Sweet Stampin Guest Designer #1

     Surprise!  Surprise!  Two easel cards in two days!  LOL  This card was actually made several weeks ago though and is one of four I'm making as guest designer at Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog this month.  Thanks so much to Tracey for asking me and to Abi and Fi for allowing me to guest for them.  :-)

     The challenge at Sweet Stampin' this week is a photo inspiration you can see here:

     Isn't that pretty!  For my card I've used several images from Make It Crafty that I merged together for the little scene.  I used Copics to color and the papers are from the gorgeous Bo Bunny Gabrielle collection.  I thought they went pretty well with the butterfly swing.  :-)  I also added a Martha Stewart Monarch butterfly punch which I painted with Creative Inspirations paint in Sea Foam.
     The top part of the easel was created using a die cut piece of paper I had from another collection.  I just used it as a template and them trimmed the other layers to fit and distressed them.  There's a little of that fun cheesecloth I've been using, lots of pearls, and some lace that I threaded some pretty ribbon through.  It doesn't show its true color in the photo, but it's a pretty icy blue/green that matches the papers really well.

     I know the ladies would just love to see what you can create with this beautiful color palette so get creative and link it up for this week's challenge.  :-)

     I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Allsorts--anything but square
Digi Designs Challenge--ribbons and bows

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge--flowers, ribbon, and lace

Card Makin' Mamas--die cuts (top panel, image, sentiment, butterfly)

4 Crafty Chicks--die cuts

Crafty Ribbons--BINGO (punches/dies, flowers, ribbon)

Do You Stack Up--teal

Paper Crafting Journey--use a digi

Little Darlings--not square

Deep Ocean Challenge--sweet

The Ribbon Carousel--anything goes plus spooled supplies (ribbon and lace)

Craft Your Passion--BINGO (flowers, pearls, use a punch)

Crafty Boots--young at heart

The Pink Elephant--distressing

Addicted to Stamps--shabby, shabby chic, vintage

Have a fabulous and blessed weekend!

Supplies

• Papers:  Bo Bunny Gabrielle, Kraft Outlet Brown Kraft and Light Kraft cardstocks, Recollections, Copic X-Press It Blending card
• Stamps:  Make It Crafty "Sitting Annalise", "Butterfly Swing", and "Daffodil Dell"; Raindrop Echo Sentiments "Sylvia's Sentiments #3"
• Ink:  Copics
• Tools:  Nestabilities Labels Sixteen (S4-301), Martha Stewart Monarch Butterfly punch
• Miscellaneous:  Dritz Cheescloth, Recollections pearls and flowers, Celebrate It ribbon, Inkadinkado Blending Chalks, Creative Inspirations Sea Foam paint, lace from my stash