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I’ve been trying not to neglect my stamp sets from the annual catalogue and so I was rather pleased with this card which combines sets all three of the last catalogues – Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals, Papillon Potpourri and Work of Art.

I started by stamping the swoosh from Work of Art in crumb cake on a crumb cake card stock. Then I rubbed the embossing buddy over the card and stamped the butterfly in versamark. It’s not obvious from the photo, but it’s embossed in gold. The sentiment from Painted Petals is stamped in early espresso. I had half thought of matting this in gold foil but the early espresso looked better. I decided on having a large outside crumb cake frame rather than my usual 1/4 inch frames.

I hope that you thoroughly enjoyed yesterday’s celebrations and that the enjoyment is still continuing. I’ve spent the morning clearing up my rather messy stamping area (I was making a lot of tags for people to add to presents on Wednesday), cooking eggs benedict for brunch and browsing through a new cookery book.

Last week I showed some cards that I made for my mother, little 3 by 3 inch squares with butterflies and rainbows. I also made her a set with a gold embossed butterfly inspired by the fact that she loved my Christmas card of a gold embossed tree on white. See it here. So there are no rainbows on this one, but she was really happy with the design.

I again scored around the four sides of the card 1/4 inch from the edge; I did it on the inside so that the scoring would stand proud from the card. Then after a swipe with the embossing buddy, I stamped the large butterfly from the Stampin’ Up! Papillon Potpourri set in versamark and sprinkled on the gold embossing powder. I was making a dozen and this design really worked well for mass production because it’s good to start doing your embossing with a heat tool that has had a chance to heat up. And after the first one, it was definitely heated! I stamped the smaller version of this butterfly in soft sky on the back of the envelope – Mum has decided that it’s her signature!