Share Handmade Kindness Week 2

This week Jennifer would like  everyone to Share Handmade Kindness with community...

anyone who works/serves in our community –
 anyone who provides a helpful service to us.

I made a card for our mail carrier.

I wish there was a hidden camera in the mailbox so I could see the surprised, smile on her face.....

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Shades of Purple

The challenge at Less is More this week is to create a card using 'three shades' of one color or three colors.

A fun CAS card to create. The three tiny purple heart shaped rhinestones are from a 'fingernail set' that I purchased at the Dollar Store. It contained many tiny different colored rhinestones and a tiny bottle of clear nail polish.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

LIM Touch of Turquoise

The colorful challenge this week at Less is More is to make a clean and simple (CAS) card using a touch of Turquoise. What a delightful, forgotten, seldom used (by me) color. I think I love it!! Guess I will try to use it more!

This is actually my 'revised' version of this card. The original is below....which do you prefer?

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Round 'n Round Stencil

The challenge this week at Less is More is titled 'Round and Round' and Virginia's View Challenge is requesting the use of stencils.

I used an MFT die to make a stencil for the corner background of my card and the doily is a PTI die. I am sure that the Virginia's View Challenge expects more stenciling than I did, but I felt that anymore of those Polka Dots would make the card too busy. Sometimes "Less IS More"!!

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

p.s....Sorry Dr. John no cars or trains.......lol 

Tea Time for Three

While straightening out my stamping area (a never ending process) I found this tea cup stamp with 3 tea cups on it. This reminded me of the "three" challenge at Less Is More. I loved the color combo at Dynamic Duos and for the layout I used the sketch from The Paper Players.

The Dynamic Duos Colors:

The Paper Players sketch:

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Sentiment as the Focal Point

Thanks to the great gals at CAS(E) this Sketch for their creative ideas. I struggled to find an original idea for the sketch this week. The DT had taken all my ideas.....ha......like I could possibly compete with them! lol

Here is the sketch for the challenge.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

SPRING PLEASE

Okay enough of this global warming stuff! The temperatures hovering in the teens with the wind chill factors into the negative numbers is waaaay to warm for me! Yeah, right! If this is global warming I would hate to see global cooling.....lol.

There is a great challenge at Less is More...use YELLOW and GREEN. Now those are great Spring colors! So I sequestered myself in the Butterfly Garden, imagined it was "SPRING" and started creating. I still had some of those 'positive' die cut pieces left from HERE, so I figured this was a good starting point!

FYI...I have only 7 of those die cuts left. I have completed 15 cards so far. I can definitely see the light at the end of the'die cut' tunnel.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

CAS Leaves

This week Nance is challenging everyone to make a CAS card with leaves at The Paper Players. The leaves are all off of our trees and because of the wind, some have been blown into our neighbors yard. Gottta love it when the wind blows the right way. lol

Thank goodness the wind was no where near as violent as it was in Illinois. My heart goes out to all of those people who have lost their homes and to the people who have lost their loved ones. This makes the holiday season especially difficult for everyone who was effected by this storm. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

Just minimal layers on this CAS card, a bit of ribbon and a button. Wood grain embossing plate from PTI. Easy Peasy!

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Fireworks

****This card was showCASed for the LIM "Fireworks" challenge****

This week the gals at Less is More are challenging us to make a card with a dark background with a splash of colour(s).

If you saw this POSTING you will remember that I made 22 cards for a recent SCS get together. This is a sample of the cards that I made:

Needless to say...I used the negative for these cards, this left me with 22+ positive images. Since I mess up some of the die cutting (this was before the magic magnetic platform) I had about 26 die cuts! Being extremely frugal with my paper crafting supplies...I couldn't just throw them away.  I used 1.5 die cuts to create this card. Only 24.5 to go!!  Check back to see what I am doing with the remaining die cuts. :-)

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Fusion #4

Well I had a few minutes to 'surf the net' this morning, minutes turn into hours and surfing turns into "new to me" challenges. I found the Fusions Card Challenge and thought I would give it a try....never met a challenge I didn't like so....off to the Butterfly Garden to make a card. For this particular challenge 'time was of the essence'...the link closed in 2 hours and 45 minutes.....YIKES...it usually takes me 2 hours to brain storm an idea. I just completed my card from 'start to finish' and have 1 hour and 18 ,17, 16 minutes left. How do some people do 10 minute challenges???

Stamps are PTI and Printworks, embossing folder is Sizzix and coloring was done with Copic markers. Foam tape was used under the leaves for a little dimension.

I fused the two challenges. What a wonderful 'new, innovative' way to get those creative juices flowing. Thanks for creating this 'new to me' challenge!!!

Lydal from "dreams & other realities" just introduced me to another 'new to me' challenge....it is called Catered Crop - recipies for papercrafting, the challenge is......Embossing - Make an Impression. Thanks, Lydal!!! If you haven"t been to either the Catered Crop or Lydals blog...please visit soon. Great inspiration on both of these blogs.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Shopping Our Bargin Stash

Oh what fun it is to go through all of the dollar and bargain bin stuff treasures that I have accumulated. The Shopping our Stash challenge for this week is challenging us to use some of those thrifty treasures.

SB oval dies, PTI zig zag die and MFT doily die were used to create this card.

Some of the clearance flowers/leaves were colored with Copic markers. The double sided paper was $.14 and there is enough to make another card with some scraps left over..yea!!! I could probably make one card a week with my "treasures" and would finally use them up in the year 2016!!! Can't resist a bargain.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Wedding Card

This week for the Timeless Tuesday Challenge, Deborah is challenging us to make a project for a "Wedding". I searched through my baskets of cards and realized that I didn't have any wedding cards....so...off to the drawing board to create one.

Dies from PTI, Sizzix and MFT were used for this card. The image and the die cut flower were colored with Copic markers.

Yellow acrylic paint was applied to the flower centers using a toothpick then glitter glue (dollar bin!!!) was added over the centers and on the edges of the die cut flower. Liquid pearls added the final touch on the embossed section and scattered around the floral image.

The ribbon was woven through the card on the front and the ribbon edges were concealed behind this circular floral image on the inside.    This is one of those oops moments....forgot to add the highlighting behind the image and the glitter glue in the flower centers. Grrrr....don't you hate it when you take a  photos, color correct it, crop it, add your watermark then when you post the photo you realize you forgot something? Oh well pretend that the missing items are there! By the time you read this the forgotten steps will be added.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

A Lot of Hot Air!!

My work schedule keeps changing and being a 'Schedule Person', I am finding hard to find time to play in my Butterfly Garden but......

I saw this wonderful sketch at Retro Sketches Challenge and thought I'd play along. I designed the card in my head while I was at work, then fortunately (probably for the FIRST time, ever!!!)....the card came together just as I had imagined. See...miracles do happen!

Balloon stamps and die cuts are from PTI, verse from PTI.

As usual I rotated the sketch and used a landscape view rather than portrait.

Off to work then perhaps some time to create in my Butterfly Garden when I get home.

Colour Week @ LIM

This is color week at Less is More and the lovely color combination for the challenge is

 BROWN & PINK.

The butterfly border was created using a Memory box die, the butterfly die is from C.C. Designs, pearls from Michaels (colored with a Copic marker) and the sentiment is from PTI.

A few of the butterflies from the border flew to the inside of the card! I will add a verse later.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

3-2-1 at "Less is More"

This week it's a
RECIPE

3 - 2 - 1

This week there is a simple idea to use as the focus of your cards at 

Less is More

All that you need to do is to incorporate 3 of something, 2 of something and 1 of something else!

I used 3 "words", 2 "butterflies" and 1 "hand drawn rectangle". The word stamp is from PTI and the Butterflies are from Inky Antics.

I've been super busy with work and emergency room visits, so I'll be around to see all my blogging friends soon!!! Got major withdrawal symptoms!

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

LIM Tearing

The challenge this week at Less is More is to use 'tearing' on a CAS card. I decided to avoid my usual 'distressed' look with 'tearing' and instead "tried" to keep in white and clean and simple! I figure if it was easy it wouldn't be called a challenge, so I really challenged myself with this card.

The sentiment, hot air balloon and the clouds are from PTI. Copic markers were used on the balloon. I punched a circle in a piece of scrap paper and sponged yellow dye ink inside to make the faux sun. The same sponge was used to lightly highlight the edges of the mountains......the hills are alive.....ha ha now you'll have that song stuck in your mind for the rest of the day!

Back to creating cards inn my Butterfly Garden.

A Duo Sketch

***This card won Honorable Mention***

Today's card is for the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday sketch challenge and the color challenge at Dynamic Duos.

The stamped image from Flourishes was colored with Copic markers. Embossing folder is Sizzix, dp from Basic Grey, die cuts SB,  polka dots stamp and zig zag die are PTI.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.