Wednesday 31 March 2010

Out of chaos came.....

Yesterday my friend Terri and I had a crafting session and as you can see we are not the tidiest of crafters. But, out of the chaos came these little beauties...


On the left is Terri's card and on the right is mine.


On the left is Terri's box and on the right is mine.


A closer look at my card.


My butterfly box.

The top of the box.

Challenges

Our Creative Corner - Sketch
The Creative Cottage (4) - Pretty In Pink
Papertake - Open Theme
Crafty Creations (61) - Anything Goes
Fab 'N' Funky (17) - Spring Is In The Air (colours)
Allsorts (45) - Rags to Riches

I said there would be more of these butterflies, they are so gorgeous and fun to play with. They are done with 'The Flight Of The Butterfly' stamp set and punch from SU. The flowers on the card are a digi download that was printed onto pearl card to give them a sheen. A punch was used to make the buckle out of mirri card and the greeting was stamped and heat embossed.

The boxes were originally brown cardboard which were first painted with acrylic paints and then decorated. The base of mine has gold organza ribbon around it with tiny stamped butterflies and paper roses on top. The lid is edged with lace and on the top is a large rose with glittered petals. I have added a glittered, stamped butterfly to the top of the rose and placed punched gold pearl leaves under it. We finished them off by putting a small Easter egg inside.

As you can see Terri did hers slightly different from mine. She placed pearls around the middle of the bottom of the box and only one flower. On top she had more flowers. Her card is also slightly different as well. It is nice that we each put our 'own stamp' on them, don't you think? We both had a great time making these!

Card Recipe

Stamps - Stampin Up/Papermania
Digi Flowers - Fred She Said
Pearls/Ribbon/Lace - Stash.

Thanks for looking.

12 comments:

Christy said...

Lovely creations!

Shelly said...

Wow... what lovely projects! Those butterflies are stunning! And I adore your box! Thanks for joining us at The Creative Cottage!
Shelly ;)

Linda Coughlin, the funkie junkie said...

So, so pretty - all of them! So soft and pretty and feminine! The cards are great but I especially love the gorgeous boxes. Great job on the sketch challenge. So happy you could join in the fun with Our Creative Corner this week.

Tracy said...

these are just stunning i love those boxes and the butterflys are really pretty! Thanks for joining us this week at The Creative Cottage Challenge Tracy x

Becky said...

What a very pretty pink card and box! They're gorgeous!!
Thanks so much for joining us at The Creative Cottage!
Love Becky xx

Silke Ledlow said...

WOWZER the card and the box are fabulous and so springy!!! Awesome details...love them both!!!

Thank you for playing the Sketch with us!!! Hugs ~S~

Mummylade said...

Gorgeous projects. Thank you for joining the Allsorts challenge this week and good luck.

andrea said...

gorgeous box and card,you and your friend are very talented thankyou for joining us at fab'n'funky this week andrea

♥ Lydia ♥ said...

Beautiful box and card...both of you!! :)
Thanks for joining the Fab'n'Funky girls this week x

Donna said...

Looks like you had a fun day crafting...beautiful creations by both! Thanks for joining in the fun this week with the Creative Cottage :) Donna x

Mrs Mayne said...

Oooo these are gorgeous! Thanks for joining us for the Papertake Weekly challenge! x

Magda said...

Great projects. Beautiful colours. I love all details.
Thanks for joining us at Crafty Creations challenge.
Magda :)