Butterflies Birthday

BUTTERFLIES...

Birthday.

I always liked cards with a feeling of movement. Nothing like butterflies ready to take flight to illustrate this.

When I was in Julian last week, butterflies were fluttering all over freshly blossomed flowers.

 This inspired me to design this card for a very special friend of mine. I chose this country feel designer paper for its striking resemblance to the field of little flowers under the apple trees.

The butterflies were made with a Martha Stewart punch, as well as the bottom edge of the patterned paper.

I added a "body" to the butterflies with puffy paint, Tulip Metallics White.

The sentiment was designed on my computer.

Until next time...

Thank You For Being So Thoughtful

THANK YOU...

... for being so thoughtful.

Pinterest is MY source of inspiration, daily.

 I found a beautiful card from:

http://iminhaven.blogspot.com/

and another from:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1965165

and had to try one (or two) of my own...

I just loved the two tones, silver and white.

For both of the card, i printed the sentiment on a silver card stock cut 2/8 shorter than the regular width of an A2 card.

I also punch the bottom edge with a Martha Stewart edger puncher.

For the top one, I used a new stamp from ditto, and just colored the leaves with my copic.

The bottom one used daisies stickers from Stickopotamus and I free drew the stem using a Pentel gold metallic gel pen. Very often, it will appear khaki color on some card stock.

This is it! Thank you my fellow crafters for inspiring me every day.

Until next time!

Mother's day and Father's day

It might not be just around the corner, but I felt like it!