Studio light butterfly card

Hi Everyone!!

Right I think this will be my last post for tonight and I hope to finish editing my last few posts tomorrow.

This is another really lovely stamp that again doesn't need much work.

Cut a piece of card down to fit on a 6x6 card blank.

Stamp the gorgeous butterfly stamp from Studio Light in black ink and emboss with clear embossing powder.

Sprinkle some pretty gets gritty explosion powder (I think I used Dragon - it was a while ago that I made this card) into a paint palette, sprits with water and apply to the background with a paint brush.

Colour the butterfly and flowers, for this I used Castle arts gold pencil set. I've never really enjoyed using colouring pencils but I have to say I absolutely love this set. 

Use a dark green pencil to add some shading around the butterflies and flowers - this really makes the image pop. 

Mount your stamped image onto a 6x6 card blank.

Thanks for joining me.

X_Dena_X

 

Crafty Individuals June launch

Hello Everyone!!

Yet again I've been neglecting my blog. We've got rather allot going on at the moment as we're hoping to move very soon so have been busy sorting the house out as well as creating design team pieces and trying to keep my little shop going. I will try to post every now and again but have several posts ready to be edited that I hope to publish very soon.

Anyway enough about that, did you manage to catch the latest launch of Crafty Individuals stamps on create and craft at the beginning of June? They released a fabulous collection of 'favourite stamps' that has been shrunk down into a 'mini' collection. So, if your into making ATCs or like to create smaller pieces then this collection is definitely for you. You'll also find a few new Christmas designs drawn by the very talented Sharen Bates. 

Below is a list of stamps that was in this launch so do pop along to the Crafty Individuals website and check them out!!!

CI-627 - Cat and Dog

CI-629 - Zebra and Giraffe

CI-628 - Hare, seagull, butterfly and swirls

CI-436 - Inky Script

CI-284 - Life's a beach

CI-573 - Counting down background stamp

CI-547 - Pablo penguin

CI-567 - Luigi the llama

CI-456 - Robin

CI-630 - Christmas Arthur car

CI-631 - Christmas tree 

Here are a few sample I made for the show.

Thank you for visiting 

X - Dena - X

 

Crafty individuals butterfly card

Hello Everyone!!

Thought I'd do a quick blog post on this card that I actually made during a Facebook live for Crafty Individuals. Depending on when you read this post you might still be able to catch it on the main Crafty Individuals Facebook page, but if not its super easy to make and you could just follow the step by step instructions below. 

Now you can either use a black pre folded  5x7 card blank or just use white. I made this one using a white card blank. I cut a piece of black card large enough to completely cover the white base.

Cut a slightly smaller piece of black card to use as your main topper. For this I used the Lynda Chapman super smooth black card.

Using a blending brush randomly apply a selection of oxide inks to the smaller piece of smooth black card. I used the following selection - Picked raspberry, scattered straw, Twisted citron, spiced marmalade, and wilted violet.

Stamp the gorgeous Crafty Individuals butterfly stamp using versamark ink and emboss with black embossing powder. 

For the next steps  I tend to work in opposite corners and sides to keep the card balanced and also recommend using a versamark inkpad as it will stay tacky for longer. This will hopefully give you chance to stamp all the different elements around the edge so you can emboss them all at the same time.

Start by stamping the negative stamp from the inky boarders set in opposite corners. Then stamp the bird and flower border stamps. Fill in any blank areas with the inky script background stamp.

Once all the elements have been stamped around the edges apply some black embossing powder and emboss with a heat gun. 

Stick the topper onto your black mount.

Stamp and emboss the butterfly on a separate piece of black card. 

Cut the butterfly out, but don't worry about cutting out the antennas.

Use perfect pearls to paint the butterfly. To do this I'd recommend placing a small of amount of perfect pearls on a paint palette or tile and use a watery brush to apply. 

Slightly curl the wings and stick in place with a silicone glue so the wings are slightly raised.

Thank you for visiting.

X_Dena_X

 

 

Crafty individuals wildflower and butterfly card

 Hi Everyone!! 

Hope your all keeping safe and well.

Made this card for my lovely mum for Mother’s Day. I tried to avoid putting the words “happy Mother’s Day” on this as we found Mother’s Day particularly difficult. For those of you that know me will know that last year we lost my incredible Nan on Mother’s Day. So wanted to keep this simple. 

I started by cutting a card blank to 5.5inches.  

Dab your inks randomly on a piece of acetate and sprits with water. 

Then apply to your piece of card and move the ink around to achieve your desired look. 

Mask the bird off with some masking tape then ink the grasses. Peel the tape off before stamping. Stamp along the bottom section of the card - you will need to do this 2/3 times, each time masking the bird. Then emboss the grasses.

Cut a butterfly in both black and mirror card. Unfortunately I cant tell you the name of this butterfly as I bought it in a destash so didn't come with any packaging.  

Using the spectrum noir sparkle pen - Drag the ink across the butterfly. This adds such a lovely shimmer effect.

Take the butterfly cut from mirror card and cut it in half and stick off centre behind the black butterfly to create a shadow effect.

Using the Hunkydory word dies cut 'special' and 'mum' out of black and mirror card. 

Mount the black wording off centre on top of the mirror card wording to create a shadow.

Using the smallest butterfly on CI- 437 - take the one with the 'hole' in the centre and stamp in a colour of your choice but for this I used dusty concord. 

Stamp the matching butterfly in black over the top.

You can now mount the topper onto a 6x6 card blank and stick your large butterfly and wording in place.

Thank you for reading and hope you join me again soon!!

Dena

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Shopping List 

- White card

- 6x6 Card blank

- Distress inks 

- Black ink pad 

- Embossing powder

- Heat gun 

- Accetate

- Water Spritzer 

- Crafty Individuals butterfly stamp CI-437

- Crafty Individuals grasses stamp CI-495