Another Year Flies By

Birthdays are thick & fast this time of year.

Another Birthday card inspired by the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.

 

I started with stamping some Butterflies from Kaisercraft on white cardstock.  I heat embossed the central butterfly and coloured with some Distress Ink using a waterbrush.

I then cut them out with circle dies - layering them twice to give dimension and mounting with foam dots.  Sentiment was stamped directly on the cardfront.

 

 

 

While playing with placement, I realised that just a plain white background was not working for me, so I grabbed a stencil I have had for a while, but not used before and using the same Distress Ink used to colour the central butterfly, I stenciled the background lightly.  That was the little 'something' I was looking for!

 

The cardfront was trimmed then placed on some old Stampin' Up Cardstock - I think the colour is either More Mustard or Pumpkin Pie ..... perfect!

 

Linking with the following challenges:

 

Addicted to Stamps & More #460 - Die Cut/Stencil

Seize the Birthday #276 - Anything Goes

Freshly Made Sketches #621

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.