Butterfly Basics

This is another card that I cased from the Occasions catalogue.  When I lose my mojo I always turn to one of the catalogues for ideas. Butterfly Basics is definitely one of my all time favourite stamp sets together with the matching thinlit dies.

Inside the card

I have not been stamping or crafting much.  Been a bit busy in the garden.  Here are a couple of photos of some of the stuff I have been doing.  The green bench is an old one that DH made for me years ago.  I did think of repainting it but have decided that I like the worn weathered look.  I have been spending quite a bit of time in the garden as I would like to enter our local gardening competition in the next couple of years.  I have a really big garden so everything seems to take longer than normal to do.

Don't you love those boots.  I took a old pair of DH's boots and planted some flowers in them.

Here is a photo from the other side.  I found that old scale and thought it would be perfect for the garden with a plant on top of it.  DH surprised me one day and come home with that really cute owl.  Even my little granddaughter thinks it is cute as she cannot leave it alone and wants to keep cuddling it.

Thank you for stopping by today.
Sharon

Supplies Used

Stamps:   Butterfly Basics and Gorgeous Grunge

Ink:   Smokey Slate, Lost Lagoon, Calypso Coral
Cardstock:   Smokey Slate, Lost Lagoon, Calypso Coral, Naturals White, White Vellum and Whisper White
Ribbon:   Tangerine baker’s twine
Punches:  Bitty Butterfly, 2-3/8” (6cm) Scallop Circle and 1” (2.5cm) Circle
Bigshot:  Butterflies Thinlits Dies

Flower Shoppe

This is one of the cards that I cased from the main catalogue - page 67.  I made the card the same as the one in the catty but changed the colours. This card is part of a Christmas package that I gave to all the ladies who come to my card class.  You can see the original post here.

Thanks for visiting.
Sharon

Supplies Used

Stamps:   Flower Shop and Something to Say

Ink:   Cherry Cobbler and Memento Black
Cardstock:   Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black and Very Vanilla

Ribbon:   Cherry Cobbler baker’s twine and Venetian Crochet Trim

DSP:  Typeset

 

From the Herd

 This stamp set has to be one of my all time favourites.  I made this for a very special friend. She lives on a farm so I knew she would appreciate it.  I used the blendie pens but sadly these are no longer available until Stampin Up have resolved some issues they are having with them.

I also stamped the image a second time on a separate piece of cardstock and coloured in the pig, chicken and bird.  I fussy cut them and mounted them with dimensionals over the top of the corresponding animal for a 3D effect.

Thanks for stopping by.
Sharon

Stamps:   From the Herd
Ink:   Memento Black
Cardstock:   Early Espresso, Daffodil Delight and Whisper White
Blendabilities:   Crumb Cake, Smokey Slate, Pink Pirouette, Daffodil Delight and Skin Tone Assortment

Creative Inkers Occasions Blog Hop

 

Welcome to another blog hop with the Creative Inkers team - this time we are show casing the new Occasions Catalogue.  Have a look at my creations and then carry on hoping over to look at the rest of the team's awesome creations!

If you are following the blog hop, you will have come from the very creative Ria Kaire's blog.    If you have just joined my page keep following the loop round to see everyone's gorgeous projects.

There are just so many lovely new items in the Occasion's catalogue that I had such a hard time choosing what to show.  I finally decided on the Something Lacy stamp set. 

Now onto my projects.  I used the blendabilties pens for these cards.  I only used one stamped image and then cut it to make two cards. 

Since I am addicted to colouring I made another card but only used Melon Mamba, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive blendabilities for this one.

See the bottom of the post for the list of supplies.

I hope you've enjoyed my cards - now you're going to head over to Kathe Oldham to see her stunning projects, just click the next button.

http://jorjarose.blogspot.co.nz/2015/01/creative-inkers-blog-hop-occasionals.html

 

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1. Narelle Hoggard
www.handmadebynarelle.wordpress.com
2. Alicia Yap
www.stampcreationswithmunchkin.wordpress.com
3. Kathryn Tyrrell
www.aspotofstamping.co.nzl
4, Bernie Collins
www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/creativeedge/blog
5. Jacque Williams
http://stamphappy.typepad.com/stamp_...blog-hop-.html
6. Rachael Knight
www.knightstamper.blogspot.com
7. Paula Reid
www.yellowbearnz.blogspot.com
8. Sally Williams
www.sallystampingdelights.blogspot.com
9. Delys Cram
www.delysc.wordpress.com
10. Lisa Bullock
http://daffyscrapper.wordpress.com
11 Heather Stewart
www.stampingcraft.blogspot.co.nz
12. Ria Kaire
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/qraftyqueen/blog
13. Sharon de Vos
http://sharonsstampingsnippets.blogspot.com
14. Kathe Oldham
www.jorjarose.com
15. debbie Lamb
http://debstampinstyle.blogspot.com
16: Bev Poultney
www.stampandscrap.co.nz

Supplies Used

 

First Card

Stamps:   Painted Petals and Something Lacy
Ink:   Cherry Cobbler and Memento Black
Cardstock:   Cherry Cobbler, Pear Pizzazz and Whisper White
Blendabilities:   Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana, Cherry Cobbler, Melon Mamba, Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive
Embellishments:   Pearls

Second Card

Stamps:   Painted Petals and Something Lacy

Ink:   White Stazon and Memento Black
Cardstock:   Wild Wasbi, Basic Black and Whisper White
Blendabilities:   Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana, Cherry Cobbler, Melon Mamba, Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive
Ribbon:   Wild Wasabi, Painted Blooms Cotton Twine
Embellishments:  Something Borrowed

Third Card

Stamps:   Painted Petals and Something Lacy

Ink:   Melon Mamba and Memento Black
Cardstock:   Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi, Strawberry Slush and Whisper White
Blendabilities:   Melon Mamba, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive
Punches:   1” (2.5 cm) Square Punch and Postage Stamp

Creative Inkers Sal-a-bration Blog Hop

Another blog hop with the Creative Inkers team so have a look at my creations and then carry on hoping over to look at the rest of the team's awesome creations!

If you are new to Blog Hopping, just view my post and then click on the link at the bottom of my post to visit the next site and so on.

If you've been following the blog hop, you will have come from Ria Kaire's blog.  Didn't she have a stunning project to show us.  If you have just joined my page keep following the loop round to see everyone's gorgeous projects.  If you get 'lost', there's a list of all the blogs at the bottom of this post.

I am currently sitting outside (under cover of course) in the beautiful, actually extremely hot, summer weather typing up my post, while sipping an ice cold drink and enjoying the lovely breeze that is blowing.  Summer is just such a happy season and who doesn't love summer?

Now onto my projects.  Here are both the cards together.  I used the same stamp set but totally different colours and attempted to change the style but I am not sure I succeeded!!! I tried to keep both cards really simple but I seem to have this thing with layers so I ended up adding them.

For my first card I had to use the gorgeous Irresistibly Yours DSP and sponged Hello Honey diagonally across the centre and Lost Lagoon on the opposite corners.

 

 

For my second card I went for monochrome and only used Pinks and Vanilla.  I stamped the Lotus Blossom all over the front of the cards instead of using plain card or DSP.

 

I also decorated the inside of the card.

 

See the bottom of the post for the list of supplies.

I hope you've enjoyed my cards - now you're going to head over to Kathe Oldham to see her lovely projects, just click the next button.



 

 

 





 

1. Narelle Hoggard
www.handmadebynarelle.wordpress.com

2. Alicia Yap
https://stampcreationswithmunchkin.wordpress.com/

3. Kathryn Tyrrell
www.aspotofstamping.co.nz

4, Bernie Collins
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/creativeedge/blog

5. Jacque Williams
www.stamphapy.co.nz

6. Rachael Knight
www.knightstamper.co.nz

7. Paula Reid
www.yellowbearnz.blogspot.com

8. Sally Williams
www.sallystampingdelights.blogspot.co.nz

9. Delys Cram
www.delysc.wordpress.com

10. Lisa Bullock
http://daffyscrapper.wordpress.com

11 Heather Stewart
Www.stampingcraft.co.nz

12. Ria Kaire
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/qraftyqueen/blog

13. Sharon de Vos  (you are here)
http://sharonsstampinsnippets.blogspot.co.nz

14. Kathe Oldham
www.JorjaRose.com



Thanks for visiting
Sharon

Supplies Used

First Card
Stamps:   Lotus Blossom
Ink:   Lost Lagoon and Hello Honey
Cardstock:   Lost Lagoon and Hello Honey and Whisper White
DSP:   Irresistibly Yours
Punches:   2-3/8” (6cm) Scallop Circle and 1 ¾” (4.4 cm) Circle
Ribbon:  Hello Honey 5/8” (1.6 cm) Quilted Cotton Ribbon
Other:  Daubers

Second Card

Stamps:   Lotus Blossom

Ink:   Strawberry Slush and Blushing Bride
Cardstock:   Strawberry Slush and Very Vanilla

Cat-itude!!

I adore cats so when I saw the stamp set You Little Furball I just had to get it.  My mom also loves cats so I made her this card for her birthday.

Thanks for visiting
Sharon

Supplies Used

Stamps:  You Little Furball
Ink:   Memento Black and Cherry Cobbler
Cardstock:  Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White
Ribbon:   1/2" (1.3 cm) Seam Binding Ribbon in Cherry Cobbler
Bigshot:  Decorative Dots Embossing Folder and Ovals Collection Framelits

Trio of Gifts

I have spent the last few weeks making each of the lovely ladies, who come to my card class, a small gift.  I made up a gift bag of three cards (will show the cards in another post), a small box with a soap inside and a jar of homemade Sugar Lemon Body Scrub.  I do hope they like their gifts.

 

 

Here is a close up of the gift bag of cards.  I used the Polka Dot Tag a Bag Gift Bags.  They were the perfect size to fit three cards and envelopes.

 

A close up of the box.  I measured the size of the soap and then created the box so that the soap would fit exactly right.

 

I handmade some Sugar Lemon Body Scrub and packaged it into small glass jars.  I then decorated the jar with a tag and some ribbon.  I chose Hello Honey cardstock and ribbon to match the lemon colour body scrub.

Thank you for stopping by today.
Sharon

Supplies Used for the Gift Bag of Cards

Stamps:  Chalk Talk
Ink: Cherry Cobbler

Cardstock: Whisper White

Embellishments:  Tea Lace Paper Doilies and Mini Metallic Clothes Pins
Bigshot:  Chalk Talk Framelits
Ribbon:  1/8" (3.2mm) Gold Ribbon
Other:  Polka Dot Tag a Bag Gift Bags
 Supplies Used for Box
Stamps:  Chalk Talk
Cardstock:  Cherry Cobbler, Sahara Sand and Whisper White
Ink: Cherry Cobbler
DSP:  Trim the Tree Paper Stack
Punches:  1 -3/8" Circle and 1-3/4" Circle 
Ribbon:  Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon (Retired) and Cherry Cobbler Bakers Twine
Other:  Simply Scored Scoring Tool

Supplies Used for Sugar Lemon Body Scrub Jar

Stamps:  Chalk Talk

Cardstock:  Hello Honey and Whisper White
Ink: Memento Black
Punches:  1 -3/8" Circle, 1-3/4" Scallop Circle, Scalloped Tag Topper and Confetti Stars Punch
Ribbon:  3/8" (1 cm) Stitched Satin Ribbon in Hello Honey and Whisper White Bakers Twine