Butterfly Lady Tag

Hi Everyone!

I hope you've had a good week. Today I'd like to share with you another of my tag cards which I'd like to enter in the Simon Says Stamp 'Bingo' challenge. I chose to use embossing, a diecut and stamped frame and ribbon both inside and outside the card. As I love my techniques I also inked and glimmer misted my background and butterflies and added Distress Stickles to my frame. I really enjoyed creating a vintage look and hope you enjoy this card as much as I enjoyed making it.
Best wishes
Karen x

Hedgie Challenge

Evening Everyone!

Just a quick post to show you my latest card. I hope to enter this in the Penny Black and Friends Saturday Challenge so my image features one of my favourite - and cute - little hedgies. I've created an easel card with an extra little tag inside. The papers are DCWV and I've embellished it with green gingham ribbon and a charm. The flowers were stamped, coloured with the Pro Markers and covered with Glossy Accents whilst the centres were created by adding tiny micro beads which I think give a really good effect - I will definately use them again. For a change I used copper coloured mirri board.

I would also like to enter it in the Totally Papercrafts Challenge which this week is Happy Birthday and the Creative Card Crew's 'Fancy Folds' challenge.

I hope you like my latest creation. Thanks for looking.

Karen x

Tag and Tell!

Hi All!

As I continue to be inspired by pics of my family and ancestors and try to make lasting keepsakes connected to my family history, this week I decided to join in with the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge - which is to design something using your newest stamps or alternatively a stamp that you have had for ages but never used. I decided to go for the second option and used a butterfly stamp I had from Elusive Images alongside an oval frame stamp from the Papermania Chatsworth collection.

I did plenty of embossing - gold on the frame and a green Cosmic Shimmer lustre on the butterflies, embossed the tag background with the Divine Swirls pattern and highlighted it with the Perfect Pearls mica powders. A little distressing with our favourite inks, a sentiment printed on my computer with a touch of Distress Stickles completed the look before I added ribbon and mounted the whole thing on a card layered with K&Co Life's Journey papers. I also hope to enter this into the Artistic Stamper's challenge of 'Things With Wings'. This is a fab site which I have only recently discovered so if you love your stamping - why not pop over there!

I hope you like it!

Thanks for looking. Bye for now

Karen x