Mauve and Orange Butterfly Card

Afternoon Everyone,

Two posts in one day! Just trying to make up for two day's absence :)

The card I have to share with you this afternoon is one inspired by Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge #40 where the requirement is for embossing. There are several methods of embossing to choose from and I like them all but this time I decided to use one of my favourite folders to create embossed panels for this card.

The unusual colour combination, pink, mauve and orange, was inspired by the gorgeous butterfly topper.

How the card was made and the materials used:

• First,  the front of a white 6"x4" card base was covered with a scrap of pink patterned paper from Papermania's Vintage Notes pack.
• One of my favourite, but long neglected, crafting goodies are Penny Black Stickeroos. This butterfly topper from Mauve Twilight is  another treasure unearthed during the recent tidy up. Here I've matted it on to a scrap of rose pink Papermania Textured Card. 
• A left over strip of the pink cardstock was embossed using a swirly patterned folder, Darice Scrolls Background. It was trimmed and split into two equal panels then a length of orange organza ribbon, that also has a printed swirly pattern, was wrapped around each panel.  
• After adhering the panels and the topper, I punched out three tiny butterflies and attached them to the card front with glue gel. 
• All the butterflies, including the image on the topper, were given a sparkly decoration with Stickles Fruit Punch ... a great colour that perfectly combines the pink and orange seen on the butterfly image.
• Finally the finishing touch, orange Neon gems from Docrafts.

Having used quite a few scraps and snippets to make this card, I'm popping over to Pixie's Snippet Playground too ... the second time this week :)

Enjoy your evening.

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 332 - A Day Late

Hello Everyone,

I truly did plan to check in yesterday with my pic of what's on my desk but got caught up in all sorts of other domestic and personal stuff and time just ran away from me ... life get's like that occasionally here at Casa Worthington! Anyway, a day later and I have time so here's the pic I took late on Tuesday evening.

And guess what? Nothing has changed ... those scrapbook layouts are still there waiting to have the finishing touches added. The photos are from our first holiday together ... only twenty years ago and this is me just getting round to scrapbooking them. The little pile on the left includes postcards and leaflets collected on that holiday which I'm planning to add into the divided inserts.

Keeping me company as usual was The Boss - birdwatching, of course :)

And here's where I was yesterday - idyllic, isn't it? We took friends on a little trip down to the sleepy little fishing village of Dunure. One of our favourite places and one that our friends had never been too.

Dunure Beach with the Castle beyond and far away in the distance Ailsa Craig. Wish you could have all been there!

Thanks for popping in. Have a great day, what's left of it.

Sunday Snippet Card

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are having a happy Sunday ... maybe even a lazy one if that's how you feel.

Much of yesterday was spent making Christmas cards ... six in all, something of a record for me. However, as I was clearing up I decided to make just one more using some of the snippets that were lying on my desk ... it made sense to save some, if not all, of the need to tidy away.

It's a simple A6 size card - I chose to make it tent style - decorated with snippets of bright green cardstock and red holly patterned paper, BoBunny Believe ... edited details - the patterned paper used on this card is We R Memory Keepers Peppermint. The topper and holly trimmings are from a Papermania kit, Henbury Lane Poinsettia - an oldie but a goody. The sparkly green ribbon I found in the box of scraps ... and really tested myself by making a double bow! The final touch, the berries and tiny heart have been given the glitter glue treatment with Stickles Xmas Red.

Now I'm off over to Pixie's Snippets Playground, it's Week 198, to check out Di's snippet card and her choice of snippeteers fab cards to showcase for today.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. It's a dull and dreary day here - perfect crafting weather :)