Point taken in the Elite Challenge.

So that was February, and it's already March!!!
On Saturday I tried to quickly whip up an Elite Challenge Card for the month of February. One of the challenges was to use the colours: Pacific Point, Taken with Teal, Tempting Turquoise and Orchid Opulence. I have been thinking over these colours for the whole month, gathering courage.

I thought the colours could be a bit heavy: the Teals and the Blues... so with the help of a whisper white Fresh Cuts Note card I think I managed to keep it light and white to carry those heavier hues.

  The front of the card is stamped with the damask stamp from Friends 24/7 stampset ... I have used this stamp over and over again.... then I slipped a square of Orchid Opulence behind the cut out panel stamped with Tempting turquoise.

I puched two flowers out with the 5 petal punch one in Taken with Teal and the second Tempting Turquoise. Placed them behind and a pacific point cut out flower in front.

All held together with one "Build a brad".

The sentiment is stamped in whisper white craft ink onto Pacific point and punched out with a word window.

And I couldn't help myself - I had to put the smallest stamp from Flight of the butterfly in orchid opulence on the side.

Recipe:

Ink: Pacific point, Orchid opulence, Tempting turquoise, whisper white craft.

Cardstock: Whisper white, Pacific Point, Orchid opulence, Taken with teal, Tempting turquoise.

Punches: Five flower punch, Eyelet border, word window, 1.3cm circle.

Stampset: Friends 24/7, Flight of the butterfly, Fresh cuts.

Fresh cut Notes, Build a brad, DSP.

Butterfly print birthday treat

Here's one I made a little while ago. Its a birthday card but could easily double as a Valentines day card with those hearts and a different sentiment.

The colours are rich regals and Bold brights with a touch of in colour Kiwi kiss to contrast with the Elegant eggplant card base.

Inside the sweet treat cup are cut out butterflies from Flight of the Butterfly and rolled pieces of patterned Designer Series paper on a Passionate pink background.

The hello again hearts are covered with Crystal effects for a glossy shiny finish.

My Favourite part though are the punched Butterfly print images held on with brads

 to their pink and purple shadows.

What you need to make this card:

Stampsets: Butterfly prints, hello again, Sweet birthday, Flight of the butterfly.
Cardstock: kiwi kiss, elegant eggplant, passionate pink, whisper white.

Ink passionate pink, Elegant eggplant.

Punches: butterfly, word window, 1 3/4" circle.

Other: Sweet treat cup, Designer series paper, crystal effects, vintage brads, dimensional foam dots.

A Sweet cup 7th birthday challenge!

Are you making me a birthday card? Asks my almost 7 year old on the eve of her birthday...

Can it have yellow jelly beans and white in the centre and purple petals?

That was the challenge and in very quick time, between dinner and wrapping presents after sweet almost 7 year old went to bed I whipped this one up. Wish I had had more time but thats how it goes sometimes.

The Card base is in Elegant eggplant and More mustard, and the petals are orchid opulence punched out with the 5 petal punch. I have stamped the happy birthday and stem of the flower with stem sayings ... she loved it especially the yellow and white lollies in the centre.

I made her a nice butter cake though and iced it with a Tinkerbell Decal (her new favourite character) and made the lolly boxes usng the 7cm box template.

I used two punches to open the box up to show the lollies and treats inside: My new butterfly punch (for the top and the thank you tag) and the five petal punch on the front.

The cardstock is Orchid opulence and Elegant eggplant for the Oval and Ribbon too.

Inks used are: Elegant eggplant and Orchid opulence.

Stampsets used: Butterfly prints, Flight of the butterfly and hostess set Sweet little sentiments.

We were fully intending to have a picnic for her birthday but then when the weather predicted rain all week we decided to go ice-scating.

Here is the girl herself  finding her scating feet on the ice.

Scrapbook - the tooth fairy - page 2.

I like to scrapbook on the weekend ... a girl has to have a pass time when it is cold and wintry outside. This is the second page of a double page spread. You may remember I completed the first page quite a while a go, but still had several photos left. So a second page has been sitting on the table waiting for a few spare hours. The top right photo flips upwards to show the before and after images of the lost tooth. I have simply hinged the first photo on to a piece of DS Paper using the eyelet punch for a decorative edge.
The simple mounting of these photos is due to the number of photos I have placed on the page. Two of the photos have used corner pockets to hold the photo in place. I have made them with the square scallop punch, cut the squares in half length ways and scored and folded them diagonally to show the punched edge at the front.

The next photo is mounted on kiwi kiss cardstock which has been punched with the eyelet border punch and tied with some wide old olive grosgrain ribbon.

For some butterfly detail, to match the other page I added one of the butterflies from flight of the butterfly the sentiment says: If nothing ever changed there would be no butterflies.

The Enjoy stamp is from Lovely labels stamped with chocolate chip on whisper white cardstock. This is the double page spread showing the tooth fairy in all her splender celebrating the loss of her first tooth.

Circle circus and the Flight of the butterfly in Perfect plum and Rose red.

I have been looking at the card on page 83 of the idea book for over a month now ... saying I will try that design out soon... well, yesterday while procrastinating about cleaning the house, once again - I deciced to make the card before I started the cleaning.
I used the butterfly stamp from Flight of a butterfly on page 82.
I changed the colours to suit my mood - Perfect plum, rose red and Kiwi kiss with whisper white.

Besides I haven't used any purple for weeks.
I combined it with circle circus stampset for background interest and because the medallion fits the scallop circle punch. And used the eyelet border punch instead of the scallop border.

There you go .. it says: hope your day is as happy as happy gets!

Materials:
Stampset: Flight of the butterfly, Circle Circus.
Cardstock: Perfect plum, rose red, kiwi kiss, whisper white. Ink: perfect plum, rose red. Punches: Scallop Circle, 1.3cm circle, eyelet border.
Ribbon: kiwi kiss, Adhesives: Dimensionals, double sided tape.