Our challenge at Sweet Stampin this week is to celebrate World Oceans Day which is on 8th June.
I've actually just come back from holiday from Greece - a small island called Paxos in the Ionian sea. A place to really rest and relax. My card uses some designer series paper from Stampin Up called Tranquil Textures. The inner piece has been sponged with Tim Holtz Oxide Inks and the sea is a stamp from Stampin Up's Wetlands set. The little chair comes from the Colourful Seasons thinlets from Stampin Up. The birds were from a very old Tim Holtz set that I can't remember the name of. I've added some glitter to the chair and some pearl embellishment.s
I was thrilled to be chosen as one of the winners over at CAS Colours and Sketches for my Butterfly Inlaid card - I do find CAS quite tricky as I love to pile stuff on my cards a la Tim Holtz but its nice to be challenged so its a great boost to have one of my cards chosen as a winner.
I'm entering again this week and my card is super simple. I used one of the Stitched Framelits to make a mask for my squares - and inked them up in So Safron and a touch of Crushed Curry by Stampin Up. I've used the butterfly from Kinda Eclectic - yes my favourite Go-To stamp set at the moment and kept it in the same ink colour of Crushed Curry. The sentiment is from Lotus Blossom and a touch of Dazzling Diamonds on the full butterfly in the middle finishes off this simple but effective card. I've layered it onto some Crushed Curry cardstock.
I'm also adding this one in to Addicted to Stamps #291 whose theme is Anything Goes
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In the crafting world where everything has been done to death it's a real thrill to come across a new technique. This is what happened when perusing Pinterest, you know the way we do! I found a card which led to a blog which wasn't the right blog but then I found the correct blog by the person who had actually made the card - called Lindsey-Doodlings and there I found the Inlaid Technique. This one has passed me by. I'm sometimes phased by fiddling with small bits, especially as the eyes aren't what they used to be, but then hey I did used to run an inchy challenge blog!
So I had a play and I didn't find it quite as fiddly as I thought I would.
I've done my card using the colours asked for by CAS Colours and Sketches -
I'm also adding this one into Watercooler Wednesday's Anything Goes challenge
I used one of the Bold Butterfly framelits from SU and its quite a small little framelit which makes the little pieces even tinier. In case you don't know what this technique is - its basically taking a framelit with lots of pieces in it, pushing out the inlaid pieces which have been coloured and reinserting them in the correct order in a white version of your framelit.
As this was a colour challenge I inked up a piece of Whisper White with Soft Sky and Berry Burst. My Soft Sky ink is very dry and doesn't really give a very true indication of the colour. I went over the pieces once they were inlaid in the white butterfly with a blender pen inked in the two colours just to give a bit more definition. The butterfly was then simply layered onto some Stitched Framelits and the sentiment is from Feather Together inked in Sahara Sand.
Thanks for stopping by - let me know if you do a similar technique and I can come and visit.
