SuperBowl Sunday/Card Share

 Happy Superbowl Sunday my fellow crafters and readers.  If you are into football, then today is the biggest game of them all.  I like football, but I am a bigger baseball fan - STL Cardinals fan for life!  Anyhoo, most of us watch of course the game, but it is a big day for commercials too!  That sounds funny when you put it like that, but its true.  So - we will see what a 1 min. spot for millions of dollars will bring to the TV this year.   **grin**. Also - today is a day where I am taking a "vacation" off of my "diet" of eating healthier.  I am eating a supreme pizza, I am SO looking forward to it!

  In other news::  Today I am sharing with you a card I "whipped up" for the FlutterBy Wednesday challenge.  It has been a while since I made a card for this challenge.  With Valentines Day coming up, I used that as some inspiration for my creation on this card.  It is a fairly simple card.

 For the butterflies, I used two of my Martha Stewart punches, the Monarch Butterfly Punch, and the 3 in 1 Butterfly punch.  The paper I used on my card base comes from My Minds Eye, Blink of an Eye 6 x 6 pad, and the glitter paper comes from Stampin' Up!  I used a piece of Kraft card stock from PTI ( Paper Trey Ink) and the cute sentiment comes from a  mini stamp set from Inkadinkado.  Here are additional closeups of the butterflies.

Have a nice afternoon!!!!

- Kari

Flutter By Wednesday Challenge #162

Hi!!  After a few days of absence from blogging - I am back to share with you a card I made for the Flutter By Wednesday Challenge for this week.  This time we have a beautiful picture to be inspired by with sunflowers, and beautiful bright colors.  Here is what I came up with.

I stamped the beautiful Engraved Daisy Cling  stamp from Hero Arts onto some paper from Authentique, and then used my Fiskars craft knife to cut out the image that is so detailed.  I added some color to the middle of the image by coloring with my YR12 Copic marker, and also punched out several flower design pieces using one of the "Itty Bitty punches" from SU!.  I added some pearls and a hemp twine bow, and of course added my butterfly to the top edge of one of the petals.  I thought this would be a beautiful birthday card - and so I stamped the "Happy Birthday" sentiment from the SU! stamp set " Punch Bunch".  My card base is some card stock from Papertrey Ink - Terracotta Tile.  I love their card stock!!! 

Till we meet back here again!!  Thanks for stopping by!


~Kari~

Flutterby Wednesday Challenge # 160 : OPEN

Hello!!!  I  have discovered a new challenge blog - and they love butterflies as much as I do - hench the blog's name - Flutterby Wednesday's.  This week's challenge is an OPEN challenge - you can do whatever kind of card you like as like as an angel, butterfly, or fairy is featured on your card.  Well, of course I am doing a butterfly.  Here is the card I made!!

I started out by taking one of my favorite background stamps - the flourish stamp by Hero Arts, and inking that up with Memento Tuxedo Black ink - and stamped my base card.  I took some purple patterned paper, and a piece of paper from the Naturals stack from DCWV, and cut out two butterflies from the Beautiful Butterflies die from SU!.  I, then cut a piece of vellum cardstock, and put that at the bottom base of my card, to give the Flourish stamp a softer look, and added my butterflies.  I, then added some purple corduroy ribbon and a flower dimensional sticker to the top of my card.  I finished off by adding some gems around the vellum cardstock and the butterfly, and my "Many Thanks" sentiment.


They have a great sponsor for this week! - Through the Craftroom Door.   I love discovered new challenges!!  :)