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Pearl – Mi Ran challenge GDT

Posted on by Liz

Oh wow. I got chosen as a guest designer for a challenge at Mi Ran’s challenges! What a complete surprise! I am so pleased! This is what I have made for their challenge number 20. The theme is Anything Goes, so colour up one of her wonderful images and play along. Maybe it will be your turn as a guest designer next time!!

I have, obviously, used a Mi Ran image for the card, Pearl, big eyed girl, and I have coloured it in with copics. The papers are Maja Design and Papermania. Most of the pearls, the flowers, the lace and the ribbon are all by Wild Orchid Crafts. I have used Martha Stewart punchers as well as a Magnolia die. The sentiment is by Lili of the Valley.

The copics I used were:

Face: E000, E00, E04, E11, E21, R20
Hair: E42, E43, E44, E47, R20,
Eyes: YG93, YG97,
Pearls: V12, V15, V17,
Dress: B91, B93, B95, B97,
Rose: Y04, Y08, Y17, YR07

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Wedding frogs

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One of my friends got married in August and she absolutely loves greens and blues. The colour scheme for the wedding was white, obviously, and a dark teal shade. Her best-friend asked if I could make a card with a box for her to give away. It was to keep with the colour scheme, and if possible include a bride and groom FROG! WTF??!! Oh well, I had to give it a go… I also made a matching card and box from myself, and another matching card from a co-worker, as I thought it would be cool to have it as a set. I will post up the others in a few days!

I knew the exact shade of teal as I’d help pick some stuff, so all I had to do was match it up. She was borrowing my Martha Stewart puncher to make butterflies, so obviously I had to add a lot of butterflies to the card. I bought a pre-coloured digital image and printed it. I’ll update with where I bought it as soon as I get home from my holiday as I cannot remember here and now.. I used ribbon from a local shop. The lace and flowers are all from Wild Orchid Crafts, as are the big pearls. The butterfly border has been made with a Tim Holtz die, and I have them all the dark green shadow and various colours for the wings and added rows of small pearls to create the body.

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I used a pre-made box bought at Panduro and decorated it with the same colours, flowers, butterflies and pearls and wrote the name of the bride and groom.

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Here is another photo of the card and box together.

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I will link up various bits when I get home towards the end of the week.

For my sister

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This is the birthday card I made for my sister earlier this year. I let her have some requests as such and what she listed was aqua and pink colours, Victoria secret themed and bold.

I instantly regretted asking, but what could I do but try to make something along those lines. I decided on a cute fairy, by Krista Smith of Saturated Canary and coloured it in with copics, and added sparkles and liquid pearls to the wings. I have coloured a couple of images since which is an improvement, but I was quite happy with this when I did colour it in. Everything is a learning curve, right? (I really must get cracking on those colouring classes I bought soon after I coloured this image!) I punched out loads of butterflies using the Tim Holtz die in various aqua and pink papers and used rows of pearls to give them bodies. I used a deep pink, almost red to frame the various elements and punched out S and V, my sisters initials coincidently! I have used flowers and big pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts, the lace I believe I purchased at Bikuben and the ribbon may be the Hobby House.

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And a close up of the colouring:

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I have entered this card into the following challenges:

ppinkydolls – Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesdays – Anything Goes
card and scrap – brug blomster

Flutter me by

Posted on by Liz

Another CAS card today. This card is made using a pre-coloured topper by Lili of the Valley. They are simply perfect for CAS cards! I used two different butterfly punchers by Martha Stewart and used small pearls to give them a body. Sadly I don’t remember where I purchased the ribbon as I wouldn’t mind getting some more of it… heh.

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This card has been entered into the following challenges:

Nordsalten Hobbyklubb – CAS

Lots more bookmarks

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A couple of months ago I made some bookmarks. With butterflies. I love using butterflies. Here is a link to that post. This post is to show some more of the bookmarks I made with a very similar style. I used the same Tim Holtz butterfly die. I used paper scraps from various sources. Quite frankly I am glad I found something so useful to make with it. The main difference between these bookmarks and the first one I posted is that these have an added row of pearls on the butterflies to create the body. I also added a letter on some of them, the first letter of the name of the person who was getting the bookmark. I reckon I will soon make up quite a few more. They are very handy to have. Especially for someone like me who is currently reading three books at once!

You can click on the images to view the a bigger photo of each of them.

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