I chose this card made by the talented Anne Marie Hile (http://stampinanne.blogspot.com.au/) I love how bright it is, and I loved all the layering. I wanted to make it my own, so I tweaked it a little!!
This was my first attempt at the case. Now I purchased the same sentiment that Anne Marie had used on her original card, but it hasn't come in the mail on time, so I made do with another retired set I had in my stash "Tagtastic", which was a hostess set. I made a lot of this card with retired products, because I had the laying around and was able to match a lot of the colours- I used Yoyo Yellow cardstock as my card base, with a Real Red scalloped layer. I then used the decorative dots embossing folder and some Very Vanilla cardstock to make the embossed layer.I then used some Summer Smooches DSP which is also retired. I then used the decorative dots embossing folder and some Very Vanilla cardstock to make the embossed layer.The butterflies were cut out using Real Red, Yoyo Yellow, Island Indigo, Gumball Green, Elegant Eggplant, Strawberry Slush cardstocks, and were layered on top of one another. Two larger butterflies with a smaller butterfly in the middle. I used the Butterfly Embosslits (still current) to cut out all of my butterflies, and cut the rows of rhinestones you get in our packets of rhinestones into sections of three to put on the middle of each butterfly. To finish off, as I said I used the Tagtastic Hostess set with the "Congrats" sentiment on some Island Indigo cardstock, stamped in Versamark in and embossed in gold embossing powder, and punched it out with my large oval punch. The scalloped oval is punched from some scrap cardstock I coated in Versamark ink and then embossed with gold embossing powder. This made sure that my sentiment matched the backing paper. I popped all my pieces up with dimensionals.
For this card I made it the same was as the above, however I tried to use more current products, so that this card could be cased using current products as well. The differences in this card were the Daffodil Delight cardstock I used as the base. I also used Daffodil Delight to cut out the butterflies. And the striped paper is out of our Sweet Taffy DSP from our current catalogue. The sentiment is constructed similarly to the other card, again I coated a scrap piece of card and embossed it to create a matching piece of card for the sentiment embossing. I used Teeny Tiny Sentiments for the Congratulations sentiment, and also embossed that in gold.
Although they are different, I really think this card design is fabulous and I truly enjoyed CASE-ing this card!! Any questions, please leave them below and I will answer them when I can. Happy Stamping. Laura.
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