Papertrey July Blog Hop Challenge

For this month's challenge, Nichole posted this photo for inspiration. I love butterflies, but this looks vintage to me, which really isn't my style.  But, still lots of inspiration and ideas from the photo!

I started with white cardstock and stamped 3 large butterflies in Berry Sorbet, Hawaiian Shores and Pear Tart inks. I added the layer of dots around the edge in Pure Poppy, Tropical Teal and New Leaf inks. Even though the colors are bright, I decided to use my new Keep It Simple: Praying For You stamp - so this card can be used for a sympathy or get well card. I'm hoping the colors will help brighten up the recipient's day!

To help fill in some of the white space, I stamped 3 small butterflies in Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise and Rosebud inks. The sentiment in stamped in Smokey Shadow ink. I rounded just the one right hand corner and thought the card was done.....

Then, while looking at the butterflies in the above picture, I noticed many of them were dimensional. Okay, no problem. I die-cut butterflies in coordinating cardstock and repeated stamping the dots layer. For dimension, I curled the butterflies using a bone folder and placed them right on top of the stamped ones. Much better, don't you think?

And to show the dimension:

Card Details:

• Stamps:  PTI Beautiful Butterflies, Beautiful Butterflies Layers, Keep It Simple: Praying For You
• Paper:  PTI White Stampers Select, Berry Sorbet, Hawaiian Shores, Limeade Ice
• Ink:  PTI Berry Sorbet, Pure Poppy, Hawaiian Shores, Tropical Teal, New Leaf, Smokey Shadow, Summer Sunrise, Harvest Gold; Memento Pear Tart, Rosebud
• Dies:  PTI Beautiful Butterflies
• Tools:  Corner Rounder
• Size:  4.25" x 5.5"