The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart

Sharing a card I’ve made for a colleague who is going through treatment for an illness featuring the pretty Painted Butterflies from Altenew.

I am playing along at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge using the middle column so I’ve done my butterflies in a rainbow of colours and picked my papers to match.  For the sparkle I’ve winked the background to the butterflies and the sentiment, which is from the Thoughts & Prayers set from Stampin’ Up!, and also added in some gems in matching colours.  Finally, my semi circles and one butterfly have been die cut.

My card follows the layout at Sketch Saturday.  My only change was to swap out the flower embellie for a butterfly.  I decided to dry emboss the background so I could play along at Pause Dream Enjoy.  Hoping this bright and happy card brings a little cheer to my colleague especially when filled with well wishes from others at work.

Ingredients:

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Altenew ~ Painted Butterflies

Crafter’s Companion Embossing Folder ~ Cherry Blossom

Spellbinders Nestabilities Dies ~ LF-114 Grand Circles

Embellishments

Kaisercraft Rhinestones ~ Dark Blue, Dark Purple, Orange & Yellow Deep

Queen & Co Rhinestones ~ Grass Green

Red & Purple Rhinestones from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Aged Mahogany, Broken China, Chipped Sapphire, Dried Marigold, Dusty Concord, Festive Berries, Fossilized Amber, Milled Lavender, Mowed Lawn, Ripe Persimmon, Shaded Lilac, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron & Wilted Violet

Tsukineko Encore! Ultimate Metallic ~ Gold

Wink of Stella Glitter ~ Clear

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ White

Echo Park Summer Days ~ Scallops

Stamps

Altenew ~ Painted Butterflies

Stampin’ Up! ~ Thoughts & Prayers

Challenges

Pause Dream Enjoy #10 ~ Emboss

 

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…And all we need of hell

I have another sympathy card to share today featuring stamps from Altenew’s Beautiful Day and Painted Butterflies.

The front of the card follows the current sketch over at CAS Colours & Sketches.  I’ve used a flower for the circular element and swapped out the thin rectangular element for a butterfly.  To add in my sentiment I’ve used an elegant die from Simon Says Stamp!.

My colour palette and the background stencilling come from the picture at Inspired by All the Little Things.  I used a brush to stencil the quatrefoil background and I really like the way it gave a soft and also mottled effect.  I’ve also picked up the shades of pink for my flower and the green in my die cut.

Over at Papercraft Challenges they are looking for trifold-cards so I thought I would add a bit of interest to my card by creating a card with a die cut in the top layer and stamping on a secondary inner layer.  When you lift the top, you get another butterfly and a further sentiment.  I kept this inner layer very simple and just stamped the outline of the butterflies but did them and the sentiment in gold embossing powder.

A shot from the side to show the tri-fold.

 

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

WOW! Embossing Powder ~ Metallic Gold Rich Pale

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Altenew Dies ~ Painted Butterflies

Simon Says Stamp! Dies ~ SSSD111630 Handlettered Greetings

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Layering Stencil ~ THS074 Trellis

Inks & Paints etc

Altenew Crisp Inks ~ Coral Berry, Forest Glades, Frayed Leaf, Frosty Pink & Ruby Red

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Antique Linen & Spun Sugar

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Stamps

Altenew ~ Beautiful Day & Painted Butterflies

Stampin’ Up! ~ Thoughts & Prayers

Challenges

Papercraft Challenges #3 ~ Trifold-card

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A fallen blossom returning to the bough…

Sharing my first card of 2018, a CAS one featuring the Painted Butterflies stamps and dies from Altenew.

The layout is from the sketch at Less is More, I’ve used the butterflies for my corner elements.  To add some interest while keeping it CASI cut the butterflies from the white top layer and then added in stamped and die cut ones on foam dots into the negative spaces.

For my colours, I’ve used the palette from Sunday Stamps.  I think I’ve used them all, it’s kinda hard to tell exactly what the colours are on a computer monitor but the ones I chose look like the image on my monitor.  I do love the palette though with the blues and beiges and then the pop of the soft pink.

Given I had the matching dies for the newbie butterfly stamps and I used them on this card I am also entering it in the current challenge at Pause, Dream, Enjoy.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Tim Holtz Distress Glitter ~ Clear Rock Candy

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Altenew Dies ~ Painted Butterflies

Embellishments

Close to My Heart ~ Bitty Gems (coloured with B97 Copic)

Inks & Paints etc

Altenew Crisp Inks ~ Coral Berry, Frosty Pink & Ruby Red

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Soft Sky

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Mondi Color Copy ~ 200gsm White

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Crumb Cake & Sahara Sand

Stamps

Altenew ~ Painted Butterflies

Challenges

Less is More #360 & #361 ~ Sketch 22

Pause, Dream, Enjoy #1 Die Cuts

Sunday Stamps #169 ~ Cool Winter Love

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