Butterfly Mini Album

Good Afternoon,  Friday again yay! No I am not wishing my life away - I just love the weekends!

Butterflies are beautiful creatures - so I guess adding a butterfly to your project always adds an element of beauty!  I purchased a card making kit featuring butterflies from a Craft Show and created a beautiful Mini with the products included in the kit.

The Kit was a TJ Designs Butterflies Card Kit by TweetyJill which I purchased from Fat Cats Card Corner.  The Kit included cardstock, embellishments, photocorners, assorted ephemera papers and elements for collage, charms etc etc.  Instructions were included to make 8 cards - the last instruction, No 11 actually reads and I quote "Ignore these instructions and create custom collage cards with the provided components!"

So yes, I ignored them and created a mini instead!

The front cover features some of the charms and metal corner embellishments - I added the large blue butterfly.

Every single page has at least one butterfly feature.

The back cover also includes a butterfly charm.  

Ribbon in co-ordinating colours added to the binder rings to complete the project.

Hope you have lots of crafty plans for the weekend!

Shell

xox

Pre-printed Card Fronts

Hello again,

I have just realised I had a few more pre-printed cards which I have not shown you yet...

I am using some of my pre-made stash of goodies as well as the pre-printed cards - the above card has a glittered tag, glittered flowers and lots of rhinestones.

More glittered foam flowers, brad centres and a rhinestone for the butterfly.

A beautiful pink and black paper butterfly with rhinestone detail.

Paper dragonflies.

A paper embellishment, I also added detail to the card front by using a Versamark pen and clear embossing powder.

See you again soon,

Shell

xox

Pre-printed Card Fronts

Hi

Hope you have been enjoying your crafting sessions!  Here are the continuing simple cards I mentioned in a previous post using pre-printed card fronts... also using pre-made purchased flowers etc

Here I have used wooden flowers with a brad centre and black rhinestones to highlight the pre-printed detail on the card front.

Paper flowers of various sizes with brad and rhinestone centres.

Tiny flowers with rhinestone centres.

Once again - simple but effective.

Shell

xox

Creating with BaRb-Stampin'up-Flower garden emboss

Flower garden emboss

Hi there
Today I am sharing with you a card featuring the Flower garden embossing folder.

The colours used are olive, rose and white.
The raised design of the embossing folder was inked with rose ink and then embossed onto rose card. This was then matted onto white card and patterned paper, with all edges distressed and inked.
A strip of white card was then embossed in the folder and the debossed design was swiped over with ink. Holes were then punched in the top left of this piece, and ribbon knotted through. This piece was taped to the left of the card front and the embossed, matted panel layered on top using dimensionals.
The "for you" sentiment was then stamped and rhinestones added for the finishing touch.
A little inspiration to dig out those embossing folders.
BaRb

Kaisercraft-Sweet Nothings

Hello
Todays card is romantic style and features the beautiful Sweet Nothings papers by Kaisercraft.

The card is a square gatefold card using Natural Ivory card from Stampin'up.
I have used papers from the 6 1/2" Sweet nothings pad, and added the coordinating Kaisercraft Collectable to the inside of the card.
Sheer organza ribbon to close the card was fixed to the front gates beneath  the papers
The sentiment stamps are by JustRite. The Follow your Heart is stamped on Stampin'up white card, with versamark and gold embossed, then die cut with a Spellbinders oval. It was stamped a second time in violet ink and die cut with a scalloped oval and matted behind the first. These were added to the front of the card with dimensionals.
Three Kaisercraft mini blooms, with the stems of two of them wound into spirals, were then added, and liquid pearls around the blooms and in the top left corner finished off the design.
I hope you find this card as lovely as I do.
Till next time
BaRb

Creating with BaRb-Stampin'up-By the tide/Seashore-One layer card

By the tide/Seashore-One layer card
Hi
A simple but cheery card today- feel better soon

On to white card and using indigo ink, centrally stamp the rhyme from By the tide.

Using Soft sky, saffron, brown sugar, coral and blushing bride inks, randomly stamp the shells from by the tide & by the seashore stamp sets. Lightly sponge the edges of the card front using turquoise ink.
On the bottom right corner using versamark ink, stamp the sentiment from Express yourself and emboss with turquoise powder.

To finish off the card I applied two coats of crystal effects to three of the shells in the top left corner.

Would you not feel better after receiving a card like this?
Keep happy crafting
BaRb

Creating with BaRb-Stampin'up-Perfectly Penned-Happy Birthday

Perfectly Penned-Happy Birthday

Hello
A pretty Happy Birthday for you today.

Happy birthday was stamped in versamark on to a white card base, and embossed with silver powder.
This card front was then embossed in the dots folder, and the top right corner rounded.
A lacy square (spellbinders) was die cut from Watercolour wonder paper, and matted on to silver glimmer card. This piece was taped to the lower section of the card front below the greeting.

The insert is stamped in slate ink using Morning Meadow, and Happiest Birthday Stamp sets.
A velvet hydrangea flower (Petaloo), a glimmer brad, and rhinestones finish off the card.
Thanks for visiting, and until next time
BaRb