Twice As Nice

Today's card, or cards, were created using Teresa Collins Urban Market collection and Die-namics dies.  Here they are.  I am also entering this into MFT Stamps Summer School.  This is an entry for  Colour Temperatures, being predominantly blue this would be a cool temperature.

Card 1.

Larger butterfly from Stampin' Up! Bold Butterfly framelit, smaller butterfly from Sizzix, Basic Shapes die.

The buttons on both cards are from Stampin' Up!

Card 2.

Both beautiful.

I hope you have enjoyed these cards.  Please drop by tomorrow and see what card I have made then. Take care of you.

Pauline x

My Favourite Things Sketch Challenge

 This week's challenge over at MFT Stamps had me pull out one of my favourite paper collections right now, Stampin' Up!'s Timeless Elegance and I hope you find my card worthy of such a name too.

Gorgeous or what?  This paper is beautiful.  The tilted paper was die cut several times using a Pierced Tag several times to ensure the pierced border goes all around, this was raised on Dimentionals.

The "thanks" has been die cut from Stampin' Up!'s Hello You die set four times, once from the paper collection and three times from Very Vanilla card.  These have been layered together using glossy accents.  Tiny foam dots are behind part of the sentiment and glossy accents has adhered the rest.  The silver thread is from Stampin' Up!  This was gathered and has been held in place with a Glue Dot.

The circle beneath the butterfly was die cut twice, once in watercolour card, as this is thicker than regular card, and once in the same pattern paper as the sentiment.  A Dimensional was put central between them and this space allowed me to slide it over and beneath the pierced side part.  I wanted this definition specifically rather than just using a Dimensional rather than the watercolour card.  This just adds another layer and creative aspect when viewing the card.  This photo really offers a great view of the sentiment and depth of the card from the side.

I always add embellishments to the inside of my cards and the envelopes too.  I like to think when recieving the card and seeing the outside all decorated this increases the excitement of what is inside.  I don't think the receiver will be disappointed with this card, do you?  Sequin and rhinestones added to embellish.

I'm sure there are many beautiful cards over on the MFT blog do why not check them out by clicking here

Lucky for me the theme for summer school over at mft today is monchromatic and I will enter this in their competition also. Click here to check it out 

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Take care of you.  Come back tomorrow and see what tomorrow's card is.  You might enjoy it too.

Pauline x

Happy Birthday Butterfly Card

Today's card is clean and simple.  

Happy Birthday in black ink, flag in Basic Gray, butterfly in velum and pink using Basic Shapes die from Sizzix.

Large and small die cuts using Rectangle Stitched Stax from Dienamics.  Rhinestones from Stampin' Up!

I hope your day is full of summer goodness.  Take care of you.

Pauline x

Butterfly Delights Cards

For today's post I have taken inspiration from Keisha Campbell on Pinteret who I greatly admire.  Her work I find romantic, creative and completely up to date with respect to card making.

Here are my takes on her card.

Here I used retired DSP and Basic Gray card, which I embossed using my Big Shot.  

For the butterfly I first die cut this using the Sizzix Basic Shapes die in pearlised thick cream card and then a layer of velum.  I then added a medium sized rhinestone from Stampin' Up!

I used white ribbon tied together in the middle with some white cotton thread and the adhered using Crystal Effects.  The hexagons were punched using a punch from SU and the large octagon was made using my Sizzix Eclipse machine and are 3".

All the DSP has since retired from SU.  I really need to buy new paper.  I chose to leave the cards all without any specific sentiment so they can be used for any occasion.

I hope today has brought you giggles and smiles.  Take care of you.

Pauline x

Rubic or Square Card

Last night in a moment of inspiration having seen a photograph by My Favourite Things on Instagram I made this card.

I used black as the accent and used a Project Life framelit from Stampin' Up' then made a narrower one in Whisper White.

I then went about making lots of odd shapes using my Dienamics stitched dies.  I had to run them through my Big Shot several times to make smaller shapes.  In total for this card approx 18 times!  I then used Pool Party on bottom left, Daffodil Delight, Tangelo Twist and Mint Macaron on the remaining.  I then used rhinestones from Stampin' Up! To decorate.

Inspired by last night's card I then made this, which is similar to the original on Instagram.

This is Mint Macaron and Heidi Swapp foil papers for the Minc.  I used the Basic Shapes steel rule die from Sizzix.

The accent here is Pink Pirouette and ink used is Mint Macaron, Pool Party and Pink Pirouette.  I added two Bitty butterflies punch in various paper and velum then a sequin and rhinestones were added.  Again as my Dienamics die's are rectangles there was lots of die cutting to create squares.  Lastly, the sentiment was heat embossed in silver embossing powder from Stampin' Up!

I hope today has been kind for you.  Take care of you.

Pauline x

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Pool Party and Silver Card

Today's card once again has a butterfly, my favourite embellishments.  I have used Pool Party card and velum from Stampin' Up!  The butterfly has 3 layers; silver foil, Pool Party and silver heart velum.

First I used SU heart stencil and sponged Pool Party ink onto the page using different pressure to create different depths of colour.  I then die cut 3 leaves and the 3 butterflies using Sizzix die's.

The sentiment is silver heat embossed using SU powder and the I used my favourite Dienamics die as this creates the stitched effect all around.

Lastly I added a sequin and rhinestones to the butterfly and card.  

Hope today has been full of crafty goodness.

Take care of you.

Pauline x

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Stampin' Up! Mint Macaron Obsession

I think I have a serious problem; I can't stop making cards with this beautiful Mint Macaron and silver combo!  I just love it.  It's simple, elegant, summery and really beautiful.

Here is today's card.

Again I have used the Irresistably Yours resist card stock for the tag using the brand new Elegant a Tag punch.  The silver ribbon has been stapled and Dimensionals added to the top part only.  The butterflies have been die cut from my Sizzix Basic Shapes die in velum and Whisper White then stamped in Mint Macaron using the Flowering Flourishes stamp set.  I used the largest of the three stamps.

I used my Bitty butterfly punch and adhered these to the card using wet adhesive.  Using silver thread, a sequin from my stash and Rhinestones from SU I embellished the tag and card.  

The sentiment was stamped in VersaMark and then heat embossed with white embossing powder on the Mint Macaron card.  This was then die cut using a Chalk Talk framelit.

I trust your day has been kind to you.

Take care of you.

Pauline x

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.