Today I'm sharing my idea that started with a picture that was going to be a card and ended up being an inspiration piece sitting on my crafting desk for me to look at this year (or until I change it!). Thanks Crafty Challenge for giving this diverse group of demonstrators the opportunity to share some great ideas with you - grab your favourite bevvy and join us and be inspired as you "hop" from one post to the next! The list is at the bottom so you can easily check out every post - and do leave us a comment - we love to hear from you!
Our Crafty Challenge Blog Hop this month is to use these colours so I had the perfect background to make my design!
My starting point came from the Brilliant Wings Dies that are part of the Butterfly Brilliance Bundle in the Annual catalogue (p 158) and the sample from our concept artists on that page.
To get all the die cuts on one page, I cut my Basic White Thick Cardstock at 5 1/2" x 6 1/4". I also cut a piece of chipboard from a Paper Pumpkin kit down to 6" x 6 3/4". I covered it with a sheet of Designer Series Paper from the FREE Simply Marbelous Sale-a-bration flyer, adding a small strip near the bottom to complete the background.
Next I grabbed three sheets of the DSP in the colours from our challenge and the same large die cut used on the Basic White CS, and die cut the butterflies from each page.
I glued the Basic White die cut layer to the background then added my die cut our butterflies - two of each colour. I used the individual butterfly die cuts to cut some in the Layering Designs Vellum from the Spring Mini, and the rest from Basic White Cardstock.
The butterflies were added with glue dots into the corresponding spaces.
The greeting is stamped in Highland Heather from In The Moment stamp set (Spring Mini) and punched with the Essential Tag Punch in the Annual Catalogue. The finishing touch was some Pool Party Sheer Ribbon and I added a mini clothes pin from my stash.
Love how this looks on my desk to remind me to take some time to just RELAX!
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Happy stamping!
Ginny
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Beautiful Card Ginny xx
ReplyDeleteLove the way you used the dsp! Pretty card!
ReplyDeleteSuch a sweet, sweet card Ginny, love it x
ReplyDeleteVery pretty! Love the butterflies!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty and I love the idea of a piece of inspirational art to sit on the desk.
ReplyDeleteStunning project!
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