Flight

Good morning sharing a card made using Artisan Design's Butterfly Supreme 2 stamp set and their Squares 3 stencil.

You wrap me up in your love

Good morning. Sharing a card that was inspired by one Pete Simpson made on one of his cardmaking Facebook lives (daily at 4pm). His is the first one, mine the second.

I chose to use octagons rather than circles and I used the Aster Vine build a flora stamp set from Artisan Design for the floral element and a Sue Wilson foliage die.

Flight

Good morning sharing a card I made. 

I have used Artisan Design's Butterfly Supreme 2 and their wirework and veiny background stamps.

Just Flutter By

Good morning sharing a card made using Artisan Design's Rose stamp and their spirelli stencil, with butterflies and sentiments from Chocolate Baroques Butterfly Mind stamp set.

Masking tape technique

Today I'm going to explain how I created this card.

To begin mask of areas where you don't want ink, with a low tack tape. I use Scotch removable which is unfortunately clear, so difficult to see in the pictures.

Add Shaded Lilac distress oxide to the exposed areas of the card. I used a blending brush, but use the tool of your choice.

I decided to use the Butterfly Supreme 1 stamp to add detail. I used Seedless Preserve distress oxide. I allowed the stamping to overlap the tape. I also used the stamp with my hands rather than a block, so I could position it easier.

When you have finished stamping, remove the tape.

Next I chose a sentiment from the Sentiment Banquet 2 stamp set and stamped it in the larger white area with Seedless Preserve distress oxide.

Then I stamped 6 of the smaller Star Lily Build a Flora flowers and 2 leaves. I used the two colours of distress oxide I had already used for the flowers and Forest Moss for the leaves.

Colour the flowers by using a waterbrush to draw the ink from the edges of the stamped image towards the centre.

I then fussy cut them out and using a foam mat and ball tool I shaped them, by rubbing the ball tool first over the backs, then pressing down in the centre front.

I then glued them in pairs to give the flowers layers.

I mounted my background piece on black, then a matching purple, then onto a card blank.

Finally I added the flowers with glue gel and added a pearl in the centre of each flower.

Take flight

Good morning sharing a card made using Artisan Design's Sisal Leaf Butterfly, which I have coloured with Prismacolor pencils.

The background was created with distress oxide.

Hochanda Debut

Wow what an amazing day yesterday. I made my debut as a demonstrator on Hochanda.

I did two demonstrations live at 4pm and 8pm.

One year ago I never, ever thought I would be doing something like this.

It was great fun. Thank you Pete Simpson from Artisan Design UK for giving me this fantastic opportunity. 

Now looking forward to seeing  my DT colleague making their debuts and creating more fantastic memories.

Butterflies and More

Good morning sharing a selection of cards made using the four stencils from the Butterflies and More Collection which Pete and I will be demonstrating on Hochanda at 4pm and 8pm today.

The samples use the Geometric Tile, the Blastworks, the Squirmies and the Squares 3 stencils with the Sisal Leaf Butterfly, stamps from the Butterfly Supreme 2 and sentiments from the Sentiment Banquet sets of stamps the Scattered Hearts and the Delicate Primrose stamp sets.

Wings

Good morning sharing another of my samples for Artisan Design's Butterflies and More Collection. For this card I have used the Butterfly Supreme 2 stamp set with their Sunburst and Sunshots stencils on a gelli plate background.

Today is for you

Here's another one of my samples for Artisan Design's new launch of Butterflies and More.

I have used them to create an A4 art journal page. I have used both the butterfly supreme stamp sets, with the delicate primrose and acer burst stamps and a sentiment from the sentiment banquet 1 stamp set.

Butterflies and More

Watch the launch of the Butterflies and More range from Artisan Design on Hochanda on Saturday 21st March at 4pm and 8pm. Pete and I will be demonstrating.

Here's one of my samples, a 6x6 inch card made using both Butterfly Supreme stamp sets.

Sisal Leaf Butterfly

Watch the launch of the Butterflies and More range from Artisan Design on Hochanda on Saturday 21st March at 4pm and 8pm. Pete and I will be demonstrating.

Here's one of my samples, a 6x6 inch canvas board, using the Sisal Leaf Butterfly.

Reach High

Good morning sharing a card made using Artisan Design's Butterfly Dancer Taron and the worker stamps from that set.

Floral mdf tag

Good morning sharing an mdf tag made using Artisan Design's Star Lily and Aster Vine Build a Flora and Tree Leaves stamp sets, with their Stars and Squareform background stamps.