My daughter celebrated her 30++ birthday the beginning of last week, and her card is actually what got me back into making cards again after such a dry spell. I have been waiting for her to receive it in the mail, but it seems lost :( So at least I have this way to share it with her while I still hope that it turns up in her mailbox soon!.
A few months ago, I talked about how sitting down and just jumping in and coloring a stamp is what seemed to break through the lack of creativity I had felt for so long. Well I knew about halfway through coloring it, that it was going to be part of my daughter's birthday card because it was all about being carefree and flight and beauty. So I set it aside until it was time to make her card. It would have been SO much easier if I had chose the patterned papers first before I colored the butterfly - but why should I do anything the easy way! So I was overjoyed when I actually found colors that would work!
The stamp is from the Sheena Collection from Crafters Companion.
Her stamps are some of the few I still have that are made from rubber.
They do stamp beautifully. I scanned the stamped image and then did a print and cut
with the Silver Bullet. So much easier than fussy cutting - and so much quicker!
The butterfly was colored with Spectrum Noir markers and highlighted with a Sparkle
pen. Pearl tipped pins were added for the antennae. And colored pearls were added
to the flowers in the first photo above. It's simple but so pretty.
I love how this card turned out. It was inspired by a card I found on Pinterest that used double sided patterned paper and folded it back in an interesting way - a way I had never considered. I hope to play around more with different ways to present a card and see if that unleashes a little more creativity. And it was such fun to color. Looking forward to more of that as well.
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