Butterfly Birthday

Today's post is another birthday card. If you are like me, you use birthday cards more than any other, and it is really nice to have a few pretty ones on had both for those birthdays that you know are coming up, as well as for surprise birthdays that were not planned for ahead of time. It is nice to just go to my card stash and pick an already-made-card for that spur-of-the-moment situation when there is just not time to make a card, but one is needed ASAP.

So, today's card is for the "stockpile."

I used a pretty butterfly paper placed on top of a blue-on-blue polka dot paper. There was a doily lying around and I decided to cut out the center of it; I took a needle and thread and went around the inside edge and gathered the paper and pulled the gathers down to the right size. On top of it is the same polka dot paper and the sentiment which was printed from my computer, punched with a scallop punch, then popped up on a larger scallop punch. Blue liquid pearl dots were placed around the outside edge. A little double-looped gingham bow was attached; a green Spellbinders "Sprigs" die cut was placed over another block of polka dot paper and a double-layered Memory Box Pippi Butterfly was placed on one of the foliage leaves.

Here is the card:

Double layered Pippi butterfly:

Gathered doily edge:

I am entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Jun 30 A Girl Who Crafts - AG 5E #3 PP
Jun 30 DL Art June Linky Challenge - AG 1E per Day
Jun 30 Craft-Dee-Bowz - AG with a Handmade Bow UE PP
Jun 30 A Creative Need - AG UE
Jul 02 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #2 PP
Jul 04 Sister Act Card Challenge - AAG UE PP
Jul 05 613 Avenue Create - AG UE PP
Jul 05 Robyn's Fetish - Stripes or Dots UE PP
Jul 06 Dragonfly Dreams - Things with Wings UE PP
Jul 09 Crafty Girls Challenge - AG 3E #2 PP
Jul 14 Scribble and Scrap Challenge - AAG 3E #1 PP

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, I pray for God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,

Ginny B.

Romans 10:9-11

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT 

Monochromatic Yellow 1 Corinthians 13:7

Today's card is one of my favorite combinations:  yellow, black and white. Yellow just seems to pop when paired with these other colors, and makes a bold statement.

I used a SU Floral stamp and punched it out with the coordinating Pansy Punch. Another SU punch was used for the branches, as well as a Martha Stewart Five-Leaf Punch. Another MS punch, Royal Butterfly was used to punch out three butterflies in different papers; a silver-grey liquid pearl was placed on the center of each butterfly. The sentiment was printed from my computer. The ribbon is actually two ribbons, one glued on top of the other, then both of them placed on a black strip of paper for contrast. A very large rhinestone is glued to the center of the flower.

Here is the card:

Jun 27 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE PP
Jun 28 Glitter n Sparkle - Include Yellow UE PP
Jun 28 613 Avenue Create - AG UE PP
Jun 30 A Girl Who Crafts - AG 5E #2 PP
Jun 30 Crafting from the Heart - AAG 3E #2 PP
Jun 30 DL Art June Linky Challenge - AG 1E per Day
Jun 30 Craft-Dee-Bowz - AG with a Handmade Bow UE PP
Jul 02 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #1 PP
Jul 06 Dragonfly Dreams - Things with Wings UE PP
Jul 06 The Sisterhood of Crafters - Monochromatic 3E #1
Jul 09 Crafty Girls Challenge - AG 3E #1 PP

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,

Ginny B.

Romans 10:9-11

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT 

Thinking of You

New dies mean a rejuvenation of crafting ideas, so when a package came in the mail recently, new ideas began to flow. 

These are the tools used to make the card:

• ODBD Vintage Flourish pattern
• My Sentiments Exactly Q238 Sentiment Stamp
• Die Namics Mini Heritage Tea Rose
• Cheery Lynn Mini Fanciful Flourish
• Viva Ice White Liquid Pearls
• Krylon Grape Glitter Mist
• Martha Stewart Royal Butterfly Punch; Pine Sprigs Punch
• White Iridescent Glitter
• Vellum
• Pop Dots

And here is the card:

The vines are elevated to add dimension and the appearance that the butterflies are resting on the floating vines:

Glittery butterfly:

I am entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Jun 23 Die Cuttin Divas - Things with Wings 3E #3 PP
Jun 24 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #3 PP
Jun 26 Crafty Girls Challenge - AG 3E #1 PP
Jun 27 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE PP
Jun 28 Gllitter n Sparkle - Include Yellow UE PP
Jun 28 613 Avenue Create - AG UE PP
Jun 30 A Girl Who Crafts - AG 5E #1 PP
Jun 30 Crafting from the Heart - AAG 3E #1 PP
Jun 30 DL Art June Linky Challenge - AG 1E per Day
Jul 06 Dragonfly Dreams - Things with Wings UE PP

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,

Ginny B.

Romans 10:9-11

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT 

Three-Dimensional Thank You

Today I want to enter another card at Joan's Touch for this week's challenge which calls for us to use at least one item sold at Joan's Gardens and an image which is layered. We may use any color.

This is an image of a black and white butterfly resting on some red and orange flowers, die cut with three different sizes of a Sizzix Scalloped Oval die. It is on a Darice Checkerboard EF background that is inked with orange and red inks. Three leaves from a Finishing Touches Fern Die Trio die cut set are placed in back of the image. These die cuts were included as a little gift in the last order I got from Terri at Joan's Gardens, and I loved them so much I had to order the die set.  :o)  The butterfly image is boosted up into three different levels by pop dots. A red ribbon with a double-looped bow runs across the bottom. The sentiment is accented on the corners with a Crop-A-Dile Deco Corner Punch, and the edges are inked in red. To add some interest, I sprayed the card with gold glitter dust.

Here is the card:

Three levels:

I am also entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Jun 20 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE
Jun 21 613 Avenue Create - AG UE PP
Jun 22 Crafting from the Heart - AAG 3E #2 PP
Jun 23 Die Cuttin Divas - Things with Wings 3E #2
Jun 24 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #2 PP
Jun 26 Crafty Girls Challenge - AG 3E #1 PP
Jun 30 Craft Dee Bowz - AG with a Handmade Bow UE PP
Jun 30 DL Art June Linky Challenge - AG 1E per Day
Jul 01 Aud Sentiments Challenge - Two Word Sentiment 5E #1 PP

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rih blessings,

Ginny B.

Romans 10:9-11

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT 

A Little Birthday Birdie with Dimensional Layers

Today I want to enter a card at Joan's Touch for this week's challenge which calls for us to use at least one item sold at Joan's Gardens and an image which is layered. We may use any color.

The image is a sweet little one-legged birdie that I got from somewhere on the internet; she is die cut into three layers with Spellbinders Labels Twenty-Two. She is placed on a white layer embossed with a Cuttlebug Happy Birthday EF, which is laid on top of a turquoise layer. The embossed layer is inked with a blend of green and blue inks. To add some interest, a PoppyStamps Lorelai Leaf die cut in two different colors is added and to finish the card, twine is wrapped around the layers and tied with a bow with a little button accent. 

Here is the card:

This angle shows the dimensional layers of the die cut:

A little button bow:

I am also entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Jun 20 Creative Fingers - AAG 3E #3
Jun 20 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE
Jun 21 613 Avenue Create - AG UE PP
Jun 22 Crafting from the Heart - AAG 3E #1 PP
Jun 23 Die Cuttin Divas - Things with Wings 3E #1
Jun 24 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #1 PP
Jun 24 Cuttin and Stampin Challenge - Birthdays 3E #1 06/27 PP 
Jun 30 DL Art June Linky Challenge - AG 1E per Day
Jul 13 Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Layers 1E #1

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,

Ginny B.

Romans 10:9-11

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT 

Perfect Peace

I don't know about you, but sometimes the layout and content of a card is a complete mystery to me when first starting out. Today's card is an example of that. It started with a completely different look at first and kind of morphed into the creative expression that is posted below because nothing looked right. There was a lot of playing around with colors, dies and layout before the finished project happened. Below is the final process that happened after other stuff just didn't work (LOL)

I used some pink scraps of patterned paper that had been lying around for awhile. This was the first layer on the white cardstock base. Then a white piece was run through an EF, then inked with a brayer and glittered up. This was the second layer. The same pink paper was bordered with a Spellbinders curved border die. The sentiment is from a digi I found at Word Art Wednesday some time ago. I love the font, and of course, the Scripture is so good! A white butterfly was glittered and pearled; the upper left corner was pearled and a white and silver bow was run along the right hand side of the card. 

These were used in making the card:

• Spellbinders: Labels 23; Curved Borders Two; Wonderful Wings
• Floral EF
• Viva Ice White Liquid Pearls
• Silver and white ribbon
• Pop Dots

Here is the card:

I am entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Jun 17 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #2 PP
Jun 20 Creative Fingers - AAG 3E #2
Jun 20 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE
Jun 20 Hiding in My Craft Room - Use Scraps 3E #2
Jun 21 613 Avenue Create - AG UE PP
Jun 23 Through the Craft Room Door - AG 2E #2 PP
Jun 23 Creating in Faith, Hope and Love - Use a Scripture 1E
Jun 25 Paper Crafting Journey - AG 3E #1 PP
Jun 30 Crafty Bloggers - Die Cuts, Ribbon, Pearls 3E #3 PP
Jun 30 Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Blog - AG with Patterned Paper UE PP
Jun 30 DL Art June Linky Challenge - AG 1E per Day
Jun 30 A Creative Need - AG 3E #3 (7/04)

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,

Ginny B.

Romans 10:9-11

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT 

Black and White Thank You

I have been gone for almost a week and have not posted anything for a few days, but really wanted to enter a card at Joan's Touch for this week's challenge which calls for us to use at least one item sold at Joan's Gardens, black and white, scallops and dimension. If you have not visited Terri at Joan's Gardens, you are in for a real treat because not only does she sell at a discount, but she only charges for her shipping costs, which is so fair!

Using black and white papers and white vellum, these tools were used:

• Memory Box: Vivienne Butterfly; Darla Butterfly
• Spellbinders: Deckled Rectangles Large; Fancy Lattice; Adorning Squares
• Fiskars: 1 1/4" Scalloped Circle Punch; Tiny Butterfly Punch
• Paper Shapes: 1 3/4" Scalloped Circle Punch
• DieNamics: Fancy Flourish
• Cheery Lynn: Dancing Doily Lace Border
• Martha Stewart: Royal Butterfly Punch
• Viva Ice White Liquid Pearls
• Black and White Polka Dot Ribbon
• Black and White Patterned Paper

Here is the card:

The tiny little butterfly, black on top of white vellum with a liquid pearl.

Black and white polka dot ribbon underneath the white lace die cut for contrast:

I am also entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Jun 16 Fantastic Tuesday - Square or Rectangular 4E #1 PP
Jun 17 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #1 PP
Jun 21 613 Avenue Create - AG UE PP
Jun 23 Through the Craft Room Door - AG 2E #1 PP
Jun 25 Paper Crafting Journey - AG 3E #1 PP
Jun 30 Crafty Bloggers - Die Cuts, Ribbon, Pearls 3E #2 PP
Jun 30 Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Blog - AG with Patterned Paper UE PP
Jun 30 DL Art June Linky Challenge - AG 1E per Day
Jun 30 Sisters of Craft - AG 5E #1 PP

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,

Ginny B.

Romans 10:9-11

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT 

Cast All Your Anxiety on Him

Today I got some new dies in the mail. Don't you just love when that happens?

So, using the Delicate Asters die and the Floral Ribbon background piece, I added some new greenery pieces from new dies and came up with a pink and white card which is pictured below.

Spellbinders A2 Floral Ribbon Threader; Sprigs
Heartfelt Creations Delicate Asters
Martha Stewart Butterfly Punches
Fred She Said Sentiment
Crop a Dile Deco Corner Punch
Viva Ice White Liquid Pearls
Yellow Brad
Pink Ribbon

Here is the card:

I am entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Jun 06 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE PP
Jun 07 Avenue 613 Create - AG UE PP
Jun 08 Deep Ocean Challenges - Wings UE
Jun 10 Papertake Weekly - AG 5E #2
Jun 10 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #1 PP
Jun 11 Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Butterflies and Ribbon UE PP
Jun 11 Paper Crafting Journey - Perfect in Pink UE PP
Jun 14 Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - Ribbon UE PP
Jun 30 Crafty Bloggers - Die Cuts, Ribbon, Pearls 3E #1 PP
Jun 30 Craft Dee Bowz - AG with a Handmade Bow UE PP

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,

Ginny B.

Romans 10:9-11

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT 

Psalm 37:5

Today's card uses some different elements which I have used before. 

On top of a plain green background, a patterned vertical striped paper was laid down, then a horizontally striped piece of clear shelf liner was laid on top of that for added interest. More patterned paper was run through a Spellbinders Fancy Lattice die and laid on top of that. Then a piece of burlap. Leaves are from a Die-Namics Fancy Flourish die and a Martha Stewart Five Leaf Punch; the flower is punched from SU Pansy Punch and another five-petal punch that was in my drawer. Butterflies are from Cheery Lynn Pippi Butterfly die and a Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch. Sentiment is from Fred She Said. Liquid pearls and a cheap dollar store earring finish the project.

Here is the card:

I am entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Jun 05 Brown Sugar Challenge - Birthday 2E #2 PP
Jun 06 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE PP
Jun 07 Avenue 613 Create - AG UE PP
Jun 08 Deep Ocean Challenges - Wings UE
Jun 10 Papertake Weekly - AG 5E #1
Jun 10 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #1 PP
Jun 14 Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - Ribbon UE PP
Jun 30 Crafty Bloggers - Die Cuts, Ribbon, Pearls 3E #1 PP
Jun 30 Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Blog - AG with Patterned Paper UE PP
Jun 30 Craft Dee Bowz - AG with a Handmade Bow UE PP

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,

Ginny B.

Romans 10:9-11

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT