Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with special guest - Tracy May

Welcome and thank you for joining me in a special Crazy Crafters team blog hop.

We are hopping with a special guest - The talented Tracy May.

The theme of this blog hop was to CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) one of Tracy's cards.


Here is the project of Tracy's that I chose to CASE:

I love butterflies and this treat bag stood out to me as I was looking through Tracy's creations. And I thought, I can make this into a card. To checkout Tracy's project in more detail click here.


Here is my version:

A colour I have recently fallen in love with is Bermuda Bay, so I decided to use it for my card.

My card base is Whisper White cardstock with a strip of Bermuda Bay adhered with Snail to the middle.

I used another strip of Whisper White cardstock, my Bermuda Bay ink pad and the Butterflies stamp from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set, to create the random butterfly pattern. I then used the Triple Banner Punch to punch both ends of the strip. This was then adhered to the Bermuda Bay strip with Snail adhesive.

Using some Bermuda Bay cardstock, the Butterflies Thinlits set & my magnetic platform, I cut out the middle sized butterfly. Using the matching sized butterfly from the Bold Butterfly Framelits set, I cut out a plain background butterfly in Whisper White. I grabbed a small piece of my Bermuda Bay Taffeta Ribbon and my handheld stapler,  then lined up the 2 butterfly die cuts and placed the ribbon at the back and then stapled them all together. To hide the staple I found a couple of stick on rhinestones that were a close colour match to Bermuda Bay. I attached the butterfly to the front of my card using some strong craft glue.

My sentiment comes from the Butterfly Basics stamp set and was framed using a stamp from the Rose Wonder stamp set. This was then cut out using the co-ordinating die from the Rose Garden thinlits set. The sentiment was adhered to the card front using dimensionals to make it stand out.

The card didn't start out in my head the way it ended up, but I am happy with how it turned out. I hope you like my card.

Here is a list of the supplies and tools used to create this card:

Whisper White A4 Cardstock (106549)
Bermuda Bay A4 Cardstock (131286)
Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad (131171)
Perpetual Birthday Calendar Stamp Set (Photopolymer 137167)
Butterfly Basics Stamp Set
          (Clear - 138816 / Wood - 138813 / Photopolymer - 137154)
Rose Wonder Stamp Set (Photopolymer 140697)
Triple Banner Punch (138292)
Butterflies Thinlits (137360)
Bold Butterfly Framelits (138135)
Rose Garden Thinlits (140619)
Magnetic Platform (130658)
Handheld Stapler (139083)
Snail Permanent Adhesive (104332)
Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
Bermuda Bay Taffeta Ribbon (131206)
Stick on Rhinestones

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Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out my creation.

If you enjoyed my card, it would make my day if you left me a comment below :)

Don't forget to continue the hop all the way around to see what the very creative Crazy Crafters team have come up with.

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