Woo Hoo! It’s time for another challenge from the Sunday Stamps design team!! Are you READY?? This challenge is a fabulous color challenge!!
Isn’t it fab???? I think it is soooo yummy and I had a blast putting my card together:
Yummy, right?? I can’t wait for you to see the rest of the cards by the design team, they really rocked this challenge!! But let’s go through my card first…
Since I pulled all of my colors from the Stampin’ Up! color palette (Soft Sky, Very Vanilla, Baked Brown Sugar and Soft Suede), I also pulled out a few Stampin’ Up! stamps, Butterfly Basics and Gorgeous Grunge, to play with. I used the splatter stamp and the leaf stamp to create my background in Soft Suede and Baked Brown Sugar respectively, stamping off before stamping my card stock.
I then used Square Framelits to cut a square out of my background, added two layers of card stock to it, and re-adhered it to my card. I had a ton of fun with the butterfly! I added a layer of micropore tape to the back of my Soft Suede card stock and then ran it through the Big Shot with the medium Butterfly Thinlit. I then ran Soft Sky and Baked Brown Sugar through the Big Shot with the same die. The micropore tape kept all of the pieces of the butterfly together, but allowed me to use my paper piercer to gently pull some of the pieces out and replace them with the same pieces in another color. I layered the Soft Sky butterfly on top and then carefully added Wink of Stella to all the pieces.
Whew! That was a long explanation, I hope it made sense. This all took a bit of time, but that’s okay, it became a personal challenge for me 🙂 Does that ever happen to you?
I die cut a circle from vellum and stamped it liberally with the honeycomb stamp from Butterfly Basics. The Soft Sky ink is really light on it, so I just stamped and stamped until it was dark enough. I had already adhered the layered square to the card so I was a bit stumped as to how I was going to add my circle. In the end, I used the square framelit to die cut part of my circle away and then used Crystal Effects to adhere the circle to the card.
I also added the sentiment after the fact which is why it’s a bit splotchy…it’s no easy feat to stamp straight with all those layers and twine in the way!! But I actually really like the way it turned out!
And the twine…it came off of something I purchased and I saved it. It’s been hanging around my desk for a few months. I’m glad I saved it, I think it adds so much texture to my card!
And I decorated the inside of today’s card as well:
Love these stamps together!!
The sketch for today’s card was inspired by the Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week:
So fun to work with!!
I hope you love the colors as much as I do!! Please be inspired by the rest of the awesome designs by the Sunday Stamps design team and I can’t wait to see your designs as well!
Wishing you joy and blessings!
Products Used:
Cardstock: Baked Brown Sugar, Soft Sky, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla by Stampin’ Up!
Pattern Paper: None
Ink: Soft Suede by Stampin’ Up!
Stamps:Â Â Butterfly Basics, Gorgeous Grunge, And Many More by Stampin’ Up!
Dies: Square Framelits, Butterflies Thinlits, Envelope Liner Die by Stampin’ Up!
Tools:Â Stamp-a-ma-Jig by Stampin’ Up!
Embellishments: In Color Boutique Details (retired) by Stampin’ Up!; Wink of Stella
I love everything about this card! Going to pin it for future “reference”! 🙂
Very,very pretty. I am going to try this.
Simply gorgeous, Shannon! Good explanation and I appreciate your patience. This card took a long time to create I’m sure, but the results are worth it.
Beautiful card! Pinning it too:-)
Those colors are gorgeous and I just love the card you created with them! The stamped background is beautiful!
Stunning!
Not really sure I understand the technique with the butterfly, but it is GORgeous!! And I love the technique using the background with the square cut out and adding some framing to it! Lovely card, Shannon!
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! LOVE this color combo and you have ROCKED it with this lovely card. I have seesawed back & forth about this stamp set but I think you have pushed me over the edge!!! LOVE it!
LOOOVVVEEE this card Shannon! EVERYthing about it!
Gorgeous! Love the background you’ve created!
The texture, the woodsy feel, the velum and the bit of bling are all fabulous here!
This is so pretty! The color combination works perfectly with your images and your butterfly is just awesome!
A beautiful master piece! Love all the many detailed stamped images and of course the beauitufl butterfly!