Cute As A Bug for Mother's Day

 

Stamper's Delights holds a Progressive Freebie challenge on Facebook every month. If you make a card with any of their images then the following month you can request that set for free. I love Janice's images and you get lots of images and sentiments when you take part so it is a win win.

I bought loads of images recently with a gift card prize and this is one of the images I chose Cute as a Bug. I love the smiley face on the flower and the cute little expression on the bug.

I coloured the image with Promarkers adding some pencil to the hair for definition. I added black dots so she looks like a ladybird, while gel pen for highlights and glitter marker to the wings for shimmer.

I have seen lots of triple easel cards recently but most seem to stack behind one another and obscure the one behind.  I wanted to try something a bit different so made it up as I went along. 

I have seen a lovely card around blogland 'Rainbow Heart' by Mifta of MS Kraft Store and love the effect of the coloured strips. Inspired by this I used a lovely heart die that I got from The Works and cut this twice from black card. Behind the shape I added 1cm wide strips of scrap card in different colours. The strips were trimmed to the outside of the heart and I then cut another plain heart to sandwich inside. It was a bit fiddly but really happy with the results. I used double sided tape sheets for the heart and if I did it again I would have cut that first and added the strips to that instead of doing it the other way round and making it harder for myself..... lesson learned!

The image had been cut and matted using a Nestabilities labels 22 die. I had used the largest one for the image already so cut around this to make a larger one in plain black card.

I then started to place them together and test the easel function. Nothing I did looked right until I did it as a diamond pattern so used an 8" square card base and offset the shapes. I made a stopper using the sentiment which is an old digital from COLORink Digital Stamps who are now retired. It is perfect for this image and simply coloured with a marker.

The card base has a layer of thin black card and then a red spotty paper. I used self adhesive flower ribbon and added a little red gem to the centre of each one. The silver embellishment where they intersect is from a trim that was in the bridal section of The Range a few years ago and I added a black pearl to the centre.

Finally I added some of my favourite tiny glitter butterfly stickers and some lettering to the image. AS it doesn't specifically say Mother's Day Mom will be able to keep it on display for longer if she wishes and the bright colours behind the heart with be cheerful on even the gloomiest of days.

You can see in the image below how the card folds down. The sentiment is the stopper in front of the image and the 2 silver embellishments go behind the hearts so they stand up. It's a bit fiddly but once up, they stay up.

Card Details -

Size - 8” Square

Digital Image - Cute as a Bug (Stamper’s Delights)

Digital Sentiment - COLORink Digital Stamps (Retired)

Dies - Hearts in Heart (The Works), Nestabilities Labels 22 (Spellbinders)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Arteza pencils, white Gel pen, Spectrum Noir Glitter Marker

Embellishments - Flower ribbon, gems, butterfly stickers, alphabet stickers, gems, pearl, silver bridal trim

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• 2 Crafty Critter Crazies - #48 Anything Goes with a Critter (butterflies)
• 613 Avenue Create - #3 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time to Craft - #135 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time to Craft Extra - Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #3 Anything Goes
• A Place to Start - #3 Pick a Shape (hearts, square)
• Alphabet Challenge - X is for Extra Folds
• Always Fun Challenges - #204 Shaped cards
• Angie’s Digital Stamps - #50 Anything Goes
• Catch The Bug - Anything Goes
• CCC Digi Creations - #123 Use lace or ribbon and flowers
• CD Sunday Plus - #55 Anything Goes with a digital
• Ching-Chou Kuik - Floral
• Classic Design Challenge - #3 Anything Goes
• Colour Crazy Challenge - #9 Anything Goes
• Colouring in Scrapland - Anything Goes
• Corrosive Challenge - #3 Anything Goes
• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - #589 Anything Goes
• Craft Rocket Challenge - #79 Use Dies
• Crafter’s Castle - #39 Anything Goes
• Crafting Happiness - #87 Flowers
• Crafts Galore Encore - #85 Anything Goes
• Crafty Animals - #48 Anything Goes
• Crafty Calendar Challenge - Feminine
• Crafty Catz - #541 Anything Goes / Dies
• Crafty Creations - #419 Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper
• Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
• Creatalicious Challenges - #206 Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers - #203 Anything Goes
• Creative Moments - #210 Always Anything Goes
• Creative Sketchy Girls - #57 For Girls Only
• Cute Card Thursday - #676 Anything Goes
• Dare 2B Artzy - Anything Goes
• Dies R Us - #164 Anything Goes with a store die (Spellbinders)
• Digi Choosday - #10 Anything Goes
• Digi Doodle Studios - #36 Something befinning with F (Flowers)
• Di’s Digi Designs - All ABout The B's (Butterflies, bugs, blue, bling)
• Dragonfly Dreams - Include or Add flowers
• Gem of A Challenge - #5 Anything Goes
• Get Creative Challenges - #98 Anything Goes
• Happy Little Stampers Die Challenge - Anything Goes with a die/diecut
• House That Stamps Built - #M1021 Fun Fold
• I Love Promarkers - #430 Anything Goes /Pretty Papers
• Ike’s World Challenge - #142 Anything Goes
• Incy Wincy Designs - Big Hearts
• Jan’s Digi Stamps - Anything Goes
• Krafty Chicks - #549 Stamp Act
• LeAnn’s World 101 - #36 Anything Goes
• Lemon Shortbread - #141 Anything Goes
• Let’s Craft & Create - #Anything Goes
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #153 Anything Goes
• Love To Craft - #56 Anything Goes
• Love To Scrap - #143 Anything Goes
• Mix It Up Challenge - #Anything Goes
• More Mixed Media Challenge - Anything Goes
• Morgan’s Art World - #3 Anything Goes
• My Time To Craft - #452 Make it Feminine
• Paper Shelter - #460 Digital Image
• Papercraft Challenges - #67 For a Loved One (Mother In Law)
• Passion For Markers - #581 Soft Finishes (ribbon)
• Path of Positivity - #89 Anything Goes Positive & inspirational
• Pattie’s Creations Design Challenge - #180 Anything Goes
• Pearly Sparkles - #60 Use a Digi Stamp
• Penny’s Challenge - #491 Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - #10 Anything Goes
• QKR Stampede - #415 Anything Goes
• Sheepski Designs - #48 Girls Girls Girls
• Sisterhood of Crafters - Easel Cards
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
• Through The Purple Haze - #178 Anything Goes
• Try It On Tuesday - Say It With Flowers
• Unicorn Challenge - #63 Make It Feminine
• We Love 2 Create - #3 Anything Goes
• We Love Chocolate Baroque - I love - colouring, making different cards, making for my MIL who loves my cards
• Word Art Wednesday - #481-482 Anything Goes
• Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes