Bella & Skipper

As I took part in the progressive freebie last time from Imagine That I got this brilliant image Bella & Skipper to play with which came with a sentiment ‘Hello My Friend’. I loved the little froggy and decided to use the Toadally Awesome sentiment, corny I know……

I used a sketch from Sketch n Stash for the layout and selected papers from the Animal Antics First Edition pad. The image is coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. I actually can’t believe how much green I used on this card. Regular listeners will know that it isn’t a colour I use much and this really is quite a lot for me. Maybe it is growing on me finally!

I used a Quickutz Cookie Cutter die set to trim down the sentiment and my Martha Stewart butterfly punch on the last oddments of paper to cut some butterflies. I quite liked the effect of layering the striped ones on top of the plain and folding the wings up. I must have seen that somewhere recently as I haven’t done that previously.

After adding a few gems in the centres of the butterflies and flowers I declared this card finished.

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – 5” square

Image – Bella & Skipper from Imagine That 

Sentiment – Toadally Awesome by From The Heart

Paper – Animal Antics First Edtion pad by Dovecraft

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Quickutz Cookie Cutter dies, Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Embellishments  - Self adhesive gems

Techniques – Diecutting & Punching

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

• Bearly Mine - #84 Anything Goes
• Craftin Desert Divas - #5 Use a Pun
• Crafting By Designs – Anything Goes
• Crafty Boots – Stamped Character
• Creative Card Crew - #35 Bling
• Creative Craft Challenge – #9 All About Animals
• Critter Sketch Challenge – #162 Flowers
• Cutie Pie Challenges – #43 Lots of layers
• Die Cutting Diva’s - #113 Anything Goes
• Get Inky - #3 Floral Fun
• Going Grey With Scrap Creations – Animals
• Imagine That Digis by Kris - #5 Progressive Freebie
• Party Time Tuesdays  – #118 Anything Goes
• Passion For Promarkers - #196 Dies and / or punches
• Pause Dream Enjoy - #9 Outdoor Critters
• Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes
• Sketch N Stash - #112 Sketch for Layout
• Squigglefly – #17 Odd Numbers of elements, (3 butterflies, 3 DP, 1 Sentiment, 1 image)
• There She Goes - #205 April Showers, May Flowers
• Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #77  Anything Goes