I needed to make a birthday card, and I decided to try my hand at a couple of the challenges going on right now at Splitcoaststampers.com.  The layout for this card is the sketch for the Clean and Simple challenge.  The colors for this week’s Color Combination challenge are Concord Crush, Crumb Cake, and ivory.  I substituted the retired color Vintage Violet for the Concord Crush because I had the ribbon to match. Crumb Cake was formerly known as Kraft. I changed it up in the title of this post because 1) my cardstock is old enough that it was labeled “Kraft” and b) I just couldn’t bring myself to say “crumby vintage butterfly” or “cakey vintage butterfly”, LOL.

I stamped the butterfly twice – once directly on top of the flourish, and once on a scrap piece of cardstock. Then I cut the one out from the scrap, gently bent it to raise up the wings and give a little dimension to the card, and attached the body of it to the first butterfly. The flourishes are the two flourish stamps from Stampin’ Up’s Priceless stamp set, but each flourish is stamped twice.  Here’s my tip for getting the images to line up together perfectly.  I stamped each image on two Stamp-a-ma-jig sheets.  Then I arranged the SAMJ sheets on the cardstock to find the most pleasing composition of the stamped images.  Once I had that figured out, it was easy to use the SAMJ to stamp the images on the cardstock.

Supplies:
Stamps: Priceless, It’s Your Birthday (Stampin’ Up)
Cardstock: Vintage Violet, Kraft (SU); Vintage Cream (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Vintage Violet, Creamy Caramel (SU)
Other: Vintage Violet stitched ribbon (SU); corner rounder punch (EK Success); Stamp-a-ma-jig