Butterflies at Sparkles Monthly

Insects/Bugs, Ocassions, Seasons, Spring, Summer, Taylored Expressions, Thinking of You/Miss You

Hello friends!  Hope that your week has been a good one for you!  Thank you to everyone for stopping by and taking your time to spend with me as I appreciate your kindness.

Today starts the August challenge over at Sparkles Monthly and for this month, our hostess is asking to see a butterfly or butterflies on your projects.  I love butterflies and look forward viewing the gallery on this one.  Be sure to stop by the blog to see what the rest of the team has created for you.  Here’s my project for this challenge:

I like how this one came together!  I’ve used several butterfly items from Taylored Expressions.  I started with the background by taking the Fluttering Friends Layering Stencil and stencil the colors Sour Gummy, Spearmint & Peaches ‘N’ Cream over a white card base.  Once the stenciling was finished, I used the Fluttering Friends 3D embossing folder over it which also impresses the bodies and antenna on them.  I layered this over a top folding A2 Spearmint card base.  (I also cut out a frame with the same colored cardstock using the Frame in Frame 3 Cutting Plate).

For the butterfly focal, I white heat embossed a butterfly from the Beautiful Butterfly Wings stamp set and cut it out along with the layered wings and body from the Beautiful Butterflies die set.  I layered it onto a piece of vellum cut out with the Petite Scallop Circle Stacklets die.  I also white heat embossed the sentiment from the Mini Strips-Fluttering By stamp set over Sour Gummy cardstock cut from the Mini Strips die.   I used foam strips to pop it up and I also added some rhinestones on the butterfly wings.

I hope you like my inspiration for the challenge and that you’ll take some time this month to create something with butterflies too.  

Thank you for stopping in and have a great day!

Challenges:

  1. Cut It Up – #310 ‘Thinking of You’ + use of die cut
  2. The Divas That Cut…Paper! – Wet/Dry Embossing (I did both)
  3. Crafty Gals Corner – #258 Anything Goes optional: Embossing Folder
  4. Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
  5. Can You Handle the Pressure? – Anything Goes using Embossing Folder optional: wheels
  6. Stencil Fun – Anything Goes using Stencil optional: Summertime
  7. Triple B – Butterflies/Birds/Blooms (I used butterflies)
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31 thoughts on “Butterflies at Sparkles Monthly”

  1. Wow Vicki, this card is over-the-top beautiful with that gorgeous butterfly along with the framework and matching background! The stenciling you did is so pretty and creative with your chosen colors and this has to be one of your best cards ever! I absolutely LOVE this!

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  2. I love the butterflies Vicki. That embossed background is gorgeous. You did a great job of matching the stenciled the butterflies to the embossing folder. It adds so much interest your your card.You rocked the topic for certain. I see I have some catching up to do, so I’m excited to be off to see some of your other creations. hugs-Erika

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  3. Such a beautiful butterfly on the vellum at the frame and I love the embossed background full of butterflies. You have used gorgeous colours.

    xxx Margreet

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  4. Fabulous card, I like the embossed background-so nicely colored, great use of a frame and the vellum circle highlights the butterfly just the right amount!

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  6. What a beautiful butterfly card, the embossing gives such gorgeous details!!Thank you for entering our challenges at Stencil Fun, Can You Handle The Pressure and Triple B.

    Diane SF, TB, and CYHTP Co-Owner

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  8. I wish SP had a ‘love’ button! This is absolutely gorgeous! I love butterflies and don’t seem to have enough butterfly-themed stuff in my stash! I might have to check these out! I keep going back and looking at your card! I love it!

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  9. So beautiful Vicki, I adore the colours and the stenciled and embossed background is gorgeous and I love the frame vellum and triple layered butterfly, just fabnuklous..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  13. Beautiful butterfly card! The design and components of the card flow perfectly.

    Thank you for sharing your card over at the Cut it Up challenge blog for our Thinking of You challenge.

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  15. Hi Vicki! Well, I’m gonna need you to drive down here and PICK ME UP OFF THE FLOOR, please. This is absolutely stunning and took my breath away!!! First, your color choices are perfect and how you distributed them, too. And that embossed stencil work! Wow! Such a gorgeous card with so many details, love it! Hope you are staying cool, xoxo

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  16. Its quite clear to me why this card is among the winners. It is a beautiful card and I love everything about it. Congrats on the win.

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  17. Wow, your card is stunning! I love how you created the butterflies with the stencilling and embossing folder, and the frame with the butterfly – so beautiful ❤️. Happy wishes! Hugs, Jo x

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  18. This card is breathtaking. I love the color choices and the stenciling on the embossing looks stunning. Brilliant card, one of your best. A real gem!!

    hugs,

    BożenA

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