Flutter By Wednesday #8

Happy Wednesday! First off, I'd like to thank everyone for the well wishes. I think I'm finally over the bug and am feeling alive again! Today I'm sharing two cards. I know shocker!! But there's more I didn't even use any pattern paper in either card!! HOLY COW, right? If you read my last post you know this is a pretty big thing for me! For the challenge this week, the Flutter By team was supposed to create something using orange and yellow. When I saw the sketch for CPS (#104) this week, I just knew what I wanted to do!


Everything is from The Angel Company except the butterflies. I used a Martha Stewart Punch for those and some scrap pink cardstock. The stamp sets are Simply Divine & Be Still. The colored flowers are paper posies. Here is a close up:

It's hard to tell but there is some Stickles too - turquoise, orange peel and crystal. I think it's a perfect SPRING card and that's what I need right now. Sunshine & warm weather; flowers blooming and butterflies fluttering!! BRING IT ON!! Anyone else with me???

Be sure to visit Danni's blog to see who the guest designer is this week! Also, instead of having a slide show of all the team's creations she will be having a featured designer. You can visit all the designers blogs by clicking on the links on the right. I'm anxious to see what everyone did! If you decide to play along be sure to leave a comment with a link to your creation. If you use an online gallery like SCS or PCP be sure to use keyword FBW46.

Now on to my second card. I have to tell you I'm not liking this one as much but wanted to share anyway. Be gentle with me though! I had left over cardstock so decided to use it. I kept having this idea of using an owl with a diecut of a branch. I also wanted to play with some Dingbats that I purchased and after talking to my friend Janna about digitals and coloring I decided to give it a try. I kept the sketch the same.

Ok I'm not TOTALLY happy with my colors for the owl but not sure what I should have done. I wanted to use Copics and I was really nervous to blend too many colors for fear my image might "bleed". Here's a close up of the owl & branch:

You know looking at it closeup, it doesn't look so bad, LOL!! I printed the owl off my computer and then colored him with my copics (the yellow/brownish part). Next I added some grey fun flock to the black part of the owl to give him some fuzziness and to "lighten" him some. The branch and leaves are a Quickutz die. The sentiment is another TAC stamp What a Hoot.

Well that's it for me today - Abby is at school all day and hubby has to work (he usually has Wednesday's off but not today) so I'm ALONE!!! Oh my gosh I don't know when the last time that happen (and I wasn't sick, LOL). I have a to do list a mile long and I'm hoping to get a lot of it done!!! Keep your fingers crossed!

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