Bold Poppies

It's Friday again...and I had an unschedules just "lovely" trip to the dentist this morning.  Ah, well.  Sometimes those things happen. 

 

This is a simple card (have you figured out yet that I like simple?!).  The designer paper is mounted on the front of the card base, and the poppies are mounted directly on the designer paper.  The greeting is glued on the side edges and popped up in the middle.

So...how did I do the poppies?  They actually are ones I made first for last week's card and I goofed them up.  There are ways to use your mistakes though.  In this case, I cut out two sections of the stamped, embossed and colored poppies and rearranged them to put on the front.  They are on vellum and I cut the vellum very close to the embossing.  Betcha can't tell it!

Supplies
White cardstock
Vellum
Designer paper from the Color Me Happy line by Glitz
Pearls from Zva Creative
Water-based markers
Greeting stamp is from Stampin' Up

A Butterfly of a Different Color

Here's another one for you to try...

 

This one is a bit more ornate, but still somewhat easy to execute.

 

The card base is vanilla and to make the designer paper panel, I used a piece of cardstock with the two papers layered onto it.  That gave me a stiffer panel to handle the twill tape that was tied on next.

 

The diecut butterfly is done in kraft and white papers, and I sponged the white paper with a blue-green ink to match the papers (it does match, regardless of how it looks in the photo!).  The butterfly is sprayed with Glimmer mist after gluing it together.  Just a bit of shimmer!  I cut the swirl die once and cut it into three pieces for what you see here.  Pearls were added last.

 

Supplies

Vanilla cardstock

Designer papers from Authentique (Promise Two) (top) and Glitz (Uncharted Waters) (bottom)

Fancy Flourish Die from Die-namics, butterfly die from Impression Obsession

Twill Tape from May Arts

Pearls from Zva Creative

Butterfly season

I used the same lovely butterfly from Impression Obsession again on this week's card. 

I am loving working with that die.  It cuts beautifully, the two layers line up perfectly (well, as good as my old eyes work anyway!).    The circle is cut with a Spellbinders circle...use your choice of size.

Supplies:
White and black cardstock
The golden brown is the reverse side of the Glitz designer paper I've been using for the last couple of cards, the Chevron is Hippity Hoppity paper from Echo Park...and is mounted directly to the card front.
The bow is tied around the top cardstock layer only...from the circle to the edge.  It is crinkly paper ribbon from May Arts that looks like rope until you fan it out...CAREFULLY!  Ask me how I know!
Pearls are Zva Creative

The 'Right Shoes' Card (Prima Dolls)

Hi Everyone

Michelle here from Lady of Leisure Ink - as always thank you Terri for having me.  Today for my card  I am using the Prima Doll stamps again - but in a slightly different way.  

This was just so much fun to use only part of the stamps for a quick and fun card for a girlfriend.  Here is a list of the products I used:

• Prima Doll Stamps
• Glitz ‘Your Truly’ 6 x 6 paper pack
• White card stock
• White gel pen
• ‘Clear Star’ gel pen
• ProMarkers (or an alcohol marker for colouring)

Here are a few close-ups.

Thanks for stopping by today.  See you next time.

Michelle

A Gorgeous Patterned Paper

So, I said that I would show you the "front" of that lovely Glitz patterned paper that I used to make the flourish on the butterfly last week.  This card uses it. 

 

 

The color is actually in a gradient from light to dark on the paper...just gorgeous!

 

The die is a Die-Namics die from My Favorite Things, called Fancy flourish.  The tips of the swirls are accented with pearls from Zva.  And the ribbon is a luscious wide silk-look ribbon from May Arts.

 

Hope you enjoy this simple, but elegant card.  Have a great week and I'll have more for you next Friday.

Best Journeys Card (Prima Dolls)

Hi Everyone

Michelle here from Lady of Leisure Ink, thank you Terri for having me.  Like I said before, I was so excited to find that Terri would be carrying the Prima doll stamps, they are so much fun to play with.  

All my posts this month for A Scrap N Place are going to be using the Prima dolls, and I hope that you will see how many different ways you can use them.  Here is my first project.

Here is a list of products I used:

• Prima Doll Stamp
• Authentique Paper – Abroad Collection “Away”
• Glitz ‘Yours Truly’ 6 x 6 paper pack
• Lace
• Pearls
• Flower punch
• Sentiment (computer generated)

Here are some 'close-ups' showing some of the little details.  I really love the 6x6 paper packs for stamping the clothes, the small prints are just perfect.

                                 

Well that's it for today - see you next time.

Michelle

Lovely IO butterfly die!

I'm back again with some new goodies from the store.  I love being able to actually go in and pick out what I want.  So much better than online...sometimes!

Today I have a card with a yummy two-part butterfly die from Impression Obsession.

 

 

I've been searching for a butterfly...any kind works...but this one is just lovely.  The two parts to the die are the whole butterfly background, red in this instance, and the detail-cut upper layer, which I did in black.  The butterfly is popped up on dimensionals.

 

There's a second die on this card, too.  It's the Die-namics Fancy Flourish.  It's cut out of the back side of a Glitz Design patterned paper.  I'll show you the front side next week.  The chevron paper is Echo Park Hippity Hoppity.  There's cute bunny silhouettes on the reverse.

 

Supplies:

Cardstock in White, Red, Black

Designer papers from Echo Park and Glitz Design

Dies from Impression Obsession and Die-namics

Pearls are Zva Creative

Greeting from Stampin' Up