Good Tuesday morning my fellow stampers. TODAY’S THE DAY!!! The 2019-2020 Annual Catalog goes live at 2:00 Eastern Time today!! I’m so excited, I can’t wait to place my order. I have to work this morning, but I should be out just in time to be able to order. Now of course we can order anytime after 2pm, but I just can’t wait.
In the meantime, I have a card for you today. My Upline is doing a daily challenge for the month of June. I’m always up for a challenge. Today’s challenge was Take A Walk and Be Inspired By Nature. Sometimes I just have to walk away from my craft table to find inspiration somewhere. So, I took a walk outside. I saw butterflies on the bushes where I was walking, so that inspired my card today. They were little white butterflies on the green bushes with pink flowers. I used the Butterfly Beauty Dies as the focal part of my card. I have to be honest with you, this looked a lot easier than it was. I thought for sure cutting out and putting it right back in place was going to be a breeze, nope, I was wrong. Take a look.
For my card today I joined in with Fab Friday challenge #164. Here are their colors.
I also played along with Aud Sentiments challenge #228. Their challenge is Nature + A Sentiment.
I started with a panel of Shimmery White cardstock and did the shaving cream technique using Soft Sea Foam and Pear Pizzazz Ink Refills. Once my panel dried I ran it through my die cutting machine using the Butterfly Beauty Dies. I ran a panel of Soft Sea Foam cardstock through the die cutting machine using the Butterfly Beauty Dies also.
The tricky part came when I had to fit the Shimmery butterflies into the Soft Sea Foam cardstock and adhere it to the Pear Pizzazz card base. I’ll admit, it took me a couple of tries. Once I was able to get everything in place, I carefully adhered all the pieces using Multipurpose Liquid Glue. I ran a panel of Flirty Flamingo cardstock through my die cutting machine using the more detailed Butterfly Beauty Dies. I carefully fussy cut the largest butterfly away from the others using my Paper Snips.
I adhered the large butterfly die to the matching one on the card front using Multipurpose Liquid Glue in just a few spots so that the wings were raised. On a small strip of Pear Pizzazz cardstock I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up Beauty Abounds Cling Stamp Set in Versamark Ink. I immediately sprinkled it with my White Stampin’ Emboss Powder and heat set it using my Heat Tool. I made the strip into a banner and adhered it to the right side of my card using Stampin’ Dimensionals. I added some Rhinestone Basic Jewels to the card front.
On the inside I stamped the bokeh dots from the Beauty Abounds stamp set in Flirty Flamingo Ink in the center of a Whisper White panel. I stamped one of the butterflies from the Beauty Abounds stamp set in Soft Sea Foam Ink above the dots. I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up Butterfly Gala Photopolymer Stamp Set in Pear Pizzazz Ink on top of the bokeh dots. I adhered the Whisper White panel to a Flirty Flamingo mat using Snail and then to the inside of the Pear Pizzazz card base using Multipurpose Liquid Glue. Since I had the other butterflies cut out from the larger one, I adhered them to the left inside of the card base using Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
To finish my card I decorated a Medium Whisper White Envelope. I stamped the wandering flower image from the Beauty Abounds stamp set on the envelope front in Pear Pizzazz Ink. I stamped the butterfly from the Beauty Abounds stamp set in Flirty Flamingo Ink by the flower image. I stamped the bokeh dots from the Beauty Abounds stamp set in Flirty Flamingo Ink on the envelope flap.
Thank you for visiting my blog today. I hope you liked my card and will give it a try. Happy Stamping!!
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Share A Little Love – June Paper Pumpkin Kit!
Care about someone? Why not tell them?
The Paper Pumpkin June kit makes it easy for you to scatter sunshine this summer—whenever, with whomever. Not only do we give you 16 fun-sized, beach-themed cards and envelopes, but the kit also includes an exclusive carrying case so you’ll always have your cards on hand to share wherever you go. And don’t forget the exclusive stamp set and ink spot that completes every Paper Pumpkin kit!!
More about the June Kit:
- In order to receive the June Paper Pumpkin Kit, you must have an active subscription by June 10 at 11:50 PM (MT).
- The kit creates 16 fun-sized, beach-themed cards and envelopes.
- Coordinating colors: Coastal Cabana, Crumb Cake, and Old Olive
Check out the quick video created by Stampin’ Up! with some sneak peaks of the June kit!
If you’re interested in subscribing to Paper Pumpkin yourself, you can either sign up for a subscription where you are billed monthly for your kit or you can purchase a prepaid subscription in my online store. To see more information and to sign up for the monthly subscription, click here. To see the options for prepaid subscriptions in my online store, click here. Let me know if you have any questions.
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Card stock cuts for this project:
- Flirty Flamingo Cardstock 4″ X 5 1/4″ (inner liner mat), 4 1/4″ X 5 1/2″ (panel for butterfly die cut)
- Pear Pizzazz Cardstock 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″ (card base scored and folded at 4 1/4″), 1/2″ X 1 3/4″ (sentiment strip)
- Soft Sea Foam Cardstock 5 7/16″ X 4 3/16″ (card front)
- Shimmery White Cardstock 4 1/4″ X 5 1/2″ (panel for card front butterflies)
- Whisper White Cardstock 3 3/4″ X 5″ (inner liner)
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That is so pretty Karen! I love the colors and the inlaid die cut. 🙂
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Thank you so much Amy 🙂
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Oh Karen, so pretty! Love the shading here, you make our colors look fabulous! I loved reading the details of how you put this together, too – great work! Thanks so much for playing at Fab Friday!
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Thank you so much Heather 🙂
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