Morning all, did you have a fab BH weekend? We had a rather busy one, the whole family came for a visit, 3 grandkids plus parents! We just about got everyone around the table. The two smallest played well together, despite their 4 year age gap and even the teen got involved with running after the toddler!
Anyway, after they'd all gone home I was able to get in my craft room aka spare room, toys can wait to be tidied up or the OH might take pity on me, and came up with a couple of cards. Here is the first, which is my homage to a Jennifer McGuire technique I saw on You Tube. She had lots of ideas using a turnabout jig and the ones using sentiments sparked an idea. Here is my take using some Uniko goodies.
I don't have the Gina K jig but I made mine from some stiff cardboard and a large square die. I think I found a clip on You Tube many moons ago! Usually you use a square panel but in the You Tube post, Jennifer showed how to use the jig with rectangular panels. All the details are here.
For my background I used a selection of birthday themed stamps stamped with Salvaged Patina DOx and the English Country Garden butterfly and die from Uniko. The butterfly was stamped on one die cut and coloured with Copics, then two further die cuts from matching white card were folded in half and glued behind each wing, the crease going down the middle of the butterfly. These die cuts were then glued to my sentiment panel and allows the butterfly to pop up from the card but lay flat for posting!
Check out the Uniko blog for another idea using the same theme.
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Butterflies
Great job with that jig and arranging your sentiments! I have watched that video of Jennifer's and wanted to try it, too. You have done a marvelous creation and I love the monochrome, Jules. Thank you so much for joining the challenge at Allsorts this week and featuring a lovely butterfly for our theme.
ReplyDeleteHow beautifully this turned out, I've not heard about this technique before so will take a peek at the video
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing with us at Allsorts challenge this week!
Such a cool design, Jules! Love the sentiment background for your pretty butterfly. Thanks for the link to the video, will definitely be checking it out! xx
ReplyDeleteThe backdrop of sentiments is so effective and nicely balance despite not having the jig, many thanks for sharing with us at Allsorts challenge this week and following the Butterfly option.
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Love the colour of this pretty card Julie. What a lovely background. I too made my own jig with some greyboard to make use of some tiny cardio stamps, must have a go with sentiments x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, I love how you’ve done the background. Lovely colour too. Thank you for joining in the Allsorts Challenge this week using the Butterflies option.
ReplyDeleteLiz xx