Little Claire Likes - Butterfly Flourish Card

Hello and welcome to our Monday project, Little Claire Likes!

 

If you have finished your Christmas cards and are looking forward to bright summer days, our featured stamp set today will be just right for you.

 

Today, we are sharing a project using the gorgeous

 

'Butterfly Flourish'

 

 

It is such a beautiful set of stamps and flourishes and the sentiment fits perfectly into the set, 'If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies'.

 

We are offering this useful set at the special price of £6.50 (usually £8.50) until Thursday 4th December or whilst stocks are available HERE.

 

Here is Heidi's card for today, using the set.  She has used some lovely bright green dotty paper and some green and pink tones on the butterflies.

 

 

Product List :

 

Little Claire 'Butterfly Flourishes' Stamp set - £6.50

Dovecraft White 6 x 6 Cards - £1.99

White Dots on Pale Green Paper - £0.50p per sheet

Memento 'Rich Cocoa' Inkpad - £3.90

Green Card, Promakers & brown pearls from stash

Double-sided tape and sticky pads

 

Card Instructions :

 

(1) Cut a piece of green card to fit white card blank.

(2) Cut a piece of green dotty paper to fit the green card mat.

(3) Stamp flourish over edges of paper.

(4) Stamp up sentiment onto right hand side of paper.

(5) Cut an oblong of green card the length of the card blank.

(6) Cut a piece of white card to fit the oblong, stamp up one of the flourishes from the set using the 'Rich Cocoa' memento inkpad.

(7) Ink edge of white card pieces.

(8) Stick these pieces down, as shown above.

(9) Onto white card, stamp up large butterfly and dragonfly images.

(10) Colour in, cut out and place over white strip using sticky pads.

(11) Place four brown pearls into corners of card.

 

We do hope you have enjoyed our project today, please do grab your stamp sets at the reduced price while stocks last.

 

The Little Claire Team

 

xxxxxx



Little Claire Likes - Butterfly Flourish Bunting

 Good morning, we are back today with our regular Monday project - 'Little Claire Likes'.

Today, we are showcasing the beautiful 'Butterfly Flourish' stamp set, which has lots of gorgeous images and a lovely sentiment.  The flourishes in the set are great for making borders and backgrounds.

You can purchase this wonderful set for only £6.99 (normally £8.99) HERE from the website at the reduced price until Thursday, 29th May 2014 or until stocks run out.

Here is the set

  

Heidi has made some bunting with some Kraft and Turquoise Bazzill Card, adhesive ribbon and wooden embellishments, all available from our website.

 

 

Here are the single elements of the banner

 

 

The centre-piece

 

 

The third piece of the banner

 

 

Here is a list of products used :

 

Little Claire 'Butterfly Flourish' stamp set £6.99

Kraft Card Card - £1.99 per pack

Turquoise Bazzill Cardstock - £0.50p

White A4 Superior Stamping Cardstock - £3.50

Memento 'Rich Cocoa' Inkpad - £3.90

White Adheshive Lace - £1.99 per pack

Cosmo Cricket Wooden Charms 'Happy Mail' - £4.50 per pack

Cosmo Cricket Wooden Charms 'Tiny Text' - £4.50 per pack

Promarkers used : Tea Green, Soft Green, Khaki, Pastel Beige - £1.90 per pen

White Small Pearls - £1.80

(Sizzix Banner Die and white string from stash)

Double-sided Tape

White Sticky Pads

Crop-o-dile hole cutter

 

Here is how the banner was made :

 

(1) Firstly, using the Sizzix Banner Die, die-cut three large banner shapes from kraft card.

(2) Die-cut three smaller banners from Turquoise Bazzill card.

(3) Using long 'Flourish' stamp from set, stamp over top of blue shapes and over bottom edges using smaller curved 'Flourish'.

(4) Stick turquoise shapes down onto kraft ones.

(5) Attach white adhesive-lace to centre of each shape.

(6) Stamp up two dragonfly and one butterfly shapes. Colour in and cut out.

(7) Stick shapes centrally over lace using sticky pads.

(8) Stick down two wooden hearts to edges and one 'Beautiful' shape above butterfly.

(9) Punch out two small holes at top of each banner shape.

(10) Thread through white string, tie bows and knots in string.

(11) Add pearls to decorate.

 

We do hope you have enjoyed our banner tutorial today.

 

We also have a new blog challenge running, where you could win lots of craft goodies if you enter a card into our challenge.  Just pop over to our challenge post HERE for more details.

 

The Little Claire Design Team

 

xxxxxx