BUTTERFLIES GALORE!

I can't tell you how long ago I stamped and colored these Pinkfresh  butterflies!  Since then they've been in the envelope with the stamps and stencils. Since it's an "anything goes" challenge, I used some older butterflies. So the other day I challenged myself to see how many DIFFERENT cards I could design.

Went through my embossing folders for some textured backgrounds (SSS leaf canopy and Altenew brick wall). Went through my cache of die cut leaves and then began creating.  After I had them all designed I added a small black enamel dot for the head of the butterfly and spattered all of them with gold.  For two of them I added a sentiment and two will be for future occasions.

I am entering the first and the last ones in Pinkfresh Studio's March Challenge - anything goes.

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A BASKETFUL OF TULIPS

Here's a pretty basket of tulips for TicTacToe Challenge #266.  I think all the elements of the board are in my card except for a good luck symbol!  But for the actual row I used, it's diagonally from left to right - bright colors, spring and free.  What can be more spring than tulips!!

I embossed my basket with a brick 3D folder - thought it made it look like it was woven.  Then I added some shading with very dark brown ink.  I die cut all my flowers from white cs and did ink blending in three shade of pink.  The leaves were all cut from green cs and ink blending with a darker green.  Embossed the background on some desert storm cs.  Did some flower arranging and added the little twine bow and done.  A sentiment will be added when I need a card.

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GATE FOLD FLOWERS

The TicTacToe Challenge #264 is up today with fun prompts for you.  I went diagonally form left to right with enamel dots, die cuts and dry embossing.

My card is a landscape gate fold using Altenew's Fresh Flowers dies, Tranquility cardstock and enamel dots and SSS Leaf Canopy embossing folder.  I'll add a sentiment when needed.

I hope you'll find some inspiration here and have time to join us sometime in the next two weeks.  The challenge closes on 20 February.

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VELLUM BUTTERFLY

While doing some reorganizing and destashing I found some very old patterned paper from Altenew's "Recollections".  So decided it was finally time let go of some of the pretty papers.  Looked through my Pinterest pages for some inspiration and came up with this card.

 

I made this a 4x6 card because I wanted the flower to be the focal point and there was a lot of white space on the 6x6 piece of pp.  So cut it down along with two border pieces of green.  Used two butterfly dies and die cut into the pp.  Then I die cut matching vellum pieces.  Next glued down the two borders and the pp.  Creased the pp and the vellum butterflies in their centers and glued together only on the crease and then onto the card - again only on the crease so the butterfly would pop out.  Added the gold bodies, the sequins and the sentiment and done!

 

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50th ANNIVERSARY

This weekend I'm attending a 50th anniversary party for some friends - so had to make a special card for them.  

Used the colors from the February Inspiration Challenge. Altenew's Fresh Flowers with Tranquility cardstock were used to create the flowers.  Spellbinders' arches gave it all some background interest.  I just added a "congrats" on the inside.

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