CASE IT IG Hop - October 25

Hello again friends. I hope you've had a great day so far. I'm back to share this month's card for the CASE IT Instagram Hop where we find a project on Instagram that inspires us and we will share that project as well as the project we’ve created that was inspired by that original. There are so many beautiful creations on Instagram the only difficult part is narrowing down which one to CASE (which means Copy And Share Everything).

This month I was inspired by Verena (@simple_stamper over on IG); her cards are beautiful and this one is so soft and instantly caught my eye.  I needed a birthday card for my sister in law so changed the snowflakes to butterflies and went with pink instead of blue.  You can definitely see that my card was inspired by hers!  Here is her card for my inspiration:

So if we use Ardyth's LIMES process (you can watch her video here) we list what we see - Verena has used blues and silver, snowflakes, soft ink blended background and a diagonal arrangement. So I included the ink blended background and diagonal arrangement but modified mine by using butterflies, pink and gold.  I excluded that the snowflakes fade to white, the water droplets and used gold splatter instead.  My spin is that my card is larger at 6" x 8" in size.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by making my card base from a 12" x 12" piece of white card; this was cut to 12" x 8" and scored on the 12" side at 6".  I then cut a white panel 5 3/4" x 7 3/4" and ink blended the top 2/3rds using a pink ink; as in Verena's card I went heavier at the top and faded out to white towards the bottom.  I added gold and white splatter and set it aside to dry.  I then die cut my butterflies from light and dark pink card and cut the bodies from gold mirri card; I adhered them together with liquid glue. I stamped the sentiment using black ink (not sure why I didn't do gold but I think it looks ok) using a mixture of stamp sets and cut it out with my trimmer.  I can't tell you how much faffing I did with the butterflies to get an arrangement I was happy with but eventually I did and added the smaller ones with liquid glue and the 3 larger ones with foam squares.  I added the sentiment with foam squares overlapping the butterflies and finished off with some gold sequins.  I added some scrap card behind the panel for stability and dimension and adhered it to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another piece of white card 5 3/4" x 7 3/4" and ink blended the lower third with the pink ink.  I again added some splatter as before.  I die cut two more butterflies and adhered them with liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink.  I decided to add a gold mirri mat layer to bring a bit more gold to the inside so trimmed my white panel down a little and adhered it to the gold layer with double sided tape.  This was then added to the card base with double sided tape.  

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

613 Avenue Create challenge - think pink

A Cut Above challenge - ATG with a die cut (3rd entry)

Aud Sentiments challenge - ink blending and/or fall/thanksgiving + sentiment

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG but must include an animal

Creative Moments challenge - things with wings

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

Cut It Up challenge - use more than 1 die (3rd entry)

Heart's Quest Celebrations of Love challenge - BEWAS optional Thanksgiving or appreciation

Let's Craft & Create challenge - things with wings

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - bright and colourful

Triple B challenge - birds, blooms and/or butterflies optional inspiration board

We hope you will be inspired by our CASE IT Instagram Hop and will pop over and check out all the gorgeous cards along the way. If you would like to join us please visit my Instagram page or use the hashtag #caseithop and we will find you.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Lots of love

card supplies:

Craft Addiction UK - wings of elegance

Gina K Designs - innocent pink ink pad

Uniko Stamps - floral vines stamp (for HBD)

Uniko Stamps - everyday family (for sister)

Clearly Besotted - friends & family stamp (for sub sentiment) - retired

Spellbinders - gold smooth discs color essential sequins

LOTV - verse polymer stamp (for inside greeting) - no longer available

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

gold mirri card from stash

pink card from scraps bin