Tea for two and the Summer Solstice

Saying goodbye is always difficult ... The Summer Solstice butterflies have been a favourite of mine.

I have featured the Tea ForTwo patterned paper in strips on my card before running the whole card front through the honeycomb embossing folder. The tea for two papers will also be going at the end of this catalogue on 30 June. But this pattern will be recoloured in wisteria wonder and coastal cabana.

I stamped my butterflies in Early Espresso ink on the patterned Tea for Two paper then cut them out.

Placing them on dimensionals to raise them up above the textured background. 

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Summer Solstice clear mounted $24.95 page 93. Item number 122037. 

Enjoy!!!

Crumb cake butterflies

It is Spring which means new leaves, blossoms and butterflies floating about the garden.

I like the colour of this crumb cake cardstock with white - it reminds me of sand at the beach.

Or the leftover crumbs after a summer picnic?

The stampset is "Summer Solstice".

 The leaves are stamped in whisper white ink and the butterflies in Basic Black stazon ink.

The sentiment is called "itty bitty banners" .

This is an all occasion style card where all you need to do is change the sentiment to happy birthday, or thank you, thinking of you, just for you ...

Team challenge

Each month the Inksomniac's team post a stamping, photo inspiration or colour challenge.
This month's challenge was a bowl of curly pasta using the colours: yellow, orange and pink.

 I chose the colours: Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Regal Rose, Melon Mambo and Rose Red.
These colours in cardstock are very bright... which gave me pause for thought.

My card uses the "Summer Solstice" flower stamp with markers direct to rubber. I love the detailed texture in this flower and thought it would brighten up the first edition specialty paper without overpowering the background.

 My daughter brought home this gorgeous pink and yellow camelia .... which inspired me to use the big blossom punch as my focal point on the bottom third of the card. Can you pick the centre shape?
It is cut from the Large lace ribbon border punch and I've used the yellow brad from the Square Fire Rhinestones pack.
In the top right hand corner I used the small boho blossom punch flowers scrunched and layered with a yellow brad.

Enjoy!!!

The Simply scored origami gift card holder.

When I saw these demonstrated by Michelle Le Breton recently I was aching to give them a try.

Great way to use all your gorgeous patterned papers to make a substantial and very clever gift folder.

This first one features one piece of 12x12

 "Cheerful treat" patterned paper - from page 9 of the Catalogue.

I made a just for you card to slip in one pocket with the bicycle stamp out of the Autumn mini cat.

My daughter loves this stampset.

She also wrote a note to her aunty to go inside behind the chocolates.

What I love about this cross over folded wallet is that it has numerous pockets for you to put notes, tags and gift cards in.

It easily fits a gift card and an Artist trading card (which you can write a note on the back of), plus T-bags  and a chocolate inside.

I made a another one ... in pink -

 Using some Melon Mambo pink ribbon to decorate it with and then I embellished it with the

 Doily triple layer punch and button dies to make a flower on the front.

And there is a Jelly Bean Brad in the centre 'cause we all love cup cakes...

My tag, that I am tuckng in this one, has the Summer Solstice butterfly and words that say:

"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."

I made all my origami folds using the Simply Scored tool and a bone folder.

Enjoy!!!

Happy Mothers day

I hope you all had a lovely mother's day.

Whether you are a mother or celebrated your mother.

My day started early with gifts from the school Mother's Day stall:

 a beaded wire bracelet, vanilla scented bath salts and a red flower made of feathers!

We made pancakes for breakfast and as punishment for being such a nice mum we played the wii fit for two hours before some lovely hot chicken and vegetable soup.

Here are some of the cards I made for the school M' Day stall.

Finding a simple and repeatable design is the fun part.

 Like using my new stampsets and designer series paper in interesting ways that I haven't tried before.

 On these ones I used the Broadsheet Alphabet to spell "Mum"

 and the Summer Solstice stampset.

Then I had a go with the butterfly in this set and for texture ran it through the vintage wall paper embossing folder and the Big shot. 

 The next one is made with whisper white cardstock

 (also run through the Big shot and vintage wallpaper folder).

But first I stamped it with my favourite stampset ATM:

 "Rue De Fleurs."

I just love the images of the vintage umbrella, flower filled bodice, trumpet and pen.

I used Poppy Parade, Daffodil Delight and Marina Mist in a random stamping pattern.

And on the last one, I have used the A la Carte stamp called "Elizabeth"

 to frame the "Happy Mother's day" on a word window.

Summer Solstice

 If you know me or have been following my blog for a while, you will know I love butterflies.

 We found this stone sign at a garden we visited during the school holidays.

We are happiest when we can get involved in something we love, something we are passionate about or something that engages our creativity.

 

 I discovered this stampset in the catalogue recently.

It is called "Summer Solstice" and it has a butterfly, a flower, leaves and words such as:

"We meet no ordinary people in our lives".

 I have stamped the butterfly and cut it out so that it lands on the Apothecary Art flowers for a Mother's day card. The main part of this card is the Designer series paper in  Daffodil Delight, Pear pizzazz and Poppy Parade.

The patterned paper was not very exciting so I have stamped some more butterflies in Early Espresso ink around the base of the card.

 I have used the colours of the paper in my watercolouring of the flowers.