Butterfly note card

 International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).

Challenge #4 - Embossing

Hi there happy crafters :) I love the touch feely textures of this card and the soft blues and white give it a really fresh feel.  I used an embossing folder from Crafters Companion and coloured the embossed sections with a pale blue Polychromos crayon then edged some of the areas with a silver pen.  The flower border was the next bit done and I used the same technique minus the silver pen.  A stamped sentiment was created and die cut and added under the embossed strip.  Next I die cut a butterfly in white card and mounted it on pale blue paper, then die cut some leaves in silver and mounted this group on the card. To finish off I used silver Liquid Pearls on the bodies of all the butterflies.

Challenges entered:-

• Alphabet Challenge - 2W, 1E, - (W1 of 2) - A for Anything With Wings
• Kitty Bee Designs - 2W,2E,C10 No.90  Living Things With Wings (W2 of 2) +DT Call
• Creative Moments - 2W, 3E - #113 Anything Goes/Option of Blue (Week 2 of 2)
• Double D Challenges - 2W, 1st and 3rd Wed of M, E3 -  Things That Fly- See Mood Board*  (Week 1 of 2)
• Use Your Stuff - W,  #255 Dry Embossing

Krazy Kritters

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

and this fortnight it is

KRAZY KRITTERS

We are onto the second week of the challenge so there is still plenty of time for you to enter and win the fabulous prize of $15 to spend in the IKEsWORLD store and an extra goodie pack :)  To win the prize or be voted in the top 3 you must use and IKEsWORLD digi, lots to choose from so why not pop on over to the shop and have a look around.

 

Wow this was a hard one :)  I chose to use the fun digis Dippy Duckz, that was the easy bit.  The hard part came when trying to think what to create as these are not the sort of digis I opt to work with, when I see digis like this I think kids or cute, not my favourite genres - don't get me wrong, I am not moaning :)  One of the things I love best about being on a DT is the narrowing down of choice re digis/themes and the challenges of what they entail.  I think I surprise myself at times with what is turned out.  OK, back to my creation.  I stared and stared at the digis, had an idea, dismissed it, had another idea again dismissed and then the light came on - Pop Art.  I have never done anything down this line before and somehow a knock off Andy Warhole concept seemed just perfect.  Once I had the basic idea I needed to develop it a bit and decided to play around with sayings, the result being 'An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away'.  In the UK we sometimes refer to the Dr. as the QUACK (hope no doctors are reading this, if you are a doctor please don't take offense :)  ) On the bottom right of the card, in the square that says 'A Duck A Day' I have the rest of the sentiment hidden underneath, just pull the button and open the door to see 'Keeps The Quack Away' hahahahahaha.  Each square of the card was cut out and mounted at one of three heights, flat on the card, one layer of foam tape or two layers of foam tape.  Voila - done and pretty happy with this rather odd card :)  Oh forgot to mention I added wiggle eyes to each duck - kinda cute!!!

Card lying flat showing the different heights of the squares.

The sentiment behind the door

Ingredients:-

• White Linen card from  Craft Creations
• Digi -Ditzy Duckz by IKEsART
• Wigglie eyes, button, twine etc. from my stash

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-