Lots of Flutterbies!

Based on last month's post, How to scrap those pesky un-matching photos, I created a similar layout to use in my scrapbook class:

This time I used the Brilliant Blue Flutterbies, but look at all the colours you can get! 

Find them all in the Flutterby section here

In my class at Scrapulous everyone gets to bring their own papers and choose their own colour scheme and I thought I'd let you take a peek of how wonderfully different everyone's turned out! Some of these photos were taken at night, so please excuse the bad lighting.

Here are a few using the Perfectly Pink Flutterbies:

It's always amazing, how different they all look, simply based on different colours and photos!

Feast your eyes on some Classic Tones Flutterbies. You can never go wrong with black and white, it simply matches everything:

Here, some of the white flowers were sprayed yellow:

The Seeing Green Flutterbies are bright and cheerful, you can't help but love them and the wonderful layout they were used on:

Turquoise is my favourite colour and how happy do the Totally Turquoise Flutterbies look on this layout:

They even brighten up an otherwise soft and subdued colour scheme:

As the name suggests, the Brilliant Blue Flutterbies are, well, brilliant:

And if bright colours aren't your thing, how about the beautiful soft colours of the Autumn Tones Flutterbies. Just like the black and white set, this one goes with a lot of different colour mixes:

This last layout is a little special because it not only uses some of the elements of the Perfectly Pink Flutterbies, but also a few extras:

Filigree Wishes "Our Angel":

and a few other my2angels embellishments 

(find similar ones here under Wings and Things):

I hope you feel inspired from seeing so many ways to use the beautiful Flutterby sets. Head over to my2angels and find your favourite set here!

Love

New Handmade Embellishments a layout plus a card

my2angels is pleased to present the latest Charming Chains release – our ‘Love you to Infinity Charming Key Chains’.

This whimsical, vintage embellishment combines our stunning large bronze key charm with a sweet bronze photo frame charm and amps up the cuteness factor with a hand-written message and small rose. For anyone you ‘love to infinity’ and back – this Charming Key Chain makes the perfect statement on their card or layout. 
Priced at a low $3.75 each and available in 4 rose colours and coordinating embossed keys, this is sure to be your new ‘must have’ embellishment.

Brown

Mauve

Pink

Yellow

As the chain is only attached at one end to the heart locket charm, you can alter the way you hang it. eg





Here is the layout I wanted the new Charming Key for - created with a kraft cardstock background, some tea stained muslin, Enchanted Garden Charm and jumbo java inked doilies.

I've added plenty of hand-cut butterflies from the Kaisercraft Enchanted Garden Speciality Paper Fly
some pink lilies and antique bronze butterfly charms.

There's also a round Floral Flower Filigree, topped with a Love Engraved Felt Heart, Antique Bronze Arrow Charm and Pink Rose.

Tucked under the photo and only just showing, is a dusty pink mulberry flower and I love you postcard Antique Bronze charm.

More fussy cut butterflies from the Kaisercraft Enchanted Garden Speciality Paper Fly.

Then to finish it all off, I covered my photo and gave the layout a final spray of Guilded Gold Glimmer Mist.

LOVE LOVE LOVE this glimmer mist





AND



Remember back in December 2012, when DT Geli did her gorgeous Snowflake Christmas Card?  Here is the link:-

Snowflake Christmas Card Link

As soon as I saw the new Kaisercraft Enchanted Garden Speciality Fairies glitter paper I knew I had to do the same card. Taking Geli's card as my inspiration - here is mine.

I used a Twiddlebitz C6 Kraft Card, some tea-soaked muslin and Kaisercraft Enchanted Garden Entrance as my base.

First, I cut out one of the fairies on the speciality paper - (Tip:  measure the inner oval for size before you do this, because I cut one of the larger fairies and she was too big!) and then I cut 1 small and 1 medium size butterfly from the Kaisercraft Enchanted Garden Speciality Fly Glitter Paper.

The inner oval has a fairy on one side and 2 cut butterflies the other side.  Using a glue stick, I glued some Turquoise Microbeads randomly over both sides of the card.  Using the glue stick didn't fully adhere the micro beads - which is what I wanted (normally I would use something stronger - like Dimensional Magic - to adhere microbeads).  I wanted it that way so that when the recipient opens the card, some of the microbeads will fall off & spin with the centre oval creating a fairy dust effect.

What you want on the front - fairy or butterflies - will determine what you get on the inside - you can use them either way.

I chose to have the fairy on the front

  

Then I added a couple of Antique Bronze Butterfly Charms, more fussy cut butterflies; and some words from the bottom strip of Enchanted Garden Charm. The rest of the Charm pp was used for the above layout.

Here is the finished Card with the butterflies on the front

Products used for the card:

     


       

Creamy Latte and Mud Cake Sugar Beads

Creamy Latte Sugar Beads

A sweet, creamy mix, liberally sprinkled with golden toffee crunches - Creamy Latte will add a touch of class to any creation.

Mud Cake Sugar Beads

Made of rich 'chocolate-y' nuggets of goodness, Mud Cake has no calories, but plenty of shimmery, golden sprinkles. Splurge on some today for your next card or layout.

Also new are Sandy Microbeads 

the perfect co-ordinating medium for our Creamy Latte Sugar Beads.

Brace yourself - I am going to mention the "C" word!!!

I created a Christmas Card with Twiddleybitz 13x13 Cream Card

 which I inked/blended around the edges with Peeled Paint Distress Ink.

Over this I popped a piece of Bazzill Kraft Cardstock (also ink blended also with Peeled Paint) and then a piece from Kasiercraft Just Believe Snowflake.

I heat embossed a chipboard bauble using Stampendous Aged Embossing Enamel Scarlett
and then added a sprinkling of Creamy Latte Sugar Beads - aren't they just the most elegant touch??

Stamp a floral flourish stamp onto the bottom, left-hand corner of your card using Peeled Paint Distress Ink. Highlight spots here and there with Avocado Liquid Pearls .

Also add some Ruby Red Liquid Pearls to high-light the red flourishes on the pattern paper.

 

And now a card using Twiddlybitz Kraft C6 card.

I saw this idea on Pinterest sometime ago, I think it was from BHP.com.

I loved the simplicity of it

 

Draw a trail with dimensional magic and sprinkle over Creamy Latte Sugar Beads.

Get a good friend who has nice handwriting (thanks Keonie x) to write Happy Birthday in between the trail.

Add 2 butterfly filigrees - mount one on top of the other (bending the top one upwards slightly) and centre with a cream rose.

Whallah - you are done. One gorgeous butterfly in flight.

I have a beach layout coming up using our Creamy Latte Sugar Beads, together with our stunning Blue Lemonade Sugar Beads - surely a match made in heaven.

Hi everyone, Ann here ...

Popping in to show off the delicious Creamy Latte Sugar Beads, which I used to alter a note pad.

All the papers are from the Kaiser 75 Cents Collection.

I covered the front of the notepad with Penny and then cut a rectangle of Tuppance, that is slightly larger than a pretty butterfly die cut piece of Guinea. I diagonally overlaid these on one another, so that you can see both of them clearly. 

I then punched a decorative edge from the left-over piece of Penny.

Using Dimensional Magic, I glued the Creamy Latte Sugar Beads and Charming Rose Chain (from the Aunty Pack) to the bottom of the oval pattern on the die cut. 

I also glued some Creamy Latte Sugar Beads to an Antique Bronze Flower Filigree Flower.

Again using Dimensional Magic, I glued the sugar beads around a 'note' card and inked all edges using Tim Holtz Black Soot Distress Ink.

Finally, I glued and positioned all the pieces together and added a touch of lace.

ANN

Hi, Michele here again after what seems like a looooong break. 

Actually it has only been a month and a half, but it seems much longer ... thanks for giving me some time off to get married Tracy :)

I'm not sure that I'm quite ready, but I'm back now - and just in time to test the utterly scrumptious, new Creamy Latte Sugar Beads  and Mud Cake Sugar Beads, with some of  Kaisercraft's Periwinkle papers.

Tracy has done it again with these cute little embellishments. I LOVE them, and the Creamy Latte and Mud Cake mixes are a perfect match for the vintage tones of Periwinkle.

My layout, 'Amy',  uses a not-so-perfect variation of a technique using beads shared by Anna Bjorklund in Nathalie Kalbach's 2013 Creative Jump Start Summit. (Anna's blog is here.)

The sugar beads enhance my layout's title, adding some intricate looking gorgeousness which is really not too complicated at all. 

The beads are attached using Glossy Accents, which has been painted onto the page with a fine paintbrush. I started off by adding beads individually around the letters with tweezers, but filled in the larger spaces using beads scooped up into an Antique Bronze Spoon...just the right size :)

I started with a sheet of Kraft cardstock, which I distressed and inked the edges (Black Soot Distress Ink) of and then, using an old Heidi Swapp mask, I inked a leafy pattern onto the background, dabbing softly with the Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool using Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Black Soot and Evergreen Bough Distress Inks. While the mask was still on the card I painted around some of the edges and sprayed generously with Irridescent Gold Glimmermist, letting the spray run across the page and drip off the edge. I also mixed some Evergreen Bough Reinker with water in a Mini Mister and sprayed close to the page, adding some teal green drips.

After distressing and inking the edges of all my pieces of  paper, I mounted my photo on some Periwinkle Whisper. I put this onto a bit of Breathe  and added a small piece of the black section of Impression between them. Also tucked in under the photo is a piece of frayed muslin, which softens the edges and adds to the vintage feel of the layout. I used a Sizzix Alterations On the Edge die (Scallops) to cut a strip of Newsprint Acetate, which stretches from the bottom left edge of the photo to the edge of the page.

Also running horizontally across the background on both sides of the photo mat are some strips of teal spotted washi tape, dictionary print tissue tape and Cream Cotton Lace.

Adding interest at the top of the layout are some pieces cut from a Twiddleybitz Bird on a Branch chipboard, both inked with Tea Dye and Evergreen Bough Distress Ink.

Hanging from the smaller branch on the right is another new my2angels embellishment - a russet Grandmother Charming Chain (Amy is my Great Grandmother, whom I vaguely remember as a little old lady living in Adelaide when I was a kid.) The second photo was taken outside to show you just how pretty the Glimmermist looks in the right light.

The other half of this gorgeous embellishment is draped across the Twiddleybitz Cast Iron Gates chipboard on the right of the photo. This chippie piece is popped up on dimensional tape over the washi/tissue tape combo and is coloured with Tea Dye Distress Ink. 

There are a few Creamy Latte and Mud Cake Sugar Beads scattered on the bottom of the fence posts.

 

Across the bottom of my photo is a strip of floral tape, which I have enhanced at each end using Creamy Butter Cherry Blossoms,  Dark Brown Roses, Rose Roses, Black Roses, tiny White Rose Buds and some teal roses from my stash. While I was searching through my box of oddments, I also found a few pieces of  dictionary page die cut vine that were left over from another project, so I tucked them in too.

Here are a couple of close-ups of the beads and glimmer.

This is a pretty simple layout, but the addition of these pretty beads make it more than a little bit special. I'll be using them again really soon ;)

 

Michele

This completes the current colour release for the my2angels Sugar Beads collection. Pop into the store now to make your selection from our delicious range.