Friday 11 July 2014

Simon Says Stamp "This Is The Life" Blog Hop and Giveaway

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 Dies ~ Chevron Clouds, Petite Butterflies and Frames
Simon Says Stamp Stamp ~ Life's Journey
Distress Ink ~ Squeezed Lemonade
Decorative Pins from my own stash


533 comments:

  1. Very pretty card. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  2. I love butterflies and I like the layers!

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  3. I love the butterflies--so pretty! Beautiful card!

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  4. Those clouds are to die for! And I love how you layered the butterflies!

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  5. love those textured clouds.. so fresh!

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  6. Thank you for sharing your card!

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  7. Love the embossing on the clouds

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  8. Wow! Your cards are so detailed! Absolutely stunning!

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  9. This is the life indeed! Where else would be able to connect with this awesome hobby?! FABULOUS card- I love all those butterflies & clouds!

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  10. beautiful card- love the pretty butterflies!
    thanks
    Holly

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  11. The butterflies and clouds are so beautiful!

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  12. Your cards are an inspiration. The butterflies are wonderful.

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  13. Your card is really amazing! I love those butterflies, they're super romantic!

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  14. Loved looking @ your work!! you are very talented!! Thanks for a chance to win!

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  15. Love those cards with the clouds, love that you can now emboss and die cut with the same die!

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  16. Very delicate and dimensional!

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  17. I love it, my passion butterflies.

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  18. Gorgeous, Beautiful, Amazing! I love the embossed clouds and all the fantastic butterflies!

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  19. Everything is just beautiful!

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  20. Love all the layers you have added to this card.

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  21. Butterflies and clouds - so pretty and peaceful.

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  22. The clouds are awesome. Lovely card

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  23. Love the dimension with the butterflies!

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  24. I seriously only have one word. W.O.W. Such a beautiful, elegant card! (ok, so I found 5 more words) ;) Thank you for sharing!!

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  25. The embossing dies are awesome! Thanks for sharing.

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  26. Love those butterflies! And the color combination is just gorgeous!

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  27. Gorgeous card!!! I am loving those chevron clouds.

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  28. I am such a sucker for butterflies, and now I want the clouds too! :)

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  29. The layered butterflies are a perfect addition to anyones die collection.

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  30. I just love your cards. You outdid yourself with them!

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  31. Love those clouds! Cute card.

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  32. This release is fantastic, everything in it is a Must Have for me! Love what you did with the cloud and butterfly dies! Can't wait to get mine! Thanks for the fun inspiration!

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  33. Wow I love your card, I like how you used the clouds and butterflys it looks like they are all floating away.

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  34. I love those chevron clouds and butterflies!!

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  35. Stunning scene with the gorgeous butterflies!!!

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  36. Wow! All the layers and texture and dimension are just stunning!

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  37. absolutely beautiful! love your style.

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  38. Wow! I love your card! Thanks for explaining how you made it. I love the butterflies and the embossed clouds!

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  39. Oh, I'm in love!!! Gorgeous card with the butterflies and chevron clouds!! THANKS!!

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  41. Love your card! Such a wonderful idea with the butterfly's on the clouds.

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  42. Great release! Would love to win!

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  43. What a lovely card!!! Thank you

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  44. Awesome card!!! So impressed with your designing...never would have thought that up. What talent....!!

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  45. Absolutely beautiful! I love how you used these dies!

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  46. Love your happy happy card, the chevron clouds are so COOL!

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  47. This should be framed. Gorgeous card!

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  48. Love all the textures and die cuts...I know when I try to do this it always comes out a hot mess. Your's are simply stunning!

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  49. Love butterflies!! Your card is beautiful!

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  50. WOW. Like the embossed clouds and the great effect of the butterflies. Thanks for all the details and inspiration.

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  51. This is the life - perfect card!

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  52. The chevron cloud dies are a must have! Great card!

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  53. Beautiful card, I love the chevron clouds, can't wait to order them.

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  54. I like the combination of the chevron clouds with those beautiful butterflies!

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  55. What wonderful clouds and butterflies!

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  56. Cute card! Love all the detail!

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  57. Love the butterflies! Great dimension!

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  58. Nice job on your card. I love those textured clouds! I ordered some!

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  59. Those cloud are adorable! Great card!

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  60. The butterflies are gorgeous. These cards remind me of my 6 year old daughter! Thank you so much for sharing xx

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  61. Love this card. The butterflies and clouds are wonderful.

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  62. I like the way you popped the clouds using various levels of thickness.

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  63. beautiful layered butterflies!

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  64. loved the chevron clouds.


    Melissa

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  65. Butterflies and clouds ~ WOW, this is the life! Love your card, Emma, thank you for this fun and fabulous design :-)

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  66. Your card is beautiful. I like the background a lot and want to try my hand at your vintage layered butterflies.

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  67. Love the chevron clouds and the butterflies together...

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  68. Pretty dimensional butterflies!

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  69. Just love all the texture on your card.

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  70. Such a pretty card. I didn't know distress ink sticks to vellum - thanks! I love the layering of the coloured vellum with the printed paper on the butterflies.

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  71. So beautiful. I'm in awe. Thanks for the inspiration

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  72. I like the idea of adding texture to the dies by embossing them but haven't tried it; thanx for the inspiration and blog candy opp!

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  73. Really cute card! I love all the dimension!

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  74. Love all the great emblossing on your card.

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  75. I love dimensional cards -- this is just beautiful!

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  76. Amazing card. It's just beautiful!

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  77. love the clouds and butterflies are always fun! Thanks for sharing your card.
    R/

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  78. Beautiful card! Great release!

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  79. The clouds are easily my favorites so far but love how the butterflies turned out. I may have to gift one of them to a certain person if I can actually get them in stock.

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  80. So very pretty. Love how it looks like it comes to life. Very pretty. Thank you for sharing your art with us.

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  81. Super cute & fun card!!! already placed my order! thanks for the inspiration!! Blessings!!

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  82. I'd love to get a card like that with all those butterflies. So pretty!

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  83. So, so cute! Thanks for the chance to win!!

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  84. I live those embossing dies...thanks for the inspiration!

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  85. What a fantastic card. Love those great butterflies!

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  86. Beautiful card! Love the dimension on it!

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  87. Pretty pretty butterflies! Thanks for sharing.

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  88. I absolutely love your card!!!

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  89. Very creative way to use the butterflies and the clouds are so cute .

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  90. these butterflies are amazing! thx for sharing!

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  91. This butterflycard is so fantastic - everyone will love this...

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  92. Really beautiful dimension! Stunning!

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  93. Gorgeous card Emma :-) I love the butterflies with the chevron clouds,, so pretty :-)

    luv
    Lols x x x

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  94. What a beautiful card - so much detail and texture - awesome job!

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  95. Your card is stunning and those layered butterflies are beautiful. And noticed that you have been published in the August 2014 magazine cover..congratulations!!!

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  96. Adorable card! So much texture! Love the new die cuts!

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  97. Wow, what a stunning card! I love the soft, pretty colors and all of the wonderful dimension you added!

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  98. The embossed clouds are gorgeous and love all those pretty dimensional butterflies

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  99. Love the texture on this card. The layered butterflies are so pretty.

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  100. A very beautiful card. Love the clouds with the background, and the butterflies are so pretty with the vintage paper!

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  101. Great idea with the butterflies!;)

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  102. Love love those embossed clouds!

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  103. Wow! Stunning card that makes me want the butterflies and clouds that much more! Thanks for sharing your creativity!

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  104. Beautiful card! So fresh, love it!

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  105. Just beautiful. Love the butterflies.

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  106. Love the butterflies on the clouds. The layering of the butterflies really makes them beautiful. thanks for sharing a wonderful card.

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  107. Loved the card. I loved the colors.

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  108. Wow your card is beautiful!!

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  109. I absolutely loveeverything about the butterfly card, thank you for sharing xx

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  110. I love the beautiful butterflies! Such a lovely card!

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  111. Wow! You combined so many pieces from the new release to make this beautiful, dimensional card.

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  112. What a beautiful card! The clouds are awesome love the chevron look!

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  113. I really like the chevron clouds and I like that your card had some dimension to it! Lovely.

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  114. The cloud die with embossing is very nice. Your card is very pretty.

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  115. OMG! What an amazing card and so much work!! Thanks for sharing your process.

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  116. Your butterfly card is amazing!

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  117. Fabulous!! Butterflies are always my favorite element...

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  118. WOW!! A lot of detailed work to come up with a gorgeous card!! The different layered chevron clouds & the awesome butterflies just puts this card over the top....beautiful!!

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  119. Your butterflies look as though they are ready to take off. So much dimension and beautiful clouds. Great card.

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  120. Oooh! Beautiful card! Love the soft blue and yellows, and those butterflies and clouds are fabulous! TFS!

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  121. Clever use of the Chevron Cloud dies...love it!

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  122. Fantastic card, love the embossing, the layers and dimension! Great colours too!

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  123. Beautiful card with your chevron clouds(love those) and your fantastic layered butterflies. The yellow and the blue are perfect together.

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  124. Your card is just amazing - love all your special and creative touches! Thanks so very much for sharing this work of art!

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  125. fun use of butterflies, i love the the three D look!

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  126. Thanks for sharing this beautiful card...just so stunning!

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  127. Gorgeous butterflies! I know I'm going to be using those clouds a lot. Thanks for sharing!

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  128. Absolutely stunning card! It's all beautiful. The butterflies, the textured clouds, the custom tinted ribbon... a work of art.

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  129. Absolutely gorgeous! You've made this card come to life! It's just bursts off the screen! TFS :)

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  130. Just love the layered vellum and print you used for the butterflies!

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  131. Oh my gosh- you took my breath away with this one!

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  132. Gorgeous and great idea to layer the butterflies that way. I told myself no more butterfly stamps (I have a lot) but really a die isn't a stamp, is it?

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  133. Your card is beyond fabulous!!! I love everything about it.

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  134. Your card is lovely—I especially like the new "cloud" dies that dry emboss!

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  135. Your card is so beautiful. Love the dimension you created with the butterflies. Thanks for sharing.

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  136. Beautiful card...........love to be a butterfly.

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  137. Beautiful card! Love the chevron clouds!

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  138. Awesome card.. just love everything about it. Looking at the card just makes you happy and warm inside.. love it thank you for sharing your wonderful talent :)

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  139. Those cloud dies are a must on my list of items to get from this new release. Your card is lovely, too. Thanks for sharing your creativity!

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  140. I love dimensional cards and this one really rocks.

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  141. I love your dimensional cloud and butterfly card, cook that although are some color, have different textures and finishes. Awesome!

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  142. This card is so very unique...it is a favorite of mine. Thank you for sharing with us.

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  143. Very pretty! Love the embossing on the clouds. Tfs! Hugs Traci

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  144. I think this is my favorite card yet.

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  145. What a beautiful are! Fantastic dimension from all those butterfly layers and I love those clouds!

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  146. Nice butterflies. Love the clouds! Thanks!

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  147. Oh wow, this is such a pretty card. I love all the layers and dimension! So lovely. :)

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  148. Wow, you card is absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for sharing your creative ideas!

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  149. You knocked my socks off with this one... the wood-textured frame, spattering on the background... and the crinkled ribbon looks like an amazing flower! Wow... love it!

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  150. Stunning card! The dimension created with the clouds and butterflies is awesome! Thanks for sharing the SSS release with us.

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  151. Beautiful card! Thanks for sharing :)

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  152. I loved the card, but REALLY loved the hand dyed ribbon. It's gorgeous!

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  153. Love all the textures, specially the double butterflies and the embossed clouds.

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  154. Beautiful card. Love all the butterflies with your chevron clouds!

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  155. Gorgeous card! Just love how those clouds and butterflies turned out!

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  156. very clever..... thank you

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  157. I love the butterflies with the lovely textured clouds, and the pale blue cloudy background is so pretty. A beautiful card. x

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  158. I so love the embossed clouds!

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  159. Such a beautiful delicate yet strong card!

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  160. I love the softness of the distress ink on vellum, just beautiful!

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  161. Your butterfly card is awesome! Thank you for the great ideas!!

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  162. The more I hop along, the bigger my cart gets at SSS! Your butterflies are gorgeous and I am loving those chevron clouds!

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  163. Really like those embossable dies.

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  164. Very pretty card. The layered, butter yellow butterflies are lovely!

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  165. Wow!!! Absolutely gorgeous card!!! I love the chevron clouds and those butterflies are beautiful!!!

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  166. Beautiful! Great dimension! Thanks so much!

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  167. Your rippled clouds are really cool!

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  168. such a cute card -- great use of the variety of products.

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  169. This Butterfly card is such a happy card. Like the dimension you gave it.
    Melissa
    "Sunshine HoneyBee"

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  170. Love your super dimensional butterfly card!

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  171. Love the card...the butterflies are fantastic

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  172. Simply stunning! Marvelous card!

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  173. Love the layered butterflies and all the texture and interest they add. Thanks for such a detailed description of how you created your design.

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  174. Great card! I love those chevron clouds!

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  175. Very nice dimensional work. Thanks for sharing your ideas.

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  176. What an absolutely unique card, love the vellum and butterflies.

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  177. I love those clouds! So pretty!

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  178. Love the butterflies....loving the new products.

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  179. Gorgeous card - suitable for framing. I wouldn't give it away. Wow.

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  180. Thanks for sharing! Thanks for the chance to win!

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Thank you for all your comments and messages, they are all appreciated and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon...
Emma ~xx

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