Butterfly Note Cards

Here's the gift set I created to give to a friend's mother for her 90th birthday. I made two of each color along with the 4-1/4" square envelopes and butterfly postage stamps. I have a clear gift box so should be a nice presentation.

Now I'm ready to move onto creating something for late summer or fall. I've already been stocking up on some of the newly released products for autumn and the holidays. Fun! Fun!

Second View of Butterfly Note Card

You can see the vellum overlay of this note card with a side view. I also want to thank my friend Karen for helping me get my mojo back by helping re-organize my stamp room after much travelling, company and illness. Thanks, Karen!!!

My husband is on vacation this week and our daughter and her family will be visiting so not much stamping will get accomplished. It will be wonderful to be surrounded by family. Hope you're having a good weekend and we'll be spending some time on the boat this afternoon with friends enjoying the warm, muggy weather. It's okay 'cause winter is just around the corner! Happy August!

Note Card

Why am I not able to post more than one picture??? Need some help here from bloggin' friends!!! Anyway, I've been wanting to use the Butterfly set from Spellbinder's to create these little note cards. I cut the base with the largest butterfly die from DCWV cardstock and then cut the overlay out of this beautiful vellum I have been hoarding forever. I will post another picture showing a side view. I cut the sentiment using the Spellbinder's long deckle rectangles. Added a little bow and some pearls. I'm thinking I will create several of these to use as gift sets.

Scrap Challenge

Another challenge for our monthly stamp club was to use scraps left over from other projects. Thanks to a suggestion from a stampin' friend, I used the CCEE 1030 sketch challenge to use some BasicGrey's Wisteria scraps I had by my workspace. The main image is from Kitchen Sink Stamps and the stentiment is from Flourishes. I cut the lilac image with Spellbinder's Nestabilities Oval die and then layered it on purple cardstock cut with Labels 10. The sentiment was cut with smaller Nestie ovals. The base cardstock is Bazzill. I invested in a wonderful artist's air compressor this year and love highlighting my images with Copics. The compressor is very quiet and runs very little when in use. Probably one of the best "large" stamping purchases I've made!

Another Stamp Club Challenge

For the August challenge, we were to use Mojo Monday schedule challenge #148. My base cardstock is Bazzill and the designer paper is from BasicGrey called Ambrosia. The sentiment is from Just Rite and I used a Martha Stewart punch for the strip of paper on the bottom. I love butterflies and must own dozens of butterfly stamps and embellishments. This was a fun challenge.

Stamp Club Challenge

Our club challenge this month was to use this Cosmo Cricket paper, some sort of fabric embellishment and the card should have an anniversary or wedding theme.



I chose to use the MMSC#61 - lovin' the offset of the oval! The image is from Stampin' Up and I colored the image directly with chalk ink pads. The fabric flower is from Prima and the pearls from Hero Arts. Hope your summer is going well!

Happy 4th of July!

My front porch with the flag and flowers all ready for family coming home for the holiday. Time for some relaxing fun in the sun! Have a safe and fun Fourth!