Let Your Hope Flutter

Hello Friends

I hope you are having a great week so far!! I got some new stamps and I have been playing around with them. This one is called Flutter it is a lovely butterfly stamp. You know how much I love my butterflies right? I will be getting a lot of use of out this one I know it will be one of my favourites.

I decided to do something a wee bit different today. I always seem to be heat embossing and always seem to be using Turquoise. So I broke the mold ha :) I went Pink! It is not my go to colour at all. I have a love hate relationship with the colour pink. The funny thing is when I do use this colour I usually end up loving what I made with it.

I made the background by smearing acrylic paint with my fingers. I found this technique on Trish Latimer's blog Ink, Paint, Beads. I saw it a few weeks ago and forgot all about it until today. So I got out my paints and gave it a try. Go and have a wee look she has a great tutorial on paint smearing.

I used dark pink and white acrylic paint on heavy weight water colour card. The reason being is I wanted to distress the edges of it and it leaves this nice worn edge on the card due to the texture. I used my fingers and smeared the paint all over the paper blending the colours until I was happy with the result. I was going for a messy look to it. The end result reminded me of raspberry ripple ice cream ha :) Once the background was dry I stamped butterfly and sentiment with black archival ink. Then I distressed the edges and mounted it on to a black card base to finish.

I really enjoyed trying this technique and I will be using it again. It was very therapeutic too :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Mandi xox

Linking up with
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes
Friends With Flair

Friends with Flair @ Unity

Here is my Unity Friends with Flair entry. I used my Feel the Joy stamp and used the generation stamping technique with memento ink. I then sponged the background in purple and deep pink pigment ink. I mounted it on to white card and added the Happy Birthday sentiment at the bottom. It looked too plain so I added teeny weeny little butterflies from the butterfly punch from Martha Stewart. P.S I ran out of daubers and all I could find was a magic eraser it did the trick as a makeshift sponge :) If you want to take part hop along to Unity and enter here I just had to make another card I just love this stamp I wish I had gotten it sooner it is so versatile. I think it may be my new favourite Unity Stamp :) Thanks for visiting :)

Love You - Hot Pink

Happy Friday Friends :) I hope you all had a good week. Here is the card I made for this weeks friends with flair today. I used two stamps on this card. The hearts are from the You are my Main Squeeze stamp set. The sentiment is from the Strength & Dignity KOM 11/13 . The vibrant pink colour is Picked Raspberry distress ink that I sponged all over the card. I embossed the hearts with white embossing powder. I really like he effect it created it looks almost like chalk. Have a great weekend :)

Craft Stamper May Challenge

Hello Friends! I hope everyone is doing ok during this crazy time. I just wanted to remind you that we are still running the Craft Stamper Challenges. The May challenge is well underway but you still have time to come and join in. Here is my card I made for this month's project. I made this clean and simple floral card with Unity stamps. I used two different kits to create this card. The jar with the flowers is from the Strength & Wisdom stamp set and the sentiment is from the kit called His Words . I kept my card really clean and just used my watercolors to colour the flowers and jar then tied a little twine around it to finish it off. If you have the time come and play along with us this month. You can use any stamps you wish on your project. Here is the prize we have on offer this month this fab Eileen Hull die. All of the details of the challenge can be found on the Craft Stamper Blog . Hope to see your project

Becca YahrlingJuly 31, 2015 at 10:48 PM
This is lovely (I love pink, myself!). Doesn't look like you used your fingers at all on the background. And who doesn't love butterflies?!? They're gorgeous.
RubyAugust 1, 2015 at 2:56 AM
Love this card and technique. I will have to try this. Thanks for sharing the link too.
foleysfriendAugust 1, 2015 at 2:59 AM
Beautiful card; love the background;
Dianne BeansAugust 1, 2015 at 3:08 AM
Very pretty background, The butterfly is so pretty.
Dianne BeansAugust 1, 2015 at 3:08 AM
Very pretty background, The butterfly is so pretty.
LageneAugust 1, 2015 at 4:28 AM
Awesome card! great technique for the background!
Mary Anne / MA54KAugust 1, 2015 at 12:43 PM
Very pretty with the distressed edges.
JPScrapsAugust 1, 2015 at 9:35 PM
Great card! I love butterflies too. I'm glad Unity makes lots of them. :)
Dawn FieldsAugust 2, 2015 at 1:04 AM
Pretty card! Your background is awesome!
Scrapper MyraAugust 2, 2015 at 2:12 AM
Nice technique.
FiestyCrafter (Tina)August 2, 2015 at 6:11 PM
The background is beautiful, it really allows the image and sentiment to pop. Fantastic job!
MiwaAugust 3, 2015 at 5:14 AM
What a pretty card! I love how the different shades of pink, the background looks awesome!
ionabunnyAugust 3, 2015 at 12:36 PM
Gorgeous background for the bold butterfly. Hugz
Melissa Bove August 4, 2015 at 4:10 PM
Beautiful card! Love the background and pretty design!

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hugs...
Melissa

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