Home Sweet Home

This months challenge at Graphicus is "Home" and "Brick and Teal". I immediately thought of doing a bird house, but as I don't really have any Elusive Images bird stamps, what to do? Butterflies of course! I started off by making my background paper, using Glimmer Mists for the main colour, the over stamping with Distress Inks using stamps from EI's Butterfly Whimsy and Delightful Damask plates.
This is how that turned out:
Then I made the butterflies (from Just Butterflies and Butterfly Whimsy plates) colouring most of them with chalks. The swirls are cut from a Filigree Fusion paper, and the flowers are punched from leftover Glimmer Misting bits.
The whole thing turned out to be a bit of a Labour of Love, but I like the en masse butterflies and the unusual colour combination. My craft mojo had left me for a while, but it looks like it's back now!

Getting from A to B...

Carolyn has set a new challenge, " A to B". I suspect we are supposed to go for the travel aspect, but I don't have that many travel stash, so I thought I would go a little more literal in my interpretation. So here is my A to B card. Hope you like it!

Stone the Crows!

The theme at Awfully Big Art Adventure this week is Crows, and this is my entry. I only had the little crow stamp ( Paper Artsy?) and felt I wanted to use a bigger one, so I made one! Funky Foam. Draw. Cut. Glue Stick. Acrylic block. Done!
The background is Glimmer Mists and the stamping and edging is, you guessed it, Distress Inks.

New Zutter Project!

Lookee what we have here! Finally a new project over at Zutter Diaries. Head over there to see how I made this using my Zutter, Glimmer Mists and some lovely fairy stamps from Dovecraft!

In My House There Is.....

This is the first time I have taken part in a challenge over at In My House, and I admit I struggled with the shape. The theme was Doll, so I used the Russian Doll stamp that I made and stuck it onto a background made with Glimmer Mists and Distress Inks. The dolls are painted using Distress Inks too. The flowers are punched.

2x4 for Theme Thursday!

Ha! Thought I would be defeated eh? No! I pulled out the stops and had another go for Theme Thursday. This piece is 2" x 4", which was the theme for this week. All Elusive Images stamps except for the seals which are Non Sequitur. And again, all stamped and coloured using Distress Inks.

Couples...

This weeks challenge over at Theme Thursday is "Couples". Well, here's a Non Sequitur couple, and they don't look too happy, do they?! They are painted with distress inks, and guess what? Yes, there is that Elusive Images stamp in the background again!This is an ATC, I hope you like it!

Edit: I just realised that that was last weeks challenge, they changed it as I was making the thing! Oh well, maybe it will fit somewhere else soon :: SIGH ::