Another little girl with butterflies

A while back I posted a card made with this beautiful little girl stamp - Gabrielle - from Imagination Crafts and some sparkly butterflies. I knew I could do it better and last week I had the chance when I needed to do a card for another little girl in our family.

I stamped the image in black archival ink and then sponged Spun Sugar distress ink and then Pink Sherbert Adirondack dye ink across the whole card with cut n' dry foam. I then used a mask, flower frenzy template also available from Imagination and used another Adirondack dye ink - in raspberry I think - to pick out the pattern all over the card avoiding the face. I shaded the edges and corners with wild plum ink and I think a tiny touch of Eggplant.

I mounted the panel onto an 8 x 8 card blank, added the sparkly butterflies, this time a more subtle white and added some tiny silver dots in each corner.

This card came together in less than an hour and I was really pleased with the end result, even if I do say so myself!

Have a great crafty weekend!

Elaine xx

Butterfly girl

July is a busy month for birthdays in our families, so I have loads of cards to make. I made this one as a real quicky this morning for a 3 year old.

The gorgeous stamp is from Imagination Stamps see here. I bought the stamp at the Alexandra Palace show in April, I am ashamed to say this is the first time I have used it, but I knew I had to have it! I stamped the main image in black archival ink and then rubbed over the whole image with a little pale blue Viva Paper Soft Colour. Then I used a Cosmic Swirl stencil template (Imagination also sell these) and sponged a darker blue around the central image taking care to avoid the face. The butterflies are stickers. They are a little glittery and not the sort of thing I usually use, but they seemed appropriate for a little girl's card.

I need to get back to finiishing my flag book now, I am the last to go posting this month - Judith has just posted her gorgeous rainbow garden project here,