Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Green Butterfly Birthday Card

Hello! Last week my new boss asked me to make his wife a birthday card. When I asked him what her favorite colours were, he said green. Well, I don't know if monochromatic green is what he had in mind, but I decided to make three cards and let him choose. This Green Butterfly Birthday Card is the first one I made. I LOVE green and I've used one of my favorite butterfly stamps that I heat embossed using three different colors of embossing powder. The design comes from this weeks sketch at the Just Us Girls challenge blog. For a little extra detail I stitched around the edge of the patterned paper to give it that nice handmade feel. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

My Green Butterfly Birthday Card is entered into the following challenges:
Green Butterfly Birthday Card Supplies*:
  • Paper: Very Vanilla, Gumball Green, Certainly Celery and Garden Green card stock and Willow Path patterned paper from the Woodland Park collection by October Afternoon.
  • Stamps: Butterfly Trail stamp by Inkadinkado and sentiment stamp from the Simply Sketched hostess stamp set by Stampin' Up!
  • Inks & Colouring: Classic stampin' pad in Garden Green and VersaMark stamp pad. Embossing powders in Gumball Green by Stampin' Up! and Stampendous! Pearlustre in Emerald and Jade.
  • Other Stuff: Big Shot, Heat Tool, Fancy Fan embossing folder, oval punch and scalloped oval punch, sewing machine, thread, ivory gemstones by The Paper Studio, and stampin' dimensionals.
*Unless noted supplies by Stampin' Up!

15 comments:

  1. Gorgeous! Lovin' the green! Thank you for playing along with my Flutter By Wednesday Challenge!

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  2. The green works so well with the theme, Lovely card.
    Thank you for joining in the Crafty Bloggers network Challenge and good luck

    Kay
    CBN DTx

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  3. A lovely card, great colours. Thanks for joining Top Tip Tuesday. Elaine

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  4. I have a hard time with Mono cards...but this may be the most beautiful one I have ever seen! That butterfly is just lovely! So glad you joined us at Just Us Girls this week!

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  5. Oh, I love it! Green is my favourite & you've combined such great shades. Love the stitching, and that butterfly is gorgeous!

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  6. beautiful! Thanks for playing along with us at Creative Creations Challenges with our 'Monochromatic' challenge! Good Luck, remember you can enter upto three times and we have a DT call :) Hope to see you again soon xxx

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  7. This is gorgeous. How lucky for your boss to have such a crafty person on staff. His wife is sure to love it. Thanks so much for joining us this week at ABC Challenges.

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  8. Brilliant card, hank you for entering the Creative Creations Challenge. good luck xxx

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  9. Oh this is just stunning!! Thanks so much for joining the challenge at Creative Creations Challenges♥

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  10. Wow, the colours are wonderful on this. Thanks for sharing this with us at Crafty Bloggers Network.
    Sarah DT xx

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  11. Beautifully done, love all the pretty green and the lovely butterfly image! Thanks for playing along with us and I hope you will join us again! www.abcchallenges.blogspot.com

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  12. Super monochrome card, love butterflies and green too. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Bloggers Network with our Favourite things challenge Hugs Txx DT

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  13. Fab card, Gorjuss, thanks for sharing it with us at Creative Creations this time,
    Shell xxx

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  14. Lovely simple elegant card. Gorgous green too.
    Thanks for joining our embossing challenge at Top Tip Tuesday too.
    Hugs
    Annette
    Netty's Cards
    xx

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