Butterfly Card

Hi there!

Today's scramble over at the Hero Arts Flickr Group was butterflies or rainbows or both. I went for butterflies.

This card is a little bit smaller than a standard size card. The background is stamped in Hero Arts Wet Cement Mid-Tone Ink, and the butterflies are stamped in Bubble Gum, Raspberry Jam and Grape Juice Mid-Tone inks. Can you tell I love these inks? ;-)

These two stamps are some of my favorites at the moment. The Heart Butterfly is so cute, and I think the Wood Background matches so well with the little hearts in the pattern.

Thank you so much for stopping by, and have a wonderful day! :-)

Hugs,
Tone

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Stripe & Polka Dot Birthday Card

Hello hello!

Today's card is made for The Embellish Color Trends Challange - Stripe & Polka Dot.
You can see the stripes in the label, as well as in the smallest yellow flower if you look closely. The background and the butterfly have polka dots.

I started by stamping the background in Iced Spruce Distress Ink. My polka dot stamp doesn't cover a whole card front, so I had to stamp it multiple times. It's always annoying to me when I don't line things up perfectly, but I'm trying to ignore it this time! ;-)

The label, the butterfly and the flowers are stamped and cut out. The biggest flower is white heat embossed with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink applied over the embossing.

I added the cut out pieces to the card with multiple layers of pop dots.

Here's a close-up so you can see all the layers.

This is the inspiration photo for The Embellish Color Trends Challange - Stripe & Polka Dot. There is still time to enter, so why don't you hop on over and participate as well!

I was so happy to see that my Pastel Birthday Card got an honorable mention today over at The Play Date Cafe: "The Cream in our Coffe"!  Yeeey! :-) This was my first time entering one of their challenges.

I think this dotted card turned out so cute! What do you think? :-)

Inky hugs,
Tone


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Fun and Summery Cards

Hey you!

I have two fun and summery cards to share with you today! Just like the weather is here in The Netherlands these days. Finally, we've been getting some sun! :-)

Inspiration
This first card I made for some friends we were giving tickets to for a fun summer festival. The festival is usually quite whimsically decorated with bright colors, so I let that be my inspiration for the card.
It's quite different to my regular style, but I really like how it turned out. I love it when in inspiration takes me to new places! :-) Most of the stamps I had bought recently as well, so I really enjoyed making this card. It's always nice to play with new goodies, don't you think? :-)

How to
This card is a big one, measuring 5.5 x 8.5 inches. For the background, I first stamped the Single Starburst in Jenni Bowlin Malted Milk Ink. Then I filled in the open spaces with the little heart flower, stamped in Jenni Bowlin Chewing Gum Ink. I stamped the frame and the butterflies in different Hero Arts inks, cut them out and added them to the card. The wings of the butterflies are "fluffed up" for added interest.

Smaller version
Friends of ours were having a BBQ party last weekend, so I quickly made a smaller version of the card to bring for them.

I changed out the sentiment, and only added one butterfly to the smaller frame. The butterfly got some clear embossing to make it shiny.

I'd love to hear what you think of the cards! :-)

Hugs,
Tone


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Hero Arts Scramble

Today's 90 minute Hero Arts scramble was to make a card for yourself, using your favorites and having fun! I had some new stamps that I was dying to ink up, so this challenge was just perfect! :-)

Here is the card I made:

I used some of my favorites right now: new stamps, butterflies, script, kraft, teal and small square cards.

This little CAS card with it's huge butterfly simply makes me happy!

Hope you like it as well! :-)


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It's my birthday today

and I'm becoming...

...You guessed it: 30! ;-)

My boyfriend wanted me to make a card that he could give me for my birthday. As he put it: "I can buy a card, but it will never be as nice as you make yourself." :-)

How to: I first drew the number 30, cut it out, distressed the edges and stamped the houndstooth for some interest. Then I clear embossed the heart on the yellow paper, cut it out and distressed with black. The butterfly was stamped in black and cut out.
On the background I stamped flowers and hearts in a few different sizes to make my own patterned paper.
Lastly, I white embossed the sentiment, added the background to a white card base, adhered the cut out pieces with pop dots and drew the dashed line.

(Will update later with supplies)
   

Butterfly Birthday Card

Hi hi,

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend! I'm relaxing, making cards and tidying up the house. No other plans, and I'm enjoying it! :-)

The color inspiration for this card came from the sky here in Holland one evening. It went from pink to this really nice blue-gray color.

I started by stamping the Butterfly Wallpaper and clear embossing it. Then I added Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick and Weathered Wood distress ink over it. The text stamped in Pumice Stone is from Cloud 9. A scrip stamp from Hero Arts is very high on my wish list... ;-)
I did the same with the sentiment, stamped the Envelope Pattern over it, matted with white and added it to the card with pop dots.

I also decorated the inside of this card and the envelope with the butterfly stamp from the Butterflies and Lace set.  Here's a picture of the inside.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! :-)

Love, Tone

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Thinking of you

This is a card I created for my mom. We live quite far away from each other, and I wanted to send her a card to let her know that I was thinking of her. My mom loves purple and everything that has to do with nature, so I thought this card would be perfect for her.

I first cut the three little squares and stamped a different butterfly from the Designer Butterflies set on each of them. Then I placed the squares with pop dots on a purple scrap piece of paper, and finally I stamped the sentiment underneath.

Supplies
Stamps: Hero Arts CL115 Designer Butterflies, Hero Arts CL140 Thinking of You Messages
Ink: Colorbox chalk ink Lavender, Warm Violet and Wisteria
Other: Pop dots