Beautiful Birthday Butterfly

 

 

For my niece...as I was naming this post, it brought back a memory of when my niece was two years old and for her birthday she wanted a 'bootiful, bootiful, blue dress'.  She's going to be 31 years old next week and had I thought of it earlier, I would have put some blue in this card for her and reminded her of the 'bootiful, bootiful, blue dress'.

This week at Simon Says Stamp the Monday Challenge is to use Embossing Folders, I really like this 3-D folder from Tim Holtz and Sizzix.

Blue Birthday Butterfly

The current challenge at Frilly and Funkie is Winter Blues, mostly monochromatic in shades of blue. I need a birthday card for my Mother-in-law next week so I decided to try out my Tim Holtz Framelits Butterfly and Die.  My Mother-in-law is 85 and I think probably doesn't appreciate the Funkie style as much as I do, and the ribbon I chose ended up not so Frilly, so it is a little more simple than I would normally have gone for.

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Love is not...

One of my nephews is getting married this month, and the wedding is outdoors, in the mountains, so I wanted the card to have a little bit of an outdoor feel without going too far over the top. 

This paper is from a 6x6 retired Pink Paislee set called Queen Bee.  Being the paper hoarder I am (it is from 2010), I decided to finally use it. I ran across a wedding quote I used in a scrapbook several years ago and recreated it on my computer using the Papyrus font. I then used the Tim Holtz Thinlits die to create the background and the Paper Dolls collection. I stamped a tiny butterfly (Skipping Stones Design) and then fussy cut another butterfly to give it dimension and added a tiny pearl.

I made a copy of their wedding invitation and cut out the heart with their initials (Travis & Alisha) and added it to a kraft envelope so I could tuck in some money.

I was inspired to add the butterflies for the challenge at Frilly and Funkie to add birds, bees, and/or butterflies.

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