Button Buddies | The Paper and Stamp Addict

This week at Caseing the Catty, our theme is what caught your eye when you first looked through the catalogue.

Well, lots of things caught my eye!! However, I was really excited to see that Butterfly Basics has carried over from the Occasions catalogue.

My fabulous upline, Tracy, had a special birthday earlier this month and I’ve been a bit late in sending her a card. I thought that the butterfly card featured on page 124 of the AU/NZ 2015-2016 catalogue would make a great card for her with the gold foil butterfly.

So here is the sample from the catalogue.

I didn’t change much on this one as I loved it as it was. Here’s my version.

I think my new favourite In-Colour might be Watermelon Wonder!!! This card uses one of my favourite techniques, using markers to ink up the stamp. It always looks so good!!

To continue on the Hop with Rachel, click here on the image below.

Happy Stamping!!

Rebecca

Stampin’ Up! products used:

Butterfly Basics Clear Bundle [139323] $89.95	Butterfly Basics Wood Bundle [139322] $106.95	Butterfly Basics Photopolymer Bundle [138865] $71.95	Kraft 12″ X 12″ Card Stock [133674] $9.95
Whisper White Craft Stampin’ Pad [101731] $12.95	Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin’ Pad [133645] $9.95	2015-2017 In Color Stampin’ Write Markers [138333] $26.00	Gold Foil Sheets [132622] $6.95
Twine Baker’s Whisper White [124262] $4.95	Mint Macaron 1″ Dotted Lace Trim [138424] $10.50

Have you ever copied a card from somewhere else? I do this all the time as I often lack the inspiration to come up with an idea. Well, our catalogue is a great place to start!! After all, it’s an ideas’ book as well!!

I wanted to showcase one of the new Christmas stamps, Beautiful Season, so I used the catalogue (page 22) and here it is!!

This is a lovely set and I can’t wait to make more with it!!

Stamp Set: Beautiful Season

Ink: Basic Black

Paper: Watercolour paper, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Certainly Celery

Accessories: Blender pens, Stampin’ Pastels, Curly label punch, pearls.

I also CASEd a card from one of the old Stampin’ Up! invitations for a workshop on the weekend. The hostess, (hi Colleen!!), had requested a card from the invite but I didn’t have the stamp set or the papers, so I improvised!! I love the Decorative label punch, so I punched it out twice, cut it in half both ways and then used the pieces to make a layer behind the sentiment.