Bright Butterflies for a Birthday!

I happened to notice that I have a friend's birthday coming up (the part I always miss in sending cards is planning ahead). This person does things for my birthdays and my daughter's so I let my daughter choose the supplies. I told her to pick a stamp set and three colors of ink. Um, who needs a challenge site when you have a creative kid who likes things differently than you do? hahaha!! These are bright colors I would never have put together. She wanted these three butterflies, the hearts and that word stamp...HMMM. After a couple of tries I think I made it all work together with the latest Nacho Average Challenge sketch!

Supplies:
Stamps: Papillion Potpourri, Perfect Pennants
Ink: Calypso Coral, Pumpkin Pie, Cucumber Crush
Paper: Cucumber Crush, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White card stock, In Color Envelope Paper
Accessories: White Baker's Twine, Dimensionals

Butterfly Grunge

Back to the workshop last week...
Thursday's hostess has a bright, fun personality so I wanted the make & take to be something that suited her. I used last week's Clean & Simple sketch and this is what I came up with!

Supplies:
Stamps: Gorgeous Grunge, Papillion Potpourri, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry & Melon Mambo
Paper: Melon Mambo & Whisper White card stocks, Sweet Taffy DP
Accessories: Bitty Butterfly Punch, Dimensionals, Brights Candy Dots

We started with the two splats in Daffodil Delight, but the smaller splat I stamped off once for a paler shade. The larger splat was stamped twice and the smaller three times. Then the little dots were stamped once in Old Olive. I punched out the detailed butterfly and popped him up on Dimensionals. Then we added two Bright Candy Dots of their choice. And there you have it!

Good Thoughts!

I had a great weekend- how about you? I even got some cards stamped! Were you tired of pages? I played with some sketches and had fun! So we'll get right to it!
Today's card is a happy way to start off a Monday! I used the latest Freshly Made Sketch and the latest In Colors for this card. I even know who just to send it to!

Supplies:
Stamps: Papillon Potpourri, Perfect Pennants
Ink: Hello Honey, Blackberry Bliss
Paper: Hello Honey, Blackberry Bliss, Whisper White
Accessories: Big Shot, Banners Framelits, Neutral buttons, Linen Thread, Dimensionals

Happy Butterflies!

Tomorrow is my New Catalog workshop! Don't forget to RSVP so that I can have your supplies prepped! In the meantime, I am still getting everything ready!

Today I have another card from my display board. For this one, I used the current Clean & Simple sketch, and another color combo from MDS. It is definitely clean and simple!

Supplies:
Stamps: Papillon Potpourri, Itty Bitty Banners
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive
Paper: Old Olive, Sahara Sand, Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Bitty Butterfly Punch

Teacher Appreciation!

School ended this week, and that means Teacher Thank You's. I could never be a teacher of a classroom full of any age, and I appreciate them so much, so I feel this is important. Also, My kids have been very blessed to have truly wonderful teachers, and that cannot go unrewarded! This year we needed gifts for each teacher, the bus driver, the choir teacher and a counselor!

I looove these note card ideas from Becky Roberts, so I made up a couple more for my son to give. I was going to just use the pencil image, but I realized we just gave the teachers the pencil stamp card a few weeks ago, so for his teacher I went with the grunged up butterfly!

This is what the table looked like while we were assembling the thank you gifts...everyone got candy, two people got a drink, lol, one got popcorn, and they all got an assortment of cards for them to use, along with a thank you from me and my child(ren).

And here they are, ready to go, the night before! 

Happy end-of-school year to all of you! Bring on summertime!

Butterfly Congrats!

Last year my mom taught a class of young children at church, and a girl invited my mom to her baptism next week. My mom asked me to make a card for the girl, because she is in the process of moving and all her stamp stuff is packed!
I looove the long retired Presto Patterns DP for baptism cards and had some of this flower print already sized for a card front! Then I just made the latest Clean & Simple sketch work with the butterfly punch and stamps! I like how the punched butterflies show the marbled pink and purple. I thought the Congrats banner by itself was too short so I added another one, and I like that look, so here she goes!

Supplies:
Stamps: Itty Bitty Banners, Papillion Potpourri
Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant, Pretty in Pink (retired)
Paper: Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White card stocks, Presto Patterns DP (retired)
Accessories: Bitty Butterfly Punch, Hexagon Punch, Dimensionals

A Paper Page!

At my workshop, I displayed and discussed plenty of MDS products- calendars, an 8x8 book, pages, and cards. But I demonstrated a traditional paper page to emphasize stamping in scrapbooks and the extra versatility of stamps. Using a sketch found on Pinterest (from Cheryl, haha, whose page sketches I use often!) here is the page I made-

Supplies:
Stamps: Papillion Potpourri
Ink: Real Red, Basic Gray
Paper: So Saffron, I Am Me DP
Accessories: Itty Bitty Butterfly punch, Dimensionals

The DP and the letter stamps are retiring- grab them soon!! The butterflies and punch are sticking around tho.... Yeay!

And the story behind the pictures? When my daughter was little she loved to eat pickles with her Daddy. She would ask for pickles with Daddy. I'm glad I thought to snap these pictures one afternoon, because suddenly one day she didn't like them anymore on anything and still won't eat them, silly girl!

Butterfly Cards

Today is the day of my All-Occasions Card Class! This is a stack of 12 cards, perfect for a gift, or to keep for yourself! Attendees can stamp any greeting they like and use the cards for whatever occasions they need. The cards I'm sharing today are springy, butterfly cards.

This one uses a recent Freshly Made Sketch, but when I had it all stamped I decided the panel worked better with the card going horizontal instead of vertical.

Supplies:

Stamps: Creative Elements, Yippee-Skippee

Ink: Soft Sky, So Saffron, Calypso Coral, Wisteria Wonder

Paper: Wisteria Wonder, So Saffron, Whisper White

 

And this one is totally inspired by a card my upline designed! I posted her card HERE in May, and this is my redesign of it.

Supplies:

Stamps: Papillion Potpourri, Yippee-Skippee

Ink: Coastal Cabana, Calypso Coral

Paper: Whisper White, Calypso Coral card stocks, I Am Me DP

Accessories: Itty Bitty Butterfly Punch, Big Shot, Chevron Embossing Folder

Autumn butterflies!

A late start, but happy Monday to you, nonetheless! I had a packed weekend and I don't see that letting up for several more days still, haha...

But here is the first card from my Thank You card class tomorrow! This design is based on a sketch from the Freshly Made Sketches blog. I used the very sweet Itty Bitty Butterfly punch, along with the Sweater Weather DP to make the fun butterflies, and then stamped a butterfly with the greeting. This card is like "sales in action", because the butterfly stamp set and punch were on sale a few weeks ago, and then the greeting has been on sale til today!

There's still time for me to prep supplies if you want to come to the class! And if you want any of the stamp sets that are 25% off, place your order before 11:50 MT tonight!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Papillon Potpourri, Lots of Thanks
Ink: Tangerine Tango, Crushed Curry
Paper: Crushed Curry card stock, Sweater Weather DP
Accessories: Itty Bitty Butterfly Punch