Colorful Butterfly

Hello my friends.

Today is the last day to play at CAS Watercolour and I have
one more colorful butterfly to show you.

Our sweet host for the challenge this month is Marcia and she chose....

My butterfly was stamped on mixed media paper and heat embossed in gold.
The embossing helps to corral the watery color.

I've wet each section and dropped in a bit of re-inker and just let it spread
within that section.

The color was a bit too intense in some sections so I used a wet waterbrush
to sop up some of the color.  The brush needs to be cleaned often or the color
won't lighten.

When it was dry, I let Stella generously wink it.

Love that shimmer.

I found this sentiment piece in the UFO box, already stamped
and embossed.

This month our design team is joined by Amy (Miss Lomax Art) as
our Guest Designer.  Be sure to check out her beautiful butterflies as well
as the rest of the Design Team.  Lots of wonderful inspiration there.

Then watercolor some butterflies and join us at
CAS Watercolour.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Butterfly (Ali), Script Sentiments #2 (Inky Antics)

Ink:   Encore Gold, Black

Paper:   Neenah, Mixed Media (Strathmore 400 series)

Other:  Gold EP (SU), SU Re-inkers (Island Indigo, Primrose Petals), Floral Affection EF (SU)

Watercolor Butterfly for Addicted to CAS

I have a new toy!

I had to have wanted the Wplus9 Flora and Fauna set since I saw it last year.

What a perfect set! It has flowers, butterflies and birds.

It was my choice for the challenge at
Addicted to CAS 
this time and I chose.


The sponsor this time is

Prize - $10 voucher to the store
(They have some pretty butterflies too.)

And we have a new Guest Designer this month.

Flo (Flos Habseligkeiten)

Do go visit her blog.

She has some awesome CAS Designs!

I stamped this medium-sized butterfly with StazOn ink
and watercolored it with Distress Markers and my Aqua Painter.

Love the way it turned out.

I even got some good splatters!

I had this little snippet from a piece that I did using 
Kylie's Acrylic Block Technique.

It seemed a perfect resting spot for my butterfly.

and my snippet gets me into
Pixie's Snippet Playground

and

Addicted to Stamps this week is
MAKE YOUR MARK
I colored with Distress Markers.

Thanks so much for the visit and for your uplifting comments.
I appreciate each of them.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps: Flora and Fauna2 (Wplus9), Special Wishes (Penny Black)

Ink:  Jet Black StazOn, Pool Party, Basic Gray, Distress Markers (Seedless Preserves, Faded Jeans)

Paper:  Watercolor (Strathmore, Arches), Pool Party

Other:  Aqua Painter, Misti

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Big Butterfly Thinlits

Here's another of the butterfly cards I whipped out last week.

I even used a piece of DSP.

Imagine that!

The butterfly was cut from a piece of Irresistibly Yours DSP (a Sale-a-bration choice)

and lightly sponged with Calypso Coral.

I cut some centers out of snippets of Early Espresso so I'd have some on hand.

It's mounted on a piece of  Best Year Ever DSP (another Sale-a-bration choice).

A few sequins from the In Color assortment and it was done.

Super quick and easy!

Challenges

Pixies Snippet Playground

Simon Says Monday Challenge

NO RULES

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge

ANYTHING GOES

I hope you're having a great weekend.

We still have snow on the ground from 2 snow storms in one week.

This morning we have freezing rain so the trees are bedecked in ice

and the bird feeders in icicles.

Here's a couple of photos I got a couple of days ago.

a snowy back yard

Carolina Wren

House Finch

How's that for 2 different seasons in one blog post?

No matter what the season, it's a wonderful world!

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Ink:  Calypso Coral

Paper:  Pool Party, Best Day Ever DSP, Irresistibly Yours DSP

Other:  Butterflies Thinlits, Stampin' Sponge, In Color Sequins

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Butterfly Thinlits Splotched

I almost talked myself out of the Butterflies Thinlits in the Stampin' Up! mini catalog.

Almost.....

I'm so glad I decided to get them!

Here's one of the quick and easy cards I made with them.

You'll be seeing more at a later date...

Because I made a dozen cards with these dies.

I remembered a piece of the watercolor splotches in my 

UFO (UnFinished Objects) box.

Glued this butterfly cut out in black.

Stamped hello.

Added a few sequins.

Adhered to a card base.

Done!

I'm going to take this over to 

Simon Says Monday Challenge

NO RULES

and

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge

ANYTHING GOES

 

I'm so glad you could stop by today.

Enjoy!

   

Butterfly

There's a new challenge on the block.  Our Mrs. A has started a Butterfly Challenge.

The first challenge is butterflies and flowers.  A perfect combination!

I need some warm colors today.

And since this challenge closes very soon, I'm not going to add the details.  If you want to know something, you can email me or leave a comment with a link back to you.

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

Featuring Danni with Bitty Butterflies

This week's Featured Stamper at SCS is Danni (aka danni5199).  I wasn't familiar with Danni's work but that's one reason I enjoy doing the Featured Stamper Challenge.  I love finding new inspiration!  There's no envelope and my butterflies are lined up like little soldiers, but I hope it's close to Danni's fun card.

Here's is another with different colors.

I also had inspiration from Liz at Simply Creative.  What a wonderful idea to use up some of those snippets!

Pixie's Crafty Workshop is always looking for cards made for snippets so I'll go over there again.  I was waiting at the gate on my last card and was a bit lonely being the first one in.  The real reason I was so early was really that I was late for the last weekly antics and figured I'd just wait til the gates opened back up.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe

Stamps:  SU (both retired)

Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Concord Crush

Paper:  Island Indigo, Concord Crush, Snippets

Other:  Perfect Polka Dots EF, Baker's Twine, Basic Rhinestones, Basic Pearls

It's been such a wonderful long weekend. Time spent with friends and family, crafting and a clean house are all things that make me happy.  

A friend sent me this link from U-tube.  It's an amazing rendition of Amazing Grace.  Here's the link if you're interested.

Thanks for stopping by.  That makes me happy too!

Enjoy!

Fluttering by with Dynamic Duos

Hi again.  That UFO box of mine is getting a workout.  It's really fun to find items that work for a challenge card.  When I saw the Dynamic Duos challenge, I thought about these leaves that I had stamped a while back.  (Probably at least a year ago.) They didn't work for what I wanted that day and got tossed in the box.

Don't these pieces work perfectly for this challenge? I love it when that happens!

The butterfly was from a friend's punch.  She brought it for Stamp and Share and I punched a few of these beauties before she left.  I hadn't found just the right image to put them on until now.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Growing Green (retired), Blooming with Kindness

Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Tuxedo Black (Memento)

Paper:  Acrylic Pad, Basic Black

Other:  Butterfly Punch (?)

Your response to my thoughts on blogging yesterday are heartwarming!  I'm not going to give up entirely and in a few months when the boys are in kindergarten and preschool, I'll be back full steam ahead.  Honestly, it's so hard to cut back. Making cards helps keep my sanity and I love to share and see what you are doing too.  It's hard to cut back on what you love.  I'll be around.  Thanks for the love!

I'm so glad you could stop by.

Enjoy!

Featuring Robin

Robin, aka Missro is the Featured Stamper at SCS this week.  I wish I had time to CASE more than one of her cards.  Such inspiration in her gallery.  I chose this card as my inspiration.  Here's mine....

I pretty much kept the layout using a larger, rectangular design area.  I used the embossing on my main panel and a different butterfly.

Simon Says Stamp Challenge is having an  Anything Goes week.  I'll bet there'll be lots of entrants in this one!

Addicted to Stamps and More is having a MAKE YOUR MARK  challenge this week.  You can create anything you like but you MUST use markers on your project.

I used Stampin' Up! markers to color the butterfly.  Then I smacked it with VersaMark and clear embossed it to give the wings a silky look.

I made the antennae from a tiny snippet of black which I slit with my paper snips and taped to the back of the butterfly.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe

Stamps:  You're a Gem (retired), Butterfly (Lost Coast Designs)

Ink:  Tuxedo Black (Memento), VersaMark, SU Markers (Pool Party, Certainly Celery, Marina Mist, Basic Black)

Paper:  Pool Party, Basic Black Whisper White

Other:  Adorning Accents Edgelits and EF, Pool Party Seam Binding, Clear EP, Birds and Swirls EF (Cuttlebug)

Thanks for the visit!

Enjoy!