When I look at this card, I really feel like the butterfly and the leaves are blowing in the breeze. It’s nice and simple, but I like it very much.

I started out with a Going Gray card stock base, layered with Urban Garden DSP. The floral pattern in the DSP matches the leaves in the stamp set quite nicely. The image layer is mounted on Apricot Appeal and Basic Gray cardstock. I stamped the leaves from Great Friend in Kiwi Kiss and stamped off for the two-tone effect. The butterfly, from the same set, is stamped in Cameo Coral and I used the paper piercer to make the trail for the butterfly. In the upper right corner, I used two of the new 5/16″ Basic Brads in Silver. Finally, in the lower right corner, the sentiment “for you” is stamped in Cameo Coral.

I got to play with some new stamp sets and accessories yesterday! I preordered this set from the upcoming Mini Catalog, Great Friend. I saw this card and was inspired to make something with this set.

The card base is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of textured Kiwi Kiss, folded in half. Next, is a layer of Apricot Appeal, with a piece of Urban Garden DSP on top. The two strips were made up of 1 1/2″ x 4 3/4″ pieces of Chocolate Chip cardstock, layered with a 1 1/4″ strip of Whisper White. I stamped the leafy stamp, also from Great Friend in Kiwi Kiss ink, and stamped off to get a two-tone effect.

At the ends of the strips, I attached the glittery butterflies. To make the butterflies, I stamped the image in Versamark on Whisper White card stock, twice. Then I applied Heat and Stick powder and heat set it to activate. Next, I put on some Supernova Glitter, one in Pink and the other in Brown. Brush off any excess glitter with a soft tissue and cut the glittery butterflies out with scissors. To give them some height, I adhered them to the card with dimensionals.

In the center of the card, I stamped the sentiment from Great Friend on Whisper White using my SU Markers. I colored in the text with Chocolate chip and the “friend” with Cameo Coral. Then, I punched out the sentiment with my 1 3/8″ circle punch and adhered it to a Chocolate Chip circle cut out with my 1 3/4″ circle punch. For added interest, I used my paper piercer to make holes around the edge of the circle. This was also adhered to the card with dimensionals.

I can’t say it enough–I LOVE this Urban Oasis DSP. Even though this particular pattern is rather subtle, it’s simultaneously very striking and graphic.

The card base is Going Gray cardstock, layered with the chevron print Urban Oasis DSP. This flower is from Pick a Petal stamp set. I stamped it in Black on a 3″x4″ piece of Whisper White cardstock. I stamped the center first, then stamped the petals in clock formation to ensure they were evenly spaced. Start at 12 o’clock, 3, 6, and so on. I watercolored the petals with Baja Breeze and the watercolor pen. In the center of the flower, I used the cropadile to punch a hole and put in a large Kiwi Kiss Corduroy brad.

Next, I adhered the white layer to a piece of Baja Breeze card stock and wrapped some black velvet ribbon around it. The ribbon is from the Ribbon Originals Valet collection. Finally, I added a sentiment from Warm Words, stamped in black just above the ribbon. The Baja Breeze layer is adhered to the base with dimensionals.