Butterfly Blog Hop!

Another fabulous day of blue skies and sunshine here in Birmingham, UK!
It's a little too soon to expect to see butterflies in my garden, so what a treat to discover so many today over at Eva's Butterfly Linky Party!

As you can see I couldn't resist another outing with that Basic Grey Butterfly Clear Stamp. This time I went for spring colours from a My Little Shoebox paper called 'All of a Flutter - Social Butterfly'. I love those ladybirds! The dots background stamp and the sentiment are both from Hero Arts.This blurry picture is supposed to show the dimension... looks better on my previous post if you want a closer and in focus view!

Well, how appropriate that Basic Grey Challenge #39 should be 'Wings' - thank you!

And the Do You Stack Up Challenge is Layers.

Have a lovely Sunday everyone, and don't forget to flutter over to Eva's to check out the Hop!

Beautiful butterfly!

I'm a little bit nervous about sharing this card as it isn't my usual style at all!

Isn't that butterfly stamp a beauty?

It's a Basic Grey clear stamp and having seen the fabulously talented Peet use it, I knew I wanted to give it a try. The dimension is added with a second set of wings cut slightly smaller than the first. I stamped on kraft card with Versamark and embossed in white. I love the look of kraft and white with that pretty Stampin' Up paper.

The smaller sentiment is from Technique Tuesday and it says 'if nothing ever changed there would be no butterflies'. As I'm experiencing change right now, and feel the need to adopt a more positive attitude, this one hits the spot. The 'Live, laugh, love' stamp is from Kaisercraft.

I quite like the simplicity of the layout and will try it again. With a few changes I think this design has potential as a Mother's day card, especially as my Mom loves butterflies... so don't be surprised to see that butterfly popping up again wearing different colours.

I'm going to enter this card for

P is for Pearls at the ABC Challenge.

Challenge#5 - Things with wings at PCJ.

Samuel Taylor's monthly Challenge - Butterflies

Crafty Purple Frog Challenges - Fly away with us

and Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Thanks for dropping by, hope your weekend is full of fun and crafting!

A quick thank you card.

Hello everyone, yes it's me again! I'm finding going 'cold turkey' from blogging rather hard to do.

I can't promise regular posts but will try and join in the fun whenever I can!

I needed a few 'thank you' cards. What a great excuse to ink up my latest Pure innocence stamp called 'Being cute is what I do'. I think she may just be my favourite PI girl so far. I paper pieced her dress and coloured her with Promarkers. The papers are both scraps from Basic Grey and look lovely with that turquoise card from Stampin' Up!

Using my newly serviced and repaired sewing machine I was able to stitch around the centre panel of the card. Stitching on cards may just become my new obsession!

Anyhooo, enjoy the rest of your weekend. I have a card to finish (hurrah) and then the ironing awaits (boo hiss).

Take care everyone and happy crafting!