Today is Betsy's birthday, and we celebrated with her family and some close friends at a Korean restaurant. I knew it was one of their favorite restaurants but I had never been there. Skylar's favorite dish is the pickled radishes which I have to admit are pretty good. The fried dumplings were also excellent as well as the shrimp and rice dish I had. We had a great time. Here are the three little girls helping Mama blow out the candles. The cake was large enough for at least four more families, so Pam is taking the left-overs to the refugee center tomorrow. The students there will make short work of it!
I made Betsy's card with new sets from Papertrey Ink called "Butterfly Blooms" and "A Bit More Butterfly Blooms." The card is one of several I've made recently with these butterflies so you'll be seeing more of them in the week(s) to come. This might be my favorite though.
I stamped the two butterflies on Neenah Solar White and colored them with Copic markers. Once I prepared the Select White card base, I added a piece of patterned paper from Paper Studio's "Petals and Blooms" paper pack that I picked up at Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago. In my stash I found a gorgeous piece of black embossed paper which I die cut with a stitched oval and used as the focal point for the butterflies. Here's a closer look at the embossed paper.
I've had the pretty flower sequins for a long time, too. I think they might have come from Impress stamps, but I can't really remember for sure.
The sentiment was stamped on a banner die cut with an old Spellbinders die, and comes from Papertrey's $5 "Ways to Say: Birthday" mini-set. I'll be back tomorrow with a card for the Papertrey Ink blog hop.