My Paper Corner

This month has been busy for me both a work and life in general and now that Father's Day has passed I can concentrate on a challenge card.  Football is also back on the TV so a perfect excuse for me to escape to my craft room!  June's mixed media challenge at  CAS Mix Up  is focusing on embossed vellum. I came across my gradient coloured vellum sheets the other day so set about stamping & heat embossing in gold this gorgeous butterfly stamp by Phill Martin, from his second Sentimentally Yours box kit. On the back of the stamped vellum I dry embossed all the butterflies with a ball tool so they have a raised effect and the inner parts of their wings are whiter though not sure my photos have captured that very well.  Attaching vellum to a card can be tricky as glue will show through so I used a ribbon die four times and arranged to make a frame then glued behind that onto the card base ... problem solved.  I've left this an open card for now and will add a small sen

For Father's Day this year I set out to make a double z-fold wiper card but in the end I replaced the right-hand wiper element with an action wobbler mechanism because I liked the overall effect more.  I followed a video tutorial by Sam Calcott from Mixed Up Crafts to see how everything came together but cut my own panels as I don't have her die set. As my dad loves nothing better than pottering and tending his garden I decorated the card with pansies, butterflies and foliage to set the scene with birds in the background. Pansies stamped, coloured with promarkers, fussy cut & mounted with silicone glue.  Added die cut foliage in between.  Butterflies stamped with wilted violet distress oxide, clear embossed then yellow/black added with a promarker & die cut.  Mounted the left-hand butterfly on the wiper element and made my own action wobbler mechanism for the right-hand butterfly from beading wire wound around a pen into a coil with die cut circles to attach - s