Happy Friday, y’all! Hope you’ve got some big plans for the weekend. I have two possible outcomes. If my trip to Florida is approved sometime today, then my weekend will be filled with making cards to post next week. If not, then Finny and I are going to a dog show on Saturday. Not to compete – just to walk around and watch! And see lots of cool stuff!! Heck – I may do that anyway and just resign myself to a couple of late nights. They’re going to do some search-and-rescue trails. I think that would be a cool endeavor for the Chewie!
My card today is one that took me a few tries. I did the inner liner three times. Screwed it up twice before finally getting it right on the third go. 😉 I used the new Background Bits Host-Exclusive set and a couple of Butterflies Thinlits die cuts. Take a look-see:
I was working with the challenge over at The Card Concept with this one.
I started with a piece of Very Vanilla card stock and used the script image in the Background Bits set to stamp all over the panel. I used Crumb Cake ink and stamped the image off once before stamping the panel. Then I used the floral block image – again stamping off once – and stamped over the top in Crumb Cake. Then I SNAILd the panel to a Basic Black mat.
For the next layer, I used a piece of retiring This Christmas Specialty DSP (still available at 30% off!). I tore the edges to get it down to size and sponged it with Crumb Cake ink. Across the bottom, I stamped the flowers from the Background Bits in stamped-off-once Crumb Cake. Then I used Liquid Glue to adhere it to the card front.
Using the largest die in the Butterflies Thinlits, I cut one from Basic Black and one from Island Indigo card stock. The Basic Black butterfly I adhered with Liquid Glue directly to the card front.
I used a Sponge Dauber to spong the edges of the Island Indigo butterfly with Dapper Denim ink. Then I sponged Whisper White Craft Ink on the body and the middle portion of the wings. When that dried, I added Elegant Eggplant over the white areas on the wings. I adhered it over the black butterfly with Liquid Glue, leaving his wings lightly curled up,
My sentiment, from Background Bits, is stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on a piece of Very Vanilla. I snipped banner ends and distressed the edges with my Tim Holtz distress tool (I got mine at Amazon – here’s a link!). I stamped over the sentiment with the Background Bits floral block image in stamped-off-once Crumb Cake. Then I sort of roughed it all up to wrinkle it a bit. Finally, I sponged it with Crumb Cake.
I doubled a length of 5/8″ Burlap Ribbon and adhered it and the sentiment to the card front with my Handheld Stapler – and that was it for the card front.
On the inside, I used another panel of Very Vanilla and added the Background Bits script and floral block images in stamped-off-once Crumb Cake. Then I used my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to add a second sentiment in Tuxedo Black. I also added the flowers in stamped-off-once Crumb Cake over the sentiment.
I sponged the edges with Crumb Cake, SNAILd it to a Basic Black mat and into my Island Indigo card base. Then I popped the card front on with Stampin’ Dimensionals and the card was done!
My Very Vanilla Medium Envelope got some more of the Background Bits images across the front. The flowers are in full strength Crumb Cake and the script and floral block are stamped-off-once. I also sponged the bottom of the envelope with more Crumb Cake ink…
…then I added more of the This Christmas Specialty DSP to the envelope flap and added some Crumb Cake flowers and sponging.
Et Voila! I love this card kind of a lot, y’all! I love the distressed sheet music and the wonderful – but subtle! – designs from the Background Bits stamp set. And I think the butterfly just pops!! I hope you like – and are figuring out how to get this Host stamp set for yourself!! Give me a holler – I’ve got some ideas on that!
TTFN
Mary
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Background Bits will be available to Hosts and to folks with individual orders over $150 starting on 1 June!
CARD CUTS USED IN TODAY’S PROJECT:
Island Indigo Card Stock: 4 1/4″ x 11″ (card base, score and fold at 5 1/2″); Butterflies Thinlits butterfly
Basic Black Card Stock: 4 1/8″ x 5 3/8″ (mats for card front and for inner liner); Butterflies Thinlits butterfly
Very Vanilla Card Stock : 4″ x 5 1/4″ (card front and inner liner); 3/4″ x 3″ (sentiment)
This Christmas Specialty DSP: 3 3/4″ x 5″ (front panel): envelope flap
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Finn-Fan Fix…
So – it’s snick season here in GA.
What’s a snick? It’s our word for cases of mistaken identity. Observe.
Is that a snake?
Nope – it’s a Snick…
And this is a Snick….
These are not Snicks… those are sticks.
Is this a snick?
Not a snick. Real thing.
Hi, Mr. Rat Snake. Good thing I saw you before Finn did! I’m afraid he’d have thought you were a snick. When you’re not a snick at all – you’re an actual snake. 😳
TTFN
M
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Where will you be in Florida. I love your Finn stories, your YouTube’s and your cards. If you are anywhere near Tampa would love to meet you.
I’ll be in Ft. Walton Beach – not even sorta close to Tampa, I’m afeared! 🙁 Too bad – would love to get together! Thank you so much for all your kind words, Barbara! 🙂
Love this card. You did a fantastic job. Something weird is going on as I no longer get an email saying you’ve posted. I had to go to your web site to see this. I have to figure this out…just like Finn figuring out stick, snick or snake…say that ten times fast! Have a great weekend. Wish you were coming to N. Ft. Myers 🙂
Man, I do, too, Karen! I really would love to meet you in person! 🙁 Some day! If you’ve only missed an occasional e-mail, it may be my blog-site, not your account. There’ve been a few days with issues these past couple of weeks. If it’s consistent…well, may need to look into it! Thanks for the kind words on this card!! 🙂
You’re welcome. Got this one too 🙂
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I am trying this to see if it changes what I mentioned above. I switched it to my yahoo account. I rarely use WPress.
Fingers crossed! 🙂
Got this one!
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What a beautiful card Mary! Love the colors and the vintage background is awesome! And man…I could not live where you do, I’d have already died of a heart attack! I’ve sprinted back into the house after seeing many a snick! 😀
LOL! It becomes a little more mundane with exposure. Not saying my heart doens’t skip a little beat when I see a true snick or an actual snake! But no where near as bad a I used to be!! Thanks so much, Amy! 🙂
The card is absolutely gorgeous…however many do-overs it took.
The snake-snick-stick? Not so much.
No – he’s pretty much run of the mill. And not likely to win a beauty contest!! Thanks, Mom! 🙂
Ya think? Not on my list of what to enjoy when out for a stroll. 😢. And I am WAY past 29!
Well – guess it’s all what you get used to, huh?? 🙂
My email came through fine, just FYI.
LOVE this card!! That set was not on my list, or maybe it is. List is at home. Anyway, if it wasn’t it is now. I love the way this card looks. Your butterfly is gorgeous and looks like it could fly away!!
Thank you so much, Julie! I love this set!! You must get it on your list if it isn’t! 🙂
Cool card! I love the idea of sponging portions of the dark CS with white and then layering color over it – must try!! Now I know snakes do lots of good things where the circle of life is concerned, but they give me the heebie jeebies – nope – I can’t do snakes – and I’m sure a snick would make my feet tingle! Lol! Have a GREAT weekend!
Thanks, Elisha! I sort of came up with that color-over-white thing by accident! 😉 I used to not even be able to breathe when I saw a snake. Even pictures of snakes did me in. Now? I do a double take, but…the fear level has gone way down. I only had to be 29 years old to get to this point! 😉
Beautiful card, Mary, I especially love the butterfly technique. It is magnificent! Was hoping you would be near me in FL. Heading back down on Sunday! But, I’m way down on the west coast!
Thanks so much, Jari!! I appreciate that. 🙂 And yes – too many folks I’d like to see/meet in FL are nowhere near Ft. Walton Beach! 🙁
I would love to take you to lunch while you are here. Is that a possibility?
Are you near FWB!?! If yes, I’d love to do lunch. If I come down this next week, there may not be time, but I’ll be there for much of June and all of July!! How fun!! 😊😊
I am a town over, Valparaiso. Good, let’s plan lunch when you come back.
Yeah!! We’ll definitely do it, Sandra! 🙂
This is a perfect interpretation of the Inspiration Image at The Card Concept. Well Done and thank you for joining us!
Thanks so much, Vicki! 🙂
Absolutely gorgeous card!!! Thanks for sharing😊
Thanks so much, Linda! 🙂
This is so gorgeous! Love the music sheet paper and that fabulously shaded butterfly. So glad you could join us at The Card Concept.
Thank you so much! 🙂
Absolutely beautiful card! Thanks for sharing how you did it….not that I could ever get that done though! I love everything about it! I like snacks better than snicks or snakes! 😜
LOL!! Yes – I, too, like snacks the best of all!! 🙂 Thanks much, Susan! 🙂