Twofer Card Challenge #29: Butterflies....

I am sneaking in just under the wire for this month's Twofer Card Challenge.

I love butterflies and have quite a number of butterfly stamps and dies. I chose one die from a set of nine Ellentina butterfly dies for this challenge.

As I started this project, I thought maybe I ought to try to use some of the mountains of floral cardstock that I have on hand. Butterflies and flowers go together, after all, don't they?

This card was a new design for me. I can't recall now where I saw it, but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere online.  It's a pocket card, with the top flap overlapping the pocket on the bottom. I'll show you what I mean in the photos below.

'I layered up a wonky scalloped and stitched circle with a white sentiment circle. My little butterfly was attached to the top with three brown "pearls" made with Nuvo Drops.

I felt like it needed a little sparkle so I added three pink gems, too.

The layered circles are popped up with foam tape onto the top flap.

Can you see the little pocket I've created on the inside? I simply adhered the left and right edges of the flap with 1/8" double-sided tape. Then I created a card to put inside my pocket. You could also put money or a gift card in the pocket.

I searched through my flower stamps to find one that matched, as closely as possible, the flowers on the front DSP. I made a mask so that I could stamp one over the top of the other. I also added a couple of stamped leaves and some dots made with a marker.

All of the sentiment and image stamps I used on this card came from various sets. I have my stamps sorted by occasion, so I just search through them to find what I need.

My second card was quick and easy. I had this pretty gold-flecked floral DSP and wanted to use it. I found a background die to cut the front panel with the three square apertures. Then I cut the same piece out of foam board. I glued the two together and then glued them to my pale pink card base.

Once again, I used my Ellentina butterfly die to cut three butterflies from some metallic gold packaging material. It was nice, heavy stuff and made some sturdy little butterflies. I used a black Viva Decor pen to add the three black "pearls" to their bodies.

Finally, I stamped a sentiment and cut it out with a fancy oval die.

Because my background die was NBUS, I'm also going to enter this card into Darnell's NBUS Challenge #16.


Both of these cards were super fun to make, and it makes me happy to be able to enter them into a couple of online challenges. I hope you'll consider doing the same.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.
Cheryl