When I was looking around for a challenge to play along with today, I looked at the Color Challenge over on SCS (CC432) and loved the idea of Smoky Slate, Crushed Curry and Coastal Cabana together. It screamed FLOWERS to me, so…of course, I went with my new favorite set, Flower Shop, one of the sets we are featuring this week over on Create with Connie and Mary Summer Collection 2013.
But, when I was playing around cutting "leaves" from the petals, I discovered that the cut flower sort of looked like a butterfly! Since I'm a huge fan of using punches in different ways other than what they were originally intended, I went with the butterfly on my card! I even made little antenna for him and pearls for his body!
Here are the details:
- The base is 4 1/4 x 11 Smoky Slate cardstock folded in half.
- I cut a 2 1/2 x 4 piece of Coastal Cabana chevron pattern DSP and layered it on 4 x 5 1/4 Whisper White.
- Then I embossed above and below the DSP with the Needlepoint Folder (the dessert touch on SCS).
- I stamped the flowers with Crushed Curry and punched them with the Pansy Punch. I added Itty Bitty Flowers to the centers punched from the Coastal Cabana DSP with little Pearls added to the centers.
- I used the Pansy Punch to punch out the "leaves" from Coastal Cabana DSP and tucked them behind the flowers.
- The butterfly is the open flower stamped with Smoky Slate Ink on Smoky Slate cardstock, then punched with the Pansy Punch. I cut off two of the petals, added Pearls for the body and cut a small sliver of Smoky Slate for the antennas.
- Finally, Happy Birthday from Label Love was stamped with Smoky Slate Ink on Smoky Slate cardstock and punched with the Artisan Label Punch.
Ok…I love it! lol!
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Look at you gettin' all creative on us! I love that butterfly idea!