Butterfly Flight for Paper Players 807

There were many and varied landscapes on display in the gallery last week at The Paper Players for Ann's Nature's Landscapes theme. Thank you, if one of them was yours!

This week, it's my turn to host the challenge and I have a bright spring colour palette for you to play with. I know many of you will be looking out towards an autumn landscape but here, in the South Pacific, we're enjoying the return of spring. I'd love to see what you do with these colours. 😀

You are free to add black and white, as long as the challenge colours remain the stars of the show!

When I bought the Butterfly Flight Hot Foil dies, there was the option to bundle it with the Butterfly Flight Decorative Masks. While these masks make colouring in the foil outline of the butterflies very easy, they work perfectly well without the Hot Foil die. As you see here, using the the masks alone gives a lovely soft variation of the butterflies. 

I used one of the arches from Everyday Arches to cut the centre from a Basic White card front. Then I embossed the outer portion with the Textured Tree Ring 3D embossing folder (now on the Last Chance list). Then I popped the centre arch back in and added the sentiment from Gathering Gardens - also now on the Last Chance list. The 'Happy Birthday' is on the inside, along with the other two stencilled butterflies.

The card base is cut from Thick Basic White. The white foliage is cut using some of the standard cutting dies that are part of the Butterfly Flight Hot Foil die set. The embellishments are the Granny Apple Green dots from Shimmering Dots.

You can see what the rest of the team have done, and link up your entry, on The Paper Players page.

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

1. Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
5. Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!

Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Christy Stanford

If you live in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up Demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the Contact Me tab at the top of the page. 

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Butterfly Flight for CAS Colours & Sketches 595

I'm always keen for a sketch challenge. To be honest, I'm also always looking for a reason not to be doing chores. Happy marriage = wet day + craft room time + sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches. 😀

So, I saw the circle shapes as butterflies. I used my Butterfly Flight Hot Foil dies and Gold Hot Foil to create a set of butterflies. Then I used the matching Butterfly Flight decorative masks to colour them with a blending brush and a mix of Daffodil Delight, Timid Tiger and Calpyso Coral before die cutting them out. Special tip: these decorative masks make beautiful butterflies even without the Hot Foil dies.

To give the butterflies something to ground them, I added in some stencilled lines using the dotted lines from the Water and Dotted Lines duo.  I used Granny Apple Green ink and a blending brush.

The sentiment used the Sweetly Sentimental Hot Foil dies, again with Gold Hot Foil. To finish off, I added a trio of Granny Apple Green shimmering dots.

If you live in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up Demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the Contact Me tab at the top of the page. 

You can stamp with me, and shop with me, from anywhere in New Zealand. Click here.

Butterfly Flight for Paper Players 801

Jaydee has an exciting Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge for us this week at The Paper Players. Firstly though, a big thank you to everyone who played along with our 800th challenge. The look back to the very first sketch challenge brought out such gorgeous entries to the gallery, it was even more difficult than usual to choose winners. I hope you all have as much fun with this week's inspiration. 

I've chosen the centre column: things that fly, free and texture. Butterflies are my things that fly, my free choice is Hot Foiling and texture comes from an embossing folder and tone-on-tone diecuts.

I started by using the Butterfly Flight Hot Foil dies and silver foil to create the butterflies. I coloured them using the Butterfly Flight decorative masks, blending brushes and Fresh Freesia, Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape inks.

After die cutting them out, I cut a second set of outlines in Fresh Freesia so that I could add them as shadows under the dimesionaled up butterflies on the card front.

I cut out a Basic White rounded corner rectangle from Nested Essentials. Then I cut some foliage from the Butterfly Flight Hot Foil dies and added them to the rectangle for a background for the butterflies.

The sentiment is hot foiled in silver with the Sweetly Sentimental Hot Foil dies.

The card front is embossed with the Floral Spray 3D embossing folder, because butterflies need flowers, right?

To finish off, I added a trio of Purple Shimmer Gems (retired).

The team and I would love to see what you will choose to use from the Tic Tac Toe Challenge. You can see what everyone has done and link up your entry at The Paper Players. And again, thank you for continuing to play along with us!

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

1. Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
5. Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!

Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Christy Stanford

You can stamp with me, and shop with me, from anywhere in New Zealand. Click here.

Butterfly Flight for As You See It 380

It's time for at new challenge at As You See It and sketch week is always my favourite. I love sketch challenges because they give guidance but also give plenty of leeway to do your own thing. I'm also always amazed at the way the one sketch can lead to so many different interpretations.

For the quartered panels, I used pieces embossed with the Stone & Vine 3D folder. 

For the horizontal, I used a fishtailed banner, embossed with the retired Subtle 3D folder. Then for the sentiment, I used one the sentiments from the Sweetly Sentimental Hot Foil dies.

The sentiment was mounted onto one of the butterflies from the Butterfly Flight Hot Foil dies. The butterfly was coloured with the Butterfly Flight decorative masks. I used blending brushes with Flirty Flamingo and Melon Mambo inks.

To finish off, I added a trio of retired pink gems.

You can see what the rest of the Design Team have done, and link up your entry, on the As You See It page. The team and I are all keen to see how you see it!

If you live in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up Demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the Contact Me tab at the top of the page. 

You can stamp with me, and shop with me, from anywhere in New Zealand. Click here.