Freshly Made Sketch #197 - Trio of Butterfly Cards

These cards are from a few weeks ago when I was focused on combining the use of card sketches with my scrap stash.  For these three cards, I used Freshly Made Sketch #197 and a few elements from my embellishment stash.

For this first card, I worked with a complementary color palette of blues and yellow oranges.  I started by running the yellow-orange card stock through an older Tim Holtz Texture Fades embossing folder called Stripes and adhered it to a white card base. Then I began laying my elements, starting with a banner of textured dark blue that I cut using the Homenty Bee Stamp Banner builder dies.  Layer three is a square cut using some older patterned paper and the Art Impressions Stitched Squares dies.  

I added the sentiment using a stitched oval cut with Simon Says Stamps stitched oval dies and stamped “miss you” with a stamp set from My Favorite Things.  To complete the card I added a butterfly cut from a dark shade of yellow-orange cardstock using the Mememor Box Pinpoint Butterfly Trio and a few pearls.  

To create cards two and three, I swapped the stripes embossing folder for the Swiss dots from Cuttle Bug, used a cream cardstock, and adhered it to a kraft card base.  I pulled rusty orange scrap of solid card stock from my stash and cut two of the same style banner strips.  I cut two stitched squares from some older polka-dot paper and layered that on top.  This time I cut the stitched oval from cream to match the Swiss dot background and added a birthday sentiment from Simon Says Stamp.

The butterflies on these two cards are from an older pack of embellishments that I had in my stash from several years ago.  they were the perfect focal piece.  To finish these cards I selected more of the same pearls from the first card design.

Shopping Notes:

• Tim Holtz Texture Fades Stripes embossing folder - retired
• Memory Box Pinpoint Butterly Trio dies - retired
• Simon Says Stamp Thinking of You stamp set - retired
• My Favorite Things Love is in the Mail stamp set - retired
• Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder - retired
• Honey Bee Stamps Banner Builder dies - retired

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