Sunday, 24 March 2013

All About the dies

After a 3 day blog hop at Impression Obsession, I have finally decided what my card should look like for the challenge. As a stamper first and foremost, I use dies either as an embellishment (flowers, leaves, buttons, borders) or matting for my stamped images.  So this is quite different for me and the stamping is taking second place, in the background, stamped on an embossing folder.

 

The stamp is CAC Canvas (CC073). The butterflies are made of 2 layers die-cut with the Butterflies die (DIE008-I) one out of lightly colored paper and one out of vellum. The paper has also been stamped with Flourish 2 (H5575) in black ink, but you will have to trust me with this as it is barely visible on the picture.
The sentiment, a first for me, is actually written by my own hand ! Needs must... I didn't have a stamp and didn't fancy putting my embossed card through the printer !

Thanks for coming by,

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11 comments:

  1. Shirley24 March 2013 at 20:27

    Well, all I can say, Christine, is that it is simply lovely! How very beautiful. I love how you did the butterflies and the colors you chose for every image is stunning! Wish I could write that well!! Thank you for playing and good luck in the drawing too!!

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  2. Shona25 March 2013 at 01:33

    L-O-V-E This !!! Holy Smokes ! This is gorgeous,those butterflys couldn't be any more beautiful, and I am crazy for the colours !

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  3. Sylvia25 March 2013 at 14:00

    Very pretty card, love the butterflies with the stamping under the patterned vellum, the colours are lovely too.

    Sylv xx

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  4. Von25 March 2013 at 18:26

    So delicate and pretty :)
    Von ☺

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  5. April25 March 2013 at 22:46

    Lovely card! The butterflies are beautiful! Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog!

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  6. patscrap26 March 2013 at 15:25

    Very Romantic card ! I love it !

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  7. Diane27 March 2013 at 09:11

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  8. Diane27 March 2013 at 09:12

    So soft and pretty....LOVE those butterflies!!!

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  9. Greta27 March 2013 at 20:49

    Beautiful color scheme, background & butterflies--great card!

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  10. patscrap28 March 2013 at 06:57

    Congrats Christine ! Enjoy your win !

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  11. sara j30 March 2013 at 07:15

    I arrived at your blog from only God knows where - it's been one of those evenings, but I couldn't leave without a comment about your amazing butterflies...the dimension and the colors are just stupendous. They are just beautiful!!

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