Friday, August 28, 2009

Loonie Stampers Celebrate Dee's Birthday!

This week's Loonie Stampers Challenge is a surprise for Dee's birthday. She didn't know that we all made birthday cards for her...how fun! So, I hope you have a wonderful day today Dee!!!

My card is designed from a TV commercial I've seen a few times. I totally can't remember what the commercial is for, but part of it has a family sitting in front of a purple wall with huge purple and white butterflies all over it. Every time I see it I think, "That would make a great card" so I finally did it. I have to say the wall looked better than my card turned out unfortunately. I guess you never know until you try!

My card base is Close To My Heart's Hydrangea cardstock and I punched out butterlfies using two different Martha Stewart punches. I used Hydrangea, Amethyst, and White Daisy for the butterflies and added some Crystal Stickles to the center of each. I adhered them and embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder. It's a pretty simple card but for some reason it took me forever. I guess it's because I just couldn't get it looking the way I wanted to so I finally gave up. Still, I love purple and butteflies so what could be better!

Happy Birthday Dee!!! I hope you were surprised. Check out the other Loonie Girls for their cards this week too:

Dee Jewels Maria Wendy Charlene Regan

And here are the other girls participating:

Roseanne

Avril

Tracey

Steph

Pam

Donelda

Deb

Ashley


Recipe

Stamps: Birthday Basics (Papertrey Ink)
Cardstock: Hydrangea, Amethyst, White Daisy (Close To My Heart)
Ink: Versafine (Tsukineko)
Accents: Crystal Stickles (Ranger); White Embossing Powder (CTMH)
Tools: Butterfly Punches (Martha Stewart)


Have a great day,

13 comments:

Rosanne said...

Cute card.

Regan said...

that is a totally cute card...tahnsk so much for playing with us!

Tracey said...

Love the butterflies. Adorable card!

Deanna said...

Ah Sue, it is beautiful so thanks so much for playing!

Donelda said...

I think your card is great with all those butterflies all over!! the color is devine!!

Anonymous said...

SUE!! This is great, love purple and is one of the colours Dee thought we were using so yours is perfect!

Steph said...

Very nice card!

Charlene Austin said...

Hey Sue-----this is so CUTE!! Love the prettiness.

Julie-Ann Wells (Jewels) said...

Great Job!! Thanks for playing along with us this week!

AKiteFlier said...

Well how fun is this! I will keep an eye out for the commercial. Fun assortment of butterflies.

Avril Tanner said...

This is an adorable card! and What great inspiration!

Deb Rymer said...

It did make a great card... Beautiful, Sue!

Traveling Mama said...

How sweet! The blue really pops!