Fun Fold with Butterflies

And it's Friday!  Buffy, Susan and I are set for

a fun fold challenge today.  

 

I'm not real adventurous 

where fun folds are concerned, so I just did a Joy Fold,

with some butterfly folding inside (are you curious yet)?

On the front, I used the It's My Party DSP found on page 5

of the Occasions Mini.  I love that paper because of the 

colors and patterns.

I used the Lots Of Labels Framelits (p 173) to create

layers for the sentiment from Sassy Salutations (p 99),

that will be retiring at the end of the month.  Neutrals Candy Dots

were added.    The butterflies

came from Butterfly Basics on page 124 and hold the 

card front closed.

When you open the Joy Fold Flap, it reveals a row of

butterflies, created with the Bold Butterfly Framelits.

I saw this on a card, but went through my Pinterest boards

and can't figure out who demonstrated this idea of the 

butterflies opening on the inside of the card.  Please

let me know so that I can give credit.

 This designer series paper really lends itself to this kind

of technique, because there are so many good patterns in

this pack.

Now that you've checked out my Fun Fold card, please click

on over to see what Susan and Buffy did for their folds.

Susan's site 
Buffy's site

In the Meadow Birthday

Here comes my favorite Occasions set, In the Meadow.  

 I am very happy to say that this set made it into the

upcoming 2016-17 catalog.  Whether you use one or all

of the images, this set works for so many purposes.

I used the Happy Birthday sentiment from Butterfly Basics

on page 124.  This set also made it into the new catalog.

I hope that you will tune in over the next couple of weeks,

as I may be adding a couple of sneak peaks of new product.

There are some framelits and color combos that 

I know you will enjoy immensely!  

Petite Pairs on Vellum

One of the sets that I am really sad to see go/retire is

Petite Pairs on page 99.  This is one of the few sets that

features wording for both the card front, and inside the card.

I added this sentiment to a layer of the It's My Party DSP,

with a card base layer of the Fancy Foil Designer Vellum

on page 149.  The inside sentiment says "to make it Better",

which can be used for so many situations.

The gold cord featured on this card has already retired,

but I could not resist adding this accent.  It helped 

pull the details together.

Tomorrow I receive my first products from the new

2016-17 catalog.  To say that I am excited is an

understatement!  I have seen a digital version of the upcoming

catalog and I must say, it is the best I've seen in years!

It's My Party Koala

This is another stamp, Kind Koala (p 23), that I will be sad to 

see retire.  It is a great masculine or kid friendly image that

is awfully cute to color.  I added a strip of It's My Party

DSP from page 5 of the Occasions Mini.  This paper is

wonderful because one side of each sheet contains birthday

images, while the other side patterns.  It is a very flexible

pack of paper.

 

I did color this Koala with the retired Blendabilities.  I just

couldn't resist.  Placing the image and DSP against

Melon Mambo really helps everything pop.

World of Dreams Stamp Off Color Challenge

Today is my FAVORITE day of the week, 

my Friday Stamp Off Challenge with Buffy and Susan.

We enjoy sharing with one another a great deal.

Today is Buffy's color challenge.

This was a good challenge for me, because these

are colors that I don't use very often, because they have

gray tones.  I think Susan is likely more comfortable

with some of the options above.  We'll see!

The World of Dreams set (page 95) is a beautiful set,

that retires at the end of May.  The silhouette images enable

you to use so many different techniques.  I used the 

Lots of Labels Framelits (p 173) to make a frame around

the focal image.  I embossed this double stamped image

with my favorite Elegant Dots (p 174) Textured

 Impressions Embossing Folder.

I felt that the sentiment from An Open Heart (page 25)

fit well under the frame.  I find myself needing this kind

of card often, so was glad to use such a nice color combination!

Now please hop on over to check out what

Buffy and Susan have done with this color challenge.

Buffy:  https://buffycooper.com

  Susan:  https://susanstamps.wordpress.com

Tin of Cards in Mossy Meadow

I'm using my retiring In-Colors and DSP, that I have been

hoarding all year.  That's always the way it works.  Beautiful product and I think I have to save it for a rainy day or something.

Speaking of, I had a plumbing leak in my basement and it 

took out a bunch of my (retired) card stock and Designer

Series Paper.  Guess you could say that I had less mopping

to do because paper is really good at soaking up water!

Fortunately, I was home and caught the leak fairly quickly.

Even so, I hauled 2 garbage bags of paper to the trash can.

I learned a lesson.  I likely will never hoard my paper again.

It was heartbreaking to throw it out, so I had 

better to use it on projects.

Speaking of, this project uses the Tin of Cards set and

Neutrals DSP pack.   I'm so glad that Tin of Cards will be in

the 2016-17 catalog, because this is a set that I pick up

over and over.

I'm not quite sure why I stamped the stars over half, and not

all of the card base.  I wanted them to "flow" from the 

sentiment, but not sure that was the way to go.

Guess we'll just call it "artist discretion."