Butterfly birthday wishes card

 

Featured Stamper

at Color Throwdown

Today's card came together very quickly! I was so inspired by two challenges, and set to make this card.

The colors Barbara gave at The Color Throwdown #692 are: pink, purple, gold and white. Such a beuatiful combination!

Next was the great sketch by Amy, at Freshly Made Sketches #535:

For the focal point I wanted to use one of the butterflies from 'More Brilliant Butterflies' set by My Favorite Things, but I also wanted a circular element, so why not use them both?

I stamped the butterfly in two shades of pink (Ranger's archival ink 'pink peony' and Hero Arts' 'Cotton Candy'), and ink (Hero Arts' 'Passion Flower).

I don't have the co-ordinate dies for this set, so I cut it out with sccisors.

I had a scrap of white/gold pp, so I used it for the large banner. I looked at my washi tapes and found one that was just perfect for the colors - gold and pink. I adhered it on a scrap of white cs, and there's the stripe on the bottom.

The sentiment (Scrapbook.com) was heat embossed with Lindy's Gang 'Oom Pah Pah Pink' ep. I placed it under the pp stripe, as it seems as another stripe.

I finished up with some translucent dew drops.

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Everything Beautiful has it's Moment - a CAS card

A Top Cup at Sundy Stamps

 I've been a little MIA lately, health issues, but now I'm getting better each day.

Today I'd like to share with you this CAS card I made.

I stamped some 'paint splatters' with pale aqua distress ink, and added some real gold splatters. I stamped the background of the butterfly with two tones of lime green ink, and the detaild one with black ink. The sentiment was also stamped in black.

I adhered two b/w stripes pp, and added a thin gold washi tape in the middle of each of them.

The pannel was adhered to the white cs basis with foam tape.

Challenges:

Color Throwdown #687, with this lovely colors:

Sunday Stamps SSC280 -  sketch:

Supplies:

Ink - Ranger's archival ink (Vivid Chartreuse), Tim Holtz/Ranger distress ink (Tumbled Glass), Hero Arts (lime green, black).

Stmps - My Favorite Things (More Brilliant Butterflies), Kaisercraft (Moments).

Spray - Lindy's Stamp Gang (Grab a Guy Gold)

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A CAS Thank You card

Hello crafting friends!

Today I would like to share with you a CAS Thank You card I made.

I used washi tapes and enamel dots for my June counterfeit mini kit. A stamp die cut, sentiment (thanks in Hebrew) and my card is ready.

I made it for 2 challenges:
CAS on Friday - sketch:

Festive Friday:

I used CAS design, one layered card, stitching (faux).
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A washi tape holder

Happy Friday!

Sharing my new washi tape holder.

I made it from a canvas which I wrapped with efalin paper and then decorated with Altair Art pp.

I will hang it up on the wall and this way I just might use my washi tape more often...

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Good vibes only - Corona days notebook II

I loved my first Corona days notebook so much, that I decided to make another one, again using my April counterfeit kit.

For this notebook, I used pp for the inner pages, so I actually combined two of Keren Skubatch's tutorials - Here and Here.

I also adhered pp to the inner covers and used the extra of the spine to create two little pockets on each cover, where I added some tags.

On each page I added a spot to write, stickers and mini cards for decoration. Each page is designated for writing down ideas, thoughts, projects I want to make during the lockdown, wishes for the day after the crisis ends, etc.

So let's have a look in the inside of this springy notebook:

Opening - inside cover with tags and 1st page - my new daily routine:

Pages 2 & 3 - good things about this period (and yes, one of them is lots of crafting time!), and a page for work:

Pages 4 & 5 - 'I'm tired of...' and 'I took a moment to think':

Pages 6 & 7 - 'I miss...' for all the things that I don't have on this period and that I miss. 'It about time to...' for all the home projects that I never get to do, and now I have time/energy to do (anyone said something about organizing my craft room?):

Pages 8 & 9 - for all the crafting projects I want to make and finally have time to do.

Pages 10 & 11 - well, I think I want to make a lot of crafting projects, so I left another page for the list... The other page is 'I also want...' - for other leisure activities I want to do (tv series binge, watching movies that are on my list, books I want to read, home spa, etc.):

Pages 12 & 13 - things I MUST do, not necessarily I WANT to do, or LIKE to do:

Pages 14 & 15 - 'Something good is about to happen' - plans for the day after (haircut for sure!), and 'I'm prouod of myself' - all the things I managed to do during this period (from all the previous lists... one of them - have lots of patience...).

Page 16 & back cover - 'Moving on'... for returning to the old routine, and another small pocket with a tag.

Now, do you agree with me that ' Good vibes only', or what?

This notebook is a real 'mix 'em up', as I used here papers from different companies (DCWV, Carta Bella, Echo Park, WhiteRus), washi tapes, stickers from different companies, lots of stamps, punches, dies - you name it. Therefore I enter it to the current challenge at Little Red Wagon.

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Corona Days notebook no. 1

Determined to use my April Counterfeit kit, I made a simple notebook. I followed a great tutorial by a super talented crafter lady, Keren Skubach. 

Her tutorials are always so easy to follow and she has such creative ideas, so I suggest you to just scroll around her blog

I used a kraft cs, one piece of scrap from my kit and some of my handmade embellishments (the golden paper clip with the bow, the cluster embellishment with the flower and the punched butterflies). I added a washi tape and an arrow sticker, both from my kit, and that's it!

I kept the embellishments as flat as possible, to make it easy to write in the notebook.

This little notebook is intended to document my memories, thoughts and feeling from this chaotic period.

I must say that only looking at it, with the cheerful colors and the kind of garden design, makes me feel much better. Mission accoplished!

I would like to submit this notebook to the following challenges:

Time Out #159 - inspired by words:

The two words - garden and library - are in my project - a book of my inner garden.

C.R.A.F.T 552 - create your own embellishments

Simply Creat Too #159 - anything but a card

Scor Pal more than one score - florals/AG

SimonSays Stamp Wednesday challenge - spring moodboard:

I hope you and your dears are all okay and safe!

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A different spring - my April Counterfeit Kit

Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog has a beautiful Cocoa Daisy kits to counterfeit this month - Orchard Path kits. Here's the inspiration kit (part of it, as Cocoa Daisy has many kits in for this line):

Being home dew to the Corona Virus, I have plenty time to craft, so I joined the challenge!

I named my kit 'A different Spring', as this spring is really so different, and with the inspiration of  The 4 Questions we ask at Passover Seder, which was last night. Every Seder we ask 'Why is this night different from all nights?'. This time it had an additional meaning, as we all celebrated the holiday applying social distance, apposed to our usual habbit, which is to celebrate the Passover with the whole family.

As always, when I make my counterfeit kit, I start with the colors: apple green, pale pink, blush pink, mango orange, peach, coral, grey, pale blue, some gold black and a touch of red.

Then comes the patterns: floral, stripes, chevrons, scattered dots, lace circles in squares, plaid, scales.

Here're the 12X12 papers in my kit:

I have here Carta Bella, Altair Art, DCWV and Echo Park. The scattered dots paper is foil gold, but it doesn't show in the photo.

I wanted to use up more of my 6x8 & 6x6 papers:

Papers are from Simple Storeis, Carta Bella, WhiteRus.

Another goal was to use up scraps, large enough for matting, cards and making more embellies:

I added stickers, enamel dots (lots of them..), chipboards, Prima's flowers, washi tapes and AAll & Create stamp set:

Last, but certainly  not the least, are my counterfeited items. There are so many embellishment in the kits, but what my eys were drawn to was the large golden clip with the peach ribbon bow, and that was the first item to counterfeit. I also made some 'chipboard' circles, labels, tabs, floral embellishmet and lots of butterflies:

And here's again the full kit:

I'm looking forward to using my kit!

Enjoy every moment

Honourable Mention

at Just Add Ink

How about some ocean breeze? Just Add Ink have an inspiration photo just perfect for it:

I took inspiration be the colors of sand (kraft) and the colors of the sea and foam. I also tore my dp, to mimic the edge of the sand.

I used TGIG sketch:

Supplies:

kraft & white cs - Bazzil

pp - Lemoncraft

washi tape - Simple Stories (Heart collection)

sentiment sticker - 7 Dots Studio

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For the love of shopping - CSI case file no. 310

Although it's not my turn of CSI blog, I really liked the inspiration photo and decided to join for case file no. 310:

The first thing that comes to mind seeing this photo is LOVE, usually associated to Valentine's Day, but the colors of the photo reminded me my photo from C&A at Nantes, take  on December 2018.

We hae a rainy morning so we decided to spend our time in shopping! The local C&A shop was very close to our hotel so after breakfast we went there and spent out time (and money...) in the shop.

My friend is a real shop-oholice kind of person and I'm not, but I was drifted in the mood and went out with huge red bags, full of clothes for me and for my boys. It was really a fun day :).

I've used Laura Whitaker's sketch for MCS:

I flipped the sketch on the side and used only one photo, but I think you can see the sketch pretty easily.

I used all 5 colors. From the clues: plaid, stripes, woodgrain, frames, hearts, houses, silver elements (the hearts on the big frame were heat embossed with a Lindy's Queen Sheba's Silver ep), word stickers, chipboard (the 'Love' title - Creative Embellishments', heat embossed with Lindy's Purely White ep), stamps and washi tape.

My journaling is framed by the small red frame on top.

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Nantes December 2018 - 13@rts & Sketches In Thyme

At the last day of this year, I'm sharing a layout I've made for two challenges.

One is the inspiration challenge at 13@rts blog:

I was inspired by the main image - the plaid pattern, the christmas trees, the wood floor, and the theme.
I've used 13@rts' stitches and word stickers, as well as their white ink.

The 2nd challenge is a sketch challenge from Sketches In Thyme, sketch no. 401 (I rotated the sketch on the side):

Here're some close-ups:

I wish you all a very Happy New Year!