Happy Friday everyone and welcome to the Simon Says Stamp "This Is The Life" Release Blog Hop!
If you'd like to join us for our exciting hop, then it starts over at the Simon Says Stamp blog but if you're already hopping along, then you will have arrived here, from Jo Nevill's lovely blog.
I'm so excited about all the fabulous new designs in this release and in my opinion, they are all a definite "must have" for your crafty stash and there is something for everyone! For the card that I'm sharing with you today, I was lucky enough to be able to work with the gorgeous Chevron Cloud Dies and the Petite Butterflies Dies and I combined these dies, together with a couple of other products from today's new release. I hope you love what I've created...
To create my background, I applied some Distress Stains to a craft sheet, which I then spritzed with water before "swooshing" my cardstock through it to pick up all the ink. Once the background was dry, I mounted it onto some cardstock and attached it to my kraft card blank.
The Chevron Clouds are die cut from Centura Pearl cardstock which I then attached to my cloudy sky background using various depths of foam pads.
Now, for those gorgeous butterflies ~ I used the medium sized and smallest dies to die cut multiple layers from vellum and vintage paper. I then inked the vellum with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink before layering the vellum and the vintage paper, alternately to give these dimensional butterflies.
I attached my kaleidoscope of butterflies onto the front of my card and added small pearls to the centres of each of their bodies.
The final touch was to use the frame die, which I cut from some of the leftover inked card and I stamped the quote onto the scalloped oval and added it to my card with some wrinkle ribbon, that I hand dyed using Squeezed Lemonade Distress Stain.
To complete the card, I added some paper string and a couple of decorative pins to the bow.
***GIVEAWAY TIME***
To celebrate the new release, Simon Says Stamp is giving away a prize pack at every stop on the hop and all you have to do to win one of these fabulous prizes is to leave a comment on each of the blog posts, including mine, as you hop along. The giveaways for the goody bags will close at 6:00pm EST on Thursday July 17th, 2014. A complete list of winners will be posted on the Simon blog on Friday 18th July, 2014!
Your next stop on the "This Is The Life" hop is the talented Kelly Booth
See you all soon and thanks for hopping by today!
Emma xo
PRODUCTS USED TO MAKE MY BLOG HOP CARD
Simon Says Stamp Stamp ~ Life's Journey
Distress Ink ~ Squeezed Lemonade
Decorative Pins from my own stash
Love the cloud dies! It so neat that they emboss too!
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LOVE LOVE LOVE your card Emma - your butterflies are BEAUTIFUL, your clouds CUTE and your layers LUSCIOUS, LOVE each & every AMAZING element of it!!!
THANK YOU for sharing your CREATIVE INSPIRATION and CRAFTY TEMPTATION!!!
I really love the chevron clouds - such a pretty backdrop for the delicate yellow butterflies.
ReplyDeleteMMMM, love those clouds and butterflies and the colors you chose.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous, simply gorgeous! Love the butterflies and your watercolored sky!
ReplyDeletePretty card! Love the clouds and butterflies!
ReplyDeleteI love butterflies and definitely loved your card. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteYour butterfly card is stunning!
ReplyDeleteReally loving the textured clouds!
ReplyDeleteLove this card and thanks for sharing how to do the background
ReplyDeleteThe card is beautiful, I love the layering you did with the vellum on the butterflies.
ReplyDeleteLove those cool chevron clouds! And the layered butterflies are awesome!
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty card, I'm lovin those chevron clouds :)
ReplyDeletethe clouds are so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI love this. I Always try to add a butterfly to my cards
ReplyDeletelovr the layerd butterflies
ReplyDeleteWow
ReplyDeleteLove the butterflies and the embossed clouds are fantastic!
ReplyDeleteOh this is lovely, that kaleidoscope is gorgeous, love all the details in the card
ReplyDeleteWow! Great card. The dimension the butterflies add is amazing - so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteweeeeee - the yellow butterflies are wonderful!!!! And I like the clouds too!!!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work! X
ReplyDeleteLove those chevron clouds!
ReplyDeleteGreat texture and dimension on this card.
ReplyDeleteI love these butterflies, and in vellum layers, WOW! This H O P is a must to see! TFS
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card Emma! Love all the new releases from SSS!
ReplyDeleteYou had me at the butterflies! Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteYou had me at the butterflies! Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteVery butterfly card !!
ReplyDeleteI have been looking for the perfect cloud die. I may have just found it! Thank you for sharing this beautiful card.
ReplyDeleteReally love the look on the butterflies - can't go wrong with vellum! The chevron clouds add just the right touch. TFS!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card! I like the idea of embossing and cutting with the same die.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love those butterflies! Beautiful card.
ReplyDeleteI love all the dimension you did with this card. Those chevron clouds are to die for!
ReplyDeleteI love the butterflies dies! I love the way this cards is used!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a beautiful card! Awesome job!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a beautiful card! I love your design!
ReplyDeletewow what a really unique card love the butterflies.
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful! I think I need a new butterfly die and that chevron cloud die is so unique!
ReplyDeletesuch fun new products! love those clouds!
ReplyDeleteWhat's not to love about this card. Those chevron clouds are perfect for your vintage butterflies. Love the color combo and all those yummy layers.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love butterflies
ReplyDeleteStunningly beautiful!! Love the vintage look of your layered butterflies!!!
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Cute card!!Thanks for the opportunity to win some great stuff!!!
ReplyDeleteOh wow! Of all the cards I've seen today, I have to say the butterfly is my favorite! Love all the dimension. Thanks so much for sharing,
ReplyDeleteLove the layers and the dimension you achieved. Well done.
ReplyDeleteSo much texture and detail on your card. Love it.
ReplyDeleteVery elegant. Lovely way to showcase the chevron embossed clouds.
ReplyDeleteloved the swooshed background, colored vellum and the chevron clouds! precious card!
ReplyDeleteThis card could be framed!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful card, I love the butterflies!
ReplyDeleteLovely card - thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteThe dimension and texture you put on this card makes it so wonderful!
ReplyDeleteReally nice card!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! Love the butterflies and the embossed clouds.
ReplyDeleteFun layers, butterflies, and dimension.
ReplyDeleteLovely card!
ReplyDeleteLove those clouds and cute butterflies! Lovely card. TFS
ReplyDeleteI just love those butterflies so cute.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I absolutely love those butterflies! That is a definite must try! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeletewhat a beautiful card thanks for sharing
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I like the vintage feel of the card.
ReplyDeleteWow stunning card, love the layered butterflies!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely love your card!! Can't wait to own all of the new release items!
ReplyDeleteOh my, such fabulous dimension and texture on those chevron clouds and elegant butterflies, Emma! Anita :)
ReplyDeleteLove the butterflies. The vintage paper is really a nice touch.
ReplyDeleteSo pleasing to the eye. Love your card.
ReplyDeleteWow, those butterflies are amazing!
ReplyDeleteWow, those butterflies are amazing!
ReplyDeleteI love this card!
ReplyDeletelove the colors - thanks for the chance to win
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your wonderful card. Love the butterflies and embossed clouds.
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Love the clouds and the butterflies! Great work!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card! I love all the dimension!
ReplyDeleteWow, saw this on Pinterest first...exquisite and full of creativity. Looking forward to getting those butterfly dies. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWatched an earlier video on how to die cut/emboss these new cloud dies - so versatile. love the lightness of clouds on your delightful cards.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty card and I love the embossing on the clouds.
ReplyDeleteButterflies make anything happy, don't they? Great cards!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card, I love that cloud die.
ReplyDeleteGreat detail on your card!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful card. The colors are perfect.
ReplyDeleteI love all of the dimension and texture of your card. Very, very pretty!
ReplyDeleteVery creative the butterflies and the clouds. Pretty.
ReplyDeletelove the layered butterflies with the pearl bodies!
ReplyDeleteamazing flight of the butterflies. pretty clouds for sure.
ReplyDeleteLove the layers of vellum and paper for the butterflies! The vellum gives it that delicate look of real butterflies.
ReplyDeleteEven with all those layers your card feels light and airy. Just lovely.
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful layered card!
ReplyDeleteLove all the dimension from the butterflies.
ReplyDeleteThis card must have taken some time. I really like it. Great card design.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty love the colors
ReplyDeleteLovely card.
ReplyDeleteButterflies are one of my favourites =) thanks for this fantastic card idea!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card!! Thank you for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteGreat dimension, Emma! So Summery! Love those new cloud dies.
ReplyDeleteVery cute card! I love the embossed clouds and layered butterflies!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the inspiration! I love the butterflies and of course the cloud die is a MUST HAVE.
ReplyDeleteWow! Your card is stunning! So many wonderful things in this release!
ReplyDeleteLove the butterfly's great card..
ReplyDeleteI'm such a sucker for butterflies and the new clouds with the texture was a perfect match! Thanks for posting!
ReplyDeleteI love all the dimension on this card!
ReplyDeleteGreat collection , thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteGreat collection , thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card! Love the cloud die/with embossing!
ReplyDeletePretty Card!
ReplyDeleteReally like the look of the embossed clouds
and all the different dimension & textures!
Absolutely beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI love that cloud die! So much dimension!
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing card, great detail!
ReplyDeleteLover all of the layered butterflies!
ReplyDeleteApart from (quite a few) other Things, I'm really in to cloud images at the moment, so I LOVE this cute cloud die... such fun card!
ReplyDeletewhat a wonderful & beautiful card! I love butterflies!
ReplyDeleteSuch a fun and wonderful card. Love all of the new dies. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteLove the embossing on the clouds and all of the details in this card. Great job!
ReplyDeleteButterflies and clouds, can't go wrong with those. Love the layering!
ReplyDeleteWOWOWOWOWOWOW!! LOVING the New Release and the AMAZING Inspiration!! THANKS SO MUCH for sharing and for the chances to win!! Have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful card! Loving the butterflies, they are just beautiful! This release by SSS is just awesome!!
ReplyDeleteYour card is just stunning. Thank you for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE butterflies! What a beautiful card! And those cloud dies are awesome!
ReplyDeleteAww love those clouds and butterflies in 3D, so so pretty, great product release too
ReplyDeleteYour card is so beautiful!
ReplyDeletereally cute cards, thanks for being part of the blog hop. you guys give us such great ideas
ReplyDeleteI've. Been wanting to make a butterfly card and this is a beautiful example. Your attention to detail is inspiring. Thank you for offering so many photos from so many perspectives.
ReplyDeleteSuch a fun card! I love all the texture. Those butterflies look like they could fly away! Thanks for the fun hop!
ReplyDeleteWow...beautiful card! And thank you for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteI love that wood-grain look with the butterflies!
ReplyDeleteLovely card, I need those chevron clouds, too cute
ReplyDeleteLovely layers!
ReplyDeleteI love all the dimension of your card! Awesome inspiration!
ReplyDelete~God bless~
Love your idea. Great inspiration!
ReplyDeleteOh wow I love the layers and the butterflies in the clouds just look stunning. Its a gorgeous card...anyone would love to get it.
ReplyDeleteYour card is absolutely fantastic! I love all the texture and layers! xo
ReplyDeleteI love the butterflies!!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty card. I love the butterflies.
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