Beautiful Butterflies

Today's cards were created using Stampin' Up's Butterfly Duet punch and the Botanical Butterfly paper available during Sale-a-bration.  For both cards I punched the larger butterflies from the paper. 

For the card on the left, I used SU's Layering Circles and adhered a punched butterfly.  After stamping the sentiment (Butterfly Gala stamp set), I adhered the circle using dimensionals and added the twine bow. 

For the card on the right, I again used a larger punched butterfly and adhered it directly to the white cardstock layer.  For both cards I used a strip of the Botanical Butterfly paper along the left edge.  Pretty cards created with pretty supplies.  Unfortunately, for now, the butterfly punch is not available.  I read that they are estimated to be back in stock in mid-March.  Have a great day and be careful on the ice!

From the Dogs

This Valentine was fun to create.  I wanted to make a Valentine for Matt from his dogs.  I needed four dogs and wanted to use use the Mailbox from the Pretty Pink Posh set, Happy Mail.   The dog on the mailbox is from MFT's Up In The Air set and the three other dogs are from other MFT stamp sets~~New Best Friend and Best Buddies.  The little dogs look so happy and excited watching their
brown dog dropping hearts out of the mailbox!  I used blue cardstock and added some clouds and used a Lawn Fawn die to make the grass.  I am sure Matt will get a kick of this!  Have a great day!

Valentine For Ayden

I made this cute Valentine for a cute little boy.  I started out with the Three Hearts die from Avery Elle and white cardstock.  The white cardstock was layered on Melon Mambo cardstock.   The little animal faces peeking from the edges of the hearts are from MFT's Up in the Air stamp set.  After coloring and cutting out the little critters, I adhered them using dimensionals.  The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted's Scrumptious Occasions stamp set.  I added a few additional little hearts to the white space.

On another note, I read on Splitcoaststampers that Cricut is doing away with the Cuttlebug.  If you have a Cuttlebug, you might want to stock up on cuttings plates and other accessories before they can't be found.  Have a great day!

Balloon with Dog

My Favorite Things stamp set, Up In The Air, is adorable.  In addition to three hot air balloons, the set includes different animal faces for the largest balloon, multiple sentiments and even a  little house and trees to make a scene.  I chose to use the cloud stencil to create puffy clouds in the background.  I used Copic markers to color the images.  The green plaid paper is from Lawn Fawn.  This is a perfect card to celebrate a little boy's birthday.

My Favorite Things is introducing new stamps and dies on their blog that will be available on February 5th.  I hope there aren't too many new things I need!  Have a great weekend and enjoy the warmer weather!