Make My Monday - Butterflies

Welcome to another Monday which means it's time for a new challenge at Make My Monday. We certainly had some lovely entries last week. This week the theme is Butterflies - how easy is that? Everyone likes btterflies don't they?

I decided to use the beautiful Swallowtail stamp. It's a big stamp but still quite versatile. I heat embossed it with white embossing powder then sponged colours over it and cut it out. The colours I chose went perfectly with the now retired Watercolour Wonder paper. A frame cut out of Crisp Canteloupe completed my card. To give it dimension I left one wing free.

Swallowtail Clear-Mount Stamp	Swallowtail	Versamark Pad	White Stampin' Emboss Powder	Crisp Cantaloupe Classic Stampin' Pad
Pistachio Pudding Classic Stampin' Pad	So Saffron Classic Stampin' Pad	Card Stock A4 Crisp Cantaloupe

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Triple Time Swallowtail

After all the boiler fitting, replacement window fitting, washing machine and vacuum cleaner repairs I thought this week might start getting bback to normal. How wrong could I be? After all the hot weather yesterday it definitely changed. We had a torrentisal downpour yesterday evening with thunder and lightening, and I do mean torrential. The rain came down so hard that it was running down the road like a river and of course the drains couldn't cope. Result a flooded garage - the water was about an inch deep and very close to coming in the utility room door. It was just high enough to cause the freezer to blow all the electrics in the house! Fortunately a very nice lady at the Electricity emergency line talked me through getting it all back on again.  Now that it has all dried out I've turned the freezer back on and it seems to be working OK thank goodness. So no food lost!

Anyway to get back to card making I made this card a little while ag ofor a friend's birthday and as it has now passed I can show it here.

I used the gorgeous large swallowtail stamp and the triple time stamping technique. The colours are strawberry slush and early espresso.

The ribbon is cherry cobbler seam binding which blended in well as I didn't have any matching pink ribbon.

I added a bit of decoration to the inside as well with a butterfly from Papillon Potpourri and a sentiment from Bring on the Cake.

Swallowtail and Dynamic Duos Number Two.

After finishing the previous card I had a stamped image that I'd smudged the colour over the lines on and lots of card scraps too. So rather than bin the image and add the cardto my overflowing box of scraps I decided to use them ther e and then. I cut the butterly out so getting rid of the smudge then played around for a bit with the card and came up with this.

I think I like this one better than the first! I'm entering it into Dynamic Duos as well - although I'm not sure I can enter two but couldn't see anything that said I couldn't, and as it is all scraps apart from the card base I'm going to pop along to Pixie's Playground too. Wienerhoneymooners has also reminded me that CAS-ual Fridays challenge is "over the edge". So I am going to rush over there too.

Recipe:

Cardstock: Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla, Naturals Ivory
Stamp: Swallowtail
Ink: Black Stazon, Tangerine Tango
Other: Clear embossing powder, flower embossing folder(non- SU) Oval framelits

Swallowtail and Dynamic Duos.

It has been a few weeks since I played along at Dynamic Duos but this week seem to have found some time despite having had visitors The colours this week are Cajun Craze and Tangerine Tango and I immediately thought of butterflies with these colours.

I have used the beautiful large Swallowtail stamp, stamped in black and clear embossed. That way there's no unintentional black specks! I sponged the colour on as I liked the effect better than colouring it with markers.
I decorated the inside too.

Recipe:

Cardstock: Cajun Craze, Tangering Tango and Very Vanilla
Stamp: Swallowtail, Papillon Potpourri
Ink: Black Stazon, Tangerine Tango, Cajun Craze
Other: Crochet trim, tangerine tango satin ribbon (retired), scallop trim border punch, scallop trim corner punch, clear embossing powder