CAS Flower Card

A CAS card today.

The stamps are all from the Stampin' Up 'Varied Vases' set.  I stamped the flowers and shelf and sentiment directly onto the background, which was layered on a purple mat.  The vases were stamped on snippets of white card and punched out with a matching punch and raised up on foam pads.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - Week 622 ~ Spring Blossoms

Stamping Sensations May Challenge ~ Beautiful Blooms

The Sisterhood of Crafters ~ How Does Your Garden Grow?

Painting

A birthday card today using up some snippets of plain card which I've embossed.

The paintbrushes are from the Sweet Dixie 'DIY Tools' set of dies.  I die cut them first in snippets of silver mirror card and the again in each of the five colours. I snipped the bristles off the coloured paintbrushes and layered them over the silver ones.  The letters are  Memory Box 'Upper Case Alphabet Soup'.  The 'Birthday' is from Sue Wilson's 'Happy Birthday' set of dies. 

I am joining in the following challenges:

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #399 ~ Use Snippets

Addicted to Stamps and More! Challenge #404 ~ Any Occasion

NBUS Challenge #26 ~ Use Never-Before-Used-Schtuff (DIY Tool dies)

AAA Birthday Card Challenge - Game #25 ~ Happy Birthday

Mini Miura Fold

A second post today, please scroll down to see my earlier post.

The theme for the Butterfly Challenge this fortnight is 'M for Mini Miura Fold'.  I've never heard of this fold before or even seen it, but Mrs A has put the instructions HERE.  I've included all the elements of the challenge Misty Moss/Mandarin/ Maroon/Metal and a Butterfly.  The floral patterned paper is a sort of light maroon, so I hope that counts. There are mandarin coloured stripes and I added a moss coloured leaf. 

The card is kept closed with a belly band.  The little metal butterfly on the belly band is silver, although it looks more grey in the photograph.  The patterned paper is from a Dovecraft 'Garden Party' paper pad. Flowers and leaf dies are from the Lisa Horton box magazine.

This photo shows the card open, with a layered die cut label for the message.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Butterfly Challenge #156 ~ M for Mini Miura Fold (all elements)

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper May 2021 challenge

Surf's Up

It's the first Saturday in May and time for a new Crafty Calendar Challenge.  The theme this month is 'Masculine'.  

For the background, I made a stencil with a cloud die and lightly stencilled sky with 'Blueprint Sketch' Distress Ink.  The sea is embossed with a Creative Expression 'Ocean Waves' e/f.   I added a sun in the corner with a Memory Box 'Stitched Circle Layers' die cut and added a strip of ric rac between the sea and the sky.  Our generous sponsor, Bugaboo Digi Stamps, kindly gave the DT digi stamps to work with and I chose to use 'Surfing Guy'.  I coloured the image with Promarkers and die cut it into a rectangle with a Memory Box 'Stitched Rectangle Layers' die and layered it on a red mat.  The image is raised up on foam tape. 

The Crafty Calendar Challenge ends on 28th May.  Please pop over to the blog to see all the lovely cards the DT have made for inspiration.  The DT will choose a Top 3 and the randomly chosen winner will win a prize from Bugaboo Digi Stamps.

I am joining the following challenges:

Bugaboo Challenge - May Week One ~ Anything Goes