* Celebrate

Hello!

Today I have a card to share. 

I was delighted to win a stamp called Party On from Lost Coast Designs and here is the card I made with it.  

I stamped with Versafine and coloured with Copic markers, adding a few touches of highlight with a white Posca pen. I fussy cut the image, leaving a thin white border so that she would stand out on the background.

To make the background, I firstly added modelling paste through an Aall & Create stencil called Weathered Tiles (#59) and when dry I coloured with Arteza Brush Pens and a water pen. I added some script text to the edges of the background and some torn washi tape. I popped the image on foam tape, grounding her with a strip of the black and white striped washi. I stamped some stars close to her party blower and a sentiment from a stamp set in my stash. I decided to cut up the sentiment and ink the edges in black before sticking them down. Th edges of the background were inked in black as well before adhering to the card base.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

* Cardz4galz #100 Party Time 17/07 TOP 3

Lost Coast Designs Celebrate It 14/07

* QKR Stampede #356 AG  18/07

* Crafty Catz #470 AG 18/07

* Alphabet Challenge H for Hats and Handbags 18/07 TOP 3

* Cardz TV #93 AG 18/07

* Crafty Creations #394 AG 22/07

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* Butterfly Girl

Hello

Yesterday was a scorcher (and it's not often you hear that in the North West of England), so hot in fact that I had to stay indoors to keep cool. I spent some time in my craft room getting inky and made this card for the current challenge at Rubber Dance:

I went with the colour challenge.

I made the background from Distress Oxides. I applied colour to my craft mat, spritzed it with water, dabbed a piece of acetate into the puddle and patted it onto my card. This way I built up the colour, drying each layer before adding the next. I used Peeled Paint and Broken China. When I was happy with the background, I stamped some flowers, from the Botanical set, around the edges in Peeled Paint. 

I stamped Butterfly Girl #1 and two sizes of Butterflies from the Antique Botanicals set onto smooth watercolour paper and heat embossed them with clear powder. I coloured them using Arteza Brush pens and when dry, fussy cut them. To hide the core of the paper I ran a black Copic marker around the cut edge.

I stamped the images onto the DO background and glued down the coloured images, leaving the wings free to add some dimension. A Tim Holtz Small Talk sticker provides the sentiment.  The background was edged with a blender and some peeled paint and then I added black ink to the very edge of the background.

The background was placed onto a 6 x 6 inch card base. 

That's all for today!

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

Rubber Dance Colour Challenge 30/06
* The Happy Craft Challenge AG 30/06
* A Gem of a Challenge #12 AG 30/06
* Path of Positivity #70 Encouragement 30/06
 
* The Crafty Addicts #61 AG 02/07
* Artistic Inspirations #216 AG 07/07
Crafting from the Heart #246 AG 07/07

* Crafty Creations #393 AG 08/07
* Creative Fingers #167 AG 11/07