F is for Flying - ABC challenge

Just a quick post for ABC challenge, I should be tucked in bed and in deep sleep by now... This week's letter was F for flying and here's my take for it. I had some serious trouble with this one and I'm not at all sure whether or not I like the outcome, I kept fiddling with bits and pieces and going through my stash over and over again, to no avail. And there might be a bit too much lilac in this card, but didn't find any other suitable papers from my stash (I probably was too tired). Love the Perfect Pearls on the butterfly's wings, though, it really reminds me of the texture of the real thing.

Stamps: Inkadinkado 'Garden Delight' / Aladine
Colours: VersaColor 'Violet' / Perfetc Pearls ' Interference Violet' /VersaFine 'Smokey Grey'
Paper: HOTP 'Icy Rainbow'
Diecut: Cricut 'Accent Essentials'
Flowers: Artoz
Rhinestones: BG

E is for Embossing - ABC Challenge

Made another card for another challenge while playing with my new toy, this one's for ABC Challenge where E stands for embossing. I wanted to keep the design simple to show off the beautiful flowers. I distressed the paper and its edges with sanding block and paper stresser (love that thing!). The fairy stamp echoes the swirls on the embossing folder, with a darker borders to frame and lift it. I stamped my greeting onto a tiny plastic tag which I attached with silver embroidery floss and a jump ring.

Stamps: Finnstamper / Morning Star
Inks: Distress Ink 'Dusty Concord' / StazOn
Embossing folder: 'Stylized Flowers'
Paper: BG 'Lilykate'

Autumn leaves

I've been meaning to take part in the weekly ABC challenge for some time, but haven't been able to find time until now. This week's challenge was D is for Die cuts. The challenge classes punches as die cuts, so here's my entry with punched leaves.

Stamp: Penny Black 'Swirling Leaves'
Ink: VersaMark
Chalks: Pebbles Inc. 'Basic brights'
Punches: EK Success / Make me / Woodware
Patterned paper: DCWV 'Pocketful of Posies'

I wanted to get softly blended muted colours for the leaves so I stamped the image with Versamark and randomly dabbed and buffed green, orange, yellow and red chalks on it. This also gave the image a lightly coloured background, I just used rubber to remove some extra colour.