Royal Blog Tour!

Hi stampers! The Royal Blog Tour has finally arrived. I've been thinking and thinking trying to decide on a few projects with the stamp I chose. All A Flutter is a single stamp located on the last page of the new Summer Mini Catalog. (I did, indeed say Summer!)

My first project uses some of the discontinuing colors, Taken With Teal and Orchid Opulence. Don't they look great together! How do you like my azaleas in the background?

I ran the Taken With Teal cardstock through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots Impressions folder. This makes a wonderfully textured background for your card. I used 3 different stamp sets on this card. Of course, it features the All A Flutter stamp, punched out with the Wide Oval punch.

I also used one of the stamps from the Vintage Vogue set for the border around the white rectangle and the Well Scripted set for the sentiment. I layered this on a rectangle of Orchard Opulence and punched 2 slots for the ribbon with the Double Rectangle punch and tied a short length if white organza ribbon through them. The card was so quick and easy that I made 45 of them for the swap at our Stampin' Up Spring Retreat a couple of weeks ago!

I did a stenciled oval for the background of this card. I made the stencil with a window sheet and the oval Big Shot die. You can use several mediums for stenciling but for this I wanted a very soft look so I used the Stampin' Pastels. I left the window sheet stencil on the card after I applied the chalk and stamped the word image from the Charming stamp set so the words would be only in the stenciled area.

I also stamped the pretty flower from the Charming set with Rich Razzleberry ink as well as the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set and the All A Flutter butterfly, cut out and mounted on a piece of Old Olive punched with the Wide Oval punch. I love the polka dot ribbons that Stampin' Up carries so I tied some of the Rich Razzleberry polka dot ribbon around the front of the card before mounting it on a mat of Old Olive cardstock.

My third card features the All A Flutter stamp on vellum and colored with markers. I finally got a chance to try my Gold Glow Smooch Spray on the Whisper White base before stamping another butterfly on it. I cut out the vellum butterfly and didn't have to worry about the antanne, not only does the butterfly on the white add dimension to the vellum one, it has the antenne so I don't have to cut around those little bitty things! You can see some of the dimension in this side view.

I used YoYo Yellow, More Mustard and Really Rust to color in the butterfly, then used Basic Black and Pumpkin Pie cardstock to mat the artwork. The DSP on the left side of the card is from the Bella Bleu collection.

I thought the butterflies would make a nice border for a scrapbook page so I looked for some pictures that would work with them. These pictures of my granddaughter at Easter time seemed perfect. She is 2 and pretty much always puts her shoes on the wrong feet so that is one of the pictures I wanted to include.

The border is stamped on Whisper White cardstock, alternating to the left and right. I used my trimmer and trimmed just to the wing, raised up the blade and moved it past the wing and cut to the next wing. raised it up again and finished the cut. Then I used my Stampin' Up paper snips to trim out the rest of the wings and mounted that piece on a strip of Certainly Celery Cardstock.

I hope you enjoyed "fluttering by" my blog today. Have fun on the rest of the tour!