In my February class I taught the Floating Watercolour Technique. It is a fun techniue to try that invovles heat embossing, aqua painters and reinkers. The butterfly and the flower that are in the Beautiful Day stamp set are perfect for this technique. It works well with a bigger stamp and the gold embossed image… Read More: Floating Watercolour Technique With Beautiful Day Butterfly »
Here is a butterfly birthday card and self-closing gift box that I made for my niece’s 17th birthday. She loves butterflies, so I thought the Butterfly Basics Stamp Set and coordinating Butterflies Thinlits Dies would be perfect to make something for her. It may be difficult to see in the photo, but both butterflies have the… Read More: Butterfly Basics Card & Gift Box Set »
Today’s card is a Thank You card that I made featuring the Butterfly Basics Stamp Set and Butterfly Thinlits Dies. It is hard to tell from the photo, but this is a larger card than normal as I was asked to make a card which many people could sign. It is a piece of A4… Read More: Large Butterfly Basics Thank You Card »
Today’s card features one of my favourite stamp and die sets, the Basic Butterfly Stamp Set. I have had so many uses for this lovely stamp set and coordinating dies. Can you see the hidden butterfly in the card? This card was not an orginal design, but one I CASEd from Kristine McNickle. If you… Read More: Butterfly Basics and the Raised Die Technique »
Today’s cards feature this week’s product, the Spring Flowers Embossing Folder. I have created these cards with the technique of inking the embossing folder before I put it through the Texture Boutique Machine or Big Shot. These two cards today feature the embossing folder with ink on the bottom part of the embossing folder, so… Read More: Inking Technique with the Spring Flowers Embossing Folder »
Here are two other creations from our Auckland Extravaganza event on 28th March. Both of these use the Butterfly Basic stamp sets and framelit dies. This first card features the emboss resist technique. This second card used a water colouring background technique with the use of Aqua Painters. Have you ever used aqua painters… Read More: Extravaganza Butterfly Basic Creations »
Today’s card is the third card in my new weekly blog feature using the Butterfly Basics stamp set and Butterfly Thinlit Dies. It features a vellum butterfly coloured with Blendabilities. Today’s post also includes a video! I saw a card made by Marilyn Meadows with a vellum butterfly and this inspired me to make my… Read More: Vellem Butterfly Card and Video »
Welcome to the second day of my new weekly blog feature. Each Monday I will feature a Stampin’ Up! stamp set, bundle or product. On the following Tuesday and Wednesday I will feature the same product and show other ways to use it. This week’s featured product is the Butterfly Basics bundle which includes the… Read More: Two Butterflies – the same but different »
Welcome to my new weekly blog feature. Each Monday I will feature a Stampin’ Up! stamp set, bundle or product. On following Tuesday and Wednesday I will feature the same product and show other ways to use it. This week’s featured product is a bundle. The Basic Butterflies stamp set and Butterfly Thinlit Dies. Here… Read More: New Weekly Blog Feature »
Yesterday I had my first class for the year. It was my monthly weekend class. Each month, during this class we usually make two cards/projects and I teach a new technique or two. The first card we made featured the alcohol markers marbling technique using Blendabilities. This was taught to me by my upline, Julia… Read More: Butterfly Die and Blendabilities Marbling Technique »