Looooong time no blog!

*Blows off dust" Well hello, it's been a while *cough*. As some of you will know we have had a lot going on at Domestic Goddess HQ this past few months. My hubby has been rather ill and had an extended(11 week) stay in hospital, I am delighted to say he is now home and is doing well on his long road to recovery. While he relaxes and catches up with all his recorded shows, I am going to try and dabble in crafting and blogging again, wish us luck lol!

I haven't been crafting the past few months, but didn't blog cards I made before things got rather chaotic. Here is the first, it was for a special friends granddaughters Christening, and the brief was pink, butterflies and bird cage! 

I used my trusty Cameo to make a large birdcage, I just love the versatility you get with the ability to change the size of the cut and look how amazingly it cut through really thick mirri card! I am totally loving my Stix2 Pick Up Pencil for adding wee gems and pearls to my cards, it was something I avoided as I was never able to get the precision I wanted. The pencil makes it so easy to get them exactly where you want!

Ingredients

Bird Cage from Silhouette Store

Pick Up Pencil, DST, 1mm 3d Foam Pads, 2mm Foam Pads, PVA Glue from Stix2

Martha Stewart Punch

Marianne Dies

Craftwork Card Papers

Paper and Ribbon from Stash

I will be gradually adding some more cards and creating new ones. Thanks for popping by today!

I would like to enter the following challenges;

A Gem Of A Challenge - One for the girls.

Sister Act - Anything goes.

It's wedding season.

And I decided to make one of my favourite cards in a different colour scheme. I have previously made this card in gold tones, and this time I made it in silver tones.

I love making cards that involve digi stamps and colouring, but sometimes it is good to just stamp and get a wee bit inky...I even used embossing powders on the lovely butterflies on the card.

I popped the butterflies, birdcage and sentiment onto 1mm foam to give the card some dimension.

There are some teeny tiny 1mm pearls on the die cut flourish in the corner, and I feel they add something to the card.

Ingredients

Butterfly stamps from Inkylicious

Birdcage, birds and branch from a set in my stash.

Brilliance Silver Ink

Versamark Ink and Silver Embossing Powder

Flourish die

Silver pearlised papers from The Papeterie

Pearls from stash.

I have blanked out the name and date of the recipients, though I know they won't see it anyway.

Hope you like the card, and it inspires you to look out your stamps and inks.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges;

Bunny Zoe Crafts - Wings

Tammy's Scrapin Corner - Wings

Opus Gluei - Wings

Time 4 Scrap - Butterfly

Paper Crafting Journey - Pearls and Swirls