Butterfly Birthday

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Jan 192024

Hello there! Today’s card is for my aunt, who is turning 80 years old today! I wanted to send her a card with something more sophisticated than party hats and cute animals, but looking back through my saved photo files I realized I’ve sent her a LOT of cards with flowers. So this year I decided on butterflies.

I browsed through some of the various online cardmaking challenges and realized that I could combine a few of them for this card. I’ve used the AAA Cards sketch again (the same sketch I used for the card in my last post). The Paper Players is asking folks to use “black, white, and a bold pop of color”. It didn’t say whether or not the bold had to be just one color, so when I saw that the AAA Birthday challenge was to use a rainbow of colors, it seemed like that would tie in for something bold.

I punched a swarm of butterflies from six of the colors of the spectrum. (Sorry, indigo.) I die cut a card front from white cardstock and arranged the butterflies across it, following the sketch. I intentionally glued down only the left side or only the right side of some of the butterflies, so that the unglued wings could pop up for a little bit of dimension. I added a sentiment in black, and adhered the panel to a black card base. Ta-da!

And there you have it! I hope my aunt has a wonderful birthday! Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Comments are always appreciated.

Supplies:
Stamps: Birthday Greetings (Gina K. Designs)
Cardstock: Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Cucumber Crush, Pacific Point, Eggplant Envy, Basic Black (Stampin’ Up); Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Other: butterfly punch (Martha Stewart Crafts); Outside In Stitched Scallop Rectangle die (Lawn Fawn)

Posted by PH in VA at 12:15 pm Cards

CAS Colours & Sketches #528

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Jan 092024

Hello there! It’s the start of a new year of challenges at CAS Colours & Sketches!

As usual, we’re starting off with a color challenge. Jeanne, our host for the month of January, has chosen some lovely bright, rich colors for us to work with. My brain toyed with the idea of doing something with florals, but I wasn’t completely sold on that, so I decided to browse through some of the other online challenges to see what they had going on. The Paper Players is asking participants to create a birthday card, and AAA Cards has a sketch challenge. The proverbial light bulb went off in my head, and I came up with this:

OK, it may not be the most conventional color trio to see on party hats, but I thought it worked all right.  Grouping the hats was tricky, and I realize that viewing the hats as one whole image, it’s not centered, but oh well.  I know I’m picky about that kind of thing. 

I hope you’ll join in the fun and creativity at CC&S! You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Monday, January 22 to link your card to the challenge post. Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamps: Hats Off to You, So Much to Say, Happy Everything (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Solar White (Neenah); Berry Burst (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Other: markers (Copic); Stitched Rectangle die (Lawn Fawn)
Posted by PH in VA at 8:00 am AAA Cards challenges, Cards, CAS Colours & Sketches, Lawn Fawn, The Paper Players challenges
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