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Happy Saturday, folks! Time to play around with Alicia's sketch challenge at UDI.



When I saw the sketch, I immediately thought of the phrases in this set "Flight of the Butterfly". I'm into quotes and phrases anyway, but this one about change was already on my mind. My friend Barb has recently changed jobs and it's been a very tough week for her. Getting her husband and her kids used to the schedule (along with all the extra hours) has been really, ahem... fun.... take a deep breath girl! So a flow of positive thoughts is needed. Like the phrase of the card reminds us, change can bring beauty - it's GOOD! So, thinking happy thoughts, I sat down to play.

A real red card base is topped with some dotted paper from our hostess pack. Night of Navy for the layer under the phrase and butterfly (paper pierced along the edges for some visual interest). The real red flower was stamped onto whisper white and then cut out with a coluzzle. The small butterfly was stamped with night of navy and punched out with a 1" punch, then layered over a 1 1/4" real red circle. Because the phrase was already raised over the base of the card with dimensionals, I stacked two of our stampin' dimensionals to lift the butterfly just a notch higher. Here's what it looks like from underneath.

As you see, I couldn't resist using ribbon this go around; so I ran a small piece through a flower slide (from our silver hodgepodge kit) and added it to the other end of the phrase near the center of the flower.
And there we are - voila! I hope that you (and Barb, of course!) enjoy the card. Now... to figure out what to write inside.... that is always the hard part for me!

Thanks for stopping by!