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Welcome to Valerie, my new follower.  I hope you can stop by my blog again soon.

 

A card today with the layout based on a sketch I saw in the craft group I belong to.

Card recipe:

Patterned paper ~ Trimcraft 'Love Letters'

Dies ~ Memory Box 'Stitched Scalloped Circles', 'Stitched Circle Layers', 'Pippi Butterfly', 'Isabella Butterfly', and Sue Wilson 'Itty Bitty Bow.

Embossing Folder ~ Cuttlebug 'Swiss Dots'

Green sequins

I am joining in the following challenges:

Butterfly Challenge #166 ~ 1. - C for Celadon, Cardinal + Butterfly 

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper February Challenge

Dandelion Wishes

I was delighted to be invited to be a Guest Designer for the February Stamping Sensations Challenge, which begins today.  The theme this month is 'Anything stamped with option of Wings or Tails’.  I decided to make a Tower Card, using one of the Lavinia fairies.

I made the background using a Distress Oxide 'Picked Raspberry' inkpad and a Lavinia 'Feather Leaf' stencil.  The fairy is Lavinia's 'Josie' and I added a Lavinia 'Mini Meadow Mushroom'.   The sentiment is a stamp from the Stampin' Up 'Positive Thoughts' set.

The card folds flat for posting and measures 6" x 6" when folded.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Crafty Catz Challenge #581 ~ Anything Goes + Optional Twist of Anything But Square

Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenge #2 ~ Anything Flies using only PINK AND BLACK

Creations in Pink Challenge #42 ~ Anything Goes in Mainly Pink

NBUS Challenge #35 ~ Use Never-Before-Used-Schtuff (Lavinia 'Josie' stamp)

River of Creativity Challenge #10 ~ Anything Goes

We Love Stamping February Challenge ~ Anything Stamped + option to add stencilling

Time to Party!

The Crafty Calendar Challenge begins today with the theme 'Anything Goes'.  Our sponsor this month is Paper Nest Dolls with a prize of three digi stamps for the lucky, randomly drawn winner.

Our sponsor kindly gave the DT images to work with and I chose to use 'Party Chicks'.  I coloured the image with Promarkers and used a Couture Creations 'Fireflies' embossing folder for the background.  The balloons are a Trimcraft First Editions 'Birthday Party' die.  I die cut the balloons in white and used the same purple Promarker that I used for the main image.  The strings were drawn with a fineliner pen.

The Crafty Calendar Challenge ends on 28th February.  Please pop over to the challenge blog to see all the beautiful creations the DT have made.

Tropical

I bought this die set last year in the Sizzix sale and I finally got round to using it.  The die cut toucan was a bit fiddly to make up and I did some creative snipping to make all the pieces fit.

The dies are from the Sizzix Thinlits 'Jungle Shadow Box' set.  The toucan and the circle frames are raised up on foam pads.  The stencil is from Lavinia Stamps, called 'Glory'.  I used Distress Oxides for the stencilling -  Wilted Violet, Fossilized Amber and Lucky Clover.

 

I am joining in the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - Week 661 ~ A/G with option use a stencil

Creative Crafting Uncles Challenge #25 ~ Happy Birthday