Basic Grey Butterfly Card

Before I get into the card I finished today I thought I would let you know that the adhesive I ordered on Sunday morning from The Tape Depot arrived today! That's super quick considering it came from Florida (priority mail)! Each roll of tape is wrapped in its own little bag of cellophane, too. I have to finish up the adhesive on my gun first before I can try the new stuff, though.

Now for my card. I think I shared that I found some Basic Grey clear stamps at a store called Capture this past Saturday. You know I love me some butterflies and when I saw this set I HAD to have it for that butterfly alone. The stamp itself is clear, but the backer sheet has the colors on it. I thought it looked so striking I tried to mimic it by stamping the image with Versamark and rubbing chalk over it. I managed to get the chalking done and the image cut out yesterday, but ran out of time to do any more. Here's the final result:

And this is another instance wear the colors in the butterfly actually coordinate better with the dp in real life than they do in a photo. You'll have to trust me on this. The butterfly stamp has that second set of antennae attached and it looked okay, but I wanted only one set, so I cut out the butterfly and the extra set. I used a glue pen to adhere the body and the antennae to the white circle and then used some pop dots to lift the wings a bit. You might be able to see it better in this photo:

There wasn't much room for a sentiment, so I left it off. That way the card can be used for whatever sentiment is needed.

I used the Autumn colors in the chalk tray from Close To My Heart using little pom pom puffs...and added some Cinnamon Stickles for just a touch of bling.

After I finished the card I had  a bit of time left before having to go pick up the girls from school and I didn't feel like starting another card, so I decided to run over to Archiver's to see if I could find something to use my 30% off coupon on (it expires on the 31st) because you know I want to keep getting the coupons! I came upon a 6x6 stack of Basic Grey paper called Ambrosia that coordinates with this stamp set. I'll have to see what I can pull together! The paper I used is from Die Cuts With a View Fall stack which I seem to be turning to a lot this season .

Stuff I Used-

Stamps: Basic Grey-there's no name on it other than Bohemia

Paper-Fall Matstack (DCWV), Autumn Terracotta (CTMH), white

Accessories-Cocoa organdy ribbon, Cinnamon Stickles, Autumn season Chalk (CTMH)

Tools: Circle and Scallop Circle Nestabilities, Cuttlebug, glue pen

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a great day and just think...the weekend is inching ever closer!

Jeanne