Good morning and happy Friday! Whatcha got planned for the weekend? Something fun? Working outside? Shoveling snow? I don’t know for sure what we WILL be doing – but, I do know – FOR SURE – that we will NOT be shoveling snow! 😉
If you were able to join me for my YouTube live yesterday, I appreciate you spending part of your day with me! If not, here’s the replay!
You might not recognize the elements of this card – and that’s cuz…it’s not available yet! Nope – this is the Butterfly Bouquet bundle and some new designer paper! These are available to demonstrators right now – and folks who JOIN right now!! – and will be available to customers on 2 March! You’ll get more details as we get closer, I promise! I got mine in the mail on Thursday morning and went to work right away to make a card to share with you. This is an image-only set, so I added a sentiment and banner from the Vine Design bundle. Take a look-see:
The layout for this card is from the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge.
And the colors are from the Color Throwdown Challenge.
I started with a piece of the new Nature’s Touch Specialty DSP – this is part of the Butterfly Brilliance collection – and it’s truly gorgeous! This paper – literally – has texture like a wooden surface. No – you won’t get splinters, but…it’s very realistic!! I matted it on Purple Posy for the card front.
I pulled out the Brilliant Wings Dies (bundled with the Butterfly Brilliance stamp set) and…using the biggest die…
…I cut out 6 gorgeous butterflies from one of the designs in the Butterfly Bijou 6″ x 6″ DSP. Look!
This paper is gorgeous, too, y’all – you get 48 sheets – 8 each of 6 double-sided designs! Think of the possibilities!
I also used three of the detailed butterfly dies and cut three Vellum cardstock butterflies. Using my Fine Tip Glue Pen, and putting glue just under the bodies of the butterflies, I adhered the vellum die cuts to the DSP cuts. I used Pearl Basic Jewels on all three butterfly bodies.
I used a couple of Glue Dots to adhere a Gold Hoop Embellishment to the card front. Then I tied a Linen Thread Double-loop bow and adhered it with another Glue Dot.
I popped the largest Mint Macaron butterfly on with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
On a piece of Basic White, I stamped the sentiment from Vine Design in Mint Macaron, then cut it with the label die in the bundled Flowering Vine die set. I adhered it with Liquid Glue.
I added the pink butterfly with Liquid Glue and popped the small yellow guy on with more Dimensionals.
Using my Dark Purple Posy Stampin’ Blend, I colored one medium and four small Pearl Basic Jewels, which I added to the card front to finish off the card front.
On the inside, I used my Stamparatus to stamp just the top part of the big Butterfly Bouquet image onto the bottom of a panel of Basic White in Tuxedo Black. I colored them with my Purple Posy and Mint Macaron Blends Combos and the Dark Daffodil Delight and Poppy Parade Blends.
I used Liquid Glue to adhere the panel to a Purple Posy mat and into my Basic Black card base, adhered the card front with Liquid Glue and the card was done.
My Basic White Medium Envelope got more of the Butterfly Bouquet flutterbies on the front…
…and another design from Butterfly Bijou on the envelope flap.
Et Voila! Well??? Do you love it already!?! Boy – I sure do. Gotta say – when I first saw it I was thinking…more butterflies? What?? But now? Oh yes.
So – are you tracking that the Butterfly Bouquet set is a SINGLE stamp? Yes – all 6 butterflies are on a single piece of red rubber. AND – that image is cut perfectly by the large die in the Brilliant Wings set (the same one that cuts the DSP butterflies!). So…stamped and colored or…cut from the DSP…you get 6 gorgeous die cuts in one pass thru your Stampin’ Cut and Emboss Machine!
The two designer papers – which will only be available during the Butterfly Bouquet Promotion (2 Mar – 3 May) are equally gorgeous! Be sure to check out the flyer down below!
I hope you like – and are ANXIOUSLY awaiting your chance to get them for yourself. Or…you could ALSO join the Stampin’ Up! team as a hobby demonstrator and get them right now! Holler at me and I’ll tell you how!
If you’d like to recreate this card, all the products and card cuts are listed below!
TTFN
M
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Bring in the beauty of nature with the artistic designs of the Butterfly Brilliance Bundle and coordinating designer series paper, along with textured specialty paper that will put a pop of brilliance on every project. The Butterfly Brilliance Collection is already available for demonstrators. The Customer sales period runs 2 March—3 May 2021. Check out the flyer and get all the details!
The Butterfly Brilliance stamp set and bundled Butterfly Wings Dies are EARLY RELEASE Products – meaning you’ll see them again in the 2021-2022 Annual Catalog! Whoo-hoo!!
And – if you want these right now – I can help you do that!
If you join the Stampin’ Up! team now, you can select these goodies for your Starter Kit! Or…fill your kit with other things you need and then purchase the suite with your shiny new 20% Demonstrator Discount!! Give me a holler and I’ll get you all hooked up! You’ll also be cashing in on the 200 FREE SHEETS of DSP by joining during Sale-A-Bration. BONUS!!
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During Sale-A-Bration – 5 Jan – 28 Feb! – you can earn FREE products. For every $50 or $100 (before shipping and tax) that you spend, you can choose between two purchasing levels of free products! There are 7 free products available to pick from at the $50 level and 2 free products to pick from at the $100 level!
It’s also a good time to HOST – because, when you host a workshop (OR place an individual order) and the total sales hits $300 (before shipping and tax) – then you will automatically earn the awesome Punch Party stamp set! This is an exclusive set from Sale-A-Bration and…trust me – you WANT this stamp set!
You can see more details and find the list of punches that it coordinates with on page 17 in the Sale-a-bration Brochure! 🙂
And you can “host” a “workshop” with a group of friends and family. Even while socially distanced! Yup – it’s true! I’ll make you your own special host code – you give it to your friends and family and when they place an order using it – YOU get the rewards!!
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Get the Stampin’ Up! Products Used in This Project:
Card Cuts Used in This Project:
Basic Black Cardstock: 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ (card base, scored and folded at 4 1/4″)
Purple Posy Cardstock: 4″ x 5 1/4″ (mats for card front and for inner liner)
Basic White Cardstock: 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″ (inner liner)
Vellum Cardstock: Butterfly Wings detailed die cuts
Nature’s Touch Specialty DSP: 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″ (card front)
Butterfly Bijou 6″ x 6″ DSP: Butterfly Wings die cuts; envelope flap
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Finn Fan Fix
So – Wednesday was World Read Aloud Day.
Did you celebrate? 😉
Well – Finn and I took part in a HUGE online ZOOM read-aloud with our friends at People Animals Love (PALS). During the course of the day, 120 PAL dogs listened to young readers from across the USA and Canada–and one child from Cyprus! Fun!
Finn and I listed to a story about Fangsgiving with one young person and Clifford the Big Red Dog with another.
Finn sorta got sleepy – what’s a guy to do when you’re hearing bedtime stories!?
So….let’s play a game! Where’s Finn?!?
TTFN
M
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Such a pretty card! Love those butterflies and the pretty woodgrain paper! 🙂 Well…Finn is right there in that top picture. I can only see a tiny bit of him since it’s mostly a photo of your computer. 😉
Oh – that’s cheating!! LOL! Thanks, Amy! 🙂
OMG..World Read Aloud Day via Zoom! How awesome is that?! The librarian in me LOVES it and I can tell you, it is hard to read aloud and show pictures in the camera while zooming. I found not only Finn listening but Mary too! Yay for PALs.
Oh yeah, the card is awesome too. I love the outline and detailed dies but still not sure about the stamp as one…mine might get cut apart!
Yes – one young ‘un would show Finn the pages when she’d read them – the other realized the futility of that! It was fun – we enjoy doing it! Thank you so much, Susan! 🙂
Such a beautiful card Mary 🙂 Love that woodgrain background. I haven’t played with that yet. This set is gorgeous. Sorry I missed your live, I had to watch replay again. Darn work keeps getting in the way
Work. 🙁 Four letter word, for sure! Thank you so much, Karen! 🙂
Your cards are always so lovely! Thank you for joining us for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge.
Aww – thanks for those kind words, Susie! Appreciate you stopping by! 🙂
I love what you did with that bundle. Guess it is now on my wish list. Sorry I missed the live video, internet out for 10 1/2 days! Just back in service noonish today. Beautiful card. The vellum really adds to the butterfly beauty.
Wow – I’d lose it without internet for that long! Yikes!! Glad you’ve got it back – and were able to watch! Thanks, Julie! 🙂
Mary, your butterflies are so gorgeous in the throwdown colors! Looks like a very versatile set! So glad you were able to play along with us at CTD!
Thanks so much, Wanda – appreciate you stopping by! 🙂
Wow! Your card is gorgeous. Love how you cut out the butterflies and used the dies to cut out the vellum. Genius! Thanks for joining us at Hand Stamped Sentiments.
Thanks so much, Genevieve! It’s SUCH a gorgeous set! Appreciate you stopping by! 🙂
A great take on our sketch with those gorgeous butterflies – and so nice to see the inside of the card too – thanks for sharing with us at HSS this week.
Thanks, Fiona! Appreciate you stopping by! 🙂
Great card! This is a fabulous set to use for our sketch challenge. Thanks for joining us at Hand Stamped Sentiments.
Robbie
Thanks, Robbie! Appreciate the kind words! 🙂
This is a great card. I love how you used the butterflies for your sketch. Thanks for joining us at Hand Stamped Sentiments.
Robbie
Thank you so much, Robbie – appreciate you stopping by! 🙂
Such a lovely card! Thank you so much for playing along with us over at the Color Throwdown.
Thank you, Lynn – appreciate it! 🙂
SOOO pretty! TFS
Thanks so much, Stephanie! 🙂