CTS #32 and CBS Challenge

I got home early enough today to take a photo of the card I made at the weekend before I lost all the light.  I based it on this weeks CAS(E) this sketch challenge, as soon as I saw the sketch I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do.  Here is the fabulous sketch:



I turned the sketch around to make my card, but hopefully you can see all of the elements in my design.

Everything was things I had in my stash.  The butterflies I cut out using 2" and 1" punches that I have, and the circle I cut using a 2" punch.  I added a little glossy accents to the "body" of the butterflies to add some interest.  The sentiment is printed directly onto the card as I didn't have a nice clean simple stamp for this which was the look I was going for.  The writing under the circle is from the background builder set from clearly besotted, so I'm also going to enter this into the challange that they are having at the moment.

I love entering these challenges, most definitly will be entering more of them.

As always, thanks for visiting!

Jacqui x

Clearly Besotted Challenge #1

When I first got into making cards it was Christmas 2012...I googled Christmas stamps and up came some gorgeous stamps from Clearly Besotted Stamps.  I bought them, made lots of cards for my family and developed an additction to CBS! They are the best quality stamps I've bought so far and although I don't have many of the stamps from the collection there are lots on my wish list!! When I saw Stephanie was launching a challenge I couldn't wait to enter. 

The card below I have made because I recently bought some stamps for making new baby cards (lots of friends and colleagues are pregnant at the moment so thought I'd get prepared!).  I used the CBS background builder to stamp the background, which is in orchid from Versa Color.  The sentiment is from a "Baby" set by Kaisercraft and stamped using tuxedo black from Memento.  The cute feet are made by personal impressions, I used the same ink as the background and then used clear embossing powder to make them shine.  Everything else was from my stash.

It's quite a simple design but I quite like the result, I hope you do too!

Jacqui x