I wasn’t sure that I would have a post for today. I’ve been staying with my mom for the past week as she hasn’t been feeling well. Unfortunately she was hospitalized yesterday afternoon but we are hoping that she will be back home in a few days. She is right where she should be and I know she’s getting excellent care. I’ll be spending the day at the hospital but before I go, I wanted to post a card that I made a week ago. You’ll notice that it’s very similar to the card I posted on Monday. This time though, my background for the butterflies was made using watercolor paper, my Stampin’ Up! ink pads and an Aqua Painter (you can see the background below).
I did my watercoloring a few months ago and its been sitting on my desk all this time. I just haven’t known what to do with it until the idea for this card popped into my head (which I actually made before the one I posted Monday). When I adhered the butterflies, I used my 2 Way Glue pen. On the Mother’s Day card I posted on Monday (you can see it HERE), I used Stampin’ Dimensionals and I prefer having them popped up rather than completely flat in that area. Does that make sense?
I hope to have a post on Saturday, but we’ll see how things are progressing with my mom. Thank you for stopping by today.
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I have been visiting my mom for the past week. I brought some of my Stampin’ Up! supplies with me so that I could do some creating. I made this card yesterday for my sister for Mother’s Day. I didn’t think I had a Mother’s Day sentiment in any of the sets that I brought so I was happy when the set Crazy About You had just what I wanted!
I started out with a piece of Whisper White cardstock. Using my sponge daubers and the colors Pacific Point and Garden Green, I randomly applied color. Although I starting sponging off of my paper first, I still got some of the circles of color that you see. It doesn’t really matter with this card because that won’t be seen – just the beautiful shades of color.
Using another piece of Whisper White, I cut out two butterflies using the Butterflies Thinlits (in the Occasions catalog) and then stamped my sentiment. I glued this piece to my colored piece using a 2 way glue pen so that I could really get glue around the outline of the butterflies. I cut two more butterflies out of Pacific Point and adhered them to the card with pieces of Stampin’ Dimensionals down the center of each one. The rhinestones added a nice amount of sparkle.
I forgot to bring envelopes with me so I left the top butterfly as is. If I had needed to send the card, I would have trimmed it off but I think it looks nice “flying” off the card.
Enjoy the rest of your day!
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Thank you for visiting my blog today! For those of you who follow regularly, I’m sorry that my posts have been sporadic. Due to personal reasons, its been a bit challenging to post or create in my craft room. I hope to be back posting on my regular schedule very soon!
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