Prickley Pear Funky Butterfly Cards

I have two cards to share today both in the same style.  One is coloured and one is black and white. Both use the Prickley Pear co-ordinating Butterfly die and stamp sets. I coloured the first one by using Faber-Castell Big Brush Markers on my Ranger craft mat and spritzing them with a little water to make pretty watercolours :) Both Cards have been stamped with Black Archival ink and have been cut to fit a standard card size envelope.

You achieve this look by first positioning your die on the folded edge of you card with a portion hanging off. It's best to use some low tack tape ( I use florist tape) to stop the die moving about. Position the card and die on the edge of you cutting plate so that only the portion you want cut is on the plate itself, use the fold as a guide line. I use more tape to hold it exactly in place. Run through your die cut machine ( I have a cuttlebug but it will work in any) and adhere your stamped butterfly using the opening as your guide and embellish to finish.

You can do this with any shaped die and once you get the hang of it it's a quick fun technique to make a card :) Let me know if you would like a video tutorial . . .
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Jemima and Peter Came Out To Play

Well hello there :) As I promised a couple of days ago Jemima and Peter are coming out to play and I will show you two lovely cards I made with these stamps :) They don't have their sentiments yet as the small congratulation stickers are in a cupboard that's behind a box or two at the moment lol...

Both Peter and Jemima have been watercoloured with distress markers and the background stamping was done with distress inks. Peter has two layers whereas Jemima has three. Still contemplating adding another layer to Peter lol.

Jemima's card is mostly done with worn lipstick. I am really hoping in the Summer Distress colours we get a new pink... Somewhere between spun sugar and worn lipstick lol. Probably not though hehehe. I cannot even begin to speculate on what our new colours will be, after all we have had red, yellow, green, blue, purple, orange and brown covered already... Maybe another green, an orange or red perhaps.. lol Can't wait to find out!!! Jemima's background is Inkadinkado's Dot Flourishes.

Peter is mostly coloured with Tumbled Glass and pumice stone and his background is done with an Autumn Leaves stamp set.

Now to switch it up my final card today is made using an outline sticker and vellum and coloured with distress markers. I fussy cut my rose and adhered to a white oval and then a red oval. I added an oval tag at the top and some ribbon strips to the card base which has been stamped with Stampin' Up background stamp with adirondack ink. I am thinking maybe it needs a bow at the bottom to give it a lift lol...

I hope you enjoyed my cards. That's all for this post :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

I am entering Peter Rabbit into the following challenges;
Joyful Stamper - Anything Goes
Amusing Challenges - Anything Goes
Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes