No it's not an announcement, so you can relax now mum and dad :D
New Baby is the theme of the card I have made for this
week's
Papermill Special Offer 'Light Ivory Smooth' 270gsm card. (from just £5 for a
small box approx 75-80 sheets). You''ll find all the current 'special
offers' in this
section, link HERE.
New Offers usually start on a Thursday and previous offers may still be
available so do check regularly. (as always the materials list and
challenges entered are at the bottom).
I wanted to make something pretty and delicate this week. I was trying to decide whether to go blue or pink as the contrast to the lovely Light Ivory colour of this card. I decided to go pretty in pink and as the name of the papermill pink card is 'Baby Pink' it was the obvious choice.
I like shaped cards and I like cards that are tactile, if they can move a little it is always fun. So I created a card with a gentle scalloped shape that does rock a little if you gentle nudge it. I used my cricut mini to cut the pink base shape and cut the 'paper-cut' style overlay from the Light Ivory card which is lovely and smooth and perfect for overlaying. The 'paper-cut' design features a little tree and leaves with a little birdy standing on a branch. I didn't want to make it too busy by adding lots of colour, so decided that a little stickles glitter glue would highlight the bird and maintain the delicate look.
I die-cut a sentiment and sentiment mat using my Big Shot and dies from Tonic and Tattered Lace. Attaching it to the card with a 3D foam pad to add a little height. A pretty pink bow at the top highlights the 'New Baby' wording. I gave the little bird a pink faux gem eye too.
Looking a the card I felt it needed something extra around the edges, my first thoughts were lace or ribbons, but felt they would mask the scalloped edges and I wanted to keep the card more simple in shape. I found my Card Candi!! love this stuff, but it tends to migrate all over the house!! Anyway a few card candis were attached around the outside interspersed with faux half pearls, these conveniently spaced around into the scalloped shapes. I love how this card turned out, especially by keeping the colour palette simple, so I must make that blue version too.
Materials Used:
Light Ivory Smooth 'offer' card - Papermill Direct
Baby Pink card - Papermill Direct
Sentiment Dies - Tattered Lace
Sentiment base panel Die- Tonic
Stickles Glitter Glue in 'Star Dust'
Pink Card Candi - Craftwork Cards
Faux half pearls, Faux pink gem & pink satin ribbon from my crafty stash.
Challenges Entered:
Challenge #221 'Shaped Cards' - Fab 'n' Funky Challenges
http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/challenge-221-shaped-cards.html
June 'Anything Goes' Challenge - Sisters of Craft
http://thesistersofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/sisters-of-craft-june-anything-goes.html
Why not pop over and see what my papermill teamies have got up to this week too?:
Barbara
http://glitterarti1.blogspot.co.uk/
Following on from my butterfly, butterfly post, I thought I should share the 'other' version. Using the same pattern / template but changing up the colour combo creates a different feel to this butterfly card.
I do have a liking for the Chocolate, Orange, Teal colour combo, (and chocolate oranges I must confess :D) So here is what happened when I teamed up those shades in butterfly form.
I used card from Papermill Direct in 'Mocha' and 'Teal' shades, which I purchased as part of a pick n' mix selection box, these are really good value and allow you to try out a variety of card colours and weights, (believe 4 selections in a box). The papermill card is lovely to work with and cuts so well in the Cricut Mini, you get a nice 'clean' cut. (and I'm still using the first blade that came with the machine back in November time). I tend to use the 'medium' card setting and only adjust down if I'm cutting thinner paper.
Accompanying the papermill cardstock on this outing is some pale blue pearlescent card, seen between the 'mocha' and the 'teal', and also pearlescent white card seen just inside the white scrolls on the top layer. The patterned paper is from a 'First Edition' 8x8 paper pad called 'New Leaf'. I added stickles glitter glue in 'Mercury Glass', and some faux half pearls. On this version I also used Card Candi from Craftwork Cards. I had the orange Card Candi in my stash but used my promarkers to colour white Card Candi into a lovely mint green colour. Now I'm feeling hungry, Chocolate Oranges anyone? :)
Materials Used:Mocha Card - Papermill Direct
Teal Card - Papermill Direct
New leaf 8x8 pad - First Edition
White & blue Pearlescent cards from own stash
Mercury Glass - Stickles Glitter glue
Self Adheshive Faux pearls
Card Candi - Craftwork Cards
Tools Used:
Cricut Mini- Provocraft
Something so special about butterflies, don't you think? In the crafting world they tend to be used mainly as embellishments, little accents to set off a design. Lots of colours, layers, pretty, sparkly, beautiful.
I have always had a bit of 'a thing' for shaped cards. know I have made butterfly shaped cards in the past and they have always been well received by the recipients. So I thought it was time to revisit the shaped butterfly card.
I've always been a very 'hands on' crafter, getting blisters because I'd fight with heavy cardstock and scissors or craft knife to hand cut my designs. Nothing wrong with that and I can spend many hours just cutting. But recently I bought a new little toy, having always shied away from the electric cutters in the past, I realised that actually, there was no reason why I couldn't bring this technique into my crafting. So here is the Butterfly Card that I made with the help of my new little toy, the Cricut Mini.
There
are 5 to 6 layers of quality card, textured card and designer papers
that make up this beautiful butterfly, I took inspiration from some
beautiful Purple Corded paper I espied on the Papermill Direct website,
it was a limited edition and I just HAD to have it!! I think it added a
lovely texture and rich colour to the Pink & Purple theme, and it cut extremely well on the cricut, using the
'medium cardstock' setting, I could have tried the light setting but I
thought the lovely deep corded effect would cut better on the medium
setting and it did, first time!! The card didn't really need lots of
patterned paper, so I settled on a subtle design from a 'First Edition'
paper pad for the top layer. Added accents of stickles glitter in 'Star Dust' and
delicate faux half pearls to provide the finishing touches. This design
and colourway has been very popular with my customers, I should make
more but at the moment I'm selfishly keeping the remainder of that purple corded for
myself, for those moments when you just NEED to stroke paper, and
besides it's purple!! did I mention it was purple? :-D
Materials Used:
Purple Corded paper - Papermill Direct
Birdsong 8x8 pad - First Edition
Pink Bazzill Cardstock
White Card & white Pearlescent paper from own stash
StarDust - Stickles Glitter glue
Self Adheshive Faux pearls
Tools Used:
Cricut Mini- Provocraft
