Butterfly Moments (Cornish Heritage Farms) ♥

The butterfly counts not months but moments,

and has time enough.

~Rabindranath Jagore

 

Hi friends ♥

Today's post is celebrating butterflies ~ for two reasons!

Today is the day the Calendar Girls launch our monthly cards

with a chosen theme.  This month, our hostess Linda,

asked us to create a card with butterflies - that's it, just butterflies!

Since that was the theme for my card, and today is also the day

the Cornish Heritage Farms DT post our bi-weekly challenge cards,

I knew the direction I wanted to go with my card ♥

Irit is our hostess this week and gave us this challenge ~

to use 3 different craft/coloring mediums on our cards.

Wow!

 

For my card today, I started with a butterfly digi image from CHF -

they not only carry a delicious variety of rubber stamps but

digital stamps as well, some of them as low as .99c!

I printed the digi on watercolor paper

so the Tattered Angels glimmer mist would stick the best (medium #1)

I colored the butterfly with both primsacolor markers in light shades

and outlined it with a watercolor colored pencil in white (medium #2).

Lastly, I brought my acrylic white paint out and painted over a piece of

corrugated cardboard I had on hand for the background piece (medium #3).

 

I've also added another CHF sentiment to the inside of the card

along with the small section of cardboard that was extra from the front.

I am all about using leftovers in crafting!

This sentiment can be found in the shop, too :)

 

Be sure to stop in and see what the rest of the Calendar Girls

have created with their Butterflies cards - you can find them

in my sidebar ......

 

And be sure to see what the Cornish Heritage Farms DT has made,

and you can find them listed in my sidebar!

That's a lot of inspiration right there!

If you upload your CHF cards using 3 craft mediums to a gallery

like Splitcoaststampers, please use the keyword  CHF58.

Thanks for stopping by today! 

Big Hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

I'll enter my card into: Make My Monday - Butterflies
Crafting when we can - Make your own background
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

 

Inspired by Dahlias!

Hi friends!

Are you just drooling over the new SU! catty?  

Ohhhh, my wishlist is so very long!

Today I had a chance to get crafty again and have been so anxious 

to create a card based on one I saw in the new catalog on page 90 :)

I'll have to wait before I'm able to order currently being on a budget 

so I did the next best thing and created the card using what I had on hand!

Using the dahlia digi set, I gave this base white cardstock a quick spritz with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Trunk Bay.

I'd normally jump through hoops trying so hard not to get any splootches

on the paper, but I actually spritzed and shook the bottle on purpose to get the drippings like in the catalog picture.

Small strip of dsp, some fun washi tape and a button/twine - Voilà!

 So how'd I do!? :)  Tee hee!

 I really love how this turned out ~ normally CAS is very hard for me to do

but this was tons of fun!

Coloring this image was a bit time consuming, but since I know 

that I could probably use this over and over, 

I'm SO ordering this set the first chance I get!  

 Tomorrow night I'm taking our baby girl to the concert of her dreams

 to see ...

 One Direction!

  That should be wild fun!  Maybe I can sneak in some 

markers and images and color a bit while everyone else is 

bringing down the house - hee hee!

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!

~Kelly

entered into:   Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
CASology - use yellow