Tag: butterfly

Baby boy in buggy

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card250_1Time for another card that’s I’ve made for someone else, based on another card I have made. She was quite fond of a card I had made for another co-worker, for a baby. I suggested we add some blue and make it a bit more masculine, but we had to keep some of the purple as that is her favourite colour. I’m pleased with how I managed to keep it obvious it’s been inspired by the other card, but still make it quite different.

I used a pre-coloured topper by The Hobby House. Craftwork Cards have made the doily. The ribbon, lace and card stock is from a local shop. All the flowers are purchased at Wild Orchid Crafts as well as the big white pearls, and the punches I have used are by Martha Stewart. As you can see, my love of adding butterflies to everything is still quite strong, heh.

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This card has been entered into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly – Anything Goes
cards and scrap – Alt er tilladt (anything goes)

Wedding in Paris

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It’s wedding season, isn’t it? Here is the first of about a handful of cards I have made. I stumbled upon some lovely pre-coloured images by Wild Rose Studio. Aren’t they lovely?!

The paper I used is a lovely rose frame by Pion Design. The leaves and butterflies are made from a Martha Stewart puncher. I used pearls to give the butterflies bodies and also to decorate the top corners of the card and to frame the image. The ribbon is from one of the Christmas flowers from last year, I believe, and all the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

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Lilacs for a mother

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My boyfriend’s mom’s birthday was coming up and he really liked a card I had made just a few days beforehand. You can see it on the right here. So I used that as inspiration and ended up getting a tad carried away with butterflies. I have made butterflies from a Tim Holtz die (the ones on top), stand alone butterflies from a Martha Stewart puncher and embedded butterflies on the side. The tiny butterflies that got cut out with the third die were also put on here and there around the card: some of them even on the flowers.

The main image is a pre-coloured one from Lili of the Valley.  I used a doily from Wild Orchid Crafts and put it mostly behind the image to break up the green a bit.  The two different patterned purple papers are by Papermania, whereas the green one is by First Edition Paper. I have used ribbon from a local shop and from Wild Orchid Crafts. The flowers are also all from WOC. Lastly I used a Martha Stewart puncher for the leaves and an alphabet set to create two of each letter (one green and one purple) to make them stand out more.

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Final Hobby House DT post: toe dipping.

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This is my final post as a member of the Hobby House DT. I have stepped down due to various reasons. It has been a fun and challenging half a year, trying to get my creations done between various holidays and much more work than I had predicted when I accepted.

My final DT card is featuring one of their new products: the Art Books. They are small colouring books with various darling images to colour. The one I used here is in one of the Elisabeth Bell art books. I used copics to colour this one in and it has helped motivate me into spending more time colouring again. In fact, I believe this is only the second card I’ve added here this year with my own colouring! There are many more to come though, that’s for certain!

Other Hobby House products used on this card are the pearls, buttons, roses and ribbon. The butterfly border is from a Tim Holtz die, and the stand alone butterfly and leaves are made with a Martha Stewart puncher.

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All that remains to be said now is:

Thank you for the opportunity to work alongside such talented people and allowing me a spot on a fab team using great products! There will of course be more cards with Hobby House products in the future, but not DT related posts.