Butterfly Birthday Card

Hello.  Hope you had a wonderful weekend.  

I've finished a birthday card.  This is a new favorite colour combo of mine of orange, teal and brown.   

This adorable Tilda that I've featured on the card front is called Tilda With Straw Hat.  She is from the  Butterfly Dreams Collection 2011.  You can hop over to Magnolia-licious, Diana's online store, to check out this Tilda and more adorable Magnolia images, both full-size and minis. Have a look also at the selection of wonderful dies--Memory Box, Poppy Stamp, Marianne Design and Magnolia Doohickey.     

Here's a view of the inside of my card.  I've put a butterfly verse from a JustRite stamp set.  I've added another adorable sitting Tilda here.  This one is called Tilda With Ponytail from the Sweet Rainbow Collection 2011.   

A few challenges that I would like to enter with this card:

FlutterBy Wednesday Challenge 192 – Open 

Simon Says Stamps – Anything Goes

TOMIC Challenge #39 – Tilda’s Birthday with a sketch
Cute Card Thursday Challenge 206 – Signs of Spring
PaperPlayChallenges ‘12Week 9 – Something Old, Something New (new dies and punches, old stamps)

CES Challenge #75 – Flower Frenzy

Let’s Ink It Up Challenge #21 – Show us your Flowers 

Scrap & More - Flowers

Bunny Zoe’s Crafts Challenge 21 – Celebrations

MagnoliaStamp Lover Challenge – Punches 
Crealies Challenge #12 - Spring is in the Air (I used Crealies Creative Flower CL CF 06 dies for the flowers)

Some exciting news here (at least for me...LOL).  There is a new challenge blog coming soon, Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge.  It is devoted to fairy/sprite/pixie images (stamps/digis).  It is a monthly challenge--the 2nd Monday of each month.  I am excited because I get to be one of the DT members...woo-hoo.  Mark your calendar!  Hope you will join us.  The challenge starts on March 12, 2012.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by.  Love having you visit and very much appreciate your lovely and encouraging comments.  I enjoy reading them.  Have a wonderful week!

Materials and Tools Used:

Sentiment Stamp: JustRite Butterfly Garden Set

DP's:  Authentique Paper Bundle Collection:  Gathering

Dies:  Spellbinders Labels Four; Cheery Lynn Butterflies; Crealies Creative Flowers CL CF 06

Punches:  Martha Stewart deep double edge punch Monarch Butterflees Trim and Pine Branch; Nellie Snellen Floral punches and embosser--Roseleaf-Jumbo and Extra-Large Leaf

Miscellaneous:  Tim Holtz distress ink stamp pads Dried Marigold and Walnut Stain; pearls from my stash