Sunday 28 October 2012

Botanical Birthdays

 
 
A good Sunday evening to everyone, Kirsten here.  I hope you've had a great weekend.  Crafting wise, mine has been rubbish.  I have been well & truly deserted by the muse of creativity.  I managed to make three, very simple, cards today, using the CWC Botanicals collection. 
 
I hadn't used these papers before.  They're very smooth & have a glossy finish & the great thing about the white papers is that they can be coloured.  I tried Distress inks & stains, Spectrum Noir pens & watercolour pens & they all worked.
 
 
 
 



I don't have a butterfly die, so I stamped a Kanban butterfly stamp twice on the reverse of the paper & cut around the images.  Then I coloured the flowers with SN pens blended Mustard Seed & Spiced Marmalade DIs over the top.













This paper is from the other paper pack in the collection.  The flowers are Kanban die cuts.  I filled the centre of them with glitter glue.







No matter what I tried, I couldn't get a good photo of this card.  I covered the white paper with Weathered Wood DI & it looks great.  Colouring the paper doesn't obliterate the shine, so this is now a beautiful silver grey.

I found a little piece of Core'dinations card that went with the card & die cut the scallops, which I then cut into & layered three together with a brad to make the flowers.





Botanical Paper Pack  Botanical white Paper Pack  Wild Honey Distress Ink Pad  In Circles Birthday - Black  STAMP03 Butterflies

That's if for today, thanks for looking.  I hope to be back on Tuesday with something else to show you.  Until then, take care.

Kirsten

PS The 25% off offer still applies to the Craftwork Cards & Nitwits collections & to the die cut silhouettes on the website.

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