CAS Flowers

The fun challenge this week at Less is More is to create a card with 'flowers'. The design should have lots of white space, few layers and minimal embellishments. The cue card for CASology this week is 'FLOWER' and Ann from The Paper Players is challenging everyone to create a CAS floral card.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Dynamic Duos #96

Time for another great color combo at Dynamic Duos. This week the color 'gumball green' has me longing for a glimpse of 'green' grass. After the 'surprise' storm on Saturday night, we were left with about 9" of very heavy wet snow.YUCK While doing our driveway (and many of the neighbors driveways) our snow blower developed what my husband called a 'clunking noise'...thank goodness the snow removal process is over till the end of the year...I HOPE!!!

Whenever I use the color 'green', it seems as though any shade of 'purple'  is my 'go to' color. Next time perhaps I should try something outside my comfort zone.... or maybe not. lol

The inside of my card is ready for an any occasion sentiment or blank for writing a quick note.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Tea Time for Three

While straightening out my stamping area (a never ending process) I found this tea cup stamp with 3 tea cups on it. This reminded me of the "three" challenge at Less Is More. I loved the color combo at Dynamic Duos and for the layout I used the sketch from The Paper Players.

The Dynamic Duos Colors:

The Paper Players sketch:

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Carnival

Since it is Mardi Gras time, the challenge at CASology seemed very appropriate. The cue card word is "carnival". I used one of those 'gotta have it' stamps that has never met an ink pad! the layout that I followed was from the CASe This Sketch challenge.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

SPRING PLEASE

Okay enough of this global warming stuff! The temperatures hovering in the teens with the wind chill factors into the negative numbers is waaaay to warm for me! Yeah, right! If this is global warming I would hate to see global cooling.....lol.

There is a great challenge at Less is More...use YELLOW and GREEN. Now those are great Spring colors! So I sequestered myself in the Butterfly Garden, imagined it was "SPRING" and started creating. I still had some of those 'positive' die cut pieces left from HERE, so I figured this was a good starting point!

FYI...I have only 7 of those die cuts left. I have completed 15 cards so far. I can definitely see the light at the end of the'die cut' tunnel.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Fusion #4

Well I had a few minutes to 'surf the net' this morning, minutes turn into hours and surfing turns into "new to me" challenges. I found the Fusions Card Challenge and thought I would give it a try....never met a challenge I didn't like so....off to the Butterfly Garden to make a card. For this particular challenge 'time was of the essence'...the link closed in 2 hours and 45 minutes.....YIKES...it usually takes me 2 hours to brain storm an idea. I just completed my card from 'start to finish' and have 1 hour and 18 ,17, 16 minutes left. How do some people do 10 minute challenges???

Stamps are PTI and Printworks, embossing folder is Sizzix and coloring was done with Copic markers. Foam tape was used under the leaves for a little dimension.

I fused the two challenges. What a wonderful 'new, innovative' way to get those creative juices flowing. Thanks for creating this 'new to me' challenge!!!

Lydal from "dreams & other realities" just introduced me to another 'new to me' challenge....it is called Catered Crop - recipies for papercrafting, the challenge is......Embossing - Make an Impression. Thanks, Lydal!!! If you haven"t been to either the Catered Crop or Lydals blog...please visit soon. Great inspiration on both of these blogs.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Dynamic Duos #50

Calypso Coral and Blushing Bride are the two challenge colors this week at Dynamic Duos. At first glace I wasn't sure how to use these two colors together but the DT has supplied much need inspiration.

Dies are from Sizzix and Zyron Shapez, papers are from MME and the image was colored with Copic markers.

The floral part of the stamp was stamped twice so I could fussy cut four of the flowers and use dimensional tape under them. The vase was paper pieced'

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Shopping Our Bargin Stash

Oh what fun it is to go through all of the dollar and bargain bin stuff treasures that I have accumulated. The Shopping our Stash challenge for this week is challenging us to use some of those thrifty treasures.

SB oval dies, PTI zig zag die and MFT doily die were used to create this card.

Some of the clearance flowers/leaves were colored with Copic markers. The double sided paper was $.14 and there is enough to make another card with some scraps left over..yea!!! I could probably make one card a week with my "treasures" and would finally use them up in the year 2016!!! Can't resist a bargain.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.