Banana and chocolate butterfly for the Stamp With Us challenge

Wayhay, we're back to normal again over at Stamp With Us, so we have a new challenge for you this week. It's a colour theme and this is our colour inspiration.

Crikey, this looked a bit intimidating to start with but on the other hand it pushed me away from Christmas cards which is all I seem to be making at the moment. I decided that the Tea and Crumpets paper would work well for this colour combo and so here's what I came up with.

Recipe

Stamp set: Flight of the Butterfly

Cardstock: Barely Banana, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Card Vellum

DSP: Tea and Crumpets

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red

Punches: Scallop Circle, 1-3/8" Circle, Butterfly

Other: Gold Elastic Cord

The plain butterfly was stamped in Ruby Red and punched with the Circle punch. I then stamped the flower butterfly in the same ink onto the vellum cardstock. This vellum is so lush, it's quite heavy but it's still best to score it with a bone folder rather than the black scoring blade on the Paper Cutter. I cut my first attempt in half, so I hope you gain from my mistake, lol. Gold elastic cord was wrapped around and tied so the ends make the butterfly antenna, which also picks up the gold buckles in the shoes of the colour theme.

Bess has bounced back from her op pretty well, she keeps crying but we're learning that she's just milking the attention because she's suddenly alright again when she gets it. She has more energy than we hoped, we thought the injections on Friday would knock her back for longer than they have. We're not allowed to take her for a walk for 5 days and have to stop her jumping or moving around too much. Hmm, an active 3 year old Staffie ... not moving around or jumping ... not quite sure how that's going to work.

Yesterday's craft fair went very well despite the awful weather later in the afternoon. JJ and I had lots of visitors throughout the day, sold plenty and persuaded a few to come along to our classes. Hi and thanks to everyone who stopped by.

Jan and I also picked up a commission each for more work while we were there. I'm now going to be working on a dozen Christmas boxes to hold handmade chocolates for a lady who actually turned out to be local to me. Yummy.

Back to the revision now since I got a day off yesterday.

Looking forward to seeing your entries to the Stamp With Us challenge this week and please pop along and check out the rest of the Design Team creations.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Sara xx