The Butterfly and the Bee

I have been on a bit of a romantic kick lately with all the flowers, ribbon, pearls, bees and butterflies. I am creating samples of my work for our school auction this Saturday and will be adding a thank you note, banner ( just one) and a party favor to this card. My donation is hand crafted paper items for parties so I wanted to provide a visual. I think next week I am going to have to revisit clean and simple.

Stamps - Nature Walk, Friends 24/7, French Foliage,  En Francais, Sincere Salutations

Ink - basic grey, so saffron, pink pirouette, baja breeze

Paper - Newsprint DSP, very vanilla, craft and blushing bride card stock

Accessories - very vanilla seam binding, Beautiful Butterflies die, decorative label punch, pearl jewels, rosettes

PPA40 Monochromatic Blue

This weeks PPA challenge is to use any color of blue for a monochromatic project. I have been thinking about doing a soft romantic card with flowers and a monochromatic scheme with the En Francais background stamp. This week's challenge fit the bill and I choose bashful blue to work with. A pretty card must have some Stampin' Up! pretties so I used the pearls and flowers from the Pretties Kit for a romantic touch. Flowers - pearls - ribbon - very romantic. 

Paper - bashful blue and whisper white card stock

Stamps - En Francais, Friends 24/7, Sincere Salutations

Ink - bashful blue and basic black

Accessories - Pretties Kit, Finial Press embossing folder, whisper white ribbon, scallop  trim border punch

Stamping Royalty #3 - ONE Layer - AHHHHHHHH

Stamping Royalty has issued a CHALLENGE this week. Make a card using only one layer. This was such a challenge for me because I love layers. Well, here is my card. I like it for the challenge and will use the design in the future, but of course, I will add a layer with the greeting. I really like how the Bella Toile stamp turned out when colored. I am definitely going to experiment with this some more. Perhaps try it with some wild colors:).

Paper - Very vanilla

Stamps - Bella Toile, Matchbook Messages, Sincere Salutations

Ink - chocolate chip, pretty in pink

Accessories - Very vanilla taffeta ribbon