Beautiful Butterfly Birthday

 

Congratulations to this week's Featured Stamper, Aimeslee, (123scrap).

I chose this card as my inspiration:

LIST: colours (aqua, blue, pink, white), watercolour background, pink die cut butterfly/flowers, die cut sentiment

INCLUDE: blue, pink, white, 

MODIFY: add black, stamped sentiment, circle inkblended daisy background

EXCLUDE: aqua, 

SPIN: square card

I started by creating the inkblended background. I die cut 4 each of the 3 sizes of Open Daisies from A Jillian Vance Design, from post-it notes, to create masks. I placed them on a panel of white cardstock and blended Tranquil, Serenade and Drive-In ink over top.

I removed the masks, cut a circle from the panel and spritzed it with shimmer spray.

I cut the AJVD Beautiful Butterfly once from white cardstock and blended Pucker Up and Flirty Fuchsia on it before spritzing it with shimmer spray too.

I also cut the butterfly from black and trimmed the wings off before gluing the body on top of the pink/purple butterfly.

Dotty Flowers

Congratulations to this week's Splitcoaststampers' Featured Stamper, Jeanne Streiff (Jeanne S).

I chose this card as my inspiration:

I focused on Jeanne's:
-single flower
-dots
-'doodling'

I changed:
-combined flower and dots
-die cut instead of stamping
-colours
-doodled my dots with Copics

I wanted to do something quick, colourful and fun with the Delightful Daisy die and I ended up with 4 variations on a theme (and plenty more ideas in my head for next time!)

Because the edges have a stitched-dot pattern, it's easy to place dots of Copic colour evenly around the petals. I used a rainbow of Copics and then popped it up, added a centre and a sentiment.

For my 4th flower, I used only a Toner Gray marker on the petals, and addd the rainbow to the centre, which also has the stitched dot pattern.

I used the Stitched Plaid Coverplate die and cut a template for placement of my dots on the background for the bottom 2 cards. I didn't put dots in every hole, but using the template helped to give the dots a grid-like feel.

So - which one's your favourite? I'm having a really hard time deciding!

AJVD - Delightful (Daisy) Day

I'm on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today with this card.

AJVD - Happy Mother's Day

I'm on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today with this clean and Simple mother's day card.