So Kind Card & the Winners of the Island Oasis Class

I hope everyone had a wonderful Father’s Day weekend.  I had a nice, albeit busy weekend. We spent Father’s Day at my brother- and sister-in-law’s house for a Father’s Day BBQ.  It was such a beautiful sunny day and the kids all had a riot getting soaked with water guns.

Although I wasn’t feeling very inspired when I sat down to stamp today, it turns out I actually like today’s card. Here’s how I made it:

1. Cut a 3″ x 5″ piece of the polka dot pattern from the Tropical Party DP collection and sponge it with So Saffron Classic ink.  I found that the white background was too stark which is why I ended up sponging it.  It really softened the look of it.
2. Take a 2″ x 5″ piece of Old Olive CS and scallop it using the slit punch (which I just discovered will be retiring at the end of this month).
3. Stick the DP to the the scalloped CS strip using Snail adhesive. Pierce a hole in the center of each scallop.
4. Lay a 6″ piece of ribbon across the DP so that it covers the seam between the DP and the CS.  Bring the ends of the ribbon around to the back of the CS and stick them down with Snail adhesive.
5. Center and stick the DP to a Certainly Celery card created by folding a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Certainly CS in half.
6. Center and stamp the greeting along the top of the DP in Basic Black Classic ink. Use a Stamp-a-ma-jig if necessary.
7. Tie a 14″ piece of Real Red Grosgrain ribbon in a bow around the first piece of ribbon.
8. Die cut the medium and small complete butterflies from the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die, out of Real Red CS using the Big Shot.
9. Dry emboss the butterflies with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder and your Big Shot.
10. Stick the smaller butterfly to a scrap of paper with Dotto adhesive. 
11. Pat a VersaMark pad all over the butterfly. Sprinkle on Heat and Stick powder and then melt it with a heat tool.  Sprinkle on red Chunky Essentials glitter and then heat set.
12. Stick the smaller butterfly to the larger butterfly with a mini glue dot. 
13. Stick the larger butterfly to the card front as shown in the picture above, using two mini glue dots.
14. Create the butterfly antennae and the trail with black peel & stick rhinestone brads. You’re done!

I hope you enjoyed today’s card. 

Just a quick update – you probably won’t be seeing any cards posted by Soph for a few weeks as moving week is finally here for her.  Her craft supplies get officially packed on Wednesday (and her other house stuff too, but we all know what’s really important right? *wink*). Her move-in date is on June 28th. Anyways, we’re going to temporarily suspend our planned weekly features for the summer since it’s going to be quite challenging to try to stick to a schedule over the next few months.  We’re pretty much just going to share with you whatever we’ve been creating.

The winners of the Island Oasis Class are:

1. Kristi-Anna
June 18th, 2010 at 9:22 pm

2. Elaine Rose
June 18th, 2010 at 10:21 pm