Birthday Wishes

 Today I have a card put together with snippets of papers and cardstock bits. I used an assortment of dies and punches to create the pail filled with flowers, stems, and a bow. The flower centers were dotted with black Nuvo drops and the butterflies (cut with a very old SU! die) were dotted with tiny gemstones. I used leftover strips of dsp from Sunny Studios and the SNSS sentiment was stamped and colored with glaze pens to add a little more color.

I'll share this with the Snippets Playground #474 since it was entirely made from snippets

Also sharing with the Butterfly Challenge #192

I used 5 of the six colors to choose from,

included borders, birthday wishes, and of course added 3 butterflies.

The Triple B Challenge for February 2024 - use 1,2, or all 3 of

birds, blooms, butterflies with this inspirational photo

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your day is a good one.

Carol

Birthday for a Friend

 While trying so hard to part ways with crafty items I've had for years, I discovered an old Sizzix fold-over die called Flower Burst that I pulled from the cobwebs to make this card. I still have a plastic bag of left over snippets of 3 retired "In" colors of SU! paper that I just can't seem to toss away. One color is Wild Wasabi, and one is Groovy Guava but I can't remember the name of the other one. I cut the flowers, and used a SU! Bouquet Bunch set of dies to create the greenery. The stenciled background was done with a ARTplorations Gridlocked stencil and some Abandoned Coral oxide ink. I used another Sizzix (SU!) foldover die to cut the tiny butterfly and added a pink gemstone to the body and hand-drew the antennae. The ladybug was made with a MB die and the sentiment is by Sweet 'n Sassy from a stamp set called Poppies and Greetings from 2009. For the final touch I added 3 tiny black gemstones to the centers of each flower. Sometimes everything old is new again.

I'll enter this into the following challenges:

the Triple B August Challenge - birds, blooms, and/or butterflies (use 1 or all)

The Butterfly Challenge #185 - Flowers with your Butterfly

the Four Seasons Challenge Blog August 2023 - A/G Summer

the Happy Little Stampers August Birthday Challenge - A/G Birthday

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Summer

the Retro Rubber Challenge #212 - A/G must use stamps older than 1 year

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend and thanks so much for stopping by today!

Carol