B is for Butterflies!

Birthday, flowers, Ocassions, Seasons, Slimline cards, Spring, Taylored Expressions

Happy Friday my friends!  Are you ready for the weekend?  I know that I don’t have a regularly scheduled workday every day, but I can still always feel a weekend ahead! LOL  Hopefully I can enjoy some time doing some fun projects that I’ve been wanting to get to and go outdoors!  

Today starts up a new challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge Blog!   We are now onto the letter “B” and the hostess has chosen “B” is for Butterflies (use more than TWO of them.)  *Remember that this is a bi-weekly challenge, so you have two weeks to enter*  I hope you will find some time to join us in the gallery!  Here’s what I’ve created:

I do love me some butterflies!  I love using soft pastel colors for the Spring months too!  I have used this set before, but I have gotten it back out again for my mini slimline card today.  I’ve used the Taylored Expressions Beautiful Butterfly Wings & Coordinating dies to complete this.

I white heat embossed the three wings onto vellum and die cut them out.  I also used the die cut to cut out the colored cardstock butterflies for each one along with their center antennas.  Glued them together and set aside to work on the layout.

The base of the card is mini slim size of 3.5″ x 6″ side folded.  I die cut a white layer with the TE Pettie Scallop Mini Slim dies and then layered another white piece using the Stitched Mini Slim dies.  Before I attached it, I splattered some black paint over it.

I then attached each assembled butterfly to the layout design and added the white heat embossed sentiments between them with foam tape.  The sentiment came from the TE Fluttering By Mini Strips & a coordinating strip die.  I finished by added a rhinestone in the center of each butterfly.

**Just a special attention to the tab pages I’ve added at the top of my blog that shows I now have information about purchasing a handmade card from me as well as another page of craft supplies I have available for purchase if interested.  I will regularly update so check back often to see what’s there!**

  • Thank you for taking the time to stop in and share your support!  It really means a lot and I enjoy hearing from you!  Whatever your weekend brings, I hope there’s some good in there somewhere!

Challenges:

  1. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Anything Goes
  2. Krafty Chicks – Birthday
  3. AAA Birthday – Anything Birthday Goes (Happy 6th birthday!)
  4. Crafts Galore Encore – Anything Goes
  5. As You Like It – Soft or Bold Colors? Why? (I prefer soft tones with calm colors as they seem more pleasing to me)
  6. Love to Craft – Anything Goes

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36 thoughts on “B is for Butterflies!”

  2. You chose beautiful pastel colours for your butterflies,the white embossing a lovely finishing touch Meg xx

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  7. I love the white embossed wings on vellum Vicki and the beautiful soft colours on these exquisite creatures, I love butterflies..

    luv CHRISSYxx

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  8. Your butterfly card is absolutely stunning! The soft pastel tones combined with the elegant white heat embossing create such a delicate and dreamy effect. The black splatter adds a lovely contrast, making the entire design pop. Truly a beautiful celebration of spring!

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  9. Last week was busy so I’m back in catch up mode. 🙂 I love the heat embossed details on the wings. You are much better than I am heating embossing vellum. It came out beautiful. And you made a lovely card with them too. And like you, I still think the weekend is downtime after the work week, even though like you I don’t go to work each week. Hope you have something fun planned. hugs-Erika

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  10. The heat embossed vellum butterflies look stunning and look perfect on your card 😊. The pastel colours remind me of springtime, too. I hope you have fun getting those jobs done outdoors. That’s our plan, too; we’ve been working hard getting inside projects done, so it’s outside next. Happy wishes! Hugs, Jo x

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  13. Beautiful butterflies – especially if you are a butterfly lover like I am. Love the colors and what a difference the splattering makes.

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  15. So pretty, I like butterflies and these on here are wonderful, thanks for playing our Birthday challenge at Krafty Chicks Challenge, have a great day! Leanne DT Member/KCC

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  17. Gorgeous card, Vicky. I love the embossed wings of the butterflies. Thank you for joining us at As You Likt It. xx Wilma

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  18. This is SO beautiful, and I love the soft pastels! Thank you for sharing and playing along with us at AAA Birthday, I hope you will join us in future challenges too. Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

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  21. Beautiful – love the white embossing on vellum.

    Thanks for joining us at the AAA Birthday Challenge.

    Helen x
    DT

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