Make The Cards Featured Creator

 

I was recently a Featured Creator at Make The Cards Challenge with my Easter card and invited to be a Guest Design Team Member on the new challenge starting today which is to use Butterflies on your card.

Well any regular visitor to my blog knows I love me some butterflies.  I have many, many dies and stamps and countless papers of every colour so this was a very easy challenge for me.

For this card I just had to use my favourite butterfly die which is Statement Butterfly from Crafter’s Companion. It is quite a large size and definitely makes a statement.  There are 3 layers to it which you can use independently or combine them together as I have done here. The bottom layer is solid lighter blue cardstock, middle layer is navy cardstock and the top layer is an iridescent paper which I have added colour with a Distress ink pad. I like to leave the layers separated so you create lift and dimension.

I used a sheet of A4 navy card for the base and added some pretty blue paper which was a magazine freebie. The Intricate Lace Frame die from Crafter’s Companion cuts this beautiful delicate frame which is so pretty. The inside of this has been used as a mat for the sentiment which is a digi from a retired company McMahon Five Designs. I made a series of cards last year using this sentiment and butterfly with lots of different colour variations. It is particularly useful to cheer people up and spread hope in the dark days we have all experienced over the last year. 

I do hope you will pop over to the challenge blog and 'Make The Card' with a beautiful butterfly.

Card Details -

Size - A5

Dies - Statement Butterfly & Intricate Lace Frame (Crafter’s Companion)

Digital Sentiment - McMahon Five Designs (Retired)

Colouring Medium - Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Denim

Embellishments - stick on gems

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• 2 Crafty Critter Crazies - #49 Anything Goes With a Critter
• A Bit More Time to Craft - #137 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time to Craft Extra - Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #226 Anything Goes
• Aud Sentiments - #272 Anything Goes
• Cardz TV - #138 Anything Goes
• CD Sunday Plus - #58 - Anything Goes with a Digital (sentiment is a digi)
• Classic Design Challenge - #4 Anything Goes
• Corrosive Challenge - #4 Anything Goes
• Crafter’s Castle - #40 Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore - #86 Anything Goes
• Crafty Animals - #49 Anything Goes with an Animal or Insect
• Path of Positivity - #90 Anything Goes With Positive or Inspirational Quote
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper
• Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
• Creatalicious Challenges - #208 Anything Goes / Flowers
• Daisy Chain Challenges - #51 Monochrome
• Dies R Us - #166 Anything Goes with a Store Brand Die (Gemini/Crafter's Companion)
• Digi Choosday - # 14 Anything Goes
• Dragonfly Dreams - Feature a Creature
• Ellibelle’s Crafty Wednesday - Something beginning with B (Butterflies, Bling)
• Gem of A Challenge - #8 Anything Goes
• Get Creative Challenges - #100 Anything Goes
• Happy Little Stampers Die Challenge - Anything Goes with a die/diecut
• Ike’s World Challenge - #143 Anything Goes
• International Art & Soul - #106 Winged Creatures
• Jan’s Digi Stamps - Anything Goes
• Lemon Shortbread - #143 Anything Goes
• Let’s Craft & Create - #170 Anything Goes / Add Flowers
• Love To Craft - #57 Anything Goes
• Love To Scrap - #144 Spring
• Mix It Up Challenge - #47 Anything Goes / No Stamps
• More Mixed Media Challenge - Anything Goes
• Paper Shelter - #464 With a Sentiment
• Path of Positivity - #90 Anything Goes With Positive or Inspirational Quote
• Pearly Sparkles - #61 Animals / Birds / Insects
• Polkadoodles - #15 Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #485-486 Anything Goes
• Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes