Spring Scrapling

Well, I'm not impressed with the weather - just as it looked like Spring might actually have arrived the chilly temperatures and even some of that bizarre white coloured rain :) have returned.
I mean - the Met Office app on my phone says "feels like -8"1  Now that's not funny, not one bit!  grrrr....or should that be brrrr?

Anyway, here's a a bright yellow scrapling card to bring a little ray of sunshine to this cold and windy day

Base card is ribbed Kraft card

other card is Bazzill in cream, green and yellow

Cream ribbon, cream lace, deep pink velvet ric-rac

Cats Eye Chalk Inks; various

Sentiment and flower decal - home made using printable decal paper from Crafty Computer Paper

Border Punch; EK Success

Flower Die; Memory Box

Leaf - a freebie die-cut with an order from Dies to Die For

Embossing Folder; Cuttlebug

Off to make a hot chocolate now!
Please come again soon

Spot the Butterflies

....I wonder if you can?

Busy week this week, but I really want to get back to blogginh more regularly - it's slipped again in recent weeks!
Today I have another scrapling to share - I'm really enjoying making these - even though the surface area of the card is quite a lot smaller than a regular card, they bring a bit of extra creative ooomph with that interesting elongated shape - plus as envelopes aren't really made to fit this size. you've also got the opportunity to go a bit off-piste so to speak!  You might as well take the design off the edges of the card and use the available "envelope space"
So where are those butterflies then?

Yes - the back layer of the flower is created from 4 butterfly die cuts!

Tools and Materials

All papers, inc birdie tag; MME Lost and Found "Rosy" 6x6

Ribbon and layered up Prima flowers, black brad all from stash

Die: Memory Box Butterfly

Punch: EK Success border punch

To make the butterflies into the flower, join the ends of the larger wings together to form a ring, punch a card circle for a base and apply PVA-type glue to the circle. Gather in and onto the lower wing shapes till you achieve a shape you like - using wet glue gives you time to fiddle about till you're happy with the flower shape.

Hope you like it and will give the idea a try - let me know if you do
Thanks for looking in today

Scraplings

Scraplings are cards made from that bit you have left over when you cut down a sheet of A4 card to make say, a 14cm square card.  I think that if you use any old scraps of leftover card to make mini cards they can justifiably called "Scraplings" though.

With my turn to post on "Get Funky and Craft" Inspiration blog coining up it was a happy chance  that I found myself with a little stack of narrow card strips perfect to make into Scraplings this week.  Another very happy coincidence was that Anice has just given us a new download to play with - it will be on sale from the Funky Hand website sometime this weekend and it's gorgeous! 
I've made three scraplings using the papers and I had such a fun time using all my favourite things - quite took my mind off the horrible snow, it did!

 All the info about the fabulous brand new

 "Just For Jen" 

download collection papers I used on these cards, plus lists of the other things used on each is over on the GFaC BLOG and it would be wonderful if you would head over there and maybe even leave a message....we know loads and loads of people visit, but it often feels very lonely when so few visitors leave a comment!

Thanks for visiting, I hope you enjoyed seeing my cards today :)