Monday, 10 January 2011

A Couple of Cards with my Favourite Things...

Butterflies and embossing!

As everyone knows I love butterflies, and just before Christmas I found an Aladdin's treasure trove of a craft shop on the way from Birmingham. I thought the shop would be huge, but what they lacked in space they made up for in piles and piles of crafting bits.

In amongest my rummages I found a cuttlebug embossing folder made by Craft Concepts called 'Wings'. I saw it and knew I had to have it, but wasn't sure what it would look like on a card.

Well after a few tries of different ideas to do, I finally settled on letting the folder be the main part of a card, and just added a few flat back gems to give the butterflies a bit of sparkle, and here are the results:



I love them, because I think they are pretty elegant, and are very quick and easy to do. The ribbons used on both cards is from my stash, and the sentiments from CraftWorks Cards.

I'd like to enter these cards into the following challenges:

Aly's Sunday Challenge - Things With Wings
Sentimental Sunday - Anything With Wings
CES Challenge - All Creatures Great and Small
Mark's Finest Papers - Embossing
The Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge - Texture
Flutterby Wednesday Challenge - Angels/Butterflies

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18 comments:

  1. Karen10 January, 2011 19:33

    Thats lovely Caroline and a great find. I bet it would look nice done with Pearlised card too xx

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  2. dragonllew10 January, 2011 19:58

    Great cards love the embossing

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  3. craftygranny10 January, 2011 20:25

    wow these are stunning i love butterflies too. never seen that folder before.

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  4. Unknown10 January, 2011 20:41

    what a stunning set of cards.. I love shops like that.. Thanks for playing at CES xx

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  5. Jo10 January, 2011 20:47

    gorgeous cards Caroline, xx

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  6. Gem10 January, 2011 21:31

    these look so fab Caroline! which craft shop was it that you went to? Gemma x

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  7. Sarah10 January, 2011 21:36

    Beautiful cards, I love love love the butterflies xxx

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  8. Vicki Dutcher10 January, 2011 23:27

    Killer embossing! Thanks for playing with Speedy's Friends!

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  9. Marg11 January, 2011 00:46

    Fabulous classy card Caroline x

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  10. Danni11 January, 2011 01:56

    Awesome card! Thank you for playing along with my flutter by challenge!

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  11. redwasher111 January, 2011 02:17

    WOW!!! I love it!!!
    Thanks for sharing it with us at Speedy's Friends.

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  12. Addams11 January, 2011 09:18

    They look lovely, the embossing folder is briliant

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  13. PepPop11 January, 2011 14:05

    I think this folder was made for you - it's perfect. It looks like your blog background. Very pretty cards. Jaqui x

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  14. Dorcas11 January, 2011 17:43

    Hi Caroline! Lovely CAS cards here. Thansk so much for joining in with our wings challenge at SS!

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  15. Kelly12 January, 2011 12:19

    I love them, so simple and elegant!!

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  16. Joanne (jojot)12 January, 2011 18:01

    a fluttering delight........thanks for playing with Speedy's Friends

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  17. Tracey12 January, 2011 19:39

    Beautiful & elegant cards Caroline :)

    Thanks for joining us at Sentimental Sundays.
    Hugs
    Tracey
    x

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  18. Angie - Bumble Bee's Craft Den12 January, 2011 22:24

    Gorgeous Caroline - I had the pleasure of being sent a mini one of these and they fab.

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