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A Quick Thank You Card with a Beautiful Butterfly
I’ve been making a concerted effort to actually use up my scraps. You know, instead of having bags and boxes stuffed full of scraps…. because I’m a hoarder, I’ll admit it. I have a good system for managing my scraps but even that can only take so much and so when I have extra punch out or die cuts, I have a new “Use it or Lose it” policy. And thus, this card was born –
Yup! Totally a scrap card!
I started with the extra lattice that I had created when I was trying to figure out the technique for a recent class card. All it takes is the Chevron border punch and some weaving and you are done! (I have a full tutorial here if you want to try it at home.)
So, I stamped the Hardwood image on the back of my card and layered on the white cardstock lattice. Then I needed something to go over my lattice, and that is when my eye caught the butterfly scraps! The butterflies were left over for a different ombre butterfly card I created (see that card here) and I ended up having an extra of each of the colors, so I stacked them up only this time making sure to stagger them a bit so you could easily see each color.
Then I added my sentiment for the fabulous So Very Grateful (I’m shedding a tear that this stamp isn’t carrying over into the new catalog!) and it needed something else to ground it, so I added the scrap strip of Crumb Cake cardstock.
Psst- if you look closely, you can see that I put it on as an afterthought because I had to tuck it into each side of the lattice… see the empty space in the middle.
Quick Reminder: The butterfly I used here is from the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die, which is retiring at the end of the month. I loved it because for my classes, I was cutting up to 6 pieces of cardstock at a time! Which makes cards like this much easier because you can do one run through the Big Shot to cut out all of your butterflies! Gotta love things that make your life easier. See the remaining retiring stamps and accessories online here.
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Stampin’ Up! Supplies Used
Stamps – So Very Grateful, Hardwood
Ink – Soft Suede, Early Espresso
Paper – Whisper White, Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake, Blushing Bride, Crisp Canteloupe, Calypso Coral
Accessories – Big Shot, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die, Chevron Border Punch, Pearls
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May 15, 2014
Stacked Die cuts for a Cool Ombre Effect
I was working on cards for an upcoming card class for The Scrapyard Chicks April Workshop and one great technique Kerry mentioned was stacking die cuts to get a cool ombre or rainbow effect on your cards and projects. It looked so simple but just a neat effect that I just had to try it!
I decided to make life easy on myself and I started out with a bigshot die that can handle multiple pieces of cardstock at the same time (got to love those Bigz dies!!) So, I grabbed my Beautiful Butterflies die and got to work creating this card:
I kept the card really simple so that the butterfly and the subtle colors would stand out. It is just a plain white cardbase with a strip of white cardstock that has been embossed with the Square Lattice embossing folder.
Then I picked a few colors to make the butterfly. I cut out 3 die cuts of each color– Calypso Coral (darkest), Crisp Cantaloupe (medium), and Blushing Bride (lightest) and then glued them together. And you know when you use the thick dies in the Big Shot you can cut all the sheets of the same color out at the same time, right? So, it only took a few runs through the machine to get my diecuts all done!
Then I cut out 1 die cut of Whisper White to place on the top of the stack.
Glue them together and add a string of rhinestones just a hint of glitz. I kept it to only 3 pieces of paper per color just to keep the die cut from not being too tall off my card, but you could add more sheets and more colors to make them stand out even more!
So, have some fun with your Big Shot, dies, and some cardstock and see what fun creations you can come up with.
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Stampin’ Up supplies uses. Click any photo for more details:
Big Shot Die-Cut Machine
$99.95
Beautiful Butterflies Stampin’ Up! Bigz Die
$21.95
Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Die
$7.95
Blushing Bride 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock
$6.95
Crisp Cantaloupe 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock
$6.95
Calypso Coral 8-1/2 X 11 Card Stock
$6.95
Basic Rhinestones Jewel Accents
$4.95
Sweet Essentials Clear-Mount Stamp Set
$14.95
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March 12, 2014
Butterfly Framelit Window Frame Card
If you are on my mailing list, you’ve seen this card with my last newsletter but I love it so much that I had to share it on my blog too!
Now, I’ve done the window frame style card before (like this card) but I really wanted to play around with using the new Labels Framelits since they gave me a super easy way to make a big window on the front of my card. So, one night I started playing and this card came out:
I started out by picking two of the patterns from the Sale-a-Bration designer paper Everyday Enchantment. I guess, I thought this evoked a garden window at the time. Then I started stamping some flowers from the Vintage Vogue stamp set and cut them out by hand. Not the fastest process, but actually pretty relaxing.
Then I started layering my elements by popping up the green piece of designer paper and layering flowers above and below the level of that paper. Finally, I finished it off with butterfly from the Beautiful Butterflies dies to make my garden complete!

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February 28, 2012
Playing with Designer Fabrics the “No Sew” Way
When my downline, Pam, suggested having a class focused on using the designer fabrics; I thought it was a great idea. She was looking for more ideas on how to use all the cute fabrics and I needed the kick in the pants to start cutting more into my fat quarters. So, I organized a fun afternoon where I shared “no sew” ideas and Bethani, another of my downline, brought an awesome card for everyone to do as well. Since two of the cards used Sale-a-Bration stamp sets, I thought I’d share them first.
So Happy For You Butterflies

For this card, we use the Sizzix Multi-Purpose adhesive sheets to put adhesive on the back of the blue and red polka dot fabric (we didn’t put any adhesive on the multi-colored polka dot fabric). Then we ran both fabric pieces through the Big Shot using the butterfly Bigz die.
Tip: Place the fabric on the adhesive sheet prior to running it through the BigShot. It not only will make it easier for you to have an exact shape match without having to try to line anything up, but the BigShot will provide all the pressure you need to ensure a no-bubble seal between the fabric and adhesive!
We adhered the cardstock and then ran a piece of cardstock vellum through a crimper for a fun little touch (ok – and really I somehow completely forgot the vellum at home and so the ladies used whisper white paper and it looked really good too). I adhered the crimped paper in the center only. Then used the big butterfly with the adhesive back as the main adhesive as I layered it over the crimped paper.
Then we used glue dots in the center of the little butterfly and the button to layer them on top. By only using adhesive in the middle of the small butterfly and the vellum, it gave the card a little extra dimension and/or movement. Finish it off with my favorite sentiment set right now – So Happy For You from the Sale-a-Bration catalog

Sweet Summer Flowers
This is the card that was designed and taught by my downline, Bethani Semple. Isn’t it so fun looking! I think she did an awesome job and though I changed my version up a little by wrapping the ribbon around the Old Olive cardstock, I now think her original version that wrapped the Night of Navy taffeta ribbon around the cardbase was better.
Anyway, for this card, we took a strip of the Sweet Stitches Fabric and twisted it (kind of like how you twisted a towel when you were a kid and were going to “snap” someone in the kitchen). So, once you had the twisted strip of fabric, we curled that around a small stick – in this case a paper piercer – to form the flower head. When you were finished coiling, you tucked the end of the ribbon up through the center of your flower. Then, add some hot glue to a punched out circle of cardstock and squish in your flower head. Ta da! Your very own custom accent. Totally fun, huh?
In this case we used the ribbon flower as a head for one of our Sweet Summer flowers, this set is also from the Sale-a-Bration catalog.
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March 27, 2011