Holiday / Winter Card

 Supplies:  Seasons Greetings Collage Digital kit by Hero Arts, 

glossy accents, cardstock - Folia, Envelope Pattern background stamp - Hero Arts, 

copics G21 G28 G29 blender 0 Y000 R37, pop dots, Anita's white A6 card blank, 
barn door distress ink andtea dye distress ink and blending tool.

I have had this card in my head for a few weeks following Jill's wonderful tutorial on partial colouring over on the Penny Black blog. 

I didn't want to use the entire Hero Arts Digital Collage stamp for this card.  I don't own the HA classic holly stamp I decided to just print the holly section, colour it, add glossy accents and do some distressing.

Kept it sentiment free - think I will stamp the greeting inside.

Have you seen the Holiday Card Making posts over on 2peas?  Check them out here.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Quick share - Celebrate!

Made this card using a digital kit by Tia Bennett called Indie Pops: Celebrate - available over on 2peas.  I think it was a freebie that I picked up a while ago - still available here.  It has these vintage style cards which I printed and distressing using Tim Holtz's distressing tool.... really saves your finger nails and scissors - thanks Tim! (photo below). 

Did you see what else Tim has "invented" - check it out here... I bet it is the talk of CHA.  What an amazing design - a little suitcase no less...

Added some ribbon in a pale gold/yellow colour, stitched on some buttons and hey presto..... distressed / worn / old looking celebrate card.  I think I got the buttons from Lucy - thanks Lucy... will have to label in future!  I also received some goodies this morning from Rae Anne in the post, following the recent Bugaboo Blog Hop - thanks so much Rae Anne.  Such a lovely start to the day. 

Off out to meet very good friends for a cuppa and a catch up.  Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you are having a great day.

Lucy's Challenge #4 - glitter

My HA Flickr friend Lucy is holding a challenge at the moment and it involves "glitter".  So I made a card, using her method for stitching, (see video here) her style of card and design.  Just wanted to practice! so entering it into her challenge.

Supplies Hero Arts Anytime Messages CL129, Hero Arts Digital kits Winged Friends and Flutterbies,

MME Wild asparagus 6x6 cardstock, Kraft cardstock, machine stitching, copics, pop dots and stickles.

I made a batch of these butterflies and winged friends a little while ago and added Ranger Industry Stickles for the glittery goodness. 

I also used the tip that Kathy Racoosin gave in her blog on the 3 November last year (Tuesday Tipster) which was to run a black marker down the edge of the cut image to get rid of the white.  It really does work a treat (see top photo) and I do it on all the cut out digital images that I use.. Thanks Kathy!.

Lucy - thanks for the amazing daily inspiration.  Thanks everyone for stopping by.  Hope you all have a great week.

Inspired by Jennifer McGuire

After watching Jennifer McGuire's (she is just a genius) video on butterfly colouring and seeing the amazing sets she made for her MIL for Christmas and then seeing Vanessa's cards with butterflies appear in the Hero Arts Flickr Pool and on her blog... I decided I wanted to have a go....  So last night I printed off lots of butterflies from the Hero Arts Digital set available here at twopeasinabucket.com and started colouring.

Here are a few of my finished butterflies/flutterbies!!!!  I just adore colouring - I feel like I am 5 again.  Cutting out... not so much!!! - hence one sheet underneath yet to cut!  I am going to add some stickles and embellishments to some of them and then do the remaining cutting out - in between making dinner!

Thanks for stopping by - hope you have a day filled with colour and joy.

My day just gets better and better!

Okay, so I am new to all this and just feeling my way around - designing my banner and stuff.  Just went to check out some of the challenges I entered...... I was the random winner in this week's Paperplay Challenges ... woo hooo!!!!  This challenge was sponsored by An Siopa Bui. Doing the happy dance!  Here was my entry.  I made this card for the Hero Arts Simple Holiday Challenge this week - see here for details.

Supplies - Hero Arts Poetic Petals Digital Kit, Fiskars Threading Water Punch,

Papermania textured cardstock, Promarker and Misc ribbons and button