Just Us Girls #758 - Mood Board Week

I'm hosting Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls and picked the photo because I knew I had the perfect image for a card. 

See those berries in the bottom center?  That was my inspiration but it took a number of tries that ended in the recycle bin before I ended up with a card I could post. 

I used the Cotoneaster embossing folder and stencil from Altenew.  I won't bore you with my trials and tribulations but this one is embossed on light blue paper, colored with Altenew inks and snowed upon with chunky Frantage from my friend Bonnie.  

Which of these pictures will inspire you?  The Design Team and our guest Annette have some wonderful cards for you to see on the blog and there is also a larger photo.  Take a peek and then make a card for the challenge.  We'd love you to join us.

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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.