Butterfly bouquet

Hello, crafting friends!

I'm so happy  to have been invited to guest design today with the talented ladies at the Day Of The Month Card Club challenge where they're celebrating their second birthday with prizes!  This month, the theme is Learn About Butterflies Day and since spring seems to arrived early in my little corner of the world, it's easy for me to imagine a garden glowing with flowers and alive with fluttering butterflies!

To create a background for my butterflies, I stamped one of the bouquets from Stampin' Up's Wrapped Bouquet directly onto a card base then, turning the card round 180 degrees, stamped it again beneath the first. The flowers were coloured with coloured pencils.

To cover the join, I chose a banner style sentiment from an older SU set called Banners for you. It was stamped, shaded with yellow pencils and fussy cut. And then it was time to introduce the stars of the show, the butterflies!

My pair of pretty butterflies came from an even older SU set Painted Glass. They were stamped, coloured with alcohol markers and fussy cut. I attached them to the background with dimensional pads.

And now it's your turn! Are you already thinking about which butterflies you can use? Do pop over to the Day of the Month Card Club blog and enjoy the amazing samples the team have made for you, and you can link your card up there too when you're ready.

CHALLENGES

I'm linking this card up at Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday challenge where she'd like to see Spring Colours; Also Simon Says Stamp where Beautiful Blossoms are the theme; and also at Marsha's Occasions challenge at Watercooler Wednesday

AND IN OTHER NEWS

Because the title of the Day of The Month Card Club Challenge was Learn about Butterflies Day, I thought I'd look them up and learn something new. I found out some extraordinary things: their wings are actually transparent for example - they're made up of tiny scales and the amazing colours we see are just reflections we see through the scales. They don't live for very long - between two to four weeks on average. They taste with their feet! How mad is that?! They can't fly when they're cold... Oh butterflies, I am so with you on that one! When is the real spring coming?

Sending hugs,

A whole bunch of love

Hello, crafting friends!

Welcome to another Tuesday and another fun challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches! YoonYoung will be hosting for the month of March and she has chosen some beautiful colours for us this week.

I didn't need any further excuse to get some flowers out! These are from Stampin' Up's Wrapped Bouquet, stamped directly onto a card base with grey ink and shaded with coloured pencils.

To add some interest to the card, I cut an aperture in a card panel with the coordinating die, trimmed it down with a stitched rectangle die by Heffy Doodle and  attached it to the card base with dimensional pads. You can see how you end up looking into the panel at the flowers :)

To finish, I added a sentiment from Clearly Besotted, coloured in the flower stamens using a terracotta pen and embellished with a few clear dots.

And now it's your turn! What do these colours make you think of?  As always there's so much wonderful inspiration to be found from the team HERE at the challenge blog, and you can also link your card up there when you're ready. Don't forget to keep your design clean and simple!

CHALLENGES

I'm joining in with the Anything Goes theme at The Sisterhood of Crafters and the Feminine theme at Allsorts. I'm also sharing the Wrapped Bouquet stamp set and matching dies at this month's NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff) challenge.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

Can you believe that we are still basking in a February heatwave here in the heart of England?! Our walks have been mud-free which has given me a bit of time to give my tiny garden a good tidy up and a hair cut (something I could definitely do with myself!!)

Unfortunately Eva (perhaps missing that mud) began to dig a hole in the grass while my back was turned and earned a good talking to. I could kick myself - she does this once at the beginning of the outdoors season, gets told off and never repeats her misdemeanour... until the next year when she 'forgets'!

Sending hugs,