Thursday, July 4, 2013

CASE STUDY #148 - Butterfly Flight

Happy Fourth of July!!!  Glad you could join me today for a peek at the new CASE STUDY Challenge!  Since it is a new month we have a brand new muse to inspire us... introducing...   Jocelyn Olson from Red Balloon Cards Blog!!  She's got some surprises in store for us this month - I  think you are going to like what you see. 
So excited also to share that the guest designer this month is my friend Tracey McNeely from In My Creative Opinion!!! 

Check out the inspiration photo for this week!  I love all that colorful stamping - I mean who needs pattern paper if you can stamp like this?  Really beautiful isn't it?  Gorgeous butterflies, color, and clean layout.    Just pick what you like and run with it!  I was smitten with those butterflies and wanted to get inky with some of my own.   To achieve this tie died look  I inked up my stamp in  yellow first to get it wet, and then randomly inked up areas with oranges and reds.  I like how it turned out and all the sunny color.   I wanted to try to keep it as clean as I could so the butterflies would do all the talking here.   


Now it's your turn!   Need a little more inspiration?  Check out what the rest of the design team did.  There is a good mix of all sorts of styles so you are sure to see something that gets you jump started.

Chupa - Iwona Palamountain, 
Amy Wanford, Andrea Ewen, Clare Buswell, Debbie Hughes, 
Jean Martin, Maureen Plut, Teneale Williams, Tasnim Ahmed, Maureen Merritt, Silke Ledlow

Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day!!!

Jeanne

Supplies Used:  Finished Size 5.75  x 5.75"
Stamps:  Serendipity Butterflies in Flight, Thinking of You
Pattern Paper:  Echo Park Sweet Girl Collection 6x6" Pad
Card Stock:  PTI Lemon Tart, Vintage Cream, SU! Tangerine Tango
Ink: Memento Tangelo, Cantaloupe, Dandelion, Lady Bug, Versafine Onyx Black
Ribbon: 3/4" Twill Stripe Orange May Arts, Button Twine Ivory May Arts
Pearl: Recollections
Button:  PTI

16 comments:

JJ Bolton said...

This is gorgeous! I love the bright and citrusy color combo! And I love how you used multiple inks on the butterflies:)

Hope you and the family have a great 4th of July!!!

Maria said...

Gorgeous card with those butterflies in beautiful color!!! Take care and Happy 4th to you!

Erin (Homemade Cards by Erin) said...

Loving the woodgrain background! And can you go wrong with that May Arts ribbon? Nope.

Tracey McNeely said...

Jeanne your butterflies definitely take centre stage, what a fantastic technique! Thank you for the warm welcome.

Gitte said...

Your cards is so lovely and colorful

Tenia Nelson said...

GORGEOUS!!

Joyce said...

Wow--this is just gorgeous. Your inking is just incredible.

Tasnim said...

The butterflies are so pretty, Jeanne! Love the bright vibrant colors :)

Cathy Weber said...

Love all that multiple color stamping Jeanne...that looks difficult, but the effect is stunning! All those red, yellow and oranges with the yellow woodgrain paper. I see you even fit in some of your orange chevron ribbon too. Happy 4th!

Kim Heggins said...

Jeanne, this is one stunning card! Beautiful butterflies and those colors, just amazing!

Renee said...

What a gorgeous take on this challenge...
love the colors you pulled from the inspiration and how you took a CAS and made it such an incredibly gorgeous "Jeanne" card!
Happy 4th...
hope it was full of family and fun! :)

Suzanne said...

Just gorgeous, Jeanne! I love how you inked these up in different colors. So summery, too!

~Tammy~ said...

There you go using orange so beautifully! Love the ribbon tab too!

Christina said...

Love how you focused on the bright orange and yellow, and that yellow woodgrain is amazing!

Jinny Newlin said...

Absolutely gorgeous, Jeanne! Gosh, that woodgrain background is so striking, and I just adore the tone of your butterflies! Wow!

Larissa Heskett said...

Omg!! This is so beautiful!! I love the color combo you usedand the overall design just rocks!! Thanks for sharing and have a Fabulous Week!! ;)