Flutterby, Flutterby....

I can't tell you how many kids I worked with as a speech therapist who said "Flutterby" for Butterfly.  It was so darned cute it was almost one of those errors you didn't want to correct, you know?  (sort of like when a kid says Pasketti or Basketti for spaghetti!....cute as a kid....not so cute when an adult says it.)

What is it about butterflies we love?  Color, movement?  Everything?  I just love 'em...don't need to analyze it...but they are such beautiful creatures.  I only recently learned, though, that from the time a butterfly comes out of its cocoon it only lives about 2 weeks.  Egads!  Awful....I think they need to evolve a bit more and hang around!

But we immortalize them with our crafting...lots of butterfly crafts out there, aren't there?

Here's another card done with all Hero Arts products....did this one at Archiver's in the card class recently.  I loved this card....the techniques will be so useful on other cards, as well.

 We used a Hero Arts Frame Cut...you can see it here:

and used it to cut a window in the card.  We stamped  a piece of white cardstock for the mat on the inside of the card.
We stamped and cut out the butterflies and watercolored them with some Tombow pens and added some pretty Stickles (turquoise).

 Then using the "open" flower we stamped the outside of the card with Versamark, applied opaque embossing powder and heat set it.
I love that look....really love it.
We used a simple sentiment on a banner, added a button and I finished it with some baker's twine and we were done!
Here's what the card looks like sort of closed up....

Such pretty "FLUTTERBIES!"

I'm entering this in the Speedy TV Challenge on Embossing HERE  and the Made Especially for You Challenge on Embossing.



Happy Crafting.