AAA birthday challenge - DT card

Good morning friends and welcome to July!  Another month has bitten the dust and we are bang in the middle of summer time now.  I'm back with my DT card for this month's AAA birthday challenge and this month our theme is 'butterflies' which has been chosen by Elaine.  Our guest designer this month is Janja so please pop over and say hello.  

For my card I am using a new to me stamp and die set from W Plus 9 and it is gorgeous.  I decided to make a shaker card and went very clean and simple on this one.  Here is what I made:

and a slightly closer look:

I began by die cutting the 'beautiful' word (which thankfully comes as one piece) from white cardstock and added acetate over the opening to make my shaker window.  I then took a sentiment stamp which actually said have a sweet birthday and masked off the bits I didn't need and stamped the words in Versafine onxy black ink.  I stamped the butterflies in Versamark and white heat embossed them and cut them out with the matching dies.  I also decided to soften them by die-cutting another of each butterfly in vellum and adding them on top.  I added foam tape to my white card panel and added the shaker mix before sealing it closed.  I finished off with some matching sequins and voila my card was done.  It turned out just as I wanted and I think the colours look really fresh.  

Please pop over to the blog to see the creations from the rest of the design team; you won't be disappointed.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Sweet Stampin' challenge - no designer paper (I stamped and heat embossed my butterflies before ink blending)

Addicted to CAS challenge - celebration (if my card isn't CAS enough please remove me)

Just Us Girls challenge - pastels

Shopping Our Stash challenge - sentimentally yours

Scrapping4Fun challenge - birthday

Papercraft challenges - girls, girls, girls

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - anything goes

NBUS challenge - new stamp/die set

If you give a crafter a cookie challenge - pastels

I really hope you can join us and cannot wait to see all your beautiful butterfly creations.  Please remember that we only accept birthday cards.  

I really appreciate you stopping by and leaving me such lovely and positive comments.  

Have a great day.  

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

W Plus 9 - beautiful butterflies

MFT - sweet celebrations 

Heffy Doodle - white card

sequin mix from my stash (I think it was a freebie)