Sophisticats Week 10 & Lily of the Valley

Good morning, it's time for another challenge over at Sophisticats, we had our highest number of entries last week, so thanks to everyone who entered and hope you can come back again this week.

We've a very versatile theme this week - "Wings" which gives you plenty of options, I took the easy one and went for a fairy! I bought this lovely stamp last week at the NEC, it's a Lily of the Valley and I'm going to enter my card in their challenge, which is a recipe - 3 papers, 2 stamps and 1 embellishment.

Recipe:

Stamps - Lily of the Valley; SU! Stem Sayings

Cardstock - SU! Basic Black; Pale Plum

DSPs & Butterfly - from my stash

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I used the great sketch over at Lily of the Valley to make this card for my Charisma DT buddy Vee, who's birthday was last week (she's had the card so it's safe to post now!).

I love using squares on my card, don't know what it is, but anything with squares in the background and I'm hooked! Anyway, apart from the flowers, which are Flora Doodles & the button & gems from my stash, the rest is all Stampin' Up!

Cardstock - Chocolate Chip

DSP's - Sweet Always (one of my favourite sets)

Ribbon - Chocolate Chip

Image - Garden Whimsy (another much loved & much used set)

Sentiment - Fun & Fast notes (ditto the above! LOL)

It's not very clear in the photo, but I've stamped the butterfly using Versamark & then added a copper embossing powder (Cosmic Shimmer) and in real life it gave the butterfly a lovely coppery sheen. I was going to glitter the butterfly, stamped it out and then realised I didn't have the right colour glitter - d'uh, so had to act quickly while the Versamark was still sticky and used the embossing powder instead! Pleased with the result though and at least I didn't end up covered in glitter for days, like I usually do when I use the darn stuff!

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Summer Fun was this week's theme which I thought this card would suit. I bought the digi-image this week from Digi-Stamp Boutique, a set of three "Jim" images which will come in very handy for those difficult male cards. I've coloured him with ProMarkers and I've used a Sakura white pen to add highlights but it's come out a bit thicker than I'd like and not as opaque as it's supposed to be, so I'm a bit disappointed with that - back to the drawing board!

The rest is all Stampin' Up! the papers are Rainbow Sherbert, the cardstock is Green Galore & Tempting Turquoise and the sentiment is from "Fun & Fast Notes" I use this sentiment a lot as it's quite slim and fits on mosts cards quite easily, really handy.

Lily of the Valley & Scrappy Frogs Challenges

Another two challenges with this card, second one today. I've used the Lily of the Valley sketch with Scrappy Frogs Fairy Challenge.

The image is a Victoria Case Stamp called Grape Fairy that I was lucky enough to win recently and it was nice to get her inked up. I've coloured her with ProMarkers again, apart from her wings which have been coloured with a Sakura Stardust pen - well a fairy's got to have a bit of glitter after all! I've also chalked around the edges with my SU pastels.

The background papers are digi papers by Pink Petticoat called Swirly Doodles and I love these papers because they come in a negative and positive, in about 40 odd different colours.  I've cut out the circles and scallops with my nesties and used SU cardstock in Lovely Lilac and Whisper White.