Fluttering by to say Hello!

Supplies:  Winged Friends - Hero Arts Digital kit, Create with TLC sentiment, docrafts white card blank, copics and pop dots.

Some real quick Clean and Simple Cards today.  

I had some printed, cut and coloured "winged friends" sitting on my desk and decided to use them up to create a couple of cards.

Printed the sentiment directly onto the card blank and then added the "flutterbies and winged friends".

Sending prayers to those affected by the recent torandoes and flooding.

Challenges
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Things with wings
2 sisters challenge blog - Use a digi
Less is More - Butterfly/Butterflies

Thanks so much for peeking and thanks so much for stopping by.

Hero Arts - digital kits

Supplies:  Hero Arts digital kits, pp Cosmo Cricket DeLovely range, 

papermania gems, Bazzill dotted swiss cardstock, machine stitching, 

copics, sentiments from Papertrey Ink.

Made these cards using butterflies from these Hero Arts kits HERE and HERE.  I paired them with the new DeLovely papers from Cosmo Cricket (scraps I had after making sets of cards).  Added machine stitching in co-ordinating thread.  I love using kraft cardstock, and have added these cards to my stash!

Hero Arts Challenge theme this month is Food and Travel with the added technique of bookmaking.  Be sure to check it out and play along if you have some time.  I hope to enter this month, fingers and toes crossed! 

Thanks so much for peeking and I hope you have a wonderful day.

March Card Chain Challenge and Happy St Patrick's Day

"Beannacht Lá Fhéile Pádraig" - Happy St Patrick's Day to everyone. 

I was delighted to be able to sign up for Deborah's Card Chain Challenge for March and was even more thrilled to be able to send the wonderful and talented Sally Sherfield a card.  I decided not to go for the array of colours on the colour swatch and stayed away from the sentiments too as I didn't have any stamps that fitted with it.  So in the end I went with the sketch/template that Deborah provided.

I had a stash of butterflies that I had printed and cut out... so decided to have a go at using some.  I coloured them with light shades of blue/blue green copics and had the flower already subtly coloured in a pale pink/beige colour.  Added a kraft card blank, the hello sentiment from Hero Arts and hey presto - card made.

I added the antennae with glossy accents (just like Jennifer McGuire's video instructions here), I also layered one of the butterflies.  Fingers crossed it travelled over the Irish Sea and got to Sally in one piece! (edited - Sally sent me an email on Monday evening to let me know that my package had arrived safe and sound).

Also entering this card into this month's Hero Arts Challenge - Spring and Easter.  Looking at the card now that it is gone... I should have added butterfly trails...aaahhhh well, something always needs tweaking! (will add them to the next one!).

Look what I got in the post yesterday morning - this amazing card from the talented Isha in Switzerland - she got the task of sending me a card for Deborah's March CCC.  It is so lovely to get a beautiful card like this landing on the hall floor instead of bills!.

Thanks so much Isha, I adore it. 

One more thing in this rather lengthy post.... I reheld the draw for the free digital image from Jane (as Sally had already won one on another blog).  Here is the result of the random.org (still can't get the whole widget to copy across!).

True Random Number Generator

Min: 1
Max: 21
Result:
4
Powered by RANDOM.ORG

and the winner is ...Katie said... Deirdre these are FAB! Thanks also for the chance to win!! xxx 
Katie, let me know which image you would like - Congrats.

Thanks so much for stopping by. 

Hero Arts Flickr Group reaches 30,000 uploads!

Hero Arts announced on Friday that the FLICKR Group had nearly reached 30,000 uploads since March 2008.  So to celebrate nearly reaching the 30,000 project milestone they decided to have a giveaway - those people at Hero Arts are just AMAZING.

Here is my entry for the chance to win!. 

I used a digital image from Hero Arts called Poetic Petals.  I left it uncoloured and added a digital image from the Hero Arts Winged Friends digital kit which I coloured with a copic ciao.  I cut brown cardstock for my base, embossed red cardstock with a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - stylized flowers.  I then added ribbon and machine stitched around the edges including over the ribbon.  Used Quickutz circles and Spellbinders Scalloped Circles Large for the matting and layering.

I used glossy accents on the "winged friend's" body and used Jennifer McGuire's technique of putting some thread into the glossy accents for the antenna.

I hope you will visit the Hero Arts Flickr Group - it is chock full of inspiration and an amazing group of friends.  Thanks so much for stopping by - hope you have a wonderful week.

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.

Hero Arts Friendship & Valentine's Challenge

Made this card for this month's Hero Arts Friendship and Valentine's Theme Challenge - further information is available here. I made the butterflies a while ago and hadn't used them, you can read about them here. I did some masking and stamping with the sentiment as it is a really old Hero Arts stamp with flowers around it.

Supplies Hero Arts sentiment H704, Hero Arts digital flutterbies and winged friends kits,

Anita's large card blank and envelope, Papermania pp and textured cardstock,

Martha Stewart pansy border punch, Papermania pearls,

ranger industry stickles, pop dots, stazon ink and copics.

I used my new Martha Stewart Pansy punch for the border on textured Papermania cardstock in grey. 

Imagine my delight this morning when I logged on and found two, yes 2! messages telling me that I had won candy over on the Bugaboo Blog Hop last weekend...woohoo!!!  I just adore the Bugaboo images and Jodie Mackrell does freebies on a Friday and her next challenge is 30th January - so be sure to check it out here.  Thanks to Melissa and Rae Anne for the blog candy.. still doing the happy dance!

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you all have a great Tuesday.