Thank you card with butterfly

Hello everyone, I'm here with my first inspirational project that I made for the April challenge of the Country View Challenges. The theme is Things with wings.

As I've done many times before, I went back to my previous design but changed a little bit. Here you can see my my earlier design. There you will find a tutorial too.

Here for the background, I used Cracked Pistachio and added Evergreen Bough and Walnut Stain to the edges.

The butterfly was coloured with Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry and Rusty Hinge Distress markers. Yes! I still have some Distress markers :-)

Everything else is like the previous design.  

So if you have a project with bird, butterfly, dragonfly or anything else with wings, please don't hesitate to join our April challenge where a randomly selected winner can have a £20 voucher in the Country View Craft Shop! Good luck!

Thank you card with huge butterfly

Let me show my latest make, a thank you card with my favourite butterfly stamp. 

For this design I just had to copy one of my previous card with a little twist. 

Here I used Princess Gold embossing powder and the Flourish stamp to make the background. Then I blended Salty Ocean and Prize Ribbon to the surface.

Then I took a brown paper from the leftover papers and with a pencil I drew the outline of the Flourish card. I went over the lines with an embossing pen, and heat embossed with the same gold embossing powder.

I glued the two sheets together.

Then I stamped the butterfly on 300gsm watercolour paper and heat embossed with the same gold embossing powder I used before. I cut out the butterfly and I coloured it with a mixture of red Distress colours.

What I used:

Stampers Anonymous, Lattice&Flourish (CMS257)

Stampers Anonymous, Perspective (CMS213)

MFT Stamps, Twice The Thanks Die-Namics

Ranger embossing powder (Princess Gold)

Ranger Distress in pads

etc.

With my card, I would like to join the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Things With Wings

Thank you card with Detailed Butterfly by Tim Holtz

A thank you card is always good to have at home. So I made one just in case I need it.

Here you can see the background. For making it, I used the Vines&Roses stamp set by Tim Holtz and heat embossed the image with Ranger Sky Blue embossing powder. Then I inked the edges of the stamped panel with Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain Distress inks. Then I spattered with Vintage Photo Spray Stain.

Then I cut out a little bit bigger rectangle panel and heat embossed the edges with Ranger Princess Gold embossing powder. I placed the background with roses on this panel.

The letters were cut out with Sizzix Alphanumeric Classic Upper dies by Tim Holtz and heat embossed with Princess Gold embossing powder. I used the same embossing powder for the butterfly. 

The second piece of the butterfly was coloured with Blueprint Sketch marker then I spritzed with water. When it was dry, I blended Broken China ink to the surface.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Alphanumeric Classic Upper by Tim Holtz (664223)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Detailed Butterflies by Tim Holtz (661802)

Stampers Anonymous, Vines&Roses by Tim Holtz (CMS298)

Ranger embossing powders (Sky Blue, Princess Gold)

Ranger Distress inks (Broken China, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain)

Ranger Distress embossing ink and marker

Ranger Distress marker (Blueprint Sketch)

Ranger Distress Spray Stain (Vintage Photo)

etc.

With my card I would like to join the :

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Thanks/Thanksgiving

The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog: Living Things

Thank you for stopping by!!! Happy crafting!!!

Card with yellow butterfly

For making this card, I used one of my earlier cards as an inspiration. 

The background was made with Sky Blue embossing powder. I inked the edges with Vintage Photo and Antique Linen. I also spattered the surface with Antique Linen Distress re-inker. 

For the butterfly and all the gold parts of the card, I used Princess Gold embossing powder.

The butterfly was coloured with Squeezed Lemonade and Wild Honig Distress ink.

What I used:

Stampers Anonymous, Perspective (CMS213)

Stampers Anonymous, Vines&Roses (CMS298)

Stampers Anonymous, Tiny Text (CMS394)

Ranger embossing powders (Princess Gold, Sky Blue)

Ranger Distress ink pads (Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Wild Honig, Squeezed Lemonade)

Ranger Distress Archival ink (Black Soot)

Ranger Distress embossing ink

etc.

With my card, I would like to join the:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Lazy Days Of Summer

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Emboss it

Blue and gold thank you card with a large butterfly

I'm here with the first project for the July challenge of the Country View Challenges. This month the lovely Corrie will be your hostess, she chose the theme: Blues and Greens. This time I picked only the blues and made a thank you card.

First of all, I took a 300gsm watercolour paper and stamped one of the background stamps from the Vines&Roses stamp set by Tim Holtz (CMS298) on it. For the stamping, I used the Ranger Distress ink pad (Weathered Wood) and then I heat embossed with Ranger Sky Blue embossing powder by Wendy Vecchi.

This embossed rectangle was daubed with diluted Antique Linen ink, then the edges were inked with Antique Linen and Gathered Twigs inks.

For making the butterfly, I chose the Perspective stamp set by Tim Holtz (CMS213). I stamped the butterfly on watercolour paper with Antique Linen ink, then I heat embossed with Ranger Gold embossing powder. I fussy cut the butterfly then coloured with Ranger Distress markers (Stormy Sky, Faded Jeans).

The text is from the Simple Sayings stamp set by Tim Holtz and stamped with Ranger Archival ink (Potting Soil).

For the second layer of my card, I created a gold embossed rectangle but I only heat embossed the edges of this layer.

I hope you like it and if you have a project with blues and greens, please don't hesitate to join our July challenge where you can win a £20 voucher!

With my card, I would like to join the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything goes.

My drawing - Panni

Eszter, my daughter always had some critical remarks about the girl stamps I bought, and which I loved and used. She complained about their too big heads and their too widely spaced eyes. 

So I decided to draw a girl which can please her. 

The inspiration for my drawing was Eszter, of course.

I named my drawing after my beloved grandmother, I used her nickname - Panni - for my little girl. 


And here, I can show you my first card with my Panni.  (I'm sorry I couldn't colour it as I wanted to because I could print it with an ink-jet printer since I hadn't got laser printer. I was afraid of smudging the lines.) 

And if you ask me, whether Eszter liked my drawing or not, I can reassure you that she liked it very much :-)


With my card I would like to join the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: It's a stich up!

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Vintage three-drawer box with butterflies

I made this three-drawer box with butterflies for our July challenge: Things with wings.

On the Pinterest I created a board with vintage butterfly illustrations. While I was gathering the images I just realised that I could do it with Tim's stamps and that they look good on my three-drawer box too. 

Here is my box before:

First I painted brown with acrylic paint. Then I sanded with a soft sandpaper. 

After I painted white with DecoArt Americana White Wash paint. I put at least three coats. After this process I sanded the edges with a rough sandpaper.

Then I stamped the images one by one using the Ranger Archival ink (Potting Soil). Normally when I stamp onto a wooden box I use clear embossing powder after stamping but my craft room was renovated in June and I had to box and pack up everything and I still can't find my heat gun.

For the stamping I used two stamp sets of the Stampers Anonymous:

Flutter (CMS294) and Bird Feather (CMS180) by Tim Holtz. From the Bird Feather I needed the Fig1, Fig2, Fig3... piece.

After stamping I coloured the butterflies with Ranger Archival inks and I applied the ink with cotton buds onto the butterflies.  And since I couldn't use embossing powder when the Potting Soil ink from the outlines reacted with other Ranger colours, it dissolved a bit, so every colour became little bit brownish.

But it was no problem for me because I wanted to make a vintage box :-)

The Ranger Archival colours I used for the butterflies (Chrome Yellow, Sky Blue, Cobalt, Cornflower Blue, Pale Ochre:

In the end I inked the edges of the whole box with Coffee.

I hope you like it! And if you have a project with some wings, please don't hesitate to join our July challenge at the Country View Challenges where you can win a £20 voucher!

Cards with golden flourish background and butterfly

These cards have a precedent, a tag. I had made that a long time ago and I wanted to repeat it on a card. But as you see in the end I have made three cards.

And there are a few differences between tag and the cards.

For the tag I used Tim's Flourish stencil, but for the card I used Tim's Flourish stamp.

For the tag I painted the background with DecoArt Americana paint, but here I coloured the background with Ranger Archival inks.

Background: Ranger Archival inks (Forget-Me-Not and Cobalt for the edges)

Butterfly: Ranger Distress markers (Candide Apple and Faded Jeans)

Background: Ranger Archival inks (Pink Peony and Rose Madder to the edges)

Butterfly: Ranger Distress markers (Cracked Pistachio and Iced Spruce)

Background: Ranger Archival inks (Cornflower Blue and Cobalt to the edges)

Butterfly: Ranger Distress marker: Picked Raspberry

Round wooden box with butterflies - Flutter by Tim Holtz

At the Country View Crafts blog I will show you how to make these butterfly boxes.

So if you want to see more pictures and read the tutorial, please click on the blog of the Country View Crafts.

Egg shaped Easter card

Hello All, this is my second inspirational post for the February challenge of the Country View Challenges blog: Time challenge - 30 minutes or under.

For the second time it wasn't that hard to make something under 30 minutes as it was for the first time. 

As Valentine's Day is over now I started to prepare for the Easter. So here is my quick egg shaped card:

What I used:

Sizzix Framelits Die, Eggs (658691)

Sizzix Sizzlits Strip Die, Butterfly Frenzy by Tim Holtz (659575)

Paper Artsy, Eclectica Kay Carley stamp (EKC01, EKC02)

Ranger Distress ink pads (Twisted Citron, Bundled Sage, Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Gathered Twigs)

Ranger Archival ink pad (Potting Soil)

The Artistic Stamper, rabbit by Mabel Lucie Attwell

Idea-ology Seasonal Chit Chat (TH93050)

Ranger Distress markers for the butterfly

The background was inked:

Then spritzed with water:

After I placed the egg and all the Paper Artsy stamps on the Misti Stamping Tool and my background was ready in 6 minutes.

I stamped the flowers with Potting Soil.



If you have any project which was ready in 30 minutes, please don't hesitate to join our challenge where you can win a £20 voucher!


With my card I would like to join the Wednesday Challenge of the Simon Says Stamp blog: Anything Goes.

Greeting card with teddies and butterflies

I few days ago my order has arrived from the Crafty Individuals. One of the stamps was this sweet pair of teddies: the Two Teds.  I imagined that they were a brother and his big sister. So I made a little card from them. 

I coloured them with Ranger Distress Markers. For the edges I used not just the Ranger Distress Gathered Twigs ink pad but after I added some Ranger Distress Picket Fence Paint too.


I was so happy when I realized that the PaperArtsy has the same shape of butterflies which are on my embossed background (it's from the Sizzix Butterflies&Flowers embossing folder sets by Stephanie Barnard). The butterflies stamp is from PaperArtsy Eclectica Kay Carley 02. 


The words from Tim Holtz ChitChat Sticker Book.

With this card I would like to enter the following challenges:

Frilly and Funkie - All In The Family

Craft Stamper Magazine TIMI Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Cardmakers - Shabby Chic

Crafty Individuals - Minis Challenge


I hope you like it! Happy crafting!