Saturday, 4 October 2025

World Cardmaking Day

I made this card for the Uniko 'World Card Making Day' challenge using stamps from two 'new to me' Uniko stamp sets and following the sketch at AAA Cards.

To make this card I used:
     6" x 6" white matt card blank
     Uniko 'English Country Garden Butterflies' stamp and coordinating dies
     Unidk 'Birthday Wishes' sentiment stamp
     Creative Expressions 'Clean and Simple - Zig Zag Border' die
     Versafine Imperial Purple ink
     Orange and purple Promarkers
     Cosmic Shimmer Clear Detail embossing powder
     Snippet of white matt card

I used the Zig Zag border die to emboss a strip across the top of the card.  I stamped the butterfly onto a snippet of white card using purple ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder before cutting it with the coordinating die.  I then coloured the butterfly with orange and purple Promarkers.  I placed the card into my MISTI and stamped the sentiment with purple ink before embossing it with clear embossing powder (the sentiment stamp had been cut by its previous owner which made it fit the bottom of the card better).  To finish I attached the butterfly to the embossed strip.

I am entering the following challenges:
     AAA Cards - Sketch Challenge
     Allsorts - Anything Goes
     As You Like It Challenge - Square or Not (6" x 6" square cards are my preferred card size as I feel they suit my CAS style.  I do sometimes make smaller square cards and occasionally a C6 card, but 6" x 6" is my favourite)
     Krafty Chicks Challenge - Birthdays
     Simply Clean & Simple - Anything Goes CAS
     Triple B Challenge - Birds, Butterflies, Blooms (I've chosen the butterflies option)
     Uniko - World Card Making Day 2025 with Uniko

Kath x

10 comments:

Sarn said...

A lovely CAS birthday card with the embossed element and contrasting colourful butterfly. xxx

meg said...

The embossed background strip looks beautiful with the gorgeous butterfly

Pat said...

The zig zag patterned die used to emboss a border gives a lovely place for your beautiful butterfly to rest Kath, and finished with a lovely sentiment. x

brenda said...

Just lovely Kath, you do this design so well, as you know we loved the green Butterfly creation at SS. Many thanks for sharing this one with us at Allsorts challenge.

B x

Cardsbymaaike said...

love your embossed strips to anchor your pretty butterfly, fab card. Thank you for playing at the AAA Card Challenges

Darlene said...

Oh Kath ... this is simply beautiful! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Triple B & SCAS challenges! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.

Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Triple B Challenge Co-Owner
Simply Clean & Simple Co-Owner

Liz said...

Gorgeous card Kathy, a beautiful butterfly and I love the embossed panel. Thank you for joining in the Allsorts Challenge.
Liz xx

crafty-stamper said...

Perfect CAS card and love the beautiful butterfly.
Carol x

Lynne said...

A beautiful cas card Kath and I love the bright colours of your butterfly against the white. The embossed panel is perfect too. Thank you for sharing at AYLI.

Sarah said...

That's such a lovely card and shows that CAS does not have to mean flat. that embossed detail is fab. Thank you for sharing at Allsorts. Sarah