Jewels in the Garden

Hello and welcome to my blog  :)  I'm sharing one of my CB samples from last month's tv shows today, featuring stamps from the Butterfly Daisy Collage set; CB Useful Leaves stencil; Distress Oxide Inks, Koh I Noor paints, gold embossing powder, Versamark ink, Glossy Accents and some alcohol markers.

I began by taking a piece of white card and stamping the large floral image with Versafine ink and embossed it with gold EP.  I masked the image and repeated the process overlapping the flowers.  I then stamped and embossed all sizes of the flowers on another piece of white card, and painted them in bright jewel colours.  I cut the flowers out, added Glossy Accents to the centers of the smallest sizes and set them aside to dry.  Going back to the background panel I added some foliage using DO ink through the stencil.  I blended DO ink around the edges of the panel.  I matted the panel onto coloured card and then attached it to a white base card.

When the Glossy Accents was dry I assembled the flowers on the card.  I stamped and embossed a collage butterfly image onto vellum, coloured it on the reverse with alcohol markers and cut it out before attaching it to the card.  I didn't add a sentiment to this card, but I think it would be suitable for lots of occasions and recipients.

Thank you for popping in today, I hope you've enjoyed this post and that you will visit again soon  :)

Honeysuckle Tag

Hello and a warm welcome to my blog  :)  I have a pretty and easy design to share with you today which was one of my samples for last month's Chocolate Baroque tv shows.   I have used stamps from the Honeysuckle Butterfly, Butterfly Daisy Collage and Briar Rose Butterfly sets, Distress Oxide inks, alcohol pens, and a Kaleidascope of Butterflies stencil.  

I took a piece of CB Drawing Cartridge and blended DIs over it.  I dried the inks off with a heat gun and then stamped a foliage swirl image using one of the DIs and a butterfly image which I stamped randomly in first and second generation ink.  

I then matted the background panel onto black card and attached it to a white base card.

Next I took a piece of CB Luxury Smooth paper and die cut a tag.  I then stamped a large Honeysuckle image onto the tag with Versafine ink and coloured it with pens, adding a shadow line around the image.  I added a little ink around the edges of the tag.

I added a bow with some  twine from my stash and attached the tag to the card.

I think this is a pretty card that is simple in design but no less effective, and I think it is suitable for several occasions.
Thank you for dropping by today,I hope that you enjoyed this post and that you'll pop in again soon  :)