Cosmic Shimmer Butterfly

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I seem to have spent the week "spinning my wheels" and getting nowhere very fast!

I was recently playing with some new product from

  that I was able to purchase with a prize voucher, it is called Cosmic Shimmer, and I was using the Thistle colour.  I coloured a snippet of card with the glaze, and immediately feel in love with it

I cut the butterfly from the coloured snippet using a Marianne  butterfly die that I have had for years.

Love, love, love the way the light plays on the coloured card!

I had been given some window card bases, and on the centre layer I used my new makeup brushes to brush Broken China DI through a Daisy Cluster stencil - oh bliss, how wonderful to use, and I am finally getting some respectable work using my stencils.  I used some yellow ink to colour the centres using a paint brush. 

The sentiment, an old Kiwistamping one, was silver embossed on a hand cut banner from the coloured card.  Pink rhinestones were added to the butterfly's body and the card was complete.

I am linking this to:

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Things With Wings

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #113 - Anything Goes

PIP Challenge #1935 - Anything Goes

Love To Craft September Challenge #38 - Anything Goes

International Art and Soul Challenge #66 - Layer it Up

Nordsalten Hobby Klubb Challenge #175 - Use Dies

Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge #360 - Anything Goes

Ellieblle's September Challenge - Something Starting With B

Crafting By Design September Challenge - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge weeks #402 + 403 - Anything Goes

Robotic Birthday

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Today I am sharing a card that uses the robot image from Dr Digi - I won a voucher,  and  John was so pleased I had chosen this image that he also sent the matching paper for me.

(It is now sold as a set) 

I sized and printed out the robot to take the stage on the card front, and then coloured him up using metallic paints and pens, some of the sheen and sparkle you can see in the photo below.

The image was fussy cut and placed over the paper.  The seven stones represent the age of the recipient, and they were mounted on black sparkle card, over a strip of silver sparkle tape.

The greeting was stamped and embossed in silver, on silver card, and coloured with a silver pen.

This is one of my original stamps from (the now defunct) Kiwistamps, who got me into this craft!!

More silver and black tape and card, and more robot paper finished the base of the easel, and a couple of brads held the main panel upright. 

I am linking this to:

Crafting By Design August Challenge - Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #356 - Anything Goes

D L Art Thankful Thursday Challenge #246 - Birthday

Aud Sentiment Challenge #234 - A Masculine Project with a Sentiment

QKR Stampede Challenge #361 - Anything Goes

Colour Crazy Challenge Week #34 - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations Challenge #397 - Anything Goes

Colourific Challenge #4 - Anything Goes

Polka Doodle Challenge Week #35 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #401 - 403 - Anything Goes

Layered Bookmark

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Today is the start of another challenge over at Word Art Wednesday, and as part of the Design Team, I have created a book mark with the free scripture that is available on the site.

As soon as I saw how the scripture was crafted I thought 'bookmark' - I did manipulate it a wee bit before printing, but this size is wonderful for a Bible

I cut the tops with  Paper Rose tag dies, and rounded the bottom corners with a punch, swiping the edges over a Delicata Golden Glitz ink pad

The scripture panel was embossed with a cross stitched border  from Lawn Fawn 

I was looking for a long narrow piece in my off-cuts box, and also found this piece of florist wrap, that I popped between the layers

The top ribbons were stapled on and reflect the colours used.

I am linking this to:

Crafty Creations Challenge #397 - Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday Challenge, Week #35- Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #101 - Anything Goes

Arty Diva's Challenge #3 - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge #98 - Anything Goes

Classic Design Team Challenge August - Anything Goes

Craft-Dee Bowz August Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #66 - Anything Goes

Creatalcious Challenge #169 - Anything Goes Opt Add Some Sparkle

Brushos and a Poppy

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Thank you for visiting today

I thought I had blogged this card, but where I discovered it in my files today meant I obviously have not shared it!

I started by playing with a piece of normal card and brushos, and lots of water.  

If I remember correctly I had to 'book it' for a couple of days after drying it!

I die cut the M/B Prim Poppy out of the background, and also from white card, and coloured the latter cut with Prismacolor pencils before inserting it into the negative on the background. 

 (The blue die cut was used on this card)

The sentiment was stamped onto white card and cut using a S/B die.  I put white card behind the orange chiffon ribbon to let the colour remain true, and not be contaminated by the blue background. 

Clear rhinestones finished the feature panel, which was mounted over line green and then white card. 

I finished the inside with a layer of card, which I edged using orange ink, and added another strip of ribbon too.

I am linking this to: 

Crafty Calendar August Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafter's Castle August Challenge #8 - Anything Goes opt Any Occasion

Allsorts Challenge #534/5 - Feminine

Corrosive Challenge #8 - Anything Goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #112 - Anything Goes

International Art and Soul Challenge #65 - Flowers

Dragonfly Dreams August Challenge - No Patterned Paper

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #1934 - Anything Goes

Sputhern Girls Challenge - Spring Is In The Air

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #400 - 401 - Anything Goes

Gold and Jelly Bean Birthday

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What does one design for a sweet nine year old who is going on 19?

This card started with some gold striped  paper, and I cannot remember if it was a magazine freebie or from a pad...

The jar and sentiment (again a freebie) were stamped and gold embossed, and then the jelly beans were stamped using blue ink, coloured and covered with glossy accents

This panel was in another magazine feebie set... she really doesn't really need to be told she's fabulous - she already seems to know it, but I love her as she is a real sweetie with it.

I am linking this to:

Cute Card Thursday Challenge # 596 - Embossing

Crafting With an Attitude challenge #54 - Anything Goes

Craft Rocket Challenge #62 August - Anything Goes

Simple Create Too Challenge #152 - Anything Goes

QKR Stampede Challenge #360 - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge #169 - Anything Goes

Colourific Challenge Corner Challenge #3 - Anything Goes

Polka Doodles Challenge Week #34 - Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge Week 534/5 - Feminine

Word Art Wednesday Weeks #400 - 401 - Anything Goes

On Being Grandma Part 2

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I couldn't add both entries from the one address, so here is Big Sister's work!

Older sister Lydia (aged 9) has always loved colouring and chose quite a detailed page to colour

I stamped the parrot, and she painted it with Twinkling H2O's, and trimmed it out

You can just see the sparkle in this photo.

The card base colour was her choice, and  she adhered the panel onto the base, and also placed the parrot where she wanted it.

I was really impressed with their work and the end results!!

On Being Grandma

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This year I have been doing  "Grandma Duty" for a couple of hours, two afternoons after school, most weeks.  We have had a winter of damp, grey weather, and the two children  have not been able to get outside much, so my daughter and I came up with the idea to do some art on the afternoons I am there, so a couple of colouring books and pencils were invested in. 

About that time I spotted the Simon Says Kids Summer Vacation Challenge, so to give an incentive for them to work, I told them of it, and they both responded well - although the younger child was disappointed that they were not going to America to put their entries in!

So here is Asher's entry (he is 7yrs old)- The background is a colouring page, the car I stamped out, and he painted it with Inca Gold paints

Here is a photo with the sparkle and shine on it

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After cutting out the image, I trimmed the coloured page where he wanted it, he placed the (ready taped) background on the base (his colour choice), and  also placed the car where he wanted it - it was on foam dots.  Asher  had to take the backing off the sticky bits, which was a bit of a challenge for him.!