A farewell is necessary…

Sharing a card with the stunning Transformation stamp from The Ton.

This card is going to a colleague who is leaving work for a new role in another organisation.  She’s never really felt like she fit in at work, despite being super awesome at her job so the image and the sentiment, also from the same set, were the perfect fit for her farewell card.

This stamp is my favourite buy from this year, proof of that being I’ve used it twice in the month since I bought it.  That’s quite the record for me whose NBUS pile is probably as big as the Great Pyramid!  I just love the beauty of the stamp, the imagery of change and the fact you can make it look so different just by how you colour it.  As I’ve used my fav stamp I’m linking my card up at Krafty Chicks for their year-end challenge.

I’ve gone with all my rainbow colours so I can also play along at The Rainbow Card where they’re ending the year with a rainbow challenge.  Between my image and designer paper I think I’ve got every colour covered except red, it just seemed a bit too harsh so I stuck to dark pinks instead.

Over at The Flower Challenge they want to see you use a die.  I’ve used mine to frame my butterfly, although I did some judicious fussy cutting around the stamped image to make it fit.  The next size up of the frames was too big, covering too much of the pretty DP for my liking.  But I also think having the image spill over the frame adds a really cool look to the card.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail White

Dies, Stencils & Templates

Paper Rose ~ 16739 Scalloped Square Frames

Inks & Paints etc

Jane Davenport Mermaid Marker ~ Falling Star

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Colours ~ No. 20 Black, No. 34 Dark Pink, N0. 44 Light Brown, No. 51 May Green, No. 52 Ocean Green, No. 58 Ever Green & No. 139 Purple

Nuvo Glitter Brush Pen ~ Midas Touch

Tsukineko Ink ~ VersaMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Petal

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Blueberry Pie

Bellbird Paperarts Cardstock ~ 210gsm Cotton Blend

Close To My Heart Cardstock ~ White Daisy

Hero Arts Hero Hues Cardstock ~ Pitch Black

Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics ~ 3^rd March

Stamps

The Ton ~ Transformation

Challenges

Krafty Chicks #484 ~ Year End... Your Favorite Stamp

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But these are flowers that fly and all but sing…

Sharing a card featuring the stunning Transformation stamp from The Ton.

I started by stamping the image in VersaMark ink and embossing it in white embossing powder.  Then I used my new Pigment Crystals from Stampin’ Up! to add colour to the butterfly’s wing.  I usually hate how any watercolour crystals turn out when I use them but I love these ones and the colours are just so beautiful.  I then used more of the crystals to water colour the flowers using a Uniquely Creative glitter brush pen for the liquid to spread the ink.  It’s hard to see in the picture but the finished colouring has a lovely goldy glittery look and I love the colours it produced with just the Melon Mambo crystals.

I’ve followed Jen B’s sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches for my layout, that allowed me to go really nuts with my mat layers.  Love the coordinating colours across all products at Stampin’ Up!, which allowed me to match the cardstock exactly to the crystal colours I used.  I added in my sentiment with my all-time fav chippies from Make it Crafty.  I coloured the base of the ‘wishes’ with some of the crystals in Bermuda Bay and the top layer was just heat embossed, as was the single layered ‘birthday’.

Now if you haven’t heard the devastating news, Zoe is closing Make it Crafty.  So now is the time to run over there and stock up on these awesome chippies.  And no, I’m not an affiliate or anything, I am just a huge fan of the chippies and supporting a small female owned business, even as that business is being closed down!

With my fabby sentiment this is clearly a birthday card, made for a friend at work.  But that also means I can play along at Little Red Wagon for their current You Say It’s Your Birthday! challenge.

I’m also playing along at Crafty Catz.  They’ve got an anything goes challenge with a twist of spots and/or stripes.  I’m rocking the spots part of the twist but sadly you can’t see it in my photo.  The background white cardstock is embossed with lots of tiny dots.  Forget me being able to take a decent photo or have this scan so you can see them.  Not sure if the bitty rhinestones count as spots but at least you can see those!

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Gold & Detail White

Stampin’ Up! Pigment Sprinkles ~ Bermuda Bay, Gorgeous Grape & Melon Mambo

Embellishments

Chuakari Hot Fix Rhinestones ~ Citrine, Fuchsia, Indicolite & Violet

Make it Crafty Chipboard Adapt-a-Words ~ Birthday

Make it Crafty Chipboard Single Layered Words ~ 2" Wishes

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Gathered Twigs

Tsukineko ~ VersaMark Ink

Uniquely Creative Glitter Brush Pen ~ Gold

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bellbird Paperarts Card ~ 210gsm Cotton Blend

Creative Memories Cardstock ~ White Dot Embossed

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Bermuda Bay, Gorgeous Grape & Melon Mambo

Stamps

The Ton ~ Transformation

Challenges

Crafty Catz #484 ~ Anything goes / Spots and/or stripes

Little Red Wagon #524 ~ You Say It’s Your Birthday!

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