This or That Thursday - Sketched Butterflies

 Hello from me on a warm Thursday. Today's 2 cards were very straightforward for me today. I had the ideas in mind and just went ahead and made them! That's a first for me! The only difficulty ... deciding where to place the butterflies of course! The Sketched Butterflies have rapidly become one of my very favourite stamp bundles. I had some scraps of Designer Series Paper from the In Colour DSP and quickly took 2 colours and die cut the group of butterflies and the 2 smaller ones. I actually chopped the the group of them up and carefully finished the edges off with my Stampin' Snips (scissors), one of my favourite tools. I used the 2024-2026 In Colour DSP stack for both of today's cards, they are such gorgeous papers.

THIS

I cut some DSP into 3 strips 2.8cm deep by 12.5cm wide. (5" by 1,1/8th") I turned the card base a way that I never do for some reason ..tent fold, but it just seemed right on this occassion. I adhered the 3 strips to the white mat and then added a strip of ribbon in Pretty In Pink to one side. The sentiment is on one of the circles from Spotlight on Nature as was yesterday's and the butterflies fluttered across the card and simply adhered where they landed. I used Memento ink pad for the sentiments today.

 

 

THAT

There is something about a card folded in this way that I just love. So, starting with the card base in Petunia Pop, I cut from the front edge to the centre fold at 5cm from the top and 5cm from the bottom edge too. I cut the centre piece off and added it onto a band of white card. I embossed both the card front and the middle panel using the gorgeous embossing folder called Layered Florals. It really is a cracking folder. I love it! Once embossed, I added Dimensionals to the rear of the front panel and balanced it onto the card front. Then I added the sentiment to the centre panel and inside. As with my THIS card, I scattered the butterflies across the card and then adhered them into position too.  I had some little strips of DSP left over so I trimmed them finely down and added them along the edge of the inside. I like the finish it gives.

 Now it's up to you to decide which you prefer please... 😁😄