Butterfly Circle

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has been great! I think Spring has Sprung...at least around here. Tomorrow DRS Designs will have some beautiful new images released! This wonderful Butterfly & Branch is just one of them. This is also for the Card Patterns Sketch 155 which DRS Designs is sponsoring! Today's the last day so be sure to check it out. I know y'all are up for a challenge and prizes never hurt, so while you're looking, take a gander at the DRS Thursday Challenge.

This new image just seemed made to be an out of the box circle so that's the route I took. It's colored w/ markers and I added two cut out butterflies on top for a little extra something. Actually, the color scheme for this card came about because of the the dotty band running across the bottom. I made it months ago (around Christmas) intending to use it and never did. Saw it in my stash and went...hmmmm... It was made by white embossing the polka dot border on white c/s and then sponging on the ladybug red ink.
I used a scallop edge die to cut the bottom of the sentiment panel then attached my dotty bg and layered circle on top. A red die cut flourish vine and 3 little shimmery round "button" objects (the pkg name says "Candi" but I don't know what to call them). The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!





Supplies:
stamps: (NEW!!) Butterfly & Branch, Polka Dot Background, Thinking of You...
paper: white, red
ink: Ancient Page coal, Memories sky blue, Colorbox frost white pigment, Memento ladybug
accessories: white embossing powder, Spellbinders circle dies, Memory Box flourish vine die, Tombow markers, Quickutz scallop edge die

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Challenge #15-Green, Yellow & Black

Hello Friends!

Welcome back to challenge Thursday here on the DRS Designs blog. Big thanks to all of our participants over the last several weeks and big congrats to last week's winner,
Michelle (Whirligig)! 

 Please claim your prize by contacting us at info@drsdesigns.com.

For our next challenge we're going to help you get ready for Easter by giving away the Big Bunny Face (639g) and the One Line Happy Easter (665b) stamps. It's a color challenge, and we hope the DRS DT has inspired you to create cards using Green, yellow, and black!

Karin

Janett

Pam

Shelia

Julie

Jennifer E.

Chrissy D

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EASTER LILY AND CROSSES

Hello my friends! Today is DRS Designs Wednesday! Have you joined in the fun and the weekly Challenges with DRS Designs? Each Thursday, Drs Designs offers a challenge and a prize to a participant!  You can see the current challenge HERE.

To create my card today, I started with Heat embossing the Easter Oval with Lily and Crosses with Black Embossing Powder on Craft Card stock. I then colored the images in with Gamsol and Prisma Color Pencils. I cut out the frame using Paper Snips and layered it on Espresso Card stock.

I ran another piece of Craft Card stock through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice Embossing folder and layered that with the Espresso Cardstock. I folded the 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Pink Card stock in half and tied  two strips of Blue stitched Offray ribbon around with a bow to create the panels and adhered the diamond layers to the card stock. Using Dimensionals, I added the Easter Oval with Lily and Crosses layers to finish off the card.

On my second card today, I used the same set called Easter Oval with Lily and Crosses. I stamped, colored and cut out this image. I layered the image with a Spellbinders Oval in Orange Card stock. Using the Top Note Die, I cut out the White and Craft Card stock. I trimmed the border of the White Card stock and adhered it to the Craft Card stock. I ran it through the Big Shot again using the Swiss Dots Embossing Folder. I adhered the additional layers to the Top Note Die shaped card stock. I stamped the Four Corner Butterfly in the background using Crumb Cake Ink. Using ATG Tape, I adhered the White Cardstock with the  Butterfly Background to the Orange Cardstock and attached that to the 11" x 4 1/4" Craft Card stock.


Before adhering the Top Note Die card stock to the card base, I tied a orange grosgrain ribbon around it. To finish the card, I added 3 Dew Drops using Mini Glue Dots to adhere them to the card.


I hope you enjoyed my cards today! Have a wonderful day!

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Happy Easter

Hi Everyone,

I have a bright Easter card coming your way today made with stamps from DRS Designs. I don't think a crocus flower comes in red, but a red, yellow and green color combo always looks so fresh and happy to me, that I feel OK about my artistic license :)

I'm not sure how well it shows up, but my red base was stamped using the Woven Plaid stamp and red ink, for a tone on tone look. I used the Easy Dot background to make my custom paper. I LOVE this stamp! It's not new to the DRS catalog, but it's totally one of my favorites. It's so forgiving and you can't make a mistake when creating your custom paper. There's no lining anything up, the dots are random and it works. Every. Time.

The middle strip was made with the Open Plaid stamped in green and those Spring Crocus in the Tub are just so sweet! And like I do many times, I stamped and cut apart the One Line Happy Easter sentiment to make it fit my card.

This week you have 2 chances at winning a DRS Designs prize!  We have our weekly Thursday challenge at the blog, and DRS Designs is also the sponsor of the Card Patterns sketch challenge!

Here is the card I made in support:

And these are the stamps I used for the card:

Circle Lily

Girl Swirl

Silhouette Branch Background

1 Line Heartfelt Condolences

Thanks for peeking in and good luck in the challenges!

Karin

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Happy Easter

Good Morning Everyone. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. My daughter is visiting from Virginia and we've spent most of the weekend shopping and making plans for her wedding in November. It's pretty exciting!!

Today I want to share an Easter card made with DRS Designs Lily and Cross (234K) and the Faith at Easter Sentiment (427G). I think these two stamps go together so well and make a lovely Easter card that celebrates the true meaning of Easter.

The image was stamped in Memento Black on white card stock, colored with Copic markers, fussy cut and then layered on a yellow oval that was cut with nesties. The sentiment was also stamped in Memento Black on white card stock and then layered on the same yellow card stock that was punched with a MS border punch. Everything is attached to white card stock that was embossed using the CB Damask embossing folder. A sheer yellow ribbon was added before this layer was attached to the yellow card. Hope you like it.

Until next time,
shelia

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Spring Crocus

Good morning, hope you are enjoying your Sunday. We have had some great spring weather this week, everything is starting to bud and bloom.

The card that I want to share with you today was made using DRS designs Spring Crocus 1066H and Butterfly Ribbon Slide 681D. I stamped the crocus with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with copic markers. I used a Spellbinder die to cut out the image and layered it on to purple paper that was cut with a Spellbinder die. The butterfly was stamped, colored, and cut out. I wrapped a ribbon around a piece of brown card and layered it onto a white card. The Crocus image was attached to the card front. And the butterfly was pop-up.

　
Copics- V15, V17, E33,E53,R89,E37,YG63,G99

　
Have a wonderful day,

Janett

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You Light up my Life!

I chose this card to post today as I am in Florida!  A much needed vacation.  Maybe I'll even get to see some glow worms! 

I stamped my glow worm in black and used a combo of stickles and pearlescent watercolors to give him lots of shimmer.  His rosy cheeks were added with a blender pen and pink ink.  The gray metallic paper was embossed with an edge folder and for the sun, I punched a circle and freehand cut the sun rays.  Next, I stamped the You light up my life sentiment and cut it up to fit my space....Lots of rhinestone bling!

Well, it is time for me to go enjoy the sunshine and some swimming.  Lots of girl time, too!  Lucky me to be with my sisters, aunt, cousin and my neighbor.

Pam

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