Congrats, Marisa! You have such a wonderful gallery and one of the first things I noticed, is a lot of butterflies. And quite a bit of purple. I finally settled on Verve Combo. I kept the butterfly, the purple and the bow, but I used different images, added some bling and moved the circle over to put the sentiment on it.
The hardest part of my card was taking a picture of it, lol. With all the metallic/mirror finish card stock and glittery bling, my camera really wigged out on most of the pics. I don't usually do a lot of glittery metallics, but New Year's is a perfect time to bring on the bling! And it was a lot fun, as well. All of the glittery fronds, the ribbon and even the houndstooth mirror card stock came from the Christmas clearance isles at Michael's. The silver card stock for the butterfly and sentiment is a recycled/repurposed foil lid from a container. I stamped them with Stazon and on the butterfly, added a touch of color with some Sharpies. It was cut with the matching butterfly die available only at ODBD.
On the sentiment, I used a circle die and my brand new Grand Calibur. What a wonderful machine! I added the fronds and a bow then arranged the layers on a lavender 5.5 x 4.25 card. A pretty easy card and it was more like arranging a corsage than making a card, lol.
Thanks so much for looking! You can check out our blog hop and see closeups on my blog: The Write Stuff.
Date: Saturday, January 1, 2011 GMT Views: 1513
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Accessories: ODBD Butterfly die, Spellbinders circle die, Grand Calibur machine, ribbon & glitter fronds (also from Michael�s), small butterfly punch (All Night Media), Sharpies
Registered: November 17, 2006 Location: Nanaimo, British Columbia Posts: 52798
Sun, Jan 02, 2011 @ 8:12 AM
Wow, Julie.. this is gorgeous... I love all the wonderful details... great case of Marisa's... She sure does love her butterflies.... tfs
Happy New Year
Hugs.. Pat
Registered: July 13, 2004 Location: Wishing I lived closer to my kids! Posts: 61028
Sun, Jan 02, 2011 @ 9:47 AM
Wow, do you know how to take clearance and bargain stuff and make it look like a million bucks! Awesome card, Julie -- just so elegant and celebratory and gorgeous!