CARD FOR SKETCH FRENZY FRIDAY CHALLENGE

HEY BLOGGIES,

Another new sketch over at SKETCH FRENZY FRIDAY for our weekly challenge.  Here is the sketch by Diana Eichfeld:

Here is my card:

 I stretched the sketch a bit by considering the circles on the sketch to be the flowers that I stamped.

 I used the En Francais background stamp in  baked brown sugar.

 I cut the wings off my papillion potpourri butterfly and put two on one side with a dimensional.

I love how the butterfly is popped up to look like he is flying down to the poppy for nectar.

A happy birthday banner and some pearls here and there completes my card.  Please notice how I water colored the flowers with several colors for shading and to add reality.

Thanks for visiting.  I would love to hear your comments regarding my card.  I LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.

PLEASANT POPPIES AND PAPILLION POTPOURRI

I LOVE BUTTERFLIES!!  IF you have been following me for any length of time, you know I have a butterfly garden and so enjoy spring and summer with all the activity fluttering about.  So my card today caught my eye the moment I saw it.  Fellow Demo Mike Funke designed it, and I cased it with a few tweaks of my own. (Thanks Mike!!)

 Aren't the new in colors just YUMMY!!!  I used Crisp Cantaloupe with Daffodil Delight and Calypso Coral for the poppies.  My AQUA PAINTERS are the perfect tools for watercoloring line stamps like these poppies.  The poppies are heat embossed with Early Espresso embossing powder.  AFTER they were all colored in and complete, I then inked up my En Francais background stamp with Baked Brown Sugar and stamped off once and then stamped it on top of my card right over the poppies.

 I stamped two monarch butterflies and colored them with Pumpkin Pie and Cajun Craze.  Then I cut them in half and used two wings going in the same direction for the butterfly who is either just landing or just taking off.  Isn't it adorable??!!  AND 3D

I used some more Crisp Cantaloupe cs for the Happy Birthday banner at the bottom.

Here is one more look at the complete card:

Hope you enjoyed this card of Mike's design with my own two cents worth to change it up a bit.  I think this might be my FAV card I have made yet!!  I am loving the water coloring on the poppies and plan to do that some more with the different shades of colors to make them look real.

Thanks for stopping by.  If you are not a demonstrator, I would LOVE to talk to you about joining my stamping team.  We meet monthly if you are local, or we do card swaps if you are not local.  Sharing ideas is what is it all about!!  Contact me and let's talk!!

I am entering this card at:

Fab Friday Sketch Challenge

WHERE MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS EXPECTED

That is the title I am giving to this card I created for you today.  A little background first:  I have a butterfly garden in front of my living room window.  We get monarchs in early spring and then we get gulf frittalaries in the rest of the summer.  I have planted milkweed for the monarchs and passion vine for the gulf F's.  We call them Fritolays because their name is so hard to pronounce.  (hubby came up with that one, and they are orange and white kind of like a frito.)

 This is a clean and simple card with only one layer and then some punches.  I used PAPILLION POTPOURRI stamp set in CALYPSO CORAL, SUMMER STARFRUIT and new SOFT SKY ink pads for my butterflies and randomly stamped them on the WHISPER WHITE card base.

 I used the BUTTERFLY PUNCH for three of the butterflies to adhere on just the body so their wings are 3D.  I also added some small pearls on their bodies for a bit of bling.

There is a scripture which says, "WHERE MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS EXPECTED." and we have indeed been given so very much.  So much beauty in this world, much wealth of knowledge at this time of the world, so much here in the United States - freedom, opportunities, abilities, jobs, food, housing, peace, etc.  I choose those three words to use as my sentiment SO VERY MUCH.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.  I appreciate your visits SO VERY MUCH.

CHALKBOARD TECHNIQUE

The new rage is the chalkboard technique.  What is that you ask?  It is images heat embossed with white embossing powder on a dark background.  It looks like chalk on a chalkboard.

Today I have a fun share for you with flowers and buterflies in the chalkboard technique.  I saw this idea from fellow demonstrator Selene K.  Thanks Selene for sharing!!

 I realize that chalkboards are either black or green, but I really wanted to use Midnight Muse as my chalkboard so that it was like the sky.  I used the small periwinkle-type flower from SECRET GARDEN stamp set and one of the small butterfly stamps from PAPILLION POTPOURRI stamp set.  First I inked up with versa mark and then put white embossing powder on the flowers and heat embossed.

On a separate scrap of same color I stamped the small butterflies with versa mark and heat embossed and then punched them out with the PETITE BUTTERFLY PUNCH.  The flight lines are made with a white gel pen.  The butterflies are only adhered along their bodies so their wings are 3D.

The sentiment is from a vintage set called NATURES PACE.  I used a punch for both the sentiment and the white shadow behind it.

Hope you enjoyed this simple card in the chalkboard technique.  Won't you leave some "lovin" for me in the form of your comments?

Stay creative my friends!!