Some more French wines!

I was so lucky to be  the recipient of a stash of French wine labels from Jacqueline. She has made some beautiful cards with wine labels and the labels are so exquisite! I've already blogged one card I made and here are two more that I have made with these labels. They have all gone to my wine appreciating friends!!
Did anyone see that I got Top 3 in Addicted to CAS Gold challenge? This card was originally made for a publication call but was not picked up and then I sent it to Jacqueline to thank her for the labels!!

Patchwork Butterfly

I made this card at our recent Craft Retreat and used the Darkroom Door Stamps that Joy Taylor had brought along. I've decided to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Challenge Five.

1. Darkroom Door Patchwork Butterfly

2. Darkroom Door French Script

3. Darkroom Door Simple Sayings

4. Copic Markers

5. Tim Holtz distress ink Vintage Photo

A Canvas from our Retreat

During our Craft Retreat in Bright last weekend, Lyndal gave everyone a small canvas to try mixed media. I really wanted to try using Gelatos and she had a whole boxful for me to use! I applied three colours on the canvas, starting with the sides (just in case) and working my way to the front of the canvas. I used a baby wipe to work all the colours into the canvas and left it to dry. I then borrowed one of Joy's stencil and applied Impasto paste over the canvas. This was left to air dry. The background was stamped with some stamps from Joy's Darkroom Door collection. The sentiment was from Lyndal's collection, stamped on kraft card stock and inked with distress inks. The wooden butterfly was stamped with French Script using Joy's Simon Says Stamp Black Ink (this stamped very well on wood) and inked with distress inks. This was where I got up to on the last day of the retreat. I finished it off tonight by adding layers of die cuts to the butterfly with gold card (from Michelle) and vellum and a blingy heart to go with the sentiment. If you would like to see what the others made, check out Lyndal and Michelle's blogs. A big thanks to Lyndal and Joy for helping me with this little project! Imagine our delights when we found out that the second Virginia's View challenge is Stencils! I'm also linking this up to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Anything Goes challenge and Moxie Fab World's Styling with Stencil challenge.

A close up of my layered butterfly

Aussie Craft Retreat Group, Bright, Victoria (27th-30th March 2014)
Back Row: Teresa Xanthos, Jenny Dix, Debbie Pamment, Joy Taylor.
Front Row: Michelle Lupton, Sue Kohler, Jenny Martin Rawling, Iwona Palamountain (Chupa)(in front), Lyndal Higgins, Angelique Kelly and Me!
Photo courtesy of Michelle

Ingredients

Canvas, Vellum, Gold card stock, Neenah Desert Storm, Hero Arts large lotus pattern stencil, Gelatos, Impasto Paste, Darkroom Door Tick Tock and French Script, Dylusions Sentiment, Studio Calico wooden butterfly, Tim Holtz Distress Inks Spiced Marmalade and Vintage Photo, Simon Says Stamp black ink, MFT DieNamics butterfly die, Hemp from Hemptique and Kaisercraft sparklet.