High Hopes 246

Made this silvery snowman for the High Hopes challenge posted last Tuesday.  I have several High Hopes Snowmen and they are adorable.  I think this one is actually a snowlady!

I used Distress Ink and Distress Spray Stains.  The tag die is from MFT.

A simple card and actually prettier in real life than it appears.

Thanks for looking.

Birthday Butterfly

This is a card I completed last night and it uses the large but lovely butterfly from Chocolate Baroque.  I stamped it with black Archival ink and embossed it with clear before adding distress inks with sponges - distress ink colours - Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Barn Door.  I then cut it out.  I stamped the antennae on the background paper and embossed those.  I then sponged round the edges of the background with Pumice Stone ink before adding the swirls also stamped in Pumice Stone.  I adhered the butterfly to meet with her antennae.

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend.

Fall in a round

I love fall, or should I say autumn colours and I have to say the more I look the more colours I see.

Beate Johns recently created a tutorial over at Splitcoast for a Twisted Circular Easel Card so that is the design I chose for this one today.  My hands are multi-coloured now but it was quite fun with all those distress inks - nothing like Beate's clean design!

I used the tree from MFP Tree Selections, the maple leaf stamp from MFP Scenic Selections and the sentiment from MFP Daffodil Greetings. The circles were all cut with dies and the sentiment was cut with Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles.  The leaves were cut with one of my original Spellbinders dies.  Ribbon and fibres from my messy stash.  The border inside was punched with an EK Success wide border punch.

Front - detailed view

I am entering this card for the following challenges


Stampin Sisters in Christ 161 - use a tree
Jugs 158 - emboss resist technique used with maple leaf stamp
OCC - Fall in the Circle

Inside - detailed view

The distress inks I used were
Wild Honey
Spiced Marmalade
Peeled Paint
Dusty Concord
Aged Mahogany



Thank you for checking out my card - I really do appreciate your comments.

Penny Black Dusk

Had a little play with some of the sponging with distress inks that Jill Foster was showing on the Penny Black blog this week. I used Faded Jeans, Brushed Corduroy, Walnut Stain, Wild Honey and Fired Brick inks plus a Crafts Concepts embossing folder I purchased yesterday at the Glitter Pot.   

Hope you like the finished card.