Butterfly Dreams

 Good morning, it's hard to believe it's spring give the weather we have had this past week. Wind, rain, cold and snow! 

My post today is inspiration for Maker Forte using their new Floating on Dreams Stamp Set.

I love this stamp set, I used a number of different products as well as the stamp set:

To start place the Spotlight Circle Stencil over a piece of Perfect Blend Cardstock. I had cut the card to 4x5.5in so it was slightly narrower than a A2 card base.

Over the circle I lined up the Acutely Aware Stencil, held this in place with magnets and inked over it with Icy Mist Ink. 

Once I removed the stencils I had a patterned spotlight in the center of my card. I then chose one of the gorgeous butterflies from Floating on Dreams and stamped this near the top left of the card. I used Remarkable Eclipse Ink for this, 1 so it stood out against the inking and 2 because I wanted to color it with alcohol markers.

The stamp set has some word trails which I stamped in Vegas Strip Ink. These trails are fine enough so you can shape them when you place on your stamping tool. I also added one of the sentiment from the set to the end of my trail.

I wanted some contrast to the card so colored the butterfly in red and pink markers. It is such a pretty stamp.

Now to build my card. I used a Top Folding A2 Card Base which I covered with Redwoods Solid Core Cardstock.

My image was added to the base using foam tape to give my card some dimension. For further interest I added some Roller Skate Crown Jewels. These help draw the eye in to the image making this the main focus.

Floating on Dreams Stamp Set has 5 different butterflies and 5 different word trails so you can mix and match for your needs. There is also a bunch of sentiments that fit with the word trails like the one I used on my card.

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Kuddly Koala

Good afternoon, We are supposed to be under a winter storm warning with up to a foot of snow but so far it's only raining. It's so cold that it's freezing rain so if the snow does come it will likely settle.

I'm sure you have all seen the devastation that is hitting Australia with all the fires. Being a huge animal lover it is so sad seeing all the pictures of the native animals suffering and dying. So today's card is in honor of them. I love koala bears and couldn't imagine a world without them. I still have my childhood bear bought for me by my Nanna and he is a koala bear.

The image on my card is one of Lili Of The Valley's digital stamps, I have colored him with Copic markers. I used card scraps from my stash to decorate the card which led to me doing a purge of scraps - who else collects bits of card and design papers just in case?

Supply List:
X-press It card stock
Koala digital stamp - Lili of The Valley
Copic Markers
White Card Stock for base card - The Paper Studio
Blue cardstock - Core'dinations
Leaves - Sylvan Frame: Poppy Stamp
Design paper - from stash

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Pretty Virgo

Good afternoon, School is back and life is getting back to normal. The sun is still warm and more bearable than the heat we had a few weeks ago.

It's new release day over at Scrapper's Delights and I'm showcasing some of the images available with the VIP deal.
Continuing with the Zodiac signs it is Virgo's turn:



She is so pretty! I built up the image by adding the frame and butterflies to the main image. I then colored them with Copic markers and Staedtler Triplus  fine liners. Sapphire is the gem stone for Virgo so I had to give her blue hair.
Once colored I used circle dies to cut the image and blue mat. I matted a 6x6 inch card base with a coordinating pink card before adding my images. A few dark blue gems and a die cut butterfly completed my card.
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