Wednesday, July 30, 2014

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

 
 
Thanks for stopping by!


8 comments:

  1. What a beautiful card! Love the different patterned butterflies.....love this!

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  2. great card - so cheery and would certainly put a birthday smile on the recipient

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  3. stunning card
    thanks for playing with us at crafty sentiments
    hugs
    céline

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  4. Pretty. Love it! Thank you for Linking Up at PDE Linky Party.
    Your project is featured on our Facebook Page today and linked to your blog!
    ~Janis
    Pause Dream Enjoy Page on Facebook

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  5. Oh so very pretty!!! I love the cleanness of your card. The butterflies are great and I love how you laid it all out. Thank you so very much for joining our 'Three or More Pattern Paper' Linky Party at PDE!!!! :)

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  6. What a lovely card, Joyce...all those pretty butterflies...sooooo pretty:)!! So happy you were able to join the challenge this week at The Cutting Edge:)!!

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  7. What a fabulous card!! Love the pretty butterflies!! Thanks for joining us at DCD this week!
    Gerda
    http://cardscreations.blogspot.com

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  8. Love all the fun patterns on this pretty card. Thanks for playing at DCD

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