Peaceful Petals and more Peaceful Petals!

I freely admit it took me hours and hours of tortured agonising to make my first card for Mrs A's new Butterflies challenge. The challenge requires a flower and a butterfly to appear on any handcrafted item and if you like flowers and butterflies (and I do!) nothing should have been easier! I couldn't get the darned thing to go right though so eventually I gave up, made a different card in about two seconds flat and then went back to my butterfly-ish one which just needed a fresh eye and a tweak or two! All this is just to explain why you get two cards today - come and see:

Okay, this is my entry for Mrs A's challenge: I used Stampin' Up's gorgeous Peaceful Petals stamp set to stamp a clump of flowers on Naturals Ivory card stock. The tallest flower was coloured in with markers and then I scored a nice frame round the edge of the card using my Simply Scored tool.

Those gorgeous flowers attracted a pair of pretty, yellow butterflies, cut with my Beautiful Wings embosslits die. They seemed quite happy in there together but the card lacked balance. What sorted it out in the end was the addition of the leaf from the same stamp set, stamped, fussy cut and left uncoloured, and a third butterfly.  I know three is supposed to be a crowd but the other two butterflies must have just been good friends!

There are two lovely sentiments in this set and I stamped one of them, nice and straight, using my stamp-a-majig (don't forget my tutorial is coming on Thursday if you'd like to know how this works!)

Are you wondering about the other card? Well here it is, all pale and interesting:

It looks quite different but in fact it started life in the same way as the other card - the large flower was stamped a couple of times, on Vanilla card stock this time, and the frame was scored. This time though, I decided to add a separate, fussy cut large flower. Oh yes, it's Fussy Cut City around here at the moment!

This works quite nicely with a paler sentiment - but adding a butterfly would have overdone it. So I went a little pearl-tastic instead!

HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO MAKE THESE CARDS
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Stamps: Peaceful Petals wood or cling

Ink: Pool Party, Soft Sky, Smoky Slate classic inks, stazon black

Card stock: Naturals Ivory, Very Vanilla

Other: Markers, Simply Scored, paper snips, Basic pearls, Beautiful Wings embosslits die, Big Shot, stamp-a-majig

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It's half term here which is always exciting as I never know what I'm going to be doing next! It's always a bit hectic but I don't mind because I get to spend more time with my lovely children. Here's a little gem from yesterday when I was talking to my youngest son about France. "Come on," I said. "Let's speak French!" He looked at me sternly. "Non," he said.

See you tomorrow,