TE's Blast from the Past Blog Hop

This month's challenge is "Collectors Anonymous".  We are to use things on our project that uses things that we collect.  Of course my collections border on hoarding as most crafters do but I digress.  I collect things that I like the most which include: paper, lace, ribbon, buttons, bling, dies, punches and stamps... so many stamps!  My most favorite stamps are of flowers, girly stamps and butterflies  I decided to use my most favorite things on this month's card.  The song from the Sound of Music kept running through my head, "My Favorite Things" as I made this fun card.  My daughter loved butterflies, the color pink, flowers and anything shiny.

I used TE's CreativiTEA for the flower and New Beginnings for the butterflies and frame and  Discover Your Wings for the sentiment.

I did a technique called "kissing" with three of the butterflies.  I inked up a couple of the designs from Miniature Motifs melon mambo ink and then touched a un-inked butterfly to the inked design... after that I stamped the butterfly onto cardstock.  I loved how they turned out.  The light butterfly on the frame (by the flower) was first stamped once onto scrap paper and then stamped onto the cardstock.  That made the butterfly color much lighter... such a soft touch. 

I folded the wings away from the center a little and attached them to the card only in the center... that way the wings are not flat and help it give movement to the butterflies.  I added some "bling" on the butterflies as well as below them to also help give them movement.

I used a banner from Spellbinder's Nested Lacey Pennents for the sentiment.

A bow, a button, some lace and a background punched with Martha Stewart "punch around the page - Monarch butterfly".  Below is an angle I like to use to show the 3-D effects of all the little details and layers.

Here you can see that I added a 2nd layer to the flower center and added some bling to it after coloring it with copics.  Love that flower!  

This is how the card opens up.  The pink background with the butterflies punched out is behind the card.

Here's the alternative sketch which I actually used this time!  Instead of using 3 brads on the left-hand side of the sketch, I used butterflies.  I added a little extra to the sketch but I like how it turned out.  

I hope you enjoyed my card today and hope you will click on the links below and see what all the other participants made for us today.  Thank you for stopping by - I appreciate every visit and comment.

Here are the entries from the Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past blog hop! Click here for details on how you can join us next month! There's a free stamp set up for grabs for one lucky participant!

1.	Carole Rinear Chesser	19.	Mary Collins
2.	Taylor VanBruggen	20.	Karen Giron
3.	Pattie Goldman	21.	Laura Jean Nygaard
4.	Wanda Guess	22.	Vicki Fields
5.	Margie Cortina	23.	Kelly Collins
6.	Amanda Kowalker	24.	Kristie Wilson
7.	Natalie Houston	25.	Lisa Petrella
8.	Bonnie Ratzloff	26.	Tangii Crain
9.	Jasmin Owsley	27.	Terri Trotter Early
10.	Tracy Clemente	28.	Stephanie Kraft
11.	Jen Carvajal	29.	Lori McAree
12.	Rebecca Ednie	30.	Jessica Willison
13.	Monika Davis	31.	Lesa Smaligo
14.	Cassie Trask	32.	Debbie Carriere
15.	Jodi Collins	33.	Libby Hickson
16.	Michelle Van Patten	34.	Jessica James
17.	Chris Loritsch	35.	Sankari Wegman
18.	Nancy Jensen

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Other challenges:
Simon Says Stamp and Show - show us some bling


Flourishes - recipe challenge: Use the color pink, one button, ribbon, and lace on your creation. Other than that anything else is a go.