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Sunday, 8 March 2009

Crafty Pad # 12 ~ Ted with Flower

Over at Crafty Pad it is already challenge number 12!
and this time is it a recipe challenge.

we are looking for you to use any Faith/Ted/Butterfly from
Crafty Pad Stamp Range.

Now our recipe is to use along with your Crafty Pad Stamp

  • a flower
  • a circle
  • a ribbon
  • a charm
You can add anything else but must include these elements.

As usual there is a yummy wee prize for the lucky winner.

So I have been a bit obsessed with my favourite butterfly stamps
from Crafty pad in the last wee while I thought I will ink up


Ted with a Flower


I have used a circular flower brad ......
do you think I will get away with that....
as I have just realised I have missed out the circle DUH!!!!
( Debbie will be rapping my knuckles with a ruler!
she is such a hard task master!)
flower...yes I have two of them...
Ribbon.....uhh hu I have a bonnie blue one to go with backing card.
And last but not least a bonnie wee heart Charm!!!

He is coloured in with distressing inks....
I must admit after using promarkers almost exclusively
I find the pale result takes a bit of getting used to.
I do like the result but have a tendency to over colour the image.
So there you go.....

No butterflies.....not one......not one at all......

not even a wee one.......




ACH!!!


Who am I trying to kid!!!
I love these butterflies!!!

To be honest , just between you & me...
I made this one first and did get the circle in it!
but I saw wee Ted looking at me and thought....
I better ink that poor wee Ted up and stamp with him!

So here we have it. I have used two Butterflies.
The circle started as pink card, but I used chalk inks taking
the sweet pea colours from the pretty ribbon I wanted to use
and then used tissue to smudge them all together.
Is there a proper name for this effect?
I made a big flower from two punches and a Button.
The butterflies are coloured using whisper pens & glitter.
The backing paper is Basic Gray.
And the wee charm is a butterfly!

I have used a claw clippie thingy to attach it to the card
so it can be removed afterwards & used on keyrings
or as a moblie phone charm.



I have added some wire antennas but did that after the pic was taken.
A lassie at work asked me to make a Mothers day card for her to give
and I was telling her about this one I had made
as she was asking for these sort of colours.
So I took it in to show her, and ended up agreeing to sell it to her.

And getting orders for a few other cards too!!!!


sisterhood!

This beautiful award was given to me my the lovely Wiccababe! Thank you so much!

The sister hood you find within crafting is awesome & add on blogging and you have more sisters than you will ever know!

The trouble I have, as always with beautiful awards is....who do I pass it on to?
there are so many lovely lovely people who I would proudly call sisters here that I struggle to chose......so I am gonna cop out of this and say if you come on by and leave me a comment please take this award with much love from me!!!