Butterfly Birthday

Oh what a lovely surprise to see a bright purple and blue colour challenge!  Way to go Play Date Cafe!!!  AND....how about this sketch from Card Patterns Sketches so simple and elegant.

In case you hadn't noticed, purple is one of my favourite colours, this card just flowed together so easily as I was working with colours I just LOVE.  Once again I've hit the alcohol bottle....rubbing alcohol that is and mixed it up with re inkers, not to drink of course, but to play with on glossy cardstock.  

I'm loving the effect as this technique gives you something different with each dab of cotton wool.  I made a deep colour section and a lighter coloured section and used both on this card.  Hope you like it.

Card Patterns Sketches ~ Sketch # 107

The Play Date Cafe ~ Colour Challenge # 74

Amour!

I'm in a swap with a few friends and this month we had to use a new stamp set that we were able to pre order from the new Ideas Book and Catalogue 2010/11 so I went for Artistic Etchings with lots of stamping and embossing.

Background 1 - Sahara Sand CS and Ink using Sanded and En Francois background stamps.

Background 2 - Basic Black CS and Versamark ink using I {heart} Hearts, Simply Said and Priceless Clear embossed the images.

The rest is pretty easy, using a 1cm circle punch, I turned it upside down and used the markings in side to snip a corner out of the layers......stamped the Eiffle Tower with versamark tapped on black ink and then embossed with clear embossing powder (this is much easier and less messier than using black embossing powder)

The heart is punched out in Whisper White and Black and layered showing a tiny edge at the top in black.  sponged Riding Hood Red on the edges and used a Riding Hood Red ribbon to add a touch more colour.