I made this card a few months ago and sent it in to Stampin’ Up! for one of their contests. It did not win. I was hoping to see it on the Stamper’s Showcase – these are cards and projects sent in my demonstrators for contests (that didn’t win) or at events – but on July1 they changed how they are doing the Stamper’s Showcase so they haven’t posted any new projects for us in over a week. And looking back on my card (I only have the picture) I think I used Kiwi Kiss so they won’t show it because of the retired color but it is close to Old Olive so maybe I actually used Old Olive – and in that case everything is still current. Or I’ll have to remake it with different colors and send it in again…..
I actually used this same idea of the beaded butterfly for the box decoration on one of my class to go kits – so you may have already seen it – but this was the card I originally made and then from that created the class using the same colors. I used the Great Friend stamp set which was originally in the Occasions Mini catalog and is also in the new 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalog. The butterfly is from the Beautiful Butterflies die for the Big SHot. One of my favorite! The body of the butterfly uses the Bead Duo in orange and they are strung on a piece of linen thread tied at the top in an overhand knot to create the antenna.
This is one of my favorite cards.
Thanks for stopping by today. My new stuff came yesterday so I’m going to play a little and get ready for the Stamper’s club meeting on Friday night.
Happy Stamping!
