HAND STAMPED SENTIMENTS - #SC371

Here's our sketch for you this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments.  I used a new stencil I've just purchased from Creative Expressions which is the gorgeous butterflies.  I cut out a circle and stencilled the butterfly over it and the base layer card.  I used Tim Holtz Distress Inks in a mixture of Peacock Feathers and Mermaid Lagoon.

I had an old piece of SU DSP with the black and white butterflies and sponged the butterflies with the same inks.  The small butterfly is from Wendy Vecchi and the sentiment is from Visible Image.  I added a touch of Dazzlign Diamonds to the main butterfly.

HAND STAMPED SENTIMENTS #IC370

A great mood board for you this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments.  I chose to use the butterflies top right for my card.  

I used a new stamp set for me from Creative Expressions called Butterfly Splash - a great set with 9 butterfly stamps on it, some greenery and two great ink splodge stamps lol!  I started off the card by using the greenery stamp at the bottom, the lavender stalks are from Tim Holtz wildflowers stamp set.  I stamped the butterflies in Versafine Clair inks.  I then used various pastels from the new Stampin Up pastel set to cover the whole image.  I went over the pastels with Tim Holtz Distress Glaze.  The colours seem to show up better in real life - whereas here they look a bit muted.

The happy birthday stamp and matching die cut is from a Clearly Besotted stamp.

I'm adding this into the following challenges:

Path of Positivity - Enjoy Nature

Stamping Sensations - Celebration