Tangelo Monarch ~ CMCC61

It's Colour Me Wednesday!!!!  We have Tangelo Twist plus a neutral for you this week.  You'll see if you check out the Colour Me blog that many of us designers went the butterfly route!  Well, you know what they say, great minds think alike!  The fun thing is that they are all so different!  

I started with this big, beautiful butterfly die, cut out with black cardstock.  I then traced the outline of the butterfly onto a piece of vellum and cut it out by hand.  I used my orange blendabilites markers and colored the wings.  Once I glued the butterfly together, I put the white dots on the edges of the wing with my white gel pen.  The white background is a bit of the leaf Irresistibly Yours DSP with no color added to it.  It's hard to see it in the photo, but it adds a bit of texture in real life.  I also pierced the black oval frame which you can see better in the photo below.  

The sentiment is from a retired set called {Vintage Verses}. 

The background paper is from the Back To Black DSP pack and reminded me of a lattice fence.  

A few rhinestones finish off this beauty of a butterfly!

Here's a list of my supplies....

Stamps: Vintage Verses

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Pumpkin Pie Blendabilites, white gel pen

Paper: Tangelo Twist, Back to Black & Irresistibly Yours DSP, Vellum

Accessories: Oval framelits, Butterfly thinlits die, Rhinestones

Morgan's Perfect Day ~ PP151 & CCMC258

 

Tonight we are gathering with friends and family to celebrate my neices birthday.  Morgan turns 13 today.  She was a millenium baby.  I made this card just for her!  I used the sketch from The Paper Players 151 and the colors from Create with Connie and Mary 258.

 

The colors were fun and bright, so I went with a merry mix of patterns....polka dots, stripes and honeycom .  The last thing I did was hang a little flowered tag off of the ribbon for added whimsey. 

 

 

Here's a list of supplies.....

Stamps: Vintage Verses, Disstressed Dots, Tiny Tags

Paper: Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Midnight Muse, White

Ink: Midnight Muse, Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, White craft

Accessories: Striped ribbon, white EP, Designer brad, circle punches, Circles #2 die, Silver thread, Honecomb EF, Tiny Tag punch

 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny



Chalkboard Birthday ~ DD44 & FM101

 

Happy Dynamic Duos Saturday everyone!  It's black tie week again with the duo of So Saffron and Black....ribbon is also the dessert option. 

 

 

I decided on two criteria before I made this card.  I would have to use the of-the-moment chalkboard technique and I also had to encorporate the big label die from Appothecary Accents.  It just so happened that while I set that criteria for myself, The Friday Mashup had chosen chalkboard as the challenge for the week!  How lucky! 

I'm calling this my more is more card.  I just couldn't stop myself.  I would add something and think it didn't quite seem finished.  Finally I settled and now that I look at it I wish that I had added a more simple bow or maybe just a tie to the bottom of the die cut.  Oh well.  It is what it is, right!

 

 

Make sure you hop over the the Dynamic Duos blog and check out the other designers creations!

 

Here's a list of supplies:

Stamps: Vintage Verses, Bliss

Paper: Black, So Saffron, Pawsatively Prints DP

Ink: Craft White, Black, So Saffron

Accessories: White EP, White colored pencil, pearls, designer build a brad, striped grosgrain ribbon, itty bitty punch pack, neutrals button, stitched ribbon, paper doily, appothecary accents die, paper piercing essentials

 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny