After showcasing the flowers in the Flowering Fields set yesterday, I wanted to make the butterflies the main attraction.

So I selected the two leaf stamps and stamped them across the bottom the very vanilla in the archival basic black. I coloured the leaves in using four different greens, mossy meadow, pear pizzazz, old olive and wild wasabi. I like the interest it gives to the leaves. Then I added three butterflies and coloured them in rich razzleberry and pumpkin pie. I then decided to add a few more in different colours and my planned mossy meadow card base led me to last year’s in colours, so they are in lost lagoon and hello honey. It now occurs to me that it would have been fun to have coloured the initial butterflies in tangelo twist and blackberry bliss and have the full five of the 2014 – 2016 in colours. Next time!

I added a mat of hello honey and then mounted this on the mossy meadow card base. For a change, I matched the envelope liner to the mat rather than the card base. I have to confess this is mostly because I happened to have a liner already cut out in hello honey!

As I said yesterday, this set is a must have. It’s one of the items that you can get for free during Sale-a-bration (January 5th – March 31st); every time you spend $50 on any Stampin’ Up! product, you can choose a free item that will not be available after Sale-a-bration ends. Ideas for using this set keep popping into my head but I really need to get working on my card for this Thursday’s design team over at CAS Colours & Sketches. I think I’ll leave this set out so that I can use it again later on this afternoon.

See you tomorrow,

Liz