Swan lake

Hi guys, I've done another something different for me lol

no stamping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I always used to be doing parchment craft years ago, had most of the tools and everything, well the other day I thought I'll do a swan again and of course I  had got rid of my tools hadn't I,

so I improvised!!!!!!

the swan is traced and I used white crayon instead of the white ink, then I just embossed it with a ball tool which should have been larger but made do with a medium one,

coloured the back with the same white pencil for shadow then cut the swan and separate wings out,

these I then embossed again on the edges and on the swan in the middle,

After cutting all the edges of the leaves I used my ball tool to add shape again and layered the wings on using pinflair glue,

sideways views

I have plans to do another shortly a little different so may do a little tutorial if you'd be interested lol,

I made an easel card using a gorgeous new Marianne die that I'd seen and just couldn't resist he he,

and too finish it off used the sprig effect from the same  set of dies and used a Marianne flower die for the flowers in two sizes,

the butterflies are Marianne too,

I must admit I've had a lot of these Marianne dies a long time and not really used them as I find  some of them hard to leave the dies, but I've since found out if I put a layer of greaseproof  baking paper in front of the card and run my dies through the machine a couple of times it helps lol, also embossing the die really works too,

sorry for the overload on pictures again, the gorgeous pearls I used we're from
 The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop

Challenges 

Marianne Design Divas ~ anything with a summery feel
Bunny Zoes ~ Summer
Simon says stamp ~ Animal antics
A gem of a challenge ~ animals or teddies


will check later for any more and help welcome lol,
Happy Crafting,
Hugs Liz xx