Flutter By Wednesdays #185

Happy Wednesday! 

We were so happy to see so many fluttery entries last week. It's good to be back! I enjoyed fluttering around seeing so much inspiration!

This week's Flutter By Wednesdays challenge is to use BRIGHT COLORS along with your butterfly, fairy or angel. Please enter your creation {HERE}. To see what the FBW team did with bright colors, visit the links on the FBW blog or the links on my sidebar.

Here is my take on the challenge~

I think I achieved the bright alright! LOL!  I used my Cosmo Cricket Delovely 6x6 pad and Papertrey Ink black cardstock along with one of my favorite butterfly punches :)

I used this week's CPS sketch for inspiration. I couldn't find my corner rounder so I decided to tear and ink the edges of the 4 square panel. I also popped up each square with pop dots but didn't end up taking a picture to show off the dimension.

I am also sharing my card with the following challenge:
Shopping Our Stash #34 - All That Glitters, Sparkles or Shines - everything on my card is from older stash and I'm glad I found these rhinestones that shine :)

Thanks for fluttering by!

Playing for fun!

It's been awhile since I've played for fun. I always make time to get my DT stuff done but not enough time to take part in other challenges.  Instead of cleaning my room tonight I decided it was time to play!

I incorporated 3 challenges into this card~

Paper Makeup Stamps is having a Sizzlin' Summer Colors challenge and I pulled out Danni's Flutterbies so I could play along with The Pink Elephant's Butterflies challenge and I was inspired by this week's sketch at Techno Stamper~

Products Used:
Danni's Flutterbies & Little Moments by Paper Makeup Stamps
Georgia Pacific cardstock
Beach Babe dp by Fancy Pants
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Colorbox Chalk Ink - Warm Red & Tangerine
ribbon from stash

Thanks for stopping by!

Birthday Sundaes #17 - A Summery Color Challenge!

Good morning!! I hope you are enjoying your weekend, I am!

Today's Birthday Sundaes challenge is to create a birthday card using the colors orange, green & white! As always, a birthday sentiment/greeting is required on your card front. Click HERE to play along and check out all the awesome design team samples!

I'll admit I really stumped myself with this challenge and I'm the one that came up with it LOL! I was going to use popsicles but ended up using them on Friday's card. Thankfully inspiration kicked in and I was able to create a card that I love. 

I started with Papertrey Ink Simply Chartreuse cardstock and embossed it with a Cuttlebug folder. Then I punched a bunch of different butterflies from scraps of American Crafts Everyday designer papers and some scraps of white cardstock.  I adhered them all with Diamond Glaze and added Basic Grey Bling it rhinestones and EK Success Halloween gems.  The sentiment is from an old Sweet 'N Sassy stamps set.

TFL!!

Anything Goes for PaperCutz #89!

TGIF!!!

So who is watching the Royal Wedding?? As I type this up on Thursday night, I haven't decided if I'm going to get up a little early just to see the wedding part and skip all the arrivals.  Although at the rate I've been sleeping this week, I may be up really early anyways!

Anyways, the reason you are here - the new PaperCutz challenge for today is the ever popular Anything Goes! That's right any card, layout or project can be entered!  I chose to do a 2 page layout for my Magic Wings book.  I used another layout from the Got Sketch class - 2 down, 8 to go!

Click HERE to enter your creation and check out all the samples from the Design Team!

Products Used: 

Bazzill cardstock

MME Bohemia designer paper

Prima flowers

MM brads

Lil Davis flower from a friend (Thanks Pat!!)

Martha Stewart border punch

Marvy scallop oval punch

Any plans for the weekend? I have a birthday party for my niece tomorrow that I still need to make a card for and then I hope to get a few more layouts done. I also need to finish up my April in Review post!

TFL!

Magic Wings Layout

{Please scroll down for my Flutter By Wednesday post}

I can upload pics again, yay!! Catching up on some planned posts, one more after this one!

I scrapped last night and finally used one of the 2 page layouts from the Got Sketch 106 class that I signed up for in November. I have several more in the works all featuring pictures from my day trip to Magic Wings. I'm hoping to get this book finished up in the next few months as September will be 5 years that I went LOL. Hoping to scrap another page or two tonight but my Red Sox are on and my fave pitcher is pitching (Josh Beckett) and Idol is on too!

{click on photo to see pictures better}

Supplies Used:
Bazzill & DCWV cardstock
American Crafts Backyard dp
Marvy scallop punches
Fiskars Optic border punch
Jolees butterflies/flowers

TFL!

Flutter By Wednesday #147

Halfway to the weekend, yay! Although it's going to be coooooooold here, not spring like at all!!!

Today's FBW challenge is an open one - just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel! Link your creation up HERE and check out all the DT inspiration - links on my sidebar.

I always find these open weeks difficult - so many stamps, so little time! I finally settled on using my Simply Special stamp from Paper Pretties. I won it in Danni's FBW Birthday Blowout candy back in September and it hadn't seen ink yet.

I love how this turned out!  The layout is from this week's Paper Craft Planet sketch.  I did change it from a square to standard size card since the paper I used was 4.5x6.5 versus 6x6.

Have a great day!

Flutter By Wednesday #146

Happy Wednesday!

Today's Flutter By Wednesday's challenge is to use green and/or a sketch by Carly, along with a butterfly, fairy or angel! You can see the sketch HERE on the FBW challenge blog.

I decided to do the green challenge. I was moving things around in my room and found these Poppyseed papers by K & Company, perfect for what I had in mind!

The pretty daffodills are from the Digi Doodle Shop, a newer to me digi company. I've had them printed out for weeks and since spring is on my mind, here they are finally on a card!

To join in the challenge, please click HERE and for more inspiration, please visit the other DT members, links on my left sidebar!

To Sew or Not to Sew?

Today's Lasting Memories Challenge is sewing!

I do not sew...that's one crafty talent that I do not possess, lucky for me real or faux sewing/stitching goes. I searched through my stash and came upon some DCWV stitching rub-ons. Score!

So here is my challenge layout~

Very clean and simple...the picture is another from Magic Wings. Paper is from the My Mind's Eye Bohemia collection. Title is made from Thickers.

To play along and see what the rest of the team created, please check out the Lasting Memories blog!

Lasting Memories Challenge #11

Good morning!

I hope you all are enjoying your weekend. I started on prednisone (steroids) yesterday, so hopefully this cough will be gone soon! Yesterday my DH and I spent the day shopping - new clothes for both of us and some frames & art for our dining room. It was a lovely day

Today's Lasting Memories Challenge is to MAKE handmade flowers and use them on your layout. I did not follow the directions, oops - we can blame that on being sick all this time right? LOL

The flowers are my page are from THIS Etsy shop - so cute!! Not too easy to stick though - any suggestions? I've got glue dots on the leaves and pop dots on the flowers but they are all ready to fall off :/

The paper is from the Basic Grey Perhaps line and the pictures are more for my Magic Wings album...4 years later and I'm still working on it LOL

To play along, please enter your challenge HERE and check out the rest of the inspiration from the design team!

Lasting Memories Challenge #3

Happy August! Wow, it doesn't seem possible that this much of the year has gone by already!!

Today I have a layout to show you for Lasting Memories's 3rd challenge ~

• Add a stamped image to your layout (this can be one image or making your own background, whatever you like)

I just love my page for this challenge! The pictures are from Magic Wings - a butterfly pavillion I visited with my mother almost 3 years ago...no title/dates since I've already done a bunch of pages for this album (and still have more to go lol!) I have a chart showing the different butterflies that are at the pavillion but I couldn't find one of them to write on the layout.

For my stamping, I used a quote from the Stampin' Up set Happiness of Butterflies. You should be able to read it if you click on the picture. I also used Tilda with Butterfly from Magnolia and perched her on a flower.

I am also entering this layout into the Flutter By Wednesday #115 since it's an open week!

Supplies~

Stamps: quote from Happiness of Butterfly ~ Stampin Up!, Tilda with Butterfly ~ Magnolia Stamps

Paper: Bohemia by My Mind's Eye

Ink: Memento

Copics: E00, R20, YG03, YG23, B14, B24, B26, E29, E25

Other: Martha Stewart butterfly punches, ranger white ink pen, Sundance smooch

Please visit the Lasting Memories blog to see all the fantastic DT samples and to enter your challenge layout!

ESS #83 with Lili

Here is another card I created over the weekend in the midst of Bella fest!

This is Flower Lili from Inky Impressions. I thought she would look great paired with BG Green at Heart!

I used Tracy's sketch from this past Thursday for the layout...was going to keep it a circle and then found some big flowers and thought one of those would look cool! And of course I had to add a few butterflies!

Card Details~

Stamps: Flower Lili ~ Inky Impressions

Paper: BG Green at Heart

Ink: Memento

Copics: E00, BG01, RV34, V06, E29, E27, E41, YR16, E25, B95, B97, B99

Other: prima flower, Martha Stewart punches

Be sure to stop back tomorrow morning for another Flutter By Wednesday and For Fun Challenge!

Smile

Butterflies make me smile, so when I saw this stamp from the CC Designs line at All That Scraps, I just had to have it!


I paper pieced this cutie a few weeks ago and finally made a card using it today. The colors are for a challenge I hosted on one of the yahoo groups I belong to - purple, white & gray. It sounded easier than it was lol. The layout is the sketch challenge for this week over at For Fun Challenges, mine isn't exact, but I think it's pretty close :)


Card Supplies~
Stamps: Butterfly Baby Bunnies ~ CC Designs; Celebration of Thanks ~ Verve Stamps
Paper: Basic Grey Kioshi
Ink: Memento
Copics: RV32, V15, Y32, ROO
Other: MS monarch butterfly punch, Recollections pearls, Stampendous fun flock, cuttlebug folder, ribbon ~ Michaels, Marvy Extra Giga scallop oval punch, Zig writer, Tombow glue pen, lilac spica pen

I hope you all had a good weekend! It was great here, just too short!!!

Flutter By Wednesday #96

Good morning! It's a snowy Wednesday here in my part of New England.

It's Flutter By Wednesday #96 and our challenge this week is to use the theme of Love, however you perceive it, just be sure to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creations. We are sooooo very happy to see so many participants entering our challenge. Keep up the great work!!

I found the coolest stamp to use on my card this week :) It's from the Unity set Be "Owl" Mine.


Here is a side view of the card, I stamped cut two butterflies out and layered them for some dimension.


I just love how this card turned out...bright, happy and full of butterfly love!

I used a sketch from Get Sketchy -


If you'd like to play along, please link your card to the Flutter By Wednesdays blog and while you are there, check out the awesome cards by our guest designers. I'm sure the other flutterbys have some amazing creations as well, so check out their links in my left sidebar and on the Flutter By blog.

Card Supplies:
Stamps: Be "Owl" Mine ~ Unity
Paper: Sugar Rush ~ Basic Grey
Ink: Memento
Copics: R81
Other: Martha Stewart butterfly punches, Kaisercraft rhinestones, stardust pen, misc. ribbon

Thanks for stopping by!

Butterfly Swirls

Here's another creation from a few weeks ago. I made a bunch of cards but haven't had the time to blog them.

I used a Paper Craft Planet sketch - SK053009.

More old paper being used up, YAY!! Only 999,999 sheets left! LOL!!

The Recipe:
Stamps: Butterfly Swirls ~ The Angel Company
Paper: GP, PTI Aqua Mist, K&Co, misc dp (purple piece)
Ink: Tuxedo Black ~ Memento, V01 Copic marker
Accessories: Giga & Xtra Giga scallop oval punches ~ Marvy, trim ~ Doodlebug, stardust stickles, prima flower

Thanks for stopping by!

SC219 & Stamp Simply #79

I created these cards a few weeks ago and haven't had a chance to post them until now. They are some of my favorite cards that I've created recently. I saved the pink based one so I can frame it and have some of my art on my walls The stamp is from a set of 4 wood mounted butterflies from Hero Arts. Its a set that I bought forever ago and am finally using.

The sketch is SC219 which you can find HERE and I also used a challenge from the No Time to Stamp? blog. I find the neatest challenges here. This is challenge #79 - You've Been Tabbed. I love how the ribbon tabs look and will definitely try it again!


The Recipe:
Stamps: Two Butterflies Fig 1 ~ Hero Arts
Paper: GP, Porcelain ~ Basic Grey
Ink: Tuxedo Black ~ Memento, Copics ~ R20 & YR82
Accessories: ribbon ~ Joanns

Thanks for fluttering by!

Butterfly Layouts

Here are a few layouts I did over the weekend for an online crop. The pictures were taken at Magic Wings in Deerfield, MA back in September 2006.

This is a Tithorea butterfly. I used Basic Grey Perhaps line for the paper and Thickers for the title. The ribbon is from American Crafts as are the brads. You can see the original sketch HERE.

This is a mix of butterflies, I labeled most of them. The paper is the Bohemia line from My Mind's Eye. You can see the original sketch HERE.

This is an Indian Leaf butterfly. One of my favorites from that day. It was quite the challenge getting pictures of it! You can see the original sketch HERE.


This is a Postman butterfly (on the statue). No sketch used! I kept it simple so the paper wasn't covered. up. More MME Bohemia and Thickers.

And this is one of my favorite layouts from the weekend. No sketch used! Paper is from the MME Bohemia line. The title was one of the crop challenges and I used thickers to spell it out. I used my new Martha Stewart butterfly punch to dress up the layout a bit. I just love how it turned out.

Thanks for looking!!

I {heart} to Stamp with a little bit of flutterby

I made this card for February's Aloha RAK group...I used two challenges to create the card.

The sketch is from yesterday's I {heart} to Stamp Sketch for You to Try and used more yummy dp from the Basic Grey Sultry line.

I also wanted to do Danni's Flutter by Wednesday #44...the challenge was to use a butterfly, sparkle and buttons. Hopefully you can see the sparkle on her shirt and the butterflies, I used the copic spica clear pen and its not showing up as well as I had hoped!


And the copics:
The Recipe:
Stamps: Butterflyabella (Stamping Bella)
Paper: Georgia Pacific, Sultry (Basic Grey)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Accessories: Copics, clear spica pen, butterfly punch (EK Success), ribbon (Michaels), buttons (misc.)

Thanks for looking!

August Layouts

Here are the layouts I've done this month! TFL!