Etsy-inspired butterflies.

This week's Etsy-Inspired Challenge #40 focuses on Naturally Felted, which sells reusable lunch and snack bags. I chose a bag that was decorated with pink butterflies.

This card features my variation on a technique from the latest Technique Junkies Newsletter called "Heavenly Holes." I created little flight paths for my butterflies. What do you think?

Is there such a thing as faux CAS? Maybe I created it. This card really has the clean look, but it also has 7 layers, so it's not that simple..

Butterflies are by Impression-Obsession, Sentiment from Another Stamp Company. Layout by me. Pencils and OMS.

Crinkled and twisted

Yesterday's challenge at SCS was making crinkled paper flowers. It's a great way to use up scraps and gives you a funky embellishment. I combined that with the Twisted Thursday sketch to create this card. I ended up grabbing scraps for a couple of the layers as well, so the effect is a little, ummmm, Bohemian might be the word I'm looking for.

No stamping on this one, just the flower, skeleton leaf and some chipboard embellies.

Owl challenge you...

Another three-fer. This is for the Etsy-Inspired Challenge #39, Cincy Creations, which features baby items such as little hair bows and onesies. Since I never had a girl and don't use hair bows myself, I gravitated toward the onesies and found a cute one with an owl on it. That's my inspiration piece for this card.

The layout is based on this week's Card Positioning System Sketch, CPS119.

The color scheme of purple and yellow is for Stamping for the Weekend, which launched its first challenge Friday.

This card took a ridiculously long time to make, mostly because I stamped the owl in about 6 different versions trying to find a purple ink that worked. I was using yellow checked paper and I ran out of it before I found a good color, but I kind of like how the striped paper emphasizes his eyes.

Owl stamp by Inkadinkadoo. Hello is from Purple Onion Designs. The shimmery paper is from Hobby Lobby and the print papers are by Provo Craft. Tiny buttons by Dress it Up. Prima flower.

Mojo flipped

This is the second, "improved" version (above).

I have a new job/freelance client, and it's really eating into my crafting time. I'm finding myself more and more prone to combining challenges.

This one is a three-fer. It's the Technique and CAS challenges from SCS for this week, plus Mojo Monday sketch 90. The technique challenge was to color an image on acetate, and CAS was a color challenge.

I created one version Monday night, but I wasn't completely happy with it. This morning, I tried again, turning the sketch on it's side and moving and separating the embellies. I think it looks much better.

Stamp is by Stamps on Fire. Stamped with black StaZon on acetate, colored with a Sharpie pen.

The white layer is embossed with the Swiss Dot folder.

Another sketch flutters by

I made this card for two challenges, icsketches #19 and Flutter By Wednesday, which required a fairy or butterfly.

The image is from Faerie Song Art Stamps. She is colored with pencils and OMS. There is a little pink glitter on her starry headpiece and the little eye-like circles on her wings.

The dp is from My Minds Eye. I've been holding onto the flowered paper because I thought it was so busy, but when I put it on the card with everything else, you can hardly see it. (Truth is, that happens to me a lot. I guess I have to get over my trepidation about using bold papers, because usually you don't see enough of the paper for it to actually come across as super bold.)

Mojo 89, another mermaid

After yesterday's unsatisfactory mermaid card, I remembered I have another mermaid. I used her for this week's Mojo Monday sketch, Mojo89.

That fish sure gets around. I recycled him from yesterday's card, and picked up the colors for this card from his coloring.

Stamp is by Vicki Einkoff (I don't think that's spelled right, and I am not sure who owns her stamp line these days...). The textured turquoise paper is Club Stamp. Half pearls by Hero Arts.

The "little" mermaid

I made this card for CPS118. I love this little mermaid stamp from A Muse, but it really is little.

Every time I use it, I have problems because it's too tiny to make a good central image.

I'm not terribly pleased with this card. The mermaid is too small, the fish embellie is too big, and I'm not sure my rows of rick-rack convey the idea of waves, which was the original thought. Can't win them all, I guess.

Mermaid is by A Muse. (She has clear gitter on her scaly part, although it photographed more goldish). The fish stamp is from Hero Arts, and the wooden fish is another one of my yard sale finds. (I got a baggie of wooden items, including fish and flowers.)