It's not often that I'm under pressure to get a birthday card made. I keep a calendar of upcoming birthdays and try to be sure the card is made well ahead of time. Tonight, however, I discovered that the young lady I tutor twice a week will have her birthday while I'm in Wisconsin. Tomorrow will be our last meeting before her birthday. Fortunately for me, I have a stash of prestamped and die cut images that I've saved. I thought butterflies were a safe bet for a sixth grader, and I had a stash of pretty butterflies from Papertrey Ink's "Butterfly Folks" set as well as a sentiment stamped and die cut with "Penned Elegance." The sentiment had been stamped with the same ink as one of the butterflies. How lucky was that?
I found a piece of glittery, textured cardstock in the same teal color for the card. I recently purchased some wonderful patterned paper from The Stamp Market, and used one of the papers from the "Color Crush" set to layer on the card before adhering my butterflies and sentiment.
I added some glitter to the butterflies with a Spectrum Noir clear glitter pen, and three enamel dots to finish it off.
I'm linking this up to the Simon Says 10th birthday party, and to the new AAA Birthday Challenge where "Anything Goes."
