Being inky and creating pretty stuff
Tonight it is time to make cards with my friends and this time I decided to make a whole load of butterfly cards. I gathered four stamp sets with butterflies and used different medium and techniques to make the samples. Wonder how the gang will get on with them?
Love how varied they are and how lovely they all are.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Firstly I have to start with a grumble. Depression sucks. People (myself included before I suffered from it) think it is sadness or unhappiness. It really isn’t that. It’s more that for me it is numbness, or emptiness, combined with despair and isolation. I can be surrounded by people who love me and I love back but feel so alone. It really is horrible. Then the anxiety kicks in and it’s like everything is there at once and you just want quiet in your head but you can’t find it. Sorry to put this in the blog but I think if this helps one person understand another’s troubles or helps another person to identify this in themselves and get help then it’s worth it!
I’ve been back to the doctors this morning. We’ve decided on an increase in medication to go alongside the other things I am trying and I need to increase my exercise (from almost nothing to something routine). I have managed a small walk to and from the shop but after only 5 hours sleep I am now shattered and heading back to bed. Not sure I will get round to any crafting so glad I have a project I can blog about already completed…
Yes as part of the yet of Use them or lose them I have another one sheet wonder (using two sheets of dsp).
I started with some sketches from Freshly Made sketches … number 1 to 18 to be precise and after roughly cutting cardstock and paper to size I then started teaming up brads as embellishments, black paper as the consistent matting and then card blanks… three different kinds in total.
This is then how I left them… waiting for the right opportunity to add feature stamps and sentiments.
A few weeks later I grabbed some coordinating cardstock scraps and black paper and the sentiment dies…
And had a big old die cutting session. Didn’t end up doing the button dies for this project.
Next I took all the smaller cards and started assembling them with the die cut sentiment and in some cases a stamped image (or three!). Some I had added paper flowers to already so they didn’t need the stamped images and because of the jazzy backgrounds I didn’t want to overdo it!
These I will share today… the others tomorrow!
Love how these all turned out… and how different they are because of the jazzy paper I probably wouldn’t have used for this type of project normally.
Pop back tomorrow to see how I finished the other cards from this two sheet wonder!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Part of the Use them or Lose them challenge of the year is to use some of the paper I have stashed. I have been trying to use stuff from the scraps box where possible to try and work through that but there is also the mountain of uncut 12 x 12 sheets of dsp so I decided to do a one sheet wonder type project… although ended up using three sheets of DSP so I could get some variety.
I didn’t follow a osw cutting guide, instead headed over to Mojo Monday and followed a load of sketches from November and October 2015 to design the cards and cut everything up. I added two sheets of Primrose Petals cardstock, one crumb cake and one wild wasabi plus a few bits and pieces of scrap cardstock that were hanging around the desk.
Next I started assembling, embossing, die cutting and stamping… and ended up with 15 cards for the box at work!
Love how these all came out.
Entering this into the Crafty hazelnut patterned paper monthly challenge.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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