TSSC #62 Butterflies Butterfies!

I'm a day late this week for Mary Jo's Monday Sketch Challenge, but finally had time to get to it this morning! Wow! #62 already! We've been having fun with these challenges for over a year already! Here's the one for this week:

For some reason when I saw this sketch, I thought of using butterflies. I've been wanting to use my new Butterflies Die for the Big Shot and thought this sketch would work well with it. So here's my card:

For the right side panel, I used the stripe from the Urban Garden Designer Paper and stamped the butterfly from Dreams Du Jour directly on it repeatedly. On the left side of the kiwi card base, I stamped the long stitched "swirly" several times. I put a strip of the Baja Breeze ribbon at the left edge of the striped panel and laid the circle punches on that. (I just love this beautiful Urban Garden DSP; the colors are so pretty together and it looks so soft and spring-y, yet with some pizazz.)

The three butterflies were die cut from the Designer Paper and attached with Mini Glue Dots to the circle and a small button was adhered to the center for accent. The sentiment was stamped in Kiwi on white then punched out with the Word Window Punch then layered on another punch-out of Basic Grey cardstock. This was then added to the striped section.

Stamps: Dreams Du Jour (butterfly), Trendy Trees (sentiment), Stitched Exotics (swirly)

Ink: Kiwi Kiss
Paper: Urban Garden Designer Paper; Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Basic Grey
Accessories: Fresh Favorites I Button Asst., Baja Breeze 5/8" Striped Grosgrain ribbon, Mini Glue Dots

Tools: Big Shot die cutting machine, Sizzix Butterflies Die, 1 1/4 and 1 3/8" Circle Punches, Word Window Punch

I hope you enjoyed this card; it was fun to make. Visit Mary Jo's blog here and see what the other team members have done with this challenge. Thanks for visiting my blog; hope you can find some time to have some fun stampin' yourself!

Margaret