Duo, Dienamics Oval Stax dies; Modern Labels and Word Window punches; pearls, wire, CI Resplendence Angel Dust, SU Shimmer Paint, Vintage Wallpaper ef (SU).

Challenges entered:

Oozak - Anything Goes + Pink and Bling
Incy Wincy Designs - Tic Tac Toe (3 different papers, metal, pearls and/or bling)
Tammy's Scrapin' Corner #45 - Punch card (use punches) 
Digi Darla's #45 - Anything Goes [put DT after name]
Drunken Stampers #112 - All That Glitters
Allsorts #189 - Dies and Punches
Red Carpet Studio #19 - The Butterfly Effect


MFTWSC106 - Sketch (too late to enter challenge)