A CAS Butterfly and Christmas Food

A Twofer today to sneak in under the wire for some challenges I wanted to enter.

First for The Paper Players "CAS with an Insect":

For the background, I dripped some Tumbled Glass and Broken China reinkers along one edge of a panel of cs, spritzed with water, and tipped the cs to let them run. The butterfly is die cut from a couple of layers of very thick and absorbent handmade paper, stuck together for substance and then sprayed with various blue, purple, and pink sprays. I didn't quite get the colour variation I wanted so sprays probably weren't the best medium to use. I found a piece of pink shimmer cs that matched perfectly so bordered with that.

Next up, for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown "Christmas Food" and for Sparkles Christmas Challenge "Christmas Food":

Many years ago I admired this image on someone's card and I contacted her to ask her to stamp off a few for me. She kindly mailed them to me and I'm ashamed to say I've forgotten both who it was and who made the stamp. If anyone knows, please let me know!!

The image is coloured with coloured pencils, with a tiny bit of glossy accents just on the holly berries. I then bordered it with red and green cs.

   

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - Distress Tumbled Glass and Broken China
Paper - white cs, pink shimmer cs, thick handmade paper
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - blue and pink sprays, Lil Inker stitched square dies

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - unknown image, PB sentiment
Ink - black ink
Paper - white, red, and green cs
Size - 5" square
Accessories - coloured pencils, glossy accents, Spellbinders square dies

Alice

My best friend has a dog called Alice who is the worst food thief in the world.  Alice adores my friend's husband more than she loves anyone else and he adores her.  He says she loves him the best because she watches him all the time, but we say it's because he gives her more treats than my friend does.   When I saw this stamp, I had to have it - the dog looks like Alice and the sentiment is so perfect for her food obsession.

 

I stamped in dark brown ink and heat embossed in clear, added a bit of red heart tape under the dog to ground her, and used a dark brown card base. It looks more black in the photo, but  actually dark brown (the colour of my friend's dog).

I'm giving the card to my friend to give to her husband as a birthday card from Alice.

I'm linking it up at Cardz 4 Guyz where their challenge is "Things with Tails".

Supplies:
Stamps - Technique Junkies
Ink - Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves
Paper - cream and dark brown cs
Size - A2
Accessories - clear embossing powder, red heart tape