Watercolor Wings Mini Easel Card Pictorial

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

I'm never one to break a promise, so today I'm keeping the one I made to you in Monday's post, to bring you the pictorial for my butterfly mini easel card. By it's nature the post is image heavy, so grab a beverage of choice and take a look. I promise it will be worth it.

Card: Soft Sky, Regular Whisper White (envelope) and Thick Whisper White
Ink: Soft Sky, Pool Party and Lost Lagoon (soon to be retired, Bermuda Bay would also work with this color combo)
Stamp sets: Watercolor Wings
Tools and embellishments: Butterfly and Bold Butterfly thinlits, Simply Score Board and stylus, Envelope Punch Board
Adhesives: Tombow and Sticky Strip (retired, for envelope)

Card: 5 1/2" square of regular Whisper White (for envelope); Soft Sky 3 1/2" x 4 1/2", plus a scrap for smaller butterfly; Thick Whisper White 3 1/2" x 2 1/2"

Inks

Begin by scoring the 5 1/2" square of Whisper White on the EPB to create a 3 1/2" x 2 1/2" envelope. Stamp the base image from Watercolor Wings in Soft Sky ink on both the Thick and Regular Whisper White (see later pic)

Add the Pool Party accents with the Watercolor Wings stamp set

Stamp the butterfly body in Lost Lagoon ink onto the envelope piece

Die cut the other butterfly and then stamp the body using the same ink

For the easel base, score the 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" piece of Soft Sky card at 2 1/4" on the long side

Fold and burnish, then lay the butterfly die on the card as shown below

Open the die cut up and score one of the butterflies through the narrowest part between the wings

Fold and burnish

Apply Tombow to the lower section of the folded wings

Die cut the detailed butterfly from Soft Sky card and attach to the stamped butterfly. Attach the topper to the base

Fold and burnish the scored envelope piece and adhere with Sticky Strip or other strong tape

While I've included a lot of photos, the card is really easy to create. I think it's stunning. and I'm not the only one. I'm humbled by the response of those who received the swap and by your comments.

Challenges...
#107 AAG at Creative Fingers
Make it Girlie at Simon Says Wednesday
#53 T is for Texture or Teal at Butterfly Challenge (teal)

GIVEAWAY TIME!
I have to say that the photos truly don't do the card justice! I have ONE more left and as a thank you, I'd like to give it to one of you! To enter, leave a comment on THIS post before 10:00 am ET Friday, April 29, 2016. That's it. Just do what you usually do and I'll then use a random number generator to pick the winner, who will be announced later on the Friday. Entry is open to everyone worldwide.

Whatever you're doing this weekend, have a great one. I'll be back on Monday with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Marble Effect Mini Cards

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

I've got a special treat for you today. I'm sharing not one, not two, but three mini cards! Well, if I can't spoil you, who can? ;) Each card has been created using a left over die cut panel from a project that I can't yet show you, but I promise THAT project will be worth the wait!

Card: Whisper White and a few snippets of Lost Lagoon for the last one

Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Soft Sky, Pool Party and Jet Black StazOn

Stamp set: Me = Grateful

Tools and embellishments: Deco Labels Framelits, Petite Petals Punch, Basic Rhinestones and Basic Pearls

Challenges...
#198 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
AAG at TTCRD
#276 AAG at Craft your passion
#48 AAG at Inspiration Destination
#191 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Whatever you're doing this weekend, have a GREAT one! I'll be back on Monday with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

2013 ~ A year in review part 1

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by today. I know we're already very nearly half way through January, EEK, but before we get even deeper into this "new" year, I wanted to revisit some of my favorite posts from 2013. I hope you enjoy looking back as much as I have. To see the original post, you can either click the linked name of the post or the pics.

My first creative post here on the new site was Pretty minis. Each of the cards created and showcased in the post are only 3"x3" square and are are great way to use up some of the many, many crafty "scraps" that are left when creating bigger cards.

Another post in which I shared more of these cuties was More minis. They are all SO cute and I'll be creating more of these babies soon :)

Another favorite design style for me last year and another that I'll be doing a lot more of this, is white on white. The first card in this style that I shared with you was the Lace butterfly white on white.

I LOVE the simple beauty of this style and it wasn't long before I shared another very similar creation with you in More lovely lace. For this one I changed it up a little by adding some subtly colored gems.

I'd love to know what you think, so please leave a comment, either on this post, or on the originals. Thank you!

Hugs,
Em

All boxed up

Hi everyone,

Following on from yesterday's post, when I shared more mini card creations with you, today I'm sharing the matching gift boxes I created for each set of six cards.

Each box is 3.5" x 3.5" x 1" deep and I absolutely LOVE them!

I hope you have a great weekend and I'll be back on Monday with a Monday Musings post.

Hugs,
Em

More minis

Hi everyone,

My favorite card style at the moment seems to be mini cards that are only 3"x3" square. They are not only cute, but are ideal for using up some of the "scraps" from other designs. Here are the latest couple of sets I've created. Both sets have six cards and envelopes and they are stored in a matching mini box.

You can see more of the cards in the previous Pretty minis post and that post also links to a tutorial from Karon at Karon's Krafty Korner.

I'll be sharing photos of the completed gift boxes tomorrow and maybe even another set of the cards. I did say they are my current favorite style, lol. Please stop back to see them.

Hugs,
Em

Pretty minis

Hi everyone,

Yesterday was the first day I've spent in the studio for a little while and it was a busy day! Like many crafters, I have a lot of left over "scraps" from creating other projects, and taking inspiration from Karon over at Karon's Krafty Korner, I used them to create some cute mini, 3"x3" inch cards, as well as matching envelopes and gift boxes.

I loved her idea for tiny gift boxes so much, I created two sets of six cards, each set having three birthday and three thank you cards. Yep, I told you I was really busy!

You'll see from the pics below that I used 4 different papers for each set, cutting the strips to 1"x2" and then die cutting and using a punch for the flowers, before adding peel off wording to complete.

 

I'll show you the completed boxes in another post. Right now, I'm off up to the studio to work on another set. Yep, I might just be addicted to these little beauties :)

Hugs
Em