Heaven Blessed Butterfly Card

Pin It Now! Today is my local card swap. Can you guess when I started my cards?  8:00 this morning.  Yes.

A year or two ago, this would've been a problem...frustration, rushing, late to the meet.  But I'm so glad to say that practice has worked in my favor!  I turned out a dozen of these in 2 hours flat!  Unbelievable for me.  And I managed to get dishes done, a one-on-one meet with an SU customer, and actual real-job work too.  Well, I'm getting ready to start the real job work, anyway.



This is simply a few layers, hardly any inking.
Card base is Crumb Cake, with Framed Tulips embossing folder.
Second layer is Attic Boutique DSP 3-1/8" x 4-3/8".
Then a 1-1/2" strip of off-white muslin that I had in my dollar store box, attached from behind with Snail.
Three die cuts from Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die, (2) DSP and (1) Watercolor paper
Tie a 6" piece of Pool Party Seam Binding Ribbon around center butterfly.
Add banner-cut Easter sentiment from Heaven Blessed.




Easy, pretty, and done!  The muslin softens the whole card, with the frayed edges. It's very cheap, $1.99/yard, so I always keep it in my craft room.


Here's the inside...from Heaven Blessed.


And here's my finished stack.  Can't wait to see what the other ladies have made!

Have a blessed & creative day! Erika.

Color Block Challenge

Pin It Now! After a nice, uplifting Ash Wednesday service, I'm already looking forward to Easter!  I do believe we're having an early Spring too, don't you think?

This week at Hand Stamped Sentiments, the challenge is Color Blocking. Well, I started thinking and several possibilities started brewing.  So I tried a bunch of them...

This one is a trio of die cut butterflies, on Attic Boutique DSP and Watercolor Paper, layered with the middle butterfly popped up.  Clean and simple, just a teeny bit of ribbon and linen thread trim and a little banner sentiment from Heaven Blessed.  The textured Sahara Sand CS gives it enough interest that it didn't really need more embellishment.


Inside is a little layering with DSP and Pool Party, with the sentiment and a bunny stamp.


The second card is masking butterflies with the same die, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz.  Die cut a piece of copy paper, scotch tape the unwanted cuts back onto the paper, leaving only the desired butterfly cut out.  Sponge them across Very Vanilla in Regal Rose, Daffodil Delight, Pool Party.  A little punch trim, layered DSP, on Soft Suede. More clean and simple!




Here they are together...


The third one I like the concept of, and I probably could do more with this.  It's simply 1-1/4" strips of CS and DSP, cut into squares and rectangles.  Arrange onto scrap paper and stamp a little scene of images from Heaven Blessed.  I like the detail on these stamps, and will watercolor them really soon.  But not today ;)

Once the images are stamped, move them onto the card base arrange, and adhere.  Add a little brad as a focal point.


The shape of the squares is carried through to the inside of the card here...


Here's the color block challenge from Hand Stamped Sentiments.  I love their samples this week.  Not sure I'm done with this challenge yet, I have a layout to work out still and this technique offers so many possibilities!


SUPPLIES:
STAMPS: Heaven Blessed (Spring Mini 2012)
DSP: Attic Boutique (Spring Mini 2012)
CARDSTOCK: Watercolor paper, Sahara Sand, Pink Pirouette, Pool Party, Soft Suede,
INK: Soft Suede
ACCESSORIES:  Big Shot, Beautiful Butterflies Bigs Die, Corner Rounder Punch, Pool Party Seam Binding Ribbon, Linen Thread, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Punch, Basic Rhinestones, Sponge

Have a blessed & creative day! Erika.