A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies (by Julie)

Hello, today I have butterfly inspired projects to share with you.

My first project is a card that I have stamped using Butterfly Mind using a simple colour pallet of reds, yellows and black. I stamped the blank film strip three times around the card, before masking the individual film apertures so that I could stamp the butterflies without them overlapping. (all of the butterflies used are from Butterfly Mind).  The splatter image was stamped around the background with back and red dye based ink before colouring the entire background with Mustard Distress ink. The butterfly film strip in the centre of the card was stamped onto spare card stock, before being cut out and glued onto the front of the card.

These two hearts are made with Chocolate baroque's Artists Trading Hearts. They are made out of very ink friendly, white board that does not need priming.

Both of the hearts have been stamped with Butterfly Mind as before and coloured with Distress inks, however you may notice a grid design in the background and that is the new, small graph paper stamp .

Thanks for stopping by. Please call back soon for more Design Team inspiration.

Julie xx

O is For.....By Debbie

Hello again and time to show you my samples from the November Chocolate Baroque  show on Hochanda. I really loved this month's launch, really versatile with lots of scope for ideas. Here's my first design featuring O is For.

 For this design I took an 8 x 8 ivory card blank. I started with a square of ivory card and masked a circle at the centre. I then took a circle die just to mark a larger circle around the masked area. I then sponged the entire area using Distress inks Peeled Paint, Wild Honey and then Vintage Photo around the edges. Now remove the mask from the centre. I used the small tree from the set to stamp all around the outer circle at clock number intervals. Next I stamped the "O" from the set into the centre of the masked circle using Versafine Vintage Sepia and sponged the sky and ground using a piece of torn card. I then coloured with water based markers. To finish, layer onto brown and Kraft card before attaching to the card blank.

Here's another look at O is For which I've stamped onto a mica sprayed background using Versafine Onyx Black and added some touches of colour with water based pens. I've used  the small tree again in the corners of the pink layer and then mounted onto a die cut background before attaching to a 7 x 7 white card blank.

For my next design I've used Remembrance Tree and Harmony Tree and I think this has to be my favourite of my samples. I've tried to depict the 4 seasons and I think it's worked out very well. I used backgrounds made with Distress inks with the spray & smooch method and then stamped with Versafine black. I just added a touch of colour with water based pens and the 4 pieces were mounted onto an 8 x 8 white card blank.

Here are a few more looks at those lovely tree stamps and ideas to go with them.

 Here we have 2 Artist Trading Hearts but I decided to turn them into pretty little plaques.

That's all from me for this time I'll be back later in the month to show you the last of my samples. Bye for now Debbie