Silhouette blog challenge - birthday card - 100 days challenge

 

I am sharing this with the Countryview March challenge - Silhouettes.

Now I love silhouettes and haven't done any for a while, so there might be more entries to this challenge before the end of March!

The frame is cut on my Silhouette machine (seemed appropriate!), it had been in the 'assorted die cuts' box for a while.  I found a previously inked background and it cut nicely into two squares so you may see the other one soon :-)

The stamps are from Lavinia Stamps (cherry blossom) and Stampin Up (sentiment), over-stamped with Versafine Clair.

Day 85: Steampunk butterfly card - three blog challenges

I am joining three challenges today: Cardz 4 Galz, Sweet Stampin' and Crafty Cardmakers.  SS and CC both ask for a 'create your own background' and C4G would like a feminine steampunk card.
the background was created using a swirly embossing folder to create the panel and then shmooshing ink over it.  I then added the three lattice die cuts (Marianne), the sentiment tag (Apple Blossom) and steampunk butterfly (Robert Addams) - the latter was cut twice, once in plain brown for a 'shadow' and then in a bronze cardstock to which the photo does not do justice!  The bronze butterfly is only affixed at the centre so the wings are free.  The sentiment is so old I am not sure of the make, perhaps Hobby Art.
See you tomorrow!

Day 10: Silhouette stamped cards

More of the stencilled backgrounds completed today!

Stencil from Memory Box, using Distress Oxides. The butterfly is an old magazine freebie, as is the 'trail'.  The smaller butterflies are from Dali Art and the sentiment is from SU.  The large flower image is from Woodware and the sentiment from Stamping all Day.

See you tomorrow!

Day 6: Christmas card

Another blog challenge today.  This time I am sharing with Shopping our Stash, their theme is Sun, Moon and Stars.

Hopefully we won't be locked in until Christmas.....
I stamped the SU image 'Lovely as a Tree' in black, masked off a circle for the Moon and shmooshed Distress Oxides in shades of blue and green in the appropriate places.  Then I over-stamped the Moon with clouds, using an Inkylicious set which has the mask, stencil and stamp, in a browny-grey (SU granite).  The Father Christmas and sleigh stamp is also from Inkylicious and the sentiment is a very old one from my collection ... possibly Papermania.  I made two and will possibly do more, they are relatively quick to make.
See you tomorrow!

Day 4: embossed background flower card

This is another card using the previously made backgrounds as described yesterday.  The colours are a bit stronger in this one, not so pastel.

The frame and insert die is an old one from Presscut.  I bought four different ones at the time and this is the first time I have used any of them!  Flowers from a Sue Wilson stamp/die set, with a pearl added to the centres.The sentiment tag is an SU punch, the sentiment is a stamp from Stamping all Day.  Really pleased with how these are turning out, there are a few more to go yet :-)
See you tomorrow!

Day 3: Pastel butterfly card

I love making backgrounds, a while ago I made several by using embossing folders to create a panel, then shmooshing over with Distress inks. Trouble is, once I have made a background I then can't decide which bits of it to cover up, so these have been hanging round for quite some time.  In fact it's so long ago I can't remember whether I used original DI's or the oxides..... LOL.  So they are a perfect candidate for #100dayproject2020
Here is the first.

The panel is inked with shades of pink, green and purple. I am also trying to use dies and stamps which I haven't previously used, so this frame with trellis insert die is (I think) a Marianne die.  Quite hard to cut, I had to resort to two shims.  The flowers are an old Sue Wilson stamp/die set, Perfect Peony.  Both are several years old, in fact I think the Marianne one was one of my early purchases, so 8 or 9 years old?  The flowers must be around 5.
The butterfly is from an old Stampin' Up stamp/punch bundle, the sentiment tag is also an SU punch.  The pearl border is from Tattered Lace which I am definitely going to use more often now I have rediscovered it!
I have also decided to try participating in blog challenges during the 100 days (and beyond!) so I am sharing this with the NBUS challenge 13 as it has items not used before, the framed trellis die and the flower/stamps dies.
See you tomorrow!