Butterflies

Last night I went to Paper Maze to take part in Wendy's Butterfly Layout workshop. Had a great evening and made this layout. The photo is of Andrew and Catherine at the Wildlife Centre in Holt, Norfolk. A frequent haunt of ours when the children were small. Each butterfly is hand cut from a template Wendy had made for us. Each was cut from different papers and treated differently. Some were run through the embossing folders, others were patchwork effect with hand drawn stitches. All the papers were Little Sprout, from Crate Paper. We also used acetate, gems, Stickles. My title was added this morning and is from a sheet of American Craft - Thickers which I treated myself to while at the workshop. Great evening thanks to Wendy and Vanessa.

The BLUES

All things blue today. Shop fronts, patchwork fabrics, my front door from the inside looking out, my Kipling bag, gardening Crocks and Alan's slippers. Also several blue garage doors and gates.

GREYS, SHADOWS AND BLACKS

The colours for today are blacks, greys and shadows. A wet and grey day today.

A day for RED, ROSE and PINK

A day for Red, Rose and Pink. Images from the bathroom, soap and nail brush, pig bin, image on towel an picture on wall.


A jelly frog in my tote (long story)!

My sizzlets tote, and inks tote,

Lovely fabrics for patchwork from Quilters Haven, Wickham Market, Suffolk.

Today is GREEN Day

Today's theme is the colour GREEN. Here are some photos taken at home after work today:

Symbolic Colour

Use colour in a symbolic way is was the challenge for Friday 5th June. Did not get a chance to comment then so here goes today:

White symbolizes purity and perfection, also the absolute. It is the colour most associated with sacredness, and sacrificial animals are often white. In the West brides traditionally wear white, but in Asia it is the colour of mourning. White is considered to conceal nothing and so ghosts are thought to be white. A white flag signals truce and therefore peace.

Here is the lay out I have created for Friday's challenge using the colour white (and others). I used Basic Grey's Scarlet's Letter papers, lace, paper doily, ribbon, rubons, Sizzlets Calla Lily die, letter stickers fro BG Ambrosia, and Making Memories. The photo shows me in my wedding dress with my white bouquet of Arum lilies and jasmine. I used this weeks Mojo holders sketch for inspiration. It was challenge 112 with an sketch and design by Danielle Flanders.




Here are two layouts I made a while ago, on the subject of peace.

My triplets in the local church yard after a Christingle service in 1995 when they were three years old. It had snowed lightly during the night before. I used Basic Grey Blitzen papers, and chipboard pieces for this one and a lot of clear gems.



This layout shows my daughter Emily, a little older September 2007, at the Eden Project with some very large peace Lilies. Again I used Basic Grey Lily Kate papers. A Sizzlets lily die and some Scenic Route chipboard letter tiles.

Using Scraps

I was lovely to spot my card on other blogs.
I made a card using up the scraps after a Craftwork Cards Workshop and a photo of that card was put up on Julie's blog and also on the Craftwork Cards blog.