Just When.....................

I made this card for the Queen for the Day challenge #72 on Splitcoaststampers. The newly crowned queen is Emily aka stampingout and I cased this card of hers. I believe she used cardstock for her strips but I went with some ribbon I had been wanting to use. Punched out a few butterflies, added some pearls and that's about it. Easy peasy!


Recipe:
Stamps: Outlines (no name)
Paper: PTI white cardstock, black cardstock from Hobby Lobby
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Martha Stewart classic butterfly punch, pearls, Celebrate It! ribbon

How About Some Bling?

This week for the Stampin' B's Design Team challenge #119, Pam asked that we 'Go Blingy and Embellie'-use as much bling and/or embellies as you can.  I did my best to please her by using a lot of pearl swirls and some flowers. We hope you'll get out your bling and embellishments and join us this week. Just go to the blog link above and use the inlinkz tool to upload.

My sister gave me this stamp from the $1 bin at Michael's. She gave me  5 of these and they are all butterfly/sentiment stamps. I had not seen these. They were wooden, large, and stamp really well.

I want to enter these challenges:
Craft Room Challenge-Butterflies
Stamps R Us Challenge Blog-Through the Garden Gate Theme
Totally Gorjuss-Summer Time

Recipe:
Stamps: Count Your Blessings (Michael's $1 bin)
Paper: PTI white cardstock, Turquoise cs from Hobby Lobby, dp is unknown
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Martha Stewart double scallop punch, Copics, Martha Stewart hydrangeas, ZVA Creative adhesive pearls, Spellbinders long, classic scalloped rectangle die cuts, Cuttlebug textile embossing folder

QFTD58 and challenges-CAS

The QFTD58 on Splitcoaststampers is Anne aka jdmommy. I was Queen last week and now I have to hand the crown over. I wanted to honor Anne by case-ing this beautiful, bird card. I love her image but didn't have it so I used a butterfly silhouette stamp from A Muse Artstamps called Flutterby Flock. I added a sentiment, punched a border from a Martha Stewart flower patch punch, and added a couple of red rhinestones. Red is Anne's favorite color.

Other challenges I'm entering:
Flutterby Wednesday #153 - Use a butterfly, fairy, or angel
Claudia and  Co.   challenge #81-butterflies
Papertake Weekly Challenge-Anything Goes

Recipe:
Stamps: A Muse Artstamps-Flutterby flock, Mark's Finest Papers-Our Family Tree
Paper: PTI cardstock-stamper's select white, true black, and red poppy
Ink: StazOn jet black
Accessories: Martha Stewart flower patch punch, red gemstones

Stampin' B's ---- Challenges

I guess I am fortunate to be able to post my card. The tornadoes have swirled all around today with much destruction, death, and damage. I had to go to the tornado shelter three times today starting at 4:00 a.m.
The city my sister lives in, Tuscaloosa, AL has terrible damage. Even the Hobby Lobby was hit. That is a small matter when lives and homes were lost. So far, it is reported over 200 people were killed in AL.

The Stampin' B's Design Team challenge this week is monochromatic with blues and neutrals only..with paper piecing. The paper piecing is the part I forgot about until my card was made. Well, it is kind of paper pieced. Butterflies are stamped twice and popped up. Luckily, there are no rules on this challenge. Whew!

I loved this beautiful piece of paper and didn't want to stamp a sentiment on it so I left as is. Used a punch for the corners and that's about it.

I am entering my card into this challenge:
Party Time Tuesdays challenge blog #13-Anything Goes

Recipe:
Stamps: Close to my Heart - Spring
Paper: PTI Vintage Cream cardstock, K&CO Toile flat paper, Stampin'Up! Night of Navy
Ink: Stampin'Up! Night of Navy
Accessories: Fiskars Decorative Corner lever punch, Waterfall Stickles, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder

Vintage Wildflower

Back from a weekend out of town and looking forward to this weekend when my sons and families come to visit. The weather is supposed to be very pretty...sunny and even reach 80 degrees at least one of the days . Yea!
I'm really looking forward to that!!

I want to honor Bridget aka bfinlay with this card. She is Featured Stamper this week on Splitcoaststampers and has a beautiful gallery of cards. I chose this one to case. I really love the CAS look of her card.

I am entering my card into these challenges:
Paper Sundaes#60-Keep it Simple
One Stop Craft Challenge #122-Clean and Simple
Simon Says Stamp-Anything Goes
Little Claire's-#2-Flowers

Recipe:
Stamps: Heartfelt Creations -Vintage Wildflower 2 PreCut Set, Stampin'Up! Whimsical Words
Paper: PTI white cardstock, Stampin'Up! Old Olive, Hobby Lobby black cardstock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo black
Accessories: Spellbinders Peony Nestabilites to cut flower, Martha Stewart Classic butterfly punch, QuicKutz leaves die cut, Copics

Butterflies and a Lot of Bling

My friend, Pam124, on Splitcoaststampers is Queen for the Day this week and she loves bling so I had to case this card of hers, one on which I had given her the leaves and butterflies to use on this card. I actually think of it as hardware. She is a riot and we have a lot of fun and craziness going on.
This card is also made to fit the challenge at The Play Date Cafe PDCC65 using these colors:

What a wonderful challenge with great colors.

I used a Martha Stewart dry embossing stencil and chalked the butterflies in tangerine. I cut out my green leaves with a Sizzix die cut, punched one green butterfly, added some punched tangerine chalked flowers, green and orange rhinestones were used, along with a crinkled, green ribbon. My grey designer paper is from ColorBok.

Simon Says Stamp has a fun challenge this week. Want to play some Bingo? 
You  choose 3 items that are in a straight line..and it can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. I chose Punch/Die Cuts-Flowers-Gems  

I want to enter my card into the challenge #2 at Stampin for the Weekend-Getting Warmed Up-your interpretation of the title. I feel warm just thinking how nice and warm/hot the weather will be when the beautiful butterflies are flying and flowers are blooming. Can't wait.

Recipe
Stamps-None
Paper: PTI white cardstock, ColorBok designer paper
Ink: ColorBox fluid chalk ink-tangerine, Memento Bamboo Leaves
Accessories: crimper, green and orange rhinestones, Martha Stewart classic butterfly punch, The Paper Studio flower punch, Sizzix branch/w leaves die cut, green crinkled ribbon, Martha Stewart dry embossing stencil, gel pen