shaken ballerinas

another swap challenge

this time it had to be a shaker card and for a kids birthday

 i used framelits labels to make the frame

and the ballerina is from talented trio 

i also added some white sequins to the outside to add some sparkle.

if you hold the card and shake it then all these beautiful sequins and stars come out all over the ballerina

here is the same card minus the shaker card part and some bling.

ballerina

ballerina card in a box

using my tutorial here

i added it to the card in a box

i added soem extra lace and ribbon and pearls to her

love the feel good sayings from stampin up

this is perfect for the little dancer in our lives

side of the card when it folds down to go in a envelope

front of card with lace details and ribbon

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butterfly dancer

i seem to be on a theme this month with my butterflies

so here is another play with my butterfly punches.

this one was for the creative crew

CCREW0614SF 

to celebrate your best friend on a scrapbook page or by making a gift for them. 

this is a gift for a friend going through a lot at the moment and she loves butterflies

and pink ones as well....

i was inspired by a picture i pinned on my pinterest boards and changed it a bit to suit what i wanted and the materials i was using

 her hair was made using caramel card stock and then drawing strands of hair using a variety of oranges, browns, white gel pen, gold and kindy glitz

 

i also layered the card to give it some extra dimension

 flowers were done using white embossing powder stamped using a tiny flower from a new set from the new 2014/15 catalogue

 skin was done using light pinks sponged on lightly.

dress was melon mambo sponged with mambo and white

 background was sponged using a variety of blue and green inks layered from light to dark on a soft sky 12x12" card stock

butterflies were stuck on with dimensionals with 1 wing up with kindy glitz to give more 3d effect.

the butterflies on the dress were quite hard to position and most are stuck down just using snail but some are stuck using glue dots.

here is my feline "helper" checking my stuff out while i am attempting to take a photo. she was rather bemused by the butterflies and tried to eat some of them before she was very unceremoniously shooed from the table...much to ehr disgust lololol

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what can i do with my ballerinas?

i was asked this a while back and said "well they would make a lovely card for a ballet girl" so here you go... oh and thanks to my lovely kids for "helping" cheers ears

ballerina mobile

i decided that something needed to be done about all these ballerinas prancing aound my home so i made a mobile with them... pretty huh? shot from top showing wire and ribbons bottom shot-don't you look up their tutus now! now i am soooooo not a ballerina lady but there is something quite lovely watching these girls twirl around in the breeze cheers ears

ballerina tutorial

woohoo here we go punch out 2 scallop circles from card stock vellum. cut along the dips in the scallops into the middle but NOT right through (or her tutu will fall apart and she will be left standing in her undies lol) glue together (after you have fluffed them up a bit) to the lavendar lace scallop circle card.get 2 word window legs and the squat heart. cut the heart down the middle glue onto the legs attach to back of tutu and arrange your legs how you want your ballerina to pose get bits for head use circle punch to cut out fringe from butterfly image stick blush blossom circle to bottom of choc chip circle. add fringe.add crescent and tiny heart to make tiara. add small choc chip circle to make bun at back of head get the rest of the word windows and long heart stick arms onto heart first then neck. then stick head down. then add dimensionals it should look like this. if you want your ballerina to have some more cleavage then move the ends of the word windows closer in and you will get a bit of boobie cleavage happening lol it should look like this when all stuck together if you are not making the mutant kind hahahaha finally get out some pens and draw in a face and some ballet strings so her shoes don't fall off phew! there we go easy peasy i now expect to see ballerinas all over the place now. if you make one please send us a link or a photo of your attempt so i can go "oh wow that is awesome" okies cheers ears

i have been punching some ballerinas

well not real ones just the paper kind of course..... back to the topic at hand and it is all about ballerinas. I made some a while ago and have had a bit more of a play since then. I got everyone to make some at our Sale-a-bration charity fundraiser last weekend. Hi if you are checking me out from that-please say hi!! Here is the punch sheet from that showing what bits of each punch you needed in each colour. I hope that made it easy for everyone...well no one had mutant looking ballerinas so it must have been ok hahahahaha I have used Lavendar lace, blush blossom, Chocolate chip and vellum card stock. and just so you know the love hearts are wrong wrong wrong. i cut out the wrong one-you need to cut out the squat one for the shoes and the longer one for the body I will get around to changing it i promise and here are the punches you needed (which you can, of course, buy them all from me because you know you totally NEED them all right now) please say hi and let me know how your ballerinas went cheers ears