You make my Heart Happy Card with Corina Finley

Hello Friends!

Corina here with you today, to share my card and to wish you an early Valentines Day! 

For my card, I have used a few chipboard pieces from last months New Releases and a lovely butterfly from a previous release. 

I started with two watercolour panels. On one panel, I stamped a large script stamp with Versamark and embossed with White fine detail embossing powder. I then watercoloured both panels using a soft colour palette. As you can see in the picture, the white embossing works like a resist. I then adhered both panels to white cardstock and added stitching to the edges with my sewing machine. 

I painted the Heart o Graph Drop with a white pearlescent paint and the Queen Anne's Drop in a pink. I cut the flourishes off the Butterfly Swirl Border and painted them with the white pearlescent paint and used them as accents in the floral arrangement. I painted the Butterfly blue and added a coat of Wink of Stella to the top. 

I placed both Heart o Graph Drops to the top & bottom of the embossed watercolour panel and added some lace. Then adhered the panel to the large Watercolour panel using foam tape for dimension. I placed the pink Queen Anne's Drop to the right hand side of the card and added my floral arrangement on top. I tucked in the white flourishes.

To finish my card off, I added the Butterfly and the sentiment banner.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Products Used:

- Queen Anne's Drop

- Heart o Graph Drop

- Butterfly Swirl Border

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina Finley

Live, Laugh & Create!

Angel Layout with Charlene Byrd

Hello Bloggers!

I can’t believe that we are on the downside of summer already. Not that I am wishing summer away at all but I do love fall! My sweet little niece in her cute hat and boots just reminds me of what’s to come! But until then I am going to enjoy the sunshine!

The butterfly chipboard pieces were a work in progress! I started by staining them with a pink Distress Stain but they were too pale. So I then added some pink Glimmer Mist and they were too bright! So then I added some Pumice Stone distress ink on the top and that helped dull the brightness. But what finally made me happy was dabbing a bit of white acrylic paint on the top. This is another reason why I love chipboard….you can just keep playing until you are happy with the end result!

To finish off the butterflies I simply added some Liquid Pearl drops here and there.

I wanted to pull a bit of the dark colours out of the papers so I inked the Angel title with Pumice Stone Distress ink and then simply added some Ultra Thick Embossing Powder.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Products Used:

- Butterfly Swirl Border

- Butterfly Mix

- Word Mix #1

Other Products Used:

- Basic Grey paper, banners and stickers

- Tim Holtz Pumice Stone ink

- Glimmer Mist

- White paint daubber

- UTEE

- Liquid Pearls

- Prima Marketing flowers

- Lace

- Paper doily

Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog. Each month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

Thanks for joining me!

Happy Scrapping

Charlene