Just want to send out a huge thank you to all my blog readers for perserving and coming back to visit me.  Recently my blog got hacked and while everything looked normal to me and some people, others were getting strange messages.  It was pretty nasty with malicious coding in every single file but thankfully it’s all fixed now.

Well on to more pleasant stuff!  Here’s a card I made today for one of my Stampin’ Up! team members.

It’s too bad you can’t see the shimmer in the photo (just on the right above the largest butterfly) but the background has been first run through the Big Shot to give the embossed striped and then I’ve spritzed with with Vanilla Shimmer which is a fabulously quick and easy way to add shimmer to anything.

The card is fairly straight forward but for those without much cardmaking experience, I’ve cut the patterned paper in the middle using my Big Shot die-cutting machine and then cut the scallop circle under it the same way – don’t you love the way they fit each other perfectly?  The sentiment was stamped in Pool Party onto Very Vanilla cardstock and then I just used my thumbnail around the edges of the cardstock to distress it and then ran the inkpad over the top of the distressing to add some colour to the edges – the inking makes the sentiment stand out a bit more.

All the butterflies were cut out and embossed in one go – the Beautiful Wings Sizzlet Die that I used cuts and embosses all those butterflies so once they were cut I simply glued them to the card and added the rhinestones – super super quick and easy embellishments

Hope you like my card – I have a few more of these to make at least! but I might experiment with some different colours.

Thank you again for visiting my blog, I really appreciate it

And here’s a list of Stampin’ Up! products that I used to create this card:

Rubber Stamps:
Curly Cute

Cardstock & Paper:
Poppy Parade
Pool Party
Very Vanilla
Everyday Enchantment Patterned Paper (free! out of the Sale-a-bration brochure)

Inkpads/Markers:
Pool Party inkpad
Crumb Cake inkpad (for sponging around the Vanilla cardstock)

Tools:
Big Shot Die Cutting Machine
Stripes Embossing Folder
Clear Circle Die
Scalloped Circle Die
Beautiful Wings Sizzlets

Accessories:
Glimmer Brads
Chantilly Crochet Trim
Vintage Safety Pin (Vintage Trinkets)
Rhinestone Jewels
Stripes Embossing Folder

Adhesives:
SNAIL
Stampin’ Dimensionals
Tombow Multipurpose Glue (just squeezed a thin line on the back of the centre of the butterflies to glue them down)
Glue Dots (to glue down the crochet bow)