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

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

Christmas Fairy Doodle

Hello everyone! Had stamping withdrawls after all that decoupage so decided to make a Christmas card out of this Fairy Doodle stamp. I used Papermania paper and embossed a little snowy type background using my Cuttlebug (thought this flower pattern could double up as snowflakes for now until I get a proper snowflake folder). The frame was cut using the lovely Nellie Snellen dies and the image was coloured in Promarkers. I hope to enter this in the ABC Christmas Challenge which is 'E for Elf' but can include fairy folk using the colour scheme of red and green. I also hope to enter it in Charizma's 'Fairy' challenge. Hope you like it - one for the Christmas stash!