Butterfly Thank You Notelets

Today I'm sharing with you these super quick notelets.  Even though they're quick I think they're quite sweet.  It's a design I've used previously for birthday cards but I've scaled it down here.

I added some pearls to the "body" of the central butterfly to add some interest and to make it feel a bit more special.

Sorry about the appalling light, I can definitely tell winter is on the way as it has been so dark here today!

Jacqui x


Supplies:
Card - Dovecraft 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" 240 gsm white cards and envelopes
           Core d'inations "darks"
Pearls - Vivi Gade 2mm white
Stamp - Craft Impressions "Thank you"
Ink - Momento "Tuxedo Black"

One For A Friend

This is a card I made for a friend's birthday.  She isn't an uber girly girl so I kept it simple without lots of embellishments.  The cut out butterflies are simply cut out and then raised on foam pads to add some dimension.

Thanks for visiting!

Jacqui x


Supplies:
1" Butterfly punch - Hobbycraft
Patterned Paper - Dovecraft "Garden Party" Stack
Card from my stash

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

Purple 80th

It was my Grandmas's 80th Birthday last month so I made her a card...I wanted to do something pretty and feminine so I reverted to butterflies and purple.  I'm quite pleased with the result and she seemed to like it which is the main thing =)

I printed the sentiment and number "80" directly onto a piece of white card which I mounted using purple core'dinations core colour cardstock, I love the texture of this card and its a great weight to work with.  I used the same card to cut some little butterflies using my punch.  I added a little more detail with a gem on the dot of the "i" in birthday, the card was still looking a bit empty so I added a bow which I tied in a coordinating purple.

I also made another 80th card for my Mum to give to my Grandma so I'll show you that in another post.

Thanks for visiting!

Jacqui x

Butterflies

As I'm sure you'll soon notice, I love both butterflies and purple.  This card I have made for a work friend combines both as I know she is also a purple fan.

I have a mini butterfly punch which I used to cut 6 butterflies in purple core'dinations CoreColor cardstock, onto three of these I then embossed the "body" of the butterfly with Tinsel Silver embossing powder from Papermania to add some detail.  I stuck these onto some white cardstock and mounted it using the same purple card I'd used for the butterflies.  I then mounted the rectangle using foam pads onto a white card blank.  To add the sentiment I used the "Happy Birthday" from personal impression clear stamp set and Versa Color ink in black.

I like the simplicity of this card, another thing you'll discover as I develop my blog - I love simple designs!