Blinged out butterflies

I cut out a 2.5" circle and covered it with the Sweet Deams Washi tape and adhered it on top of the doiley.

The butterflie was cut to from Crisp Cantsloupe card stock. The stamps used are from Kinda eclectic and have been stamped with Silver Encore ink and silver embossing powder

Butterflies and gold

The new occasions catalogue has some great new thinlits dies. One of them has three different sized butterflies. This card is using the middle sized one. This design was cases from Bronwyn Eastley.

I layered the Dooley with a piece of Designer series paper (cannot recall which...) and fancy foil designer vellum

I used the brushed gold cardStock as my card base and cut the butterfly from Bermuda bay card stock

Great tip for getting all those bits out of your cut out butterfly and your die is to first run your die on it's ow through your BigShot but instead of cutting thorough paper, cut through 8 layers of unscented drier sheets!! This will coat your die so bits won't get stuck (and if they do, just run your die through again and the bits will stuck on the drier sheets, you can use your sheets multiple times and you can turn them inside out to get more cutting area. If your bits get stuck on your cut out image, just run that (without the die) through with drier sheets and out they will pop!!

Spring has arrived... Well... At least the new catalogue :-)

I simply love this new lotus blossom stamp set from the Sale-a-bration catalogue!!

The colours are Crisp Cantaloupe, calypso Coral and Blushing Bride.

Last batch of Xmas cards

This was another stamp set I loved to use.  

The first card was cased from Peg Coombes. I loved the use of the partial images of the Santa stamp from Santas Stache set

The second card was cased from Alvins Cook using the same Santas Stache stamp set

I like the nutcracker stamp set better, it is more 'balanced' so it is easier to center on the card

Row of Holiday Homes

Here is one more card created with my this season's favourite stamp set 'holiday home.

What I did I adhered all the 3 houses on one acrylic block and stamped them few times on the card front, then used the snow flakes from the same set and the reindeer sleigh. The nice thing with the photopolymer stamps is that you can bend them - that's what I did with the greeting

The colours are Soft Sky, Baked Brown Sugar and Real Red

Ornamental pine Christmas cards

These wee inspired by Cynthia Millan's cards but since I had no iridescent ice embossing powder I had to improvise. The first card has some dazzling diamonds glitter on the branches. The edges have been sponged with early espresso

The second card is otherwise the same but without the glitter

Gingerbread houses

Here is my little village of gingerbread houses I made this year.

The small ones were inspiroi by something I saw on Pinterest. They are to hang at the edge of mug (filled with hot coco). They didn't turn as nice as I planned. I should have paid more attention to the size of the parts and also use icing to assemble them instead of melted sugar. Also I opted to buy coloured icing this year - NEVER AGAIN!!! It is too runny! I had to freeze them and still they kept running. So maybe next year we get a prettier batch :-)