Butterflies galore

The last of the three cards I made for Making Cards magazine. I used another of the Pink Gem digi kits, this one is simply called purple butterfly.  I went for a really shabby chic look with this one, distressing all the edges and then adding white acrylic paint to the jute ribbon and around the edges of the First Edition beyond the shore papers. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons, dies are Crafts Too butterflies and Joanna Sheen leaf flourish die. I used bronze gilding wax on the wooden butterfly and added some cheesecloth and roses from Wild Orchid.

Today is Mother's Day in England so we will be visiting my Mum today and taking her out for lunch.  Happy Mother's day to all Mums x

Barrow of flowers

The second of my cards made for Making Cards magazine using a digi kit from Pink Gem Designs at Crafts U Print.

Image - Pink Gem pink barrow digi kit

Papers - First Edition Beyond the shore

Patterned burlap - The Range

Apple Blossom - Wild Orchid

Die - Crafts Too butterflies

Early start again today as the conservatory fitters will be coming early to remove the old roof and start fitting the new one. Hopefully if will be finished tomorrow and we can give it a good clean and get everything back on Wednesday.

Shabby chic butterflies

I had three cards published in last month's Making Cards magazine using digi kits from Pink Gem at Crafts U Print. I like to use the main image as a topper by reducing the size of the digi.

Image and sentiment - Pink Gems peach butterflies

Papers - First Edition Beyond the shore

Lace - Crafty Ribbons

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Wooden butterflies painted with silver acrylic pint, cheesecloth, pins

We are having our polycarbonate conservatory roof replaced with a thermal glass roof on Monday and Tuesday next week so today we will start to pack up the things in the conservatory. 

What, no image!

Good evening lovely people and what a fabulous sunny day it has been here today. Yes here I am in case you thought I wasn't posting today. I don't think I have missed a day this year yet and don't intend to unless I can't help it. Actually the second post yesterday was meant to be today's post but I was so busy adding Dt cards to admin blogs that I forgot to schedule it and after merrily linking it to challenges thought, oops that was meant to be today's which I would have linked this morning using the iPad.  We have had a lovely day out at Southwold, went for a really long walk near the beach and by the harbour and finished it with a late lunch. I had a prawn and crayfish tail salad and it was so yummy. For those of you who don't know Southwold it's a lovely old fashioned seaside, quite gentile with lots of beach huts which cost a fortune. It was used as the town East Lee in this week's drama A Mother's Son.

Any better get onto my card, which is a bit different for me and was one of the cards I taught my non cardmaking friend this week at her monthly class with me. This was the 3rd lesson and we haven't tried colouring, not sure if we ever will as she doesn't like cute images.

Recipe

Kate Knight paper freebie

Henbury Lane butterfly sprayed with iridescent spray and sparkle

Memory Box prim poppy and butterfly dies

Lace and pearls

Sentiment Teddy Bo stamp

Challenges

DYSU Birthdays 

Flutterby Wednesday Birthday 

Crafts and Me Add a flower 

Ribbon Girl Pearls 

Pretty Little Ribbon Lace and pearls

Butterfly easel

This is my second post for today. Well the lunchtime Christmas Bazaar was interesting and a good practice for my stand and signs for the craft fair on Saturday. I sold 4 cards and 3 gift boxes which wasn't a lot but people were very complimentary and it was good to see what caught people's eye. As I had only made 9 gift boxes I had better get some more made before Saturday.
I made a couple of these scalloped easel cards with Henbury Lane butterflies. Fairly simple but effective don't you think. The paper is an old Papermania one and the small butterflies were made with a new MS punch. I would like to enter this into the challenge of monochrome at Allsorts and open challenge at Flutter By Wednesday