First, I must draw your attention to a couple of Blog Candy Alerts!!! Be sure to visit these amazingly talented ladies ~ Melissa and Jennifer's blogs to see the generous candy they are each giving!!!
This card was stamped just for the FUN of it!!! No kidding! I stamped just to stamp!! I went to our LSS yesterday for about 4 hours. Last April, my kids school had their annual auction and I donated a custom made, 12x12 scrapbook. What the HECK was I thinking?!?!? LOL!!! Actually, I had done it the year before but the gal that won that one still hasn't given me her pics!!! Anyway, I need to get the scrapbook finished and since my crap room is just that, a CRAP room, I had to go to the LSS which has a big clean table to work on! Not only do they have a BIG, CLEAN, TABLE, they have lots of STUFF! I don't get over there very often so it was really fun to check it all out. I bought some new (OK, new to me) paper by Bo Bunny which is actually considered wedding paper. Well, I thought it was "whatever theme you want to use it for" paper!!! LOL!!! The gal I am doing the scrapbook for gave me some pics from her wedding and the bridesmaids dresses were Lavender. I don't do Lavender very well so when I saw the Bo Bunny paper, I thought, well, I could add a LITTLE Lavender.... Those pages turned out AWESOME! I loved them! The Bo Bunny paper is black, winter white and like a kraft color and by adding some Lavender Kaiser rhinestones and a tiny bit of Lavender Bazzill cardstock, the pages turned out great!
I decided I wanted to use some of the paper today as well as the Lavender rhinestones. Since my image wouldn't go with the floral pattern I used on the pages, I used a different pattern that was more subtle and would go with my image! Here is my card ~
The base of my card is Basic Black cardstock. The top decorative paper is from the new Bo Bunny Unforgettable line. I added a strip of Basic Black cardstock that I cut and pierced using THIS Spellbinders Pierceabilities. I added a small mat of Vanilla cardstock just below the the scalloped edge. The Lavender velvet ribbon is from Making Memories and the Vanilla organdy is from SU! I added Lavender crystals from Kaiser. I stamped THIS Inkadinkado Nostalgia stamp on Vanilla cardstock using Basic Black ink. I then cut it out using THIS Labels 1 Nestabilities die and then ran it through my Cuttlebug using THIS Textile folder. I had stamped the Nostalgia image a second time on Vanilla cardstock and cut the butterfly out, colored it with my Prismacolor Pencils and then added THIS Iced Lavender Shimmerz before I used a glue dot to adhere it on top of the first stamped butterfly. I matted this piece with Basic Black cardstock that I also cut using the Labels 1 Nesties. I added the same Kaiser Lavender crystals on this as well.
Here is a close up of the butterfly piece ~
Hope you are all recovered from Christmas and ready to ring in the New Year!!! In case you don't have anything to do New Years Eve, the Jbelle team has a fun evening planned with challenges, prizes and lots of chatting! We will do the chatting in the Jbelle Paper Crafts Planet group HERE at 3pm EST on Wednesday, 12/31! Even if you can't play, come by and visit with us! We will be posting all the challenge details in the PCP group as well as the Jbelle Blog HERE! Hope to see you there!
~Lynda
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