November Colour Swap

Orange and Yellow
I thought of using diecuts for this swap, it will be good to try out some of my relatively new ones.

I attached some yellow and orange washi tape across the base card.  I cut the jigsaw pieces from orange, yellow and some orange glitter papers.  Once the papers were cut, I mixed up the pieces and rearranged them on the card.  I decided to make one piece stand proud. 

I did not stamp any of the cards until they were all 'finished'.  For this card, I used various butterfly stamps - mainly from sets bought at The Works - and stamped them with Versafine Onyx ink, one to each jigsaw piece, adding a sentiment from another set.

I daubed some yellow distress ink across the second basecard and set it to dry.  After I had diecut some balloon shapes and flower shapes from the same papers as before, I attached the flower shapes along the lower edge.  The sentiment (Little Claire) was stamped using the Vesafine ink and set to dry.  I wanted the balloons to stand proud and have the 'strings' tied along the lower edge.  I cut three embroidery threads and attached them, one to each balloon, to the card using 3D foam pads on the front and DST on the back.  I then added the balloons to the foam pads.  


I used the two largest dies from the Hexagon freebie set for the last card, using the same papers again.  I mixed the cutouts and rearranged them on the card.  I used flower stamps from various sets, the largest in the centre with smaller flowers around it.  I felt something was needed to  'finish' it.  I found a sentiment from one of the Little Claire sets, chopped it into three pieces, lined up the words I wanted on the clear block and stamped just beneath the central flowers.




The papers are very much brighter in real life, sunglasses are recommended!!!  lol

UPDATE:

I have received the following cards .....



Lots of bright yellow here.
Thank you Gerry.

Beautiful papers used here.

Thank you Margaret.

Lots of beautiful items and the fibres sheltering behind the cellophane butterfly.

Thank you Liz.