Another birthday card

I'm sharing a much more feminine birthday card today.  There was no stamping involved in the card.  I used my new Memory Box Blissful Butterfly Border die and patterned paper to create the butterflies, then a Simon Says Stamp die to cut out "Happy" and a Papertrey Ink die to cut out "birthday". 

Isn't it cute?

I love the colorful butterflies! 

In case you are wondering how a border die will result in independent butterflies, here's how:  I ran the border die 4 times on white card stock.  Then I snipped off those partial butterflies but kept the three that are intact.  I got four of each of the intact butterflies and carefully layered them up - that's the white border you see on the butterflies.  It adds dimension and oomph to the butterflies.  How nice!

Then I ran the border die again on various patterned paper, picked the ones I like and arranged them to my pleasing.

I was inspired by the card made by Melania Deasy at The Cutting Edge Challenge #5:

I kept her original design and used die cuts for the main focal point.  She had open and solid flowers so I made some butterflies with a thick white borders and some without.

My card is linking up to:
Die Cuttin' Divas Challenge - Anything Goes
Pause Dream Enjoy - 3 or more patterned papers

 

 

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