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Sunday 1 September 2024

AAA Birthday challenge #65 - background focus

Good morning friends and welcome to September.  I love autumn and I'm hoping it's cool and crisp without too much rain this year (I'm never happy when it comes to the weather am I? lol). Today I'm sharing my card for this month's brand new challenge over at the AAA Birthday challenge. This month Kateryna is the hostess and she has chosen 'background focus' as our theme.  Our guest designer this month is Hanneke so please pop over and leave her some love. 
 
It was my sister's birthday last week so used this opportunity to make my DT card.  Whilst looking through my stash I rediscovered this stamp/stencil combo and I think I have only used it once before so decided to give it some love.  
Here is my card:
A closer look at the background:
Plus I decorated the inside:
I took a white panel 6" x 6" and stamped the butterfly bodies in black ink.  I then took the matching stencils and did the upper wings in yellow ink and the lower wings in pink ink using a lighter and darker shade of both colours for some shading.  Once I finished I trimmed the panel down and it ended up being 4 1/2" by 5 1/2" so I decided to make my card size 5"x 6".  I matted the panel onto a black card mat with double sided tape.  I stamped my sentiment in black ink and cut it out with a stitched circle die and used a slightly larger circle to cut a black mat.  I didn't want to hide too much of the background so cut the top of the circle and added it to the very top of the panel with foam tape.  There is an add-on stamp & die set that has co-ordinating butterflies so I decided to die cut a couple of butterflies and used the same stencils to colour their bodies.  I added one butterfly to the edge of my sentiment circle for some added interest.  I added the panel onto my card base with foam tape.  As a finishing touch I added a few tiny white pearls randomly over the background.  For the inside I cut the same size panels as the front and stamped a sentiment in black ink.  I used a tiny strip of the panel that I had left over when I trimmed it down so added that at the bottom of the panel and added another butterfly over top with liquid glue.  I added this to the card base with double sided tape.  A really bright and happy card and I hope you like it. 

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

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - die cuts and/or stencils
Allsorts challenge - getting sentimental
Crafty Animals challenge - must include an animal (or insect)
Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter
Pearly Sparkles challenge - pink, pearls and/or sparkle (use at least 1)
Try It On Tuesday challenge - make it feminine

The Design Team have created amazing cards as always so please pop over to the blog and check them out and perhaps leave them some love on their personal blogs.   

I hope you will be able to join in with the challenge this month but don't forget it has to be birthday themed.  I can't wait to see your creations in the linky.

Enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by.

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:
Taylored Expressions - butterflies stamp & stencil combo
Taylored Expressions - butterfly wishes stamp & die set
Honey Bee Stamps - inside: birthday sentiments
Uniko - floral vines stamp (for happy birthday)
Uniko - everyday family stamp (for auntie)
Gina K Designs - Master Layouts 3 (for stitched circle, Master Layouts 5 (for plain circle)
Little Things from Lucy's Cards - pearls - soft snowball mix - store now closed
Hobbycraft - A4 black card
Versafine - onyx black ink

10 comments:

Cardsbymaaike said...

Gorgeous I love the color combo on the butterflies

Erikine spominčice said...

Very nice card. <3

brenda said...

Beautiful, a whole Kaleidoscope of Butterflies, many thanks for sharing with us at Allsorts challenge and adding a sentiment.

B x

Viv said...

This is so pretty and the colourway is beautiful. Thanks for joining us at TIOT

Let's Art Journal said...

Wow, such a beautiful card! I love the butterfly design and pretty colours - stunning 😊. Thanks so much for joining in the fun at Try it on Tuesday! Hugs, Jo x

Alyson Mayo said...

Oh, I love this! The butterflies are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing with us at Dragonfly Dreams :)

Liz said...

What a fabulous butterfly panel. Thank you for joining in the Allsorts Challenge this week.
Liz xx

Fiona said...

Love this Denise - such gorgeous summery colours - makes me think longingly of the summer we haven't got this year in Wales lol! Thanks for sharing with us at ATSM

Heather said...

Gorgeous!! I love your colors and how you decorated the inside as well! Thanks for playing with Critter Crazy Challenge.

Dotty Jo said...

What a beauty! I love your colour combo and beautiful stenciling - what a super card, Jo x