Spring is in the Air

This month's Caardvarks Challenge is sponsored by SRM Stickers ... and since my awesome World Card Making Day prize from SRM arrived in the mail this weekend, I knew I had to play along.   The challenge was to CASE a sticker card made by one of the 'Vaarks Crew.  

I chose Kelly's Spring Design as my inspiration.  I loved the texty background with the pops of bright color.

When I was gessoing magazine pages for my Gesso Resist cards, while my brush was already messy, I gessoed several other pages, including a vintage book page, so that is what I used for the base of my design.

Rather than embellishing with flower, I stamped the Hero Arts Outline Flowers over the text in Shabby Shutters Distress ink.  I incorporated the yellow from the design into my punched border.  

 

And rather than one large pink butterfly, I incorporated an entire kaleidoscope (I love that a group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope) of punched butterflies flying up the card.  I also used a sticker from the same SRM Spring Set.  I finished by adding tiny yellow adhesive gems to my butterflies.

P.S.  Don't forget to check out the Halloween Blog Carnival going on at Craft Critique ... lots of fabulous projects.

Comments

[~amy~]

FABulous...love the butterflies!

[Rein]

pretty cards!

[Michelle]

Gorgeous cards! Love how you incorporated the vintage book pages!!!

Can I ask about your butterfly punch? Is it a punch or die? I love the various sizes and haven't come across any like that myself.

[SmilynStef]

Butterfly punch is a Martha Stewart punch that punches the large butterfly & two small butterflies all at once.

[Shar]

Beautiful card! I love the pop of the red butterflies!