Pink and Purple Tortoises!

This card uses a tortoise stamp from a set I bought a while ago and have hardly used, so thought I should have a play.  The tortoises are coloured using my copics and cut with a spellbinders oval die.  The pink piece behind is a piece of handmade (by me!) paper made a very long time ago and has been sitting in my stash waiting for the day.  These pieces are mounted over a lovely Cheery Lynn fancy oval which is one of my favourite dies.

The background pieces are a gorgeous pink flower paper that I have been saving (lol) for ages as I love it, but today's the day it's got the chop!  The other piece is a pink petticoat polka dot digi paper.  Both of these mounted onto white card and stitched on the sewing machine.  The ribbon is  lovely glittery striped sheer pink gorgeousness.

This lot mounted onto a folded A4 purple pearlescent card.  Not forgetting (almost!) the sentiment from Craftwork Cards which is a white pearlescent flower shape which I have edged with one of the pink copics I used on the tortoises.

It was such fun to make this card, pink and purple tortoises, why not?!  I hope you like it :)

(Sorry about the picture quality I am having a problem with my camera and have used my phone again )

Magenta Fantasy Film Butterfly

I just love Fantasy Film and have a pile of butterflies on my desk half way through incarnation!    This card has the large Magenta butterfly stamp.  I love Magenta and they never delete stamps so you can always get oldies.  This stamp I have probably had for about 10 years!   As you can see, the wings are Fantasy Film and there is a great video which shows how to do this and I will attempt to make a link to it. The photos look like they are 2 different butterflies but they are the same one, it's so irridescent.

The body is made of wire and beads.  I have done this by taking the wire and folding it in half, add a bead, let it drop to the  half way point, then thread one piece of wire through the next bead, push it to the first bead and thread the other piece of wire through the hole with the wire sticking out.  Pull the wire and continue adding beads in this way. When the body is long enough make an antennae by cutting off the wire and twisting the ends with a round nose plier or round the end of a paintbrush etc.

The Fantasy Film wings are made by stamping your stamp into Stazon black ink and putting on your desk, ink uppermost, then laying 3 or 4 layers of film on top.  Cover with a piece of craft sheet (or baking parchment etc) and carefully iron on medium  heat until it is fused together.  You have to peek after a few presses and check, continue until it is done.  Peel it off your stamp carefully.  Cut out close around image.  If there are any patchy bits of inking, you can use a black permanent pen (or Copic etc) to go over the image. I have done 2 sets of wings to add dimension.

Keep all the leftover bits as you can reheat them into a sheet and use it for die cutting.  The background is a Heidi Swapp mask  sprayed with a few different Glimmer Mists.   The button started out as clear plastic.  Using a page of an old book I used a double sided sticky sheet on the back of the button and cut around it.  I made the holes using a large needle and threaded a piece of soft wool through and tied into a knot.

The background piece is edge distressed and machine stitched onto metallic card .  A piece of trim is attached using ultra sticky tape (the red one) and the whole thing sewn onto an A5 size white card.  I like the fact that you can see the stitching on the inside but you can always cover it with a paper insert etc.

I am off to find out how to link the Fantasy Film video!

I hope you like this one and please leave me a comment if you feel like it.

Love

Anne

Cutie Owl

This little cutie is coloured with watercolour pencils and is probably a bit brighter than it needs to be, but hey it's always an experiment isn't it.  It has stickles on it too.  The branch is various metallic pens.  The more I look at it, the more I think I should do something on the white background, but there's so much going on elsewhere on the card, I think I'll leave it.   Its cut out with a spellbinder label and edged in silver leafing pen.
The pearlescent blue card mat under that is also edged with the leafing pen.

The background papers are both digis from Pink Petticoat (I love their papers, their colour palettes are gorgeous) .  They are both sewn onto a white card matt with a multi-coloured machine embroidery thread in a zig zag stitch.

The owl stamp and the sentiment are from the same set (I think it might be Inkadinkadoo but I have stupidly thrown away the packaging of most of my unmounted stamps!) .  The sentiment is edged in the silver leafing pen as well.  The gorgeous dotty blue satin ribbon is tied around the piece to balance out the blue of the mount above.  The whole thing is mounted onto the same blue pearlescent card as the mount for the owl.

Like a lot of my cards when I look at it, I find fault, this isn't perfect, that could be better, what if I did this or that, so I was reluctant to post it.  But I think you just have to go for it and just let it be 'good enough' rather than 'perfect'.  I don't think we would ever post anything otherwise!  What do you think?

Another Fantasy Film Butterfly

A variation of a previous post but I do like this one.  The butterfly is done as before using Fantasy Film with wire and beads for the body and antennae . It's sitting on a masked flower with glimmer mists.   A piece of braid/ribbon held on by the stitching around the card.  The green and purple matts and the main piece distressed with a tool and mounted onto white A5 card.  I hope you like it and thanks for coming by :)

Fantasy Film Butterfly

This gorgeous little butterfly is made with Fantasy Film and has a wired and beaded body and antennae.
I cut a circle out of a page of a book and matted it to a white scalloped circle.  I made a stencil with a round punch and used Shades of  Sunset Blending Blox ink pad on a sponge dauber to make the coloured circle.

This is then mounted onto a piece of card which has been masked with my Heidi Swapp floral mask and sprayed with glimmer mists.  This piece is stitched with multi coloured thread zigzags onto a pink and then black matt. The whole thing is mounted onto an A4 white card which was scored in half to make the card base.

I have a few variations of this card  which I will post if you are interested.  I hope you like this one and feel free to comment.  Thanks for coming by.

Tonal Swan

The colour in the photo makes it look blue but in real life it's shades of green, with a bit of blue on the swan's body and the ribbon is sort of dark turquoise.  Anyway this has hammered card as the base with cuttlebugged background papers.  One is a pearlescent paper and the other is coloured with kaleidacolour fresh greens ink pad.  The pearlescent strip is a Martha Stewart border punch.  The scalloped circles are nesties, a dark aqua and a green glitter card.  The swan is an Inkadinkadoo set I think (I must stop throwing away packaging!).  It is coloured using pencils and sansodor and has tiny sparkly flat back gems  on the wing.

I did some stitching in a multi coloured thread to attach the papers to a white card matt and added the dark turquoise ribbon threaded through the sentiment stamped in silver on an off cut of white card which I trimmed down and rounded the corners.

The colouring was done before I bought my copics, but I still often use coloured pencils blending with sansodor.  It's so relaxing.

I might try to take another photo to get a more realistic shot - but considering that I use my phone camera (!) that may not be possible.  I should invest in a decent camera really, perhaps then the cards would look  better on here.  The trouble is I am too impatient and just want to put them on the blog even if they could look better (promises, promises!).

Hope you like it and thanks for taking the time to look.