HAND STAMPED SENTIMENTS - #356

We have a sketch challenge for you this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments.  I found I needed cheering up what will all the doom and gloom of yet another full lockdown here in the UK and the constant grey skies.  Although yesterday we had snow and today we have the sun but generally January is a grey old month.  My card therefore has a real spring feel to it.

I started out with a stencil from Stampin Up and I used Pear Pizazz ink and a blender brush to colour it.  The sun is from a retired SU set called Kinda Eclectic which was embossed in some old SU embossing powder and cut out with a stitched circle.  The butterflies were cut out with SU butterfly punch and coloured and edged with So Saffron and Pear Pizzazz.  I used Old Olive for the bottom strip of stamps which are from the same set and a there is a touch of Washi Tape just behind.

The sentiment is from a Clearly Besotted set.  

CAS WINNER

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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SUNSHINE AND BUTTERFLIES

I've been playing with two favourite Stampin Up sets today for the one card for two challenges - the sets are Kinda Eclectic and Watercolor Wings.  The challenge over at TGIF this week is a colour challenge - two of my favourite colours.  I never expected to like Lemon Lime Twist when it came out but it soon became a firm favourite.  Sad to hear its going but, as I'm no longer an SU Demonstrator I can continue to use it and show it - as long as my supplies last though.  Eek!




The second challenge is Addicted to CAS #135 and their theme is Gold.  Thinking about it though I'm not sure my card is CAS enough for their challenge.  CAS cards to confuse me a bit as some of the examples I see are not what I think are CAS so I'll add it anyway and I'm sure they'll let me know if it's too busy.

I used some SU Gold embossing powder to emboss that beautiful sun stamp from Kinda Eclectic.  The leaves were inked in Lemon Lime Twist.  The butterflies were made with Lemon Lime Twist and Berry Burst and Lemon Lime Twist cardstock was used as the base.