Another Butterfly Card

I really enjoy creating cards with a butterfly motif. They really make a card pretty. I have 3 friends with birthdays in February so I have to get out my butterfly net and round up some pretty ones for my cards. 

             

Here is the first one for a friend who loves purple.

I used watercolor paper to stamp and color with copic markers one of the stamps from the Anna Griffin 18th Century Garden stamp series.

I used Sizzix's stamp and die-cut "Framelits" butterflies #3 to create the butterflies. Some stickles and copic coloring on the butterflies made them really pop. They were attached to Spellbinders die fancy tag two.

Some paper source 1/4 inch cream ribbon and Martha Stewart's arch punch completes the recipe.

 I am entering this in My Time To Craft #206 'Things with wings' challenge

mytimetocraftchallenge

Dwell in Possibility

Here is a card I made using my new Anna Griffin 18th Century stamps and my new SU designer frames embossing folder and punch.

 The stamp was colored with copic markers Y15, R83, R85, BV02, BV31.

I  went looking for a challenge to enter this card into; no easy task to find during the holiday season.
But I did find a couple that wanted bling, so out came the rhinestones and now it is good to submit there, an anything goes (love those challenges, so easy to enter) and a texture challenge cause I have some embossing on the card.

Here are the links:   simplylessismoore , allsortschallenge, brownsugarchallenge, stampinfortheweekend

Playing with my new Copic markers

Hi again,
I decided to take the financial plunge and buy a few copic markers but only the ones I will need to color pretty flower stamps, none of this buy the whole set business then be stuck with colors I don't want or ever use.
God love my blog partner Cissy, she had generously given me some of her stamps and this hydrangea was one. I just love the blue colors of this gorgeous plant so I went ahead and looked at all the tutorials out there on copic coloring and specifically http://justritestampers.typepad.com/justrite-inspiration/2010/07/tuesday-tutorial-hydrangea-copic-coloring.html.
Next attempt will be roses, so I will need to study the tutorials out there that give me the colors they used, then I will have a go and post that sample for all you guys to google at.

copic colors BV02, BV31, G20, G21

I couldn't buy, so I didn't use, the third color that copic artist recommend because the store was out of the color so I just went ahead using two colors for the flower and two colors for the leaves but I think it came out all right just doesn't have as much depth as when you use 3 colors.