Hope This Brightens Your Day

Spending some time in my studio today and playing along with Freshly Made Sketches.

Here's the sketch:

...and here's my card:

I'm continuing to have loads of fun with my newest Catherine Pooler purchases!!! The colors in the Painted Butterflies 6x6 paper pack are absolutely gorgeous and so inspiring!!! And I love the sentiments and mix of fonts in the Encouraging Words Sentiments stamp set.
 

I hope you're enjoying your weekend!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Supplies:

Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies (Catherine Pooler), Encouraging Words Sentiments (Catherine Pooler)

Ink: Whipped Honey, Sauna, Wintergreen, Sea Glass, Clay Mask, Terracotta, Icing On The Cake (Catherine Pooler)

Cardstock: White (Catherine Pooler), Basic White (Stampin' Up)

Patterned Paper: Painted Butterflies 6x6 (Catherine Pooler)

Dies: Beautiful Butterflies (Catherine Pooler), Stitched Circle (MFT)

Adhesive: Double-Sided Tape (Lawn Fawn), 3D Foam Squares - Large (Scrapbook.com) 

Sending You Love and Strength

Today I'm playing along in a new-to-me challenge: Daring Cardmakers

This was just the challenge I needed to get my mojo going. A dear friend recently asked me to make some handmade cards for her to send to four of her friends who are currently battling cancer. The description of Viva Magenta on the Daring Cardmakers Challenge blog prompted me to check out the description of this color on the Pantone website. You can read more about it HERE but not only do they say that this color promotes joy and optimism but they also say it's "expressive of a new signal of strength" and refer to Viva Magenta as "brave and fearless." I found this all so inspiring and immediately got to work on a Viva Magenta card. Here's my creation:

The butterfly is hot foiled---LOVE the shimmer and shine!!!

Color was applied to the hot foiled butterfly image using blending brushes, the coordinating butterfly stencils and inks (all supplies are listed at the bottom of my post).
 

Thank you so much for visiting.

Have a great day!

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Supplies:

Stamps: Just Sentiments - Thinking of You (Papertrey Ink)

Ink: Onyx Black Versafine (Tsukineko), It's A Girl/Party Dress/Flirty Fuchsia/Icing On The Cake (Catherine Pooler)

Hot Foiling Plate: Butterflies (Pinkfresh Studio)

Glimmer Hot Foil: Pewter (Spellbinders)

Cardstock: White (Neenah), Raspberry Fizz (Papertrey Ink)

Dies: Butterflies (Pinkfresh Studio), Fishtail Flags STAX (MFT), Sparkling Diamonds (Pinkfresh Studio)

Adhesive: Scor-Tape (Scor-Pal), Connect Glue (Gina K)