Big Butterfly Birthday Card

Good afternoon! I've got a quick post to share this Big Butterfly Birthday Card I made for the following challenges:

• The Paper Players: Colors
• Everybody-Art: Birthday
• The Paper Shelter: Flowers Everywhere

When I use the Swallowtail stamp by Stampin' Up! I tend to make a square card. This one is 5.25" square. The background paper was hand stamped using the Painted Petals stamp set along with the challenge colors: Melon Mambo, Soft Sky, Pumpkin Pie and Mossy Meadow. Using a Happy Birthday sentiment by Hero Arts it was stamped with Mossy Meadow and punched with a 1 1/4" circle punch and layered to a slightly larger scalloped circle. To add more flowers I used the Petite Petals stamp set with Melon Mambo and punched with the coordinating Petite Petals punch. The final touch was three Soft Sky Candy Dots and this card was done. 

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your day!

Bold Butterfly Feel Better Card

Earlier this week I made a masculine feel better card and since my stash of cards with this sentiment is low, I decided to make this Bold Butterfly Feel Better Card. Stamp sets used on this card include: Watercolor Wings, Painted Petals, You've Got This and Sassy Salutations. Butterflies and flowers are my favorite part of outdoors in the summer and I've used my favorite colors. The Blackberry Bliss flowers were stamped onto whisper white cardstock and then I went back and filled in with Garden Green leaves. I was inspired by this card HERE by Lisa Young. When I found it while doing a search for violets a few weeks ago, I had to know if she used designer paper and no, it was hand stamped. So, I tried it and I think it turned out okay. The center panel was stamped with Mint Macaroon and the sentiment in Memento Black. For the butterfly I used Daffodil Delight as the base, Hello Honey on the edges with Blackberry Bliss for the detail. The body of the butterfly was highlighted with black Stickles to give it a little shimmer. To add some embossed detail, I used the Decorative Dots embossing folder and that's it! This will be one of the cards I'll have a hard time giving away. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your day!!!

This Bold Butterfly Feel Better Card is entered into the following challenges:

• The Paper Players: The Great Outdoors
• Allsorts: How Does Your Garden Grow
• Suzy Bee's: Anything Goes w/ Floral Twist

You Are Amazing Card

Hello! I've been working on this You Are Amazing Card for the last couple of days. I knew I wanted to use the Harlequin stencil by Tim Holtz, but then I had to ponder what came next. The colours used are from this weeks challenge at Colour Me! and include: Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive, Coastal Cabana and Neutral. After much debate and playing, I finally decided to use the Painted Petals stamp set by Stampin' Up!. I used a narrow piece of patterned paper from the Back to Black dsp along the outside of the stenciled panel and adhered the panel to a piece of Elegant Eggplant cardstock which was adhered to a base of Coastal Cabana. Next, I stamped the focal panel then layered it onto Old Olive cardstock. The last step was securing the twine and then adhering the panel to the card. That's it! I would also like to enter this card into the Ohh So Pretty challenge at Papertake Weeekly. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you come back soon.