Just Us Girls #826 - Die Week

Carol is the host for Die Week at Just Us Girls and she would like to see a butterfly die used on our cards.

I'd like to welcome Kellianne from In My Stamp Room as our guest designer this month.  She has some softly colored and beautifully designed  cards on her blog that you'll want to take a peek at.  

As for me, my card is fairly clean and simple.

I've had this Memory Box butterfly for quite a while.  One cuts the detail that's done in Graphic foil from C9 and the other the background that is colored with Mica Sprays in Snowflurries and Winterfrost. The same colors are on the border cut with HA Rounded Rectangles. C9's Swirls Die adds a little flight movement to the main panel.  The sentiment is from The Ton. 

Now it's your turn.  For inspiration, please check out what the Design Team and our guest Kellianne have made.  They're sure to give you ideas.

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Color Hues #60 and The Card Concept #191

I am a thief.  I admit it.  I stole the idea for my Color Hues card from the photo image at The Card Concept where I will send my CAS card.  My friend Marcia is hosting Color Hues and wants us to use blue and turquoise on our cards.  This was serendipity at its best. 

The Mondo Gerbera Daisy from EbyE was white heat embossed on Bristol and colored with Zigs.  The Altenew butterfly was clear heat embossed over blue and the Zig was used to color it as well as the sentiment strip.  I struggled with the sentiment because I couldn't decide where to place it.  I'm still not sure that I shouldn't have just left it off.

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Seize the Birthday #253

I don't know why I don't play in Seize the Birthday more often.  After all birthday cards are what I make the most, besides Christmas that is.  I just happened to have an image that fit the prompt.

I foiled this Pinkfresh butterfly almost a year ago now when I had a crafting day with Bonnie.  That is what got me on the foil bandwagon.  It's been sitting in a pile of unfinished things that I finally went through to work on and knew it was perfect for this challenge.  It's inked up with Distress Inks in Spun Sugar, Salt Water Taffy and Abandoned Coral.  The coral was used to ink the sentiment strip too.

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CAS Mix-Up July 2022

The CAS challenges are back after a brief hiatus and I'm so glad.  I really missed them. Today's card is for CAS Mix-Up - Things with Wings and it's a watercolor challenge. 

I remembered I brought with me some hot foiled butterflies that I did while visiting Bonnie this winter.  To make the background, I used a stencil from MFT and Distress Inks to make an impressionistic garden scene.   The sentiment from Hero Arts is gold heat embossed.  

Thanks for dropping by.  I'm off to help lay vinyl plank floors.  

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Just Us Girls #551 - Wild Card Week

 Five Saturdays means we have a Wild Card Week at Just Us Girls.  Carol has picked this as her wild card.

I know you all have some kind of butterfly stamp or die so I expect a lot of entries into the challenge.  As for me, this is what I did.

The butterfly was cut from a Memory Box die and lightly colored with Distress Ink.  I traced around the die on vellum, cut it out and glued to the die cut  The flower is from PinkFresh Studio and was dabbed with Distress Ink too.  Both were placed on a gray panel after the Altenew sentiment was heat embossed.  

I can't wait to see what our guest Lisa Elton and the rest of the Design Team made. Won't you go take a look too.  I'm sure you will be inspired.

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CAS Mix-Up and CAS Watercolor

I got out my Brushos to make a colorful butterfly for CAS Watercolor which is being hosted by Marcia.

When the Brusho panel was dry I stamped and die cut the HLS butterfly.  I added a frame from SSS, some splatters and a sentiment from PTI.

I'm not very good with Brushos.  In fact you could say I'm rather messy.  This time it worked to my advantage because the paper towel I used to sop up my mess was perfect for the CAS Mix-up challenge hosted by Loll.  I've seen Loll do her paper towel magic before (there are a couple of videos on the blog) and I even did it once before.  This time the colors told me exactly what to do.

I glued the paper towel to some cardstock, stamped the Altenew poinsettia and die cut it - the three things required for a card. 

Thanks for another couple of fun challenges, ladies.

Fusion - Butterfly Wreath

I love the wreath on the door in the photo inspiration at Fusion.

I don't have any little butterfly stamps or dies so I worked more with the sketch but still included a butterfly.

I used more of my black and white paper from Altenew and made a sympathy card, adding the butterfly from Memorybox made with purple vellum.

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Time Out #132 Reminder

It's not too late for you to enter a card at Time Out.

This is such a lovely photo that we hope inspires you to make a card for the challenge.  A gift from Altenew will be awarded the winner.  The Design Team has some fabulous cards on the blog and I have one for you too, as their guest designer.

The background was embossed and a gold frame from Altenew was foam mounted on it.  The main layer of the Memory Box butterfly was watercolored with Distress Inks and the outline die cut added after it was dry.  The left wing has three layers of foam tape to give it some dimension.

We hope to see your card in the Time Out gallery.

CAS(E) This Sketch #315

I didn't want to do it.  Make a butterfly card I mean.  This is the sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch.

See what I mean?  But I have several butterfly dies and just couldn't resist.

I colored vellum with Zigs and then cut it out using a Memory Box die.  It doesn't work to cut first and then color.  Ask me how I know.  That curled up little piece is in the recycle bin. I cut the overlay in black and glued it on with matte medium. The middle section is embossed with the MFT grosgrain plate.  It's barely visible here but I wanted it subtle.  The sentiment is from EBE.

I'm trying to get back into the groove after being away for a week.  I only have a couple of weeks to get all my Easter cards done.  This is one time I will probably do multiples.

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Twofer Challenge #5

Stretching your creative brain is a good thing and one challenge that calls for that stretch is the Twofer Challenge.  This is where you create two cards, for two different occasions using one word prompt.  This month's prompt is 'butterflies'. 

I knew what I wanted to do for my one card and it went together nicely.

I stamped the butterfly from HLS in Onyx Black and colored them with PolyChromos pencils to look like Monarchs.  The sentiment is from Verve.  The second card took a while to come together and I'm still not sure about it.

After seeing a gorgeous butterfly on the PTI blog, I bought some Frantage and embossed it on a vellum butterfly.  It has a little more gold in it that I thought it would but I carried that through to the gold embossed sentiment by PB.  I used a TH die to cut the corner and put a leftover alcohol ink panel from this card behind it.  I ended up trimming the panel with a jagged die because the original sentiment was crooked and I didn't want to just cover it.  I think it goes well with the jagged edges of the diamonds.

Thanks for another fun challenge, Darnell and Team.

CASology #286

I've heard a number of people say it.  We have so many butterfly stamps it's difficult to decide which one to use for the challenge at CASology.  I chose this one designed by GinaK for Stamp of Approval. The flourish is part of the same stamp set.

It's clear heat embossed on Dove Gray and colored with my new PolyChromos.  Yes, I finally took the plunge and bought some colored pencils other than my Inktense.  I think I'm really going to like them although the shading I did on the wings doesn't show up as well as I'd like in the photo.  It will take practice but I'm looking forward to playing with them.

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Time Out #81

I hate to keep telling you my sob stories so let's just say this card took a while, a change of plans and a lot of paper and ink.  It's for Time Out.

A PB script was used for the background and the butterflies are a mixture of CP and PTI.  The sentiment is from Stampendous.    Here's the inspiration photo.

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The Card Concept #77

I love it when you get an idea immediately upon seeing the inspiration whether it be photo, sketch or word cue.  I had such a reaction to the photo at The Card Concept and it turned out just like I imagined - clean and simple.

It's difficult to see in this photo but what I call Queen Anne's Lace from PTI is white heat embossed.  Before stamping the stems, I softly inked with a Clarity brush and Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.  The butterfly from CP was heat embossed in black and colored with Zigs.  I wanted this to be for a bridal shower and I thought the sentiment from E by E would work beautifully.

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Less Is More #323

I have a card today for Less Is More.  It's a one layer challenge with curves as the focus.

The first stamp that came to mind is this one from CP.  It's embossed in black sparkle and as you can see there are some residual specks but in this case I think it looks okay.  It's like butterfly dust. ;)  The butterfly is from the same set and his wings have been inked with Zigs.  The sentiment is from PB.
Here's a little close-up of the sparkle.

I have some friends who are in need of prayers and uplifting thoughts so this will go to one of them. I'll have a prayer card ready for tomorrow.

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Addicted to Stamps and More #235

What a lovely butterfly.  This is your inspiration for challenge #235 at Addicted to Stamps and More.

More than inspired, it looks like I actually CASEd the photo.  First I smooshed Broken China Oxide Ink onto watercolor cardstock and then stamped the large butterfly from PTI.  On another piece I stamped the outline of the smaller stamp numerous times in my MISTI to get a good black, then stamped the insets and the sentiment with the same Broken China.  Some blue and black splatters, a black sentiment addition and a few sequins were added to finish it off.

How would you be inspired by the photo?  We'd love to see your card in the gallery.