Ribbons, butterflies, and the great outdoors...

Ahhhh back in the craft room today for the first time in a week...

It was fabulous!!  I got a lot accomplished, but as I mentioned before,

I can't share too much with you as I'm getting ahead for the anything but a card challenge

Coming to a computer near you September 2nd!

I did take some time out to smash tho! 

I struggled with this one girls... 

Something about these circles just threw me off....

I tried them all over the page! And finally I stuck them around the SC 

digi and glued them down! 

The Challenge over at Saturated Canary Challenge is the great outdoors!

I Love this image, and colored her up with my copics

Then I did something I'd never tried before...

I cut out another image and masked her up and Distressed and glimmer misted the background!

It hurt a little to spray up a perfectly good image

but I love the way she turned out!

I also got a little creative with the ribbon behind the banner... Some ribbon and twine! 

And the butterflies in the circles are from Denami Designs.  

And my new favorite tool the die cut machine churned out the flower and the circles, and the pretty

scallopy design for the butterfly girl! 

I left some space at the top of the page for some journaling. 

Entering into:

Just us girls: JUGS #149:  Technique challenge

Saturated Canary: Great Outdoors

All sorts challenge: Going around in circles

Anything challenge: Summer Days

Crafty Catz: anything goes

Desert Island crafts: Mayzy art (use 3: Flag/bunting, sprays/ mists, texture)

Shopping our Stash: Technique Challenge #64

Sweet butterfly card

One of the ladies at work just had twins... yes, TWINS!!!

I made this cute little card for her

The two butterflies are for her two lovely babies... and since they are a boy and girl, I thought it

only right to make them green. I added a strip of washi tape and a strip of green ribbon. 

Then stamped the "congratulations"

On the butterflies I used my peeled paint distress ink and painted in the wings and

them covered the in clear embossing powder and hit them with some heat! 

A little close up of the butterflies (stamps I won from denami designs)

I'm entering this card into the krafty girls color splash challenge.

This is a great challenge this week, black and white with a splash of color of your choice!