Script Butterfly

At Flutterby Wednesday this week, 

we are looking for a sentiment on the front of your creation, 

along with your butterfly or fairy!

For my card I used the negative cut from a SU! die

 as a stencil to sponge the butterfly and stamp a script design over it.

This is another favorite card from a recent stamp class.

Love the little pop of red from the heart and the classy pearls too!

Fluttering with Blue, Green & Yellow

We are featuring the colors blue, green and yellow

 at Flutterby Wednesday this week!  

Just remember to add a butterfly or fairy to your creation too

 when you play along with us!

I'm thrilled to share with you one of the beautiful cards

 I made at a recent stamp camp as

I've been saving it for today 

because it went so well with our color challenge!  {wink}

Yeehaw!

Yeehaw!  Christmas is finally here!  Once you've opened your presents and enjoyed some good food, dig into your crafty supplies and create something for Party Time Tuesdays "Anything Goes" challenge.  {wink}

Send A Smile 4 Kids

This week Flutterby Wednesday is fluttering with Send A Smile 4 Kids.  Please check out the FBW Blog for all the details.  We want you to create a card for a child with your butterfly, fairy or angel on it. 

This week also honors my Flutterby team member Harriet Skelly in the Featured Stamper Challenge at Splitcoaststampers.  She has an ah-may-zing gallery to browse through!  Click and see for yourself!  {wink}  I finally settled on this card to CASE of hers. 

My card measures 4-1/4" square.  I liked the simple layers with the large image, the black & white ribbon and the bright yellow on Harriet's card.  So, I swapped out her flower for a butterfly and made it yellow.  I don't have polka-dotted ribbon (wish I did!), but I love this plaid ribbon I got from Pizzazz APlenty.   Then I added a sentiment that could be for any occasion, which makes it an easy, cheery card for a nurse to sign for a child in the hospital.  Here are the guidelines for Send A Smile 4 Kids if you'd like to donate your challenge card to them too.

Pink Roses

Flutterby Wednesday has an inspiration challenge for you this week.  Aren't those pink flowers pretty!  And don't forget your butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation too!

I used the Stampin' Up! embossing folder Manhattan Flowers, cut around the roses and added glitter to the raised embossed lines with a 2-way glue pen.  I really {heart} how the sparkly texture turned out!

I also tried to keep this CAS for the SCS challenge to make an encouraging card with a nature theme.

As always, thanks for fluttering by with your visit today!  I hope you'll be inspired by these lovely pink flowers too and link up your own fluttery creation to the FBW Blog.    {wink}

Stamps: SU! Field Flowers
Ink: Melon Mambo
Paper: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo
Accessories: SU! Manhattan Flowers EF, SU! Beautiful Wings Embosslits, 2-way Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter

Another Oldie & An Owie

Flutterby Wednesday has everyone's favorite challenge this week - OPEN - just remember your butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation and link up at the FBW Blog.  {wink}

I've had a little freak accident with my right hand and my middle finger is now in a splint for 10 days.  It seems I tore one of the tendons - and let me tell ya - it hurts!  I'm pretty slow at this one-handed typing stuff too.  Now the pain med is making me sleepy, so I'd better get to my card quick! {yawn}. 

So - I'm featuring another of my favorite {oldie} cards that's never been on my blog before.  I actually made this one over 5 years ago for a challenge to copy a card from a SU! catalog using different colors.  I really like the blues and the cut-out, popped-up butterfly and flowers.

As always, thanks for the visit and I hope to see you again soon!  {grin}

Stamps: Touch of Nature by Stampin' Up!
Paper: Very Vanilla, Blush Blossom, Brocade Blue, Night of Navy, SU! Oxford DP
Ink: Brocade Blue, Night of Navy
Accessories: Navy Grosgrain Ribbon, Aged Copper Hardware, Dimensionals, Watercolor Brush (for navy flecks)

Just Saying Hello!

This week at Flutterby Wednesday, we want you to use Halloween colors like orange, green, purple and black on your creations with your butterfly, fairy or angel! 

I stamped this big butterfly from a retired SU! set called Wonderful Wings on a piece of glossy cardstock with stazon black ink.  Then I used some q-tip shaped foam daubers and swirled ink on and around the image.  Kind of reminds me of a finger painting - I like the swirly look!  :)

Thanks for fluttering by and be sure to check out the rest of the FBW team's creations - you can find their links in my sidebar.  {wink}

Butterfly Coasters

Flutterby Wednesday has lots of fun stuff going on this month.  Our fluttery leader, Danni, enjoyed a birthday on September 4th and we're celebrating all month long with prizes every week.  {wink}  Check out the FBW Blog for info on prizes from Whimsy and Stars Studio and Tiddly Inks this week. 

Also, we are thrilled to have Amy from A Thousand Sheets of Paper as a guest designer this week!  {grin}  We again have everyone's favorite challenge - it's an OPEN one, just remember your butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation!

Okay, so I don't have a new project to share with you this week.  Life has just been crazy with school starting and going back to work and all the damage in our area from Hurricanes Irene and Lee.  BUT,  I thought I could share with you one of my favorite projects that I did a few years ago.  I've never blogged about it before, so it should be new to most people here, right?

I got these 4" tiles from Home Depot and made coasters as a gift for my Mother-in-Law, as she shares my love of butterflies.  I used a retired set from SU! called Wonderful Wings and stamped the butterflies with black Craft Ink.  Then I left them alone and did not touch them for 48 hours - very important to give craft ink on a slick surface like tile lots of drying time! 

Once they were dry, I colored them with my watercolor pencils - easy peasy!  Then I took them outside (for good ventilation) in a cardboard box and sprayed them with a clear matte sealant spray.  Once the first coat dried, I sprayed them again with a second coat.  That just takes a few minutes.  Then for my finishing touch, I cut out squares from a cork sheet and terrifically tacky sheets to adhere the cork to the bottom of the coasters.  I made two of each butterfly, so it was a gift set of 6 coasters. 

Thanks for fluttering by.  Hope you enjoyed my flashback today! 

Daisy Silhouette

Flutterby Wednesday - FBW#145 Inspiration Photo
SCS Clean and Simple - Silhouette Card

This week we have an inspiration photo for our Flutterby Wednesday challenge to use with your butterfly, fairy or angel. Isn't that a gorgeous scene of daisies against the blue sky?  It reminded me of the Stampin' Up! set Upsy Daisy.  One of my son's teachers has been sick and in the hospital.  I had her in mind as I made this card and I plan to send it to her today.  I clear embossed the flowers on a piece of Sparkle Blanc cardstock, then brayered over them with my Blue Breeze Kaleidacolor ink pad.  I {heart} how the sparkle shows through the ink giving me a glittery blue sky.  I chose yellow for the butterflies and frame because of the yellow daisy centers in the photo.   I used Solar Yellow Pearlescent paper that has a wonderful pearly sheen and gives such an elegant touch in a simple way.  And finally, the sentiment is from Paper Makeup Stamps. 


Thanks for fluttering by today and I hope you'll get inspired with us at Flutterby Wednesday this week!

Stamps: Upsy Daisy by Stampin' Up!, sentiment by Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: Neenah Solar White, Blanc Sparkle, Solar Yellow Pearlescent from Paper Temptress
Ink: Versamark, Memento Paris Dusk, Kaleidacolor Blue Breeze
Accessories: Clear EP, MS Butterfly Punch, Brayer

Christmas in July

Flutterby Wednesday #114 - Christmas in July

I have some fun news! There was a vacancy on the Flutterby Wednesday Design Team and I've been asked to fill that spot for the rest of the year! {doing a happy dance} I just love Danni's weekly FBW challenges and I'm so honored to be asked carry over from my Guest DT work this month. {HUGE smile}

Today's card is clean and simple! I really, really wanted to use an angel for the Christmas in July theme and I think the only one I have is from an old Stampin' Up set called Nativity Silhouette. I decided embossing these images was the way to go and I used iridescent ice powder on the angel to make it glittery. The blue 5-1/2" square is Abysse Sparkle cardstock from Paper Temptress and serves as the base of my card. The Confetti White cardstock is folded in half and mounted on the Abysse paper. The front flap is trimmed up half an inch to show some Gold Metallic Text paper (also from Paper Temptress) that is taped on the inside. I just love how the shimmer of the PT papers set off the shine in the embossed images too. {grin} The saying is from another retired SU! set called City of David.

Thanks for fluttering by today!

Blessings,



Stamps: Nativity Silhouette and City of David by SU!
Paper: Abysse Sparkle Cardstock & Gold Metallic Text Paper from Paper Temptress, Confetti White
Ink: Versamark, Sky Blue Colorbox Pigment, Black Colorbox Pigment, Stazon Black
Accessories: Gold EP, Iridescent Ice EP, Black EP, Piercing Tools

Butterfly Bricks

Flutterby Wednesday - FBW#112 Open Challenge

I am beyond excited to be the guest designer this month at Flutterby Wednesdays! {huge grin} And I am so glad that the Flutterby Team is back in action. Did that little vacation not seem to go on and on to you? I've really missed the weekly challenges. How fun to kick things off again with a blog hop! You should have arrived here from Jodi's fluttery fabulous blog. If not, be sure to start back at the beginning with the Flutterby Wednesday blog and leave a comment at every stop. There's a special fluttery prize hidden for someone along the way. {wink}

For my card today I decided to try my hand at making a brick wall and I totally {heart} how this turned out! After I stamped the butterfly in black ink on the vanilla cardstock, I sponged some color on it. Then I over-stamped the entire panel with a background stamp for the weathered look. I cut the image into half inch strips and then cut those strips into 1" pieces staggered by a half inch to give it a brick layout. Each tiny piece was then sponged for more depth. That really didn't take as long as you'd think, you've just got to keep the pieces all in the right order. Once that was done, I just taped them all to the burgundy cardstock leaving off a few of the 1/2" pieces to add interest and finished off the card! And I just HAD to go over that gorgeous butterfly with my clear spica glitter pen to make it sparkle too. {smile}

And now it's time for you to hop on over to the blog of our fluttery leader herself, Danni!

Blessings,



Stamps: SU! Wonderful Wings, Weathered, Refuge and Strength (saying)
Paper: Bordering Blue, So Saffron, Bravo Burgundy, Very Vanilla
Ink: Bordering Blue, So Saffron, Bravo Burgundy, Creamy Caramel, Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Grosgrain Ribbon, Tag Punch, Sponge, Brad, Kaisercraft Pearls, Clear Spica Glitter Pen

Branch Out

Splitcoast Featured Stamper Challenge - Mercy Kerin FS120
Flutterby Wednesday - FBW#100

I've had this card of Mercy Kerin's marked in my favorites for a long time and decided to CASE it. It's really hard to see, but the coral cardstock has a checkerboard pattern to it from one of the texture plates that SU! sells. The DP circles are from SU!'s Pink Flamingo papers. The tree stamps are all from SU!'s recently retired Branch Out set and the saying is from their One of a Kind set. The bird, butterflies and flower all sparkle from my spica glitter pen and I framed it with paper piercing, just like Mercy did on her card. {grin} I just LOVE how this turned out.

And even though the butterflies {or flutterbys} are little, they're still there, so I'm counting this in Danni's 100th Flutterby Wednesday Challenge too. Congrats on 100, Danni, and here's to the next 100!

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings,



Stamps: SU! Branch Out, One of a Kind
Paper: Cameo Coral, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Pink Flamingo DP
Ink: Cameo Coral, Chocolate Chip, Real Red
Accessories: Checkerboard Texture Plate, Piercing Tools, Circle Punches, Spica Glitter Pen

Milk Carton Challenge

Flutter By Wednesday #94
Limited Supply Challenge LSC257

Ah, it feels so good to have created something this week. {grin} Even if there isn't a bit of stamping on it! haha This is a busier time of year for me than even Christmas! Teacher Appreciation Week, Room Mom stuff, Financial Statements for church, my son's birthday, Valentine Parties to plan for and on and on. It's all good stuff and I'm not complaining, but paper crafting tends to go by the wayside for me these few weeks every year.

Dawn Mercedes asked me to make a sample for her Limited Supply Challenge this week which is to make a milk carton. I followed Beate's tutorial on Splitcoast. It was the perfect excuse to pull out my brand spankin' new Scor-Pal that I ordered with Christmas money (thanks Mom & Dad!). I love how easy it was to square the paper up and score, score, score it in all the right places. {heart}

I know this is the perfect time of year to be making Valentine treat boxes, but I'm just burnt out on all things holiday right now. Any holiday! I love spring and look forward to all it brings, so that's the direction I went. I used designer paper from SU!'s Cottage Wall pack covering the front and back with dotted green and the sides with swirly razzleberry. I used SU! punches for the oval, butterfly and scalloped top. I could see doing something similar and making this a birdhouse another time.

I used a rub-on for the word 'Friend'. Clean and simple and ready to be filled with treats and gifted to a friend when the perfect occasion presents itself. {smile}

Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed day!

Paper: Pale Plum, Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, SU! Cottage Wall DP
Accessories: SU! Punches: Butterfly, Lg. Oval, Scallop, Pearl stickers, Ribbon, Rub-On Saying from SU! Chit-Chat
Technique: Milk Carton

Pretty Woman

Here's a card that I made for Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge. This week's movie is Pretty Woman and the card was to be paper-pieced. Paper-piecing is not something that I've done. I've actually avoided it because of all the cutting out. So, I decided to combine this with today's Ways to Use It Challenge on Splitcoast - Step Out of Your Box. Look at the close-up picture below - I cut out all those tiny flowers, the leg and the tub and pieced them on the pink circle. Is that crazy or what?! But it looks great, doesn't it? haha Then I decided to trace everything with my glitter pen to make the card dazzle even more, just as Julia Roberts dazzled everyone in the movie Pretty Woman. :) The stamps are from SU!'s retired sets called La-dee-da and Floral.



Thanks for looking and have a blessed day!