Just For You {SSS, Butterfly Reflections Ink & FMS}

Saturday! Hooray! Here I am, up early so I can craft before I roll up my sleeves and get started on the housework! I was intrigued by the great sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, the mood board at Butterfly Reflections Ink and the birthday challenge over at Simon Says Stamp! So I put together a Spring birthday card for my stash!

I was so happy to find a My Favorite Things set called Modern Blooms at a local store. I had this set on my wishlist! I've had the set for a couple of months but this is the first time I have inked it up! 

I scattered the flowers and the leaves...letting the aqua colour be my "main" focal point. I accented everything with black ink...to help it pop and finished my card off with a sweet sentiment from Verve. I heat embossed it white onto black paper. To add some visual interest, I used my Swiss Dots folder from Cuttebug. It's an oldie but one of my favourites!

Butterfly Reflections Ink {Guest Designer}-Hello Friend

Good morning stamping friends! Today I am happy to share my 2nd post as the November Guest at Butterfly Reflections Ink! This online store is fabulous because she has SO many awesome stamp companies in stock AND she offers flat rate shipping for stamp and die purchases! Needless to say, I am hooked! 

I wanted to create a CAS one layer card and I did! But then I added a small strip of designer paper to the top of the card to "finish" it. I stamped the floral set from Altenew called Lacy Scrolls. It is SUCH a pretty set and I paired it with a sentiment set from Winnie & Walter called The Big, the Bold & the Happy set.

Thank you so much, Vanessa for having me on your team this month! I adore your store and your outstanding service. I think you are pretty great too! 

Butterfly Reflections Ink {November Guest Designer}

Good morning stamping friends! Today I am happy to be the November Guest at Butterfly Reflections Ink! Butterfly Reflections Ink is an online stamp store! The owner is Vanessa. She is an inspiration to me! She has such passion for what she does and I love how consistent her service has been! I am pleasantly surprised when my order arrives in less than a week! SO great! Thanks, Vanessa!

I started ordering items from Vanessa when I found out how many stamp companies she carries!!! MFT, Avery Elle, Paper Smooches, WPLUS9, Winnie & Walter and SO on! I ordered these sets from her a while ago and I was inspired to make this card!

Winnie & Walter set called “In Bloom” Addie’sGarden

WPLUS9 set called Grateful Greetings 

I used just some leaf images from the one set and watercoloured them with distress inks onto 140lb watercolour paper. I used my water pen. I kept the design simple and "skewed" the main panel. A couple of the leaves on the left were fussy cut and popped up with dimensionals.

Viva la Verve & Simon Says Stamp {Thank You}

So happy to have the chance to craft tonight! I loved the sketch at Viva la Verve and went to work with some gold embossing and die cutting! I used the new Avery Elle Christmas Florals set in a non-holiday way. I love this sweet set and I can see myself using it a lot!!!

 

I also wanted to play along with Simon Says Stamp "Anything Goes Challenge".

I gold heat embossed the sentiment from WPlus9. Kind of wishes I had used a different ribbon in the background, rather than the gold. But I was feeling "goldish" tonight! Ha!

Winnie & Walter, Butterfly Reflections Ink & Simon Says Stamp {Hello}

Another post from me! I am enjoying my tidy craft space and some fun National Scrapbooking Day challenges in blog land. I am a newbie to the Butterfly Reflections Ink Challenge, I am linking up to the Simon Says Stamp Challenge and I am also playing with the Winnie & Walter Sketch Challenge. 

   

I pulled out an old retired floral set from Stampin' Up and matched it with some pretty washi tape. Heat embossing the flowers in white and then watercolouring them with distress inks on watercolour paper was fun! I wanted to reflect the mood board challenge. I love the trend of these bright colours matched with gold and I wanted to give it a whirl!