Here's hoping that you all had a Happy Easter.
For this month I have made a few shaped cards for a change, which I took to our local St. Oswald's Hospice shop yesterday.
The first three cards were made using Sizzix Thinlits Side Stepper die, which I had to order from Amazon via America, it took a couple of weeks to arrive but was worth the wait, as it is so easy to use and the results are great.
I have decorated the card blank in three different styles so that you can see how different the card looks with various options of decoration. The black and white one was made using Clare Curd designer paper stack, and the little Kimono girls are from Craftwork Cards, you can colour them in but I thought I would leave them as they were. The second side stepper was also using Craftwork Cards die cut flowers, sentiment and Candi and lastly Papermania Boofle toppers and papers.
The fourth and fifth card were made with a lovely die from The Paper Boutique range, which is called Best Wishes and Butterfly Kisses set. This is a lovely die to work with and it consists of 9 dies, everything that you need to make this card shape. I just cut out two white pieces of card with the outer die and attached the top of them with some double sided tape and then put a crease line near the top on the back of the card blank with a bone folder so this enables it to stand easier. Once this is done you can then decorate with the remaining dies in the set.
I loved the way all of the butterfly dies fitted nicely on the main doily die, so that you can do these in different colours. The papers, card and sentiments were from Paper Boutiques Butterfly Dreams card making kit which is very pretty. I then finished it off with rhinestones in the centre of the butterflies.
Many thanks for looking and happy crafting, Jackie x
