Pink and Green Flourish Butterfly

This card was based on a beautiful card that was sent to me by the very talented Angie. You can see her card here (it's the top one!)

This is the card that I made for my matey Loretta for her birthday. I know she has received it so I can post it now.

I decided to make my card a more simple version than the intricate one I received from Angie, and used my new Spellbinders Butterfly Shapeabilities die set.

Using the largest of the butterfly dies, two butterflies were cut from cerise card and white vellum and embossed. A smaller butterfly was also punched from light green glitter card using the Martha Stewart Butterfly punch and the three butterflies were layered up along the centre, with the wings loose and fluttering, although you can't see that in the scanned picture. The butterfly was then adorned with Papermania silver shimmer dots.

A panel was die cut from the cerise card using the Labels 1 Nestabilities die and matted with a smaller die cut from the pink rosebud paper from the Papermania Henbury Lane paper pad.

Flourishes were then die cut from the light green glitter card using the Sizzix Sizzlets Flower and Flourish #2 die and attached to the patterned panel beneath the butterfly.

Using silicon glue, three pink paper rosebuds were attached to the patterned paper panel in the bottom left corner.

The sentiment, from the Fiskars Friends Forever Quotes stamp set, was stamped using Versafine Crimson Red archival pigment ink and the corners of the panel were punched with the small corner rounder punch from Avec. This was then matted onto a panel die cut with a Label 8 Nestabilities die and matted over the bottom right corner of the butterfly panel.

Three silver shimmer dots were then added in the top right corner of the card blank.

Here are the challenges that I am entering this card into:

• Crafts and Me - #37 - Punch It Out
• Digistamps4Joy - #20 - On The Wings Of...
• Divas By Design - Florals
• Flutter By Wednesdays - #57 - Anything Goes
• My Mum's Craft Shop - #8 - Things With Wings
• Penny's PaperCrafty - #54 - Summer
• Truly Scrumptious - #58 - Summer Sparkle
• A Spoon Full Of Sugar - #154 - Flower Power
• Party Time Tuesday - #18 - Anything Goes
• Use It Tuesday - #8 - Flowers and Uninked Stamp
• Happileigh Scrappin' - #24 - Lots of Embellishments
• House of Gilli - Flowers
• Incy Wincy - #96 - Nature
• KB Cute Monday - #15 - Anything Goes
• Make It Monday - #39 - Anything Goes
• Ooh La La - #81 - Happy Birthday
• Squigglefly - #100 - Use 3 of Something
• Stamp With Fun - #113 - In The Garden
• Stamps & Fun = Creativity - #49 - Swirls
• Creative Inspirations Paint - Inspired By Friends
• Dream Valley - #8 - Stamp Something
• Emerald Faerie Garden - #2 - Lots of Bling
• Scrappy Frogs - Birthdays
• 2 Sisters - #41 - Anything Goes
• Allsorts - #105 - Things With Wings
• Creations By Gill M - #8 - Pink and Green and Flowers
• Bloggers Challenge - Make It Shimmer
• Fun With Shapes and More - #84 - Everything Must Sparkle
• Stamp Something - Something Sentimental
• Totally Papercrafts - #68 - Pink and Girly
• By The Cute and Girly - In The Garden
• Crafter's Companion - #13 - Here Comes Summer
• Creatalicious - #22 - Flourishes
• Charisma Cardz - #22 - Something That Flies
• Crafty Purple Frog - Things of Beauty
• Dutch Dare Card Challenge - #115 - Photo Inspiration (Pink and Green)
• PaperCrafting Journey - #11 - Anything Goes
• Stamp Insanity - #61 - Anything Goes