summer birthday

Hello crafty friends. Apologies for the late post today – I’ve been at meetings in London, followed by a debriefing session in the pub! Hopefully I can still type straight… I’ve pulled several challenges together on today’s card, using a couple of ClarityCrafts stamps sets. Inspire.Create want cards with a summer theme and the ‘red & yellow’ colour scheme from Color Hues seemed ideal. The Paper Players want CAS cards featuring insects and Inkspirational‘s theme is ‘iridescent’, both of which worked for my butterfly.

I am trying to get better at using some of my stash, and found another inky mop-up in my folder that was the right colours! I stamped the grass and two of the flowers sets from the ‘KISS meadow flowers’ onto the card using ‘watering can’ Archival ink.

I then stamped one of the ‘butterflies & birds silhouette miniatures’ stamps in black Versafine Clair and heat embossed it with WOW’s ‘cranberry sparkle’ powder.

I stamped one of the ‘essential sentiments’ in the ‘watering can’, ran a black Sharpie around the card edges and attached it to a 6×6 card blank. Nothing else needed!

I love the way these embossing powders change tone depending on what colour you put underneath them. Using the black ink really brought out the iridescent sparkle on the butterfly.

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18 thoughts on “summer birthday”

  4. That inky mop-up was a great find, and a wonderful background for your silhouettes! I need to spend some time making backgrounds like that. Thanks for sharing with us at Color Hues!

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  5. Hello, Deborah! I’ve had a few of those “de-briefings” at London pubs, not to mention several Irish pubs as well! You stayed remarkably coherent and your card is beautiful – love that sparkly butterfly! Thanks for sharing with us this week at The Paper Players!
    Xoxo, Fran

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  6. Deborah, I am going to start calling you the queen of scenes! This is so pretty in red and yellow! Creative use of the colors at Color Hues, thanks for playing!

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  7. Deborah, you are not only the queen of scenes, but of fabulous mop-ups! How fortunate you had the perfect colors and the silhouetted scene worked wonderfully for a CAS setting. LOVE that butterfly, the sparkle is incredible! So glad your debriefing didn’t interfere with joining us at Color Hues lol! Thanks for playing along!

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  8. I see you are now the Queen of Scenes, as well as the Queen of masking…….how may crowns can you have…? And there may be one more for the inky mop-up stuff – such great backgrounds – soft and gentle. xx

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