Lily Bee and Tim Holtz Butterfly

Lily Bee Design is quickly becoming one of my favorites in the crafting industry. Their colors and patterns are amazing, and I just love the quality of their rub-ons. In my design team box from Helmar, I received some beautiful Lily Bee goodies, and I am just over the moon excited to share with you all a project I created for the Helmar blog this past Thursday.

I used the Lovely Collection and the awesome Tim Holtz die Fancifyl Flight. Talk about two things that such fit together like hand and glove.

To get the layers of the butterfly to stick together, I used the V2 Vellum adhesive and let me tell ya, this stuff is like magic. Perfect for layering and perfect for adding shine and sparkle with a little glitter.

Such a soft color palette and I found in my ribbon stash, the perfect organza match from Really Reasonable Ribbon to go with it. If you are wanting to see more Lily Bee creations, hop on by the Helmar Blog to see an entire week of wonderful artwork from the Helmar design team.


Supplies
Cardstock- Paper Trey
Patterned Paper and Rub-On- Lily Bee Design
Ribbon- Really Reasonable Ribbon
Die Cut and Distress Stickles- Tim Holtz
Glitter- Stampin' Up
Adhesive- Helmar V2 Vellum, Liquid Scrap Dots, Craft Glue

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend so far.


This card is entered into the following challenges


The Pink Elephant
Pile it On- My Favorite Things
Quirky Crafts- Ribbon
Creative Card Crew- Die Cuts
Flutterby Wednesdays 


Toodles

Card Patterns Sketch #4 and Pink Elephant #4

This weeks Card Patterns Sketch #4 and Pink Elephant challenge #4 got me thinking. "How about you create a card that your nephew, who is 18, would maybe buy Erika". So I decided to get my "that rocks" mojo going. Here is the sketch First I decided on a pretty trendy color palette. For the card I used Real Red and Black Linen CS. The paper is from the Rockabilly designer paper series. After seriously distressing the edges of the red, I then added the black linen on top. For the side it was the red skulls and polka dots. A girl has gotta stay girlie ya know.
Now back to the black Linen. I used a flourish stamp from the Autumn leaves Flourishes II set. Stamped it with a opalite ink, then drew over the ink with a black marker (the type that looks like an embossing job has been done). Now those flourishes weren't showing up as much as I wanted them to, so i took my snow cap white ink and sponged it over the black. Taking a baby wipe to get rid of the white that was on top of the flourishes. Well well those flourishes went KAPOW!! Perfect. So all I have left is the ovals.
For the ovals on the opposite side, I used 3 different spellbinders ovals, of the 3, I turned one on it's side. Then I have this great ribbon in, you guessed it, polka dots, that had to find a home on this card. Made some slits on the ovals and tied a knot with the ribbon. As well as put a piece across the card. The little Hello tag and the heart tag were from a little pack of acetate die cuts from valentine. I used a white souffle pen to give that Hello a little more light. I think this card is definitely ROCKIN!
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Happy Crafting

Mojo Monday Challenge #73

Have I told you lately how much I adore Mojo Mondays? If not well now you know. This is this weeks sketch challenge and I thought I would use some colors that were a little more "demure" haha. I love working with color, so I was hummin and hawin about this one, but the finished product tickles my fancy. So here as per usual is the sketch followed by my take on it. Let me know what you think!!!

For this card I used a great Zebra stamp that I received in a Time to Stamp grab bag and I love this lil guy. The cardstock I used is SU Basic Black and Whisper White as well as a matte from the Far East DCWV matte stack and the zebra print from the All Dress up Matte Stack.
I used 3 different kinds of ink for this card. Versafine Onyx Black and Smokey Gray as well as Nick Bantock Van Dyke Brown. I seem to have a need to distress the edges of a card. maybe I can break myself of that, but for now I like the effect it has.
Adding some color to the landscape under the striped ones feet with Le Plume markers to give some depth. Lastly, a pretty piece of brown grosgrain ribbon and a wooden button to finish it off.

Hope you enjoyed the card and
Happy Crafting