Birthday Flights of Fancy

I have a quick and easy Birthday card to share today. It was made at my Langley Stampers club.

I cut a pink mat  from cardstock and then punched a scalloped oval and die cut some butterflies, from the center of that mat.
I then embossed a piece of white card with a swirly EF that has butterflies within the swirls.
Mounted the embossed panel onto what was left of the pink card mat, and the attached all that to a white card base.

The butterflies were pop dotted over the embossed butterflies on the embossed swirly panel. I hope this gives a feeling of movement to the card. A wee bit of bling was placed on the centers of each butterfly.

Happy birthday was stamped onto a snippet of white card and then punched with a Stampin' Up scalloped oval. This was placed off center onto the pink scalloped oval and pop dotted forward as well.

Easy Peasy!

I am entering this card in the following challenges...
1. Pixies Crafty Workshiop - must use snippets.

Christmas Card Club - Nativity

Mary H at Carolina Cards blog  chose a Nativity theme for this fortnights Christmas Card Club.
I always love to make a Nativity themed card as it is a chance to focus on the true meaning of Christmas.

My NBUS item today is the Three Wise Men decoupage  sheet.  I bought this eons ago, so long ago that I am not quite sure where!  I think it was perhaps at a papercraft garage sale as there is no labeling of any sort on the page...

I used another of my pre-folded dull sheen, platinum 5x5 cards. I did not want any DP to take away from the focus on the wise men. I thought this dull platinum sheen suited the robes of the kneeling King, and went with the misty sort of background of the scene.

The kit came with the gilded border strip and the sentiment strip, but they are all slightly different shades of gold. Not sure if I like that part of it...  

I trimmed up the Merry Christmas to have an uneven hand cut look as it was the only way to remove and blend in the wee tabs of paper that hold the sentiment on the decoupage sheet. They are always such a nuisance to trim off evenly.  I hand cut a gold satin mat to slide behind the sentiment and popped it off the card with one layer of pop dots.

Finally, I added some various sized gold stars  that I punched from some snippets of gold satin card and threw on a few darker gold tiny rhinestones.

If you would like to join our Christmas Card Club, drop me an email. To check out the other members cards, click on any of their names and hyperlinks listed on my right sidebar.            

April Rudolph Days Challenge Winner

This month brought us 54 entries. I am so pleased with that number and also wish to share my delight in viewing and commenting on all the lovely cards entered here this month.

Once again I have used Random Org to choose our winner, #23 Loll

Congratulations, Loll!

Will you please email me your mailing address to maureenkane@telus.net  and I will get your prize sent off to you.

 Let me know whether you wish the Inkadinkado  Evergreen Holiday Stamp

 or the Lawn Fawn Scripty Merry die.

Thanks to everyone for playing along this month at the April Rudolph Days Challenge..