Butterfly Gala

Does this bundle of Butterfly Gala and Gingham Gala DSP speak Spring to anyone else? Oh my gosh! Of course, to complete the bundle you need to have the Butterfly Duet punch. At our last workshop we put a bunch of these elements together to create this version of Lisa Curcio’s inspired card. Pulling in some of that beautiful ribbon from this year’s Sale-a-bration completed the look for this card.

Here are a few more cards, using this suite of products, including the beautiful Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper, that was also a free Sale-a-bration item.

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Beauty Abounds

Who doesn’t love these butterfly clusters? Well, maybe I wasn’t sold at first, given that I already have plenty of butterfly punches and dies. Then I saw a card from France Martin. This is the version we made at our last workshop using several stamps from the Beauty Abounds stamp set and coordinating Botanical Butterfly thinlits. Oh my, how cute seeing these butterflies pop up when you open this card.

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Floral Romance Suite

I fell in love with this suite at first site, and that was at OnStage in November of last year in Orlando. But it’s taken me a while to blog about, as I had so much fun playing with this suite. Plus, I also bought it in stages, getting the stamp set at OnStage, then the framelits when the Occasions catalog was opened to demonstrators, and finally the beautiful specialty designer series paper and embossing folder followed. The last two products I will feature in another post. As a retired florist, this was definitely a must have for me.

It became my first swap for the year seen here.

The colors used in this card are Pool Party and Calypso Coral with Very Vanilla. I will share more photos of other cards in another post.

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Winter Cards

Before launching into Christmas cards next month, I decided to work my way into it, by starting with some wintery cards. Using up some retired designer series paper and a Memories & More card pack along with the Colorful Seasons stamp set, here are the card samples I made.

 

 

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Blank Card Sets

Sometimes as card designers, we get hung up on every card having a message or sentiment on the front. Then I was playing with some old, but beautiful, patterned paper, and I realized that these cards just didn’t need any message. They are just beautiful alone, in their simplicity.

 

I hope you agree. A simple frame was die cut, and the floral panel added to it and popped up on fun foam. Did you know fun foam now comes with adhesive backing! Loving it!

And after cutting 5 panels from the 12 x 12 sheet of patterned paper, there was enough left to decorate the envelope flaps, either on the inside or outside of the flaps.

 

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Delightfully Detailed

If you haven’t seen this beautiful laser cut specialty paper and the watercolor note cards that coordinate with this suite, you need to check these out. When I first saw the specialty paper, I knew I had to have it. And many of the designs are meant to be cut and layered directly onto the Delightfully Detailed note cards that measure 3 1/2″ x 5″ used in these samples as the measurements are the same.

 

Any of the designs will work perfectly as stencils too. So, you can ink a pattern onto one card with a brayer or sponge dauber (as I did in this A2 sample card on the left), and then use the inked specialty paper as a layer on another card base (note card shown to the right). I even made a couple of A2 size cards using this specialty paper, like the card below.

 

 

The laser cut patterns in these papers are so delicate that any woman would love to get a card made with this paper.

So that’s what I came up with my first day playing with these products.

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