It's the little things

Hello - playing in the Freshly Made Sketch #467 challenge today. 

The designer paper is a very old hoarded piece called washi accents that I got at my local stamp store many moons ago. 

I used some old backgrounds bits from my stash on the butterflies.  Black shiny cardstock used to cut out the detailed outline.  The big butterfly is popped up on tiny foam squares so that it appears to be in flight.  Sentiment and the butterfly dies are all from Memory Box.

Thanks for stopping in.

Happy leap day and a new card

Happy leap day everyone! I got this idea off of the Memory box blog about using packing tape a die cut and glitter to create some sparkle. Love how it came out!

I used the Vivienne Butterfly die from Memory Box and cut it out using black cardstock. Then I took a piece of clear packing tape and adhered it to the die cut. Next I got out the glitter. I did use two colors to create the effect.

Designer paper is Washi paper that I picked up at a craft show many moons ago. Sentiment is from PTI. I cut the tag from their tag die collection and stamped the Happy Birthday on. I used teeny tiny self adhesive gold pearls on the corners. Card base cardstock is from Bazzill and cut in a 5 x 5 square.

Have a happy leap day!

Out on a limb

Hello! Here's a card I completed for the Wednesday sketch challenge over at SCS. This is a great sketch with so many possibilities!


The branch stamp is from Memory Box. I colored it with Marvy Le Plume markers and huffed on it. Loved how it turned out on the ivory cardstock.

The black bird (raven or crow) is cut out from the Martha Stewart bird border punch. I punched a strip out and using sharp pointed scissors cut out two birds. One is directly glued to the paper and the other is popped up with foam tape.

The wood strip on the left side is actually real wood, its Asian cedar that is cut very thin. The green designer paper is hand made Washi paper that I got from a craft show a while ago. Dark brown cardstock is from American Crafts and the gold pearls are from the reflection line from M's.

At the last minute I decided to stamp the inside of the card to continue the theme. Again, it turned out pretty cool! What do you think?