Apr 30, 2012 | Cards, Flight of the Butterfly, Pocket Silhouettes, Retired List, Thank You |
It’s time to bring back some creations with the Flight of the Butterfly stamp set and the coordinating punch. Both are on the Retiring list – and I really love butterflies so I hate to see them go. Two cards for my class tonight have butterflies on them and I seem to use them all the time. These are some old posts from my blog over the past few years. I also included Butterfly prints which coordinates with the same punch. And some other retiring products on these cards – the Eyelet border punch, Pocket Silhouettes stamp set, and Funky Four. I know it’s a big list and lots of good stuff is on it that we won’t be able to order again – so hurry before you favorites are gone.





Have a nice day!

Oct 19, 2011 | Big Shot, Flight of the Butterfly, Pocket Silhouettes, Stampin' Up! Convention |
I wasn’t finished sharing my little bat ideas that I showed at the Birmingham Regional. I had a bunch. This is the Get Well bag. Inside is a pack of tissues and a tea bag.
The bag is stamped – the bottom with Pocket Silhouettes and Flight of the Butterfly. White Gel pen doodles all around. And a tag from Word Play. I used tempting Turquoise and Old Olive for my colors. And I did add rhinestones on the “i” and on the one butterfly.
Really a quick project. So it is a quick post. Directions for how to make the bag were posted last week – Click Here.
That’s all for today… have a good one.

Oct 18, 2011 | Cards, Flight of the Butterfly, Thank You, UDI Color Challenge |
I’m taking a quick break from my little paper bag ideas for the UDI Color Challenge today. We are on week #58.
Here is the inspiration picture:

These colors had me stumped for a while. Wisteria Wonder, Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral, Rich Razzleberry and Very Vanilla. Very girly colors. What should I do with them. It always surprises me how hard it is to use some of these color combinations. It is certainly called a challenge for a reason.
So I flipped through my Stampin’ Up! Idea Book & Catalog for some little kick of an idea on what to do with these colors. I finally got near the end of the stamp sets and saw a card with a hand full of butterflies in different colors – it is on page 152. That was an idea –
So here is the result –
The base is Calypso Coral with a piece of the First Edition Specialty Designer Series Paper on it (I know that pulled in some black but that’s a neutral – right?). The butterflies are in the four colors – Wisteria Wonder, Calypso Coral, Rich Razzleberry, and Blushing Bride. The images are stamped on Very Vanilla card stock and punched out. then I punched a matching butterfly out of the colored card stock and cut it in half. I layered the wings behind the stamped butterflies. Then I punched a small bitty flower in the colored card stock. I crinkled it up and then put it in the center. I attached them to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals and then added a pearl to the center of each flower.
Across the bottom of the card is a strip of Calypso Coral card stock and covered it with Very Vanilla Seam Binding. Then I stamped “thank you so very much” directly on the ribbon using the Calypso Coral ink. So what do you think? For not liking these colors very much I do like how the card turned out.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Calypso Coral, Very Vanilla, Wisteria Wonder, Rich Razzleberry, Blushing Bride
- Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Calypso Coral, Rich Razzleberry, Blushing Bride
- Stamp sets: Flight of the Butterfly, Butterfly Prints
- Accessories: Butterfly Punch, First Edition DSP, Basic Pearls, Bitty Flower punch, Very Vanilla Seam Binding, Stampin’ Dimensionals
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.

Aug 30, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Flight of the Butterfly, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, UDI Color Challenge |
Happy Tuesday and welcome to a new color challenge for the week. It’s the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge and we are on week #51. Here is the inspiration picture for this week –
This week we are starting to see some of our new In-Colors – Lucky Limeade and Island Indigo along with Pacific Point and Always Artichoke. Some pretty glass beads are in this week’s inspiration picture. I was looking at trying to make some paper beads but didn’t have papers in the right colors so I’ll have to do that another time.
Instead I went with a card and wanted to use a stamp set that I haven’t used before.

This is what I came up with. It is a long card 6×3 that fits in the long open-end envelopes. The base is Lucky Limeade, then a layer of Always Artichoke with scallops at one end. The Whisper White panel is stamped with the mushrooms from the stamp set Funky Four. It is hard to tell in the picture but I inked the stamp in Lucky Limeade and then took the Always Artichoke Stampin’ Write Marker and went around the outline of each mushroom. I had in my mind that the mushrooms needed a little butterfly sitting on top so I pulled out the set Flight of the Butterfly and my Beautiful Wings Embosslet. The stamped butterfly is done the same as the mushrooms – inked in Pacific Point and then outlined with the Stampin’ Write marker in Island Indigo before I stamped it on my card stock. The words are Pacific Point. I added two little die cut butterflies and some Island Indigo Ruffled Ribbon. Then at the very end I decided to pull out the new Dazzling Details that will be in the new Holiday Mini Catalog and add little touches of it on the dots on the butterfly and mushrooms and also on the tiny die-cut butterfly. Here is a close up picture of that.
Oh yeah one more final thing – the mushrooms looked like they were just floating around and so i used the marker to add some scribbles underneath to ground them. Here on this close up picture you can see the two colors on the mushrooms better. Hope you like it.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Lucky Limeade, Always Artichoke, Whisper White, Pacific Point
- Ink: Lucky Limeade, Always Artichoke, Pacific Point, island Indigo, Stampin’ Write Markers – Always Artichoke, Island Indigo
- Stamp sets: Funky Four, Flight of the Butterfly
- Accessories: Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Island Indigo Ruffled Ribbon, Scallop edge punch, Dazzling Details.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.

Apr 16, 2010 | Cards, class, Flight of the Butterfly, Pocket Silhouettes, Thank You |
Flight of the Butterfly meets Pocket Silhouettes (and lets hope I spelled that right). These two stamp sets came together nicely in this card that was based on one that my friend Cindy created for a swap at our Starz Meeting last month. Here is the link to my post on her original card. I would have never put these colors together but I really like them and when I was looking at samples that one always stands out for me so I decided to use it for my class today. I changed the butterfly to use the Flight of the Butterfly stamp set which is a 2-step stampin’ set and what I featured in my class.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Soft Suede card stock and ink
- Regal Rose card stock and ink
- Barely Banana card stock and ink (this one is retiring)
- Pocket Silhouettes stamp set
- Flight of the Butterfly stamp set
- Butterfly Punch
- Trio Flower Punch
- Soft Subtles brads
- Eyelet Border Punch
- Crimper
- Paper Piercer
I really liked how Cindy added the lace border at the bottom. Punch a strip with the Eyelet border and then run it through the crimper. I also add a white panel on the inside that was stamped to match the front.
I didn’t have this in the picture but I decide it would be cute on the inside to stamp one of the curving sayings from the Flight of the Butterfly stamp set on the inside and then the little butterfly to the left so it looks like the butterfly trail. That was an after thought so I did it after I took the picture. You’ll just have to imagine it.
I’m going to go play with a few of my new stamps while it is quiet here. Greg is out playing golf, Ryan is off at a tennis match. Kyle and Tyler are here but entertaining themselves or each other so it is actually quiet.
Have a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by.

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Apr 14, 2010 | class, Flight of the Butterfly, Stampin' Up! Events |
I don’t think I shared this project from my class last month – it is a box of tags – this project was demonstrated for us at the Chattanooga Half-Day Regional. I used a different color combination and added the flowers to the butterflies. It is a cute little project.
First we made a box using Old Olive card stock with the insert inside to create the different sections. The box is a 6″ x 6″ piece of card stock – scored at 1″ on all four sides. Snip two opposite sides to create tabs and glue to make the box.
The insert is made from two pieces of 4″ x 6″ of Old Olive card stock. Score both pieces at 2″, 3″ and 4″. Then on one you cut down the center from the outside edge to each score line and on the other you cut down the center between the two outside score lines and nudge over and cut again to create a narrow slit. Fold both pieces so they have a mountain in the middle.
Fold up the first piece and slide it into the slit in the second piece then fold down the flaps to create the sectioned insert. Slide this inside your box.
We made butterfly tags – there are four tags of each color – Old Olive, Regal Rose and Rose Red with butterflies that were made by stamping the details from Flight of the Butterfly stamp set and punching with the Butterfly Punch.
For eac
h butterfly we added a flower punched from the Trio Flower punch and a silver brad. The butterflies are attached to the tag with pieces of Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The words come from the Fundamental Phrases stamp set – I used “For You”, “Hello”, “Thanks”, and “Friend”.
The tags were put in the box and then we added ribbon. Slide the whole thing inside a large cello bag. Tie with a piece of ribbon. Then add a tag which was made from a metal edge tag as the base.
This would make a cute hostess gift or just for a friend. It reminds me of spring! If you would like to come to my next class – it is this week on Friday – please let me know today.
Have a nice spring day!

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