Butterflies For Mom

Hi Sweet 'n Sassy Friends! 

It's Ceal, here to share a  card with you today. With Mother's day being this Sunday I had a few more Mother's Day cards to make. I lost my Mom when I was 21 and Mother's Day was a tough day for me and still is. I love sending out cards to my sisters and my friends who have lost their Mom too.

To make my card I used the New Beginnings set along with the New Beginnings die set. This set was perfect to use for my friend who loves Butterflies and so did my Mom, so it's for her too. 

Happy Mother's Day to all who are Moms, even if it's to a fur baby. Thanks for stopping by

Here are the supplies I used

He is strong

Hello friends!  For my card today I turned to the Celebrate Today stamp set, along with Grunge Elements, New Beginnings, and Be Encouraged.  I also used the Bookmarks & More dies and Butterfly dies.

Any monochromatic color plus black makes a striking card and I especially like the yellow/black combo.  There's a bit of green on the stems though!

Sentiment reads: When I am weak, HE IS STRONG.  So true.

Have a wonderful day! 

 ♥ Diane

 



What I used:

God has your back - shaker card...

Hello! It's Monika here today, bringing you a butterfly shaker card. I am (still) in love with shaker cards, and they are really easy to make.

I used New Beginnings clear stamp set and the coordinating New Beginnings Butterfly die set as my focal point, along with the shaker element.

The background (water-color paper) was stamped with Typewriter Text clear stamp using VersaMark ink, then it was heat embossed with white embossing powder. Next, using gold metallic acrylic paint (Ranger) and water, I painted over the heat embossed background, and I splashed the same ink on top with a small brush.

Next I die-cut a 2-1/4" circle with a Spellbinder die. Then I positioned the background sheet onto my white base card along with the die-cut circle, lifted the background piece off (leaving the circle), and using the die-cut circle as my guide, I adhered dimensional tape around the circle.

Before filling the circle with sequins and micro beads, take the protective sheet off of the dimensional tape strips. Otherwise the beads might end up all over the place while you are working on taking the top sheet off...

Add some more dimensional tape onto the back side of the water-colored background panel and adhere it to the base card.

The front was decorated with a border that I die-cut with Doily Border Dies, a die-cut leaf branch, pink thread, and rhinestones. The greeting is from God is Bigger clear stamp set.

My color inspiration came from Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Hopefully I have inspired you to make something creative today...

Monika

New Beginnings ~

 

Good morning everyone! Mary here to share one of our butterfly sets! New Beginnings comes with three sizes of butterflies and eight sentiments all depicting new life and changes that beget opportunities...If you are anything like me, change can be intimidating but it also holds the wonder of the next chapter in life. 

This card uses the doily border dies . The edges create a delicate border perfect for layering. The butterflies are cut using the matching new beginnings butterfly dies. I stamped the butterflies and the sentiment using versafine inks. 

Have a great day! Be on the lookout for the upcoming November release! 

Materials used:

Stamps: New Beginnings

Inks: Versafine inks purple and black

Paper: SU whisper white

accessories: New beginnings butterfly die, Doily Border dies, rhinestones 

Tim Holtz embossing folder

New Beginning and Long Stem Silhouttes

Hi there and thanks for stopping by! It's Ceal here to share a CAS card with you. For my card I used the New Beginnings set along with the matching dies. The sentiment is from another beautiful set Long Stem Silhouettes.  I added some bling to the butterfly bodies because the recipiient of this card loves bling.

Happy Mother's Day

Hello!! Giovana here today bringing you a Mother's Day card. A friend of mine asked me if I could make a card for her mom and I said sure!! Asking for little details I got she likes orange and butterflies, so I used them both.

Directions:

• Make card base from Ivory Cardstock. A2 size.
• Mat a piece of Orange CS (5" x 3.75")  and Patterned Paper. Add stitches.
• Add ribbon around.
• Die-cut a Decorative Plaque from Ivory Cardstock. Stamp sentiment in Jet Black Archival and toppers in  Memento Tangelo. Add piece to card panel with Dimensionals.
• Die-cut butterflies from Vellum, stamp butterflies in Memento Tangelo. Glue vellum butterflies (I used my heat glue gun) and add them to card. Add small pearls to butterflies.
• Add medium pearls to corners.
• Add panel to card base with large Pop dot.

Sweet 'n Sassy Products:

1. Precious Poppies (Sentiment)
2. Decorative Frame Toppers
3. Decorative Plaque Dies
4. New Beginnings
5. New Beginnings Butterfly Die

Hope you like it!!
Have a great day!

New Beginnings

Hello! It's Monika here today, bringing you another of my 'signature' butterfly cards. I just can't get enough of the sweet butterflies from New Beginnings clear stamp set and the matching New Beginnings Butterfly Die set. They are so easy to work with.

This time, I stamped the smaller butterflies on the small panel, and die-cut the biggest out of corrugated paper. I also used some images from Vintage Postcard clear stamp set, another favorite of mine. They are perfect to fill in 'emty' spaces. Since I don't use designer papers, I often use these images to add some character to my paper.
I also like different textures... so I heat embossed one of the images from Long Stem Silhouettes clear stamp set with clear embossing powder. The banner was die-cut with the die from Pennants & More Die set.



I've been trying out new embellishments on my cards, like Washi Tapes and Sequins. They are so popular, so I had to jump on the wagon and get some from my local craft store. Sometimes less is more, but sometimes, you just have to go for MORE!

The sketch came from SplitCoastStampers, SC421.

Thanks for stopping by,
Monika

With Heartfelt Sympathy...

Hello! It's Monika here today, bringing you a sympathy card. Now that Christmas is over, I found myself reaching for my trusty butterflies. Since I tend to do a lot of Thank You cards, I decided to make something that I am not that comfortable with (and short on), sympathy cards. I found the perfect image from Bridge of Hope clear stamp set.

I didn't feel like coloring, so I opted to heat emboss my image to give it a special touch. I used Copper embossing powder. Then I just sponged yellow ink around the main image. The greeting was also heat embossed.

I used up some scraps I had laying around on my desk: a strip that was stamped with the wood grain image from Grunge Borders clear stamp set with VersaMark, and heat embossed with White embossing powder... a strip of dry embossed paper... and vellum butterflies (was die-cut with New Beginnings Butterfly die set). I just had to stamp the butterflies with the coordinating images from New Beginnings clear stamp set.

I used the brand new sketch from The Sweet Stop, SSS191. Hope you stop by and play along with us.

Thank you for stopping by,

Monika

Clean and Simple with Sweet 'n Sassy

Hello! It's Monika here today, bringing you Clean and Simple (CAS). I'm known for my messy/distressed style, but I always admire simple cards... and sometimes, LESS is more! So I set out to play around and come up with some CAS designs.

I decided to use the new Grunge Border clear stamp set as my base set...

For my first card, I used Kraft paper, and just added similar hues and white. The images are from Vintage Postcard, Thinking of You , and New Beginnings along with New Beginnings Butterfly die. The butterfly is die-cut out of vellum, stamped with VersaMark and embossed with white embossing powder (something you've seen me do over and over-and I can never get tired of the soft look). 

On my second card, I used bright colors with the awesome chevron image. (You might have seen this card on SplitCoast Stampers. I made if for one of the challenges at our last release party.) This was super easy to make, and you can change the colors to work for the occasion. The quote is from Kindness clear stamp set.

On my last card, I used the negative image of a die, Season of Change Leaf. I stamped the white base card with the wood grain image. You can also just stamp a piece of white card stock, and tuck it behind the die-cut image. The quote is from the new Autumn Collage clear stamp set.

Hope we will see some of your CAS creations.

Thanks for stopping by,
Monika   

With Heartfelt Sympathy

Hi there!

Jessica here with a shabby chic sympathy card to share with you today that I created using several Sweet 'n Sassy Stamp sets.  The butterflies and dies are from New Beginnings, the bird is from Under His Wings, and the sentiment from Bridge of Hope.  They all combined beautifully to make a sympathy card for a dear friend of mine who recently lost her father.

Have a wonderful rest of your day -

Jessica

And all things...

Hello my friends! Giovana here bringing you a little bit of Fall colors today. I am so ready to Fall (my favorite season), so I decided to create a card using its colors.
For my card, I used a 3 different stamp sets and 2 sets of dies. I added some edge distressing and stitches. I stamped the butterflies direct on to Patterned Paper. The ink I used is Aged Mahogany Distress. Pretty comfy card, don't you think?

Stamps Sets Used:

• New Beginnings
• Words of Jesus
• Decorative Frame Toppers

Die Sets Used:

• Decorative Plaque Dies
• New Beginnings Butterfly Dies

Hope you like it!
Have a great day.

Fun With Images, Dies, and Numbers

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Hello! It's Monika here today, bringing you a butterfly card. Hopefully you are not tired of them yet. I just can't seem to put my New Beginnings clear stamp set and New Beginnings Butterfly die set away!  A must have in every craft room if you ask me!

As you can see, I used a number of stamp sets along with the butterfly: Nature Silhouettes, Kindness (quote), Vintage Postcard (5c), and Ticket Sentiments. Don't be afraid of mixing up your images. It's so much fun to play around with the different sets and styles.

Other than stamps, I also love playing with dies... and Sweet 'n Sassy now has a nice selection of fabulous dies that are made in the USA. I used the brand new Decorative Plaque dies along with Pennants & More (ticket), and Heart die set.

My favorite way of using the butterfly image is stamping it on vellum, and on regular card stock (after die-cutting the images). The 2 layers are just perfect together.

The little ticket tag slides out and it can hold a special message. I just made sure that I didn't glue the coral panel and plaque down all the way.

The fun sketch came from The Sweet Stop, SSS 168. We have a spin on our sketch this week: fun with numbers (I dry embossed my background designer paper with a Tim Holtz/Sizzix plate and brayered brown ink on top)... and we also have a PRIZE! Check it out!

Thanks for stopping by today. Enjoy your weekend!

Monika