Monday 7 July 2014

Happy Happy Birthday Darnell!


Hi, it was Darnell's birthday a few days ago, so I'm late posting this card.
If you haven't visited her blog at djkardkreations then you're in for a treat.

Darnell is a talented card maker with a terrific sense of humour, her posts are always entertaining and a great source of inspiration. You'll probably also learn lots of new words and acronyms!

Ardyth is hosting a linky party to celebrate, there's still plenty of time to join in.

I've used the die cut words from my new Happy Birthday background die. I coloured them with 3 distress inks. At  Moxie Fab World, there's a wonderful words challenge, to use a word die.

The butterfly was stamped, fussy cut and coloured with inktense pencils.
The challenge at Addicted to Stamps & More is to use markers, pencils or pens in your project.

Materials used:
Poppystamps Happy Birthday background die; Darkroom Door butterfly stamp; Entangled embossing folder; Spellbinders square dies; distress inks; inktense pencils; bling.

Thanks for visiting,
Cathy x

17 comments:

Loll said...

Sweet card Cathy. Darnell will LOVE it! xx

roffeycreations said...

Beautiful card Cathy!!! Happy Birthday Darnell xxxxxx

Monica said...

So refreshing and sweet.

Hettie said...

This is lovely. Love that blue you have used. I am sure Darnell will love it too!
Hugs
xx

Brenda in IN said...

So pretty with the colors fading. She is the best and has brought so many bloggers together. She makes me laugh every time I visit. I love how you colored your butterfly. I think she'll love it.

Cornelia (fun stamping) said...

Another one of your amazingly beautiful cards - Darnell will love it!

jimlynn said...

A beautiful, beautiful card! I love the embossing on this and that gorgeous butterfly.
Lynn

Bonnie said...

I love the crispness of the blue and white and that window! I know Darnell loved it!

Darnell said...

Oooh, thank you so much, Cathy!! That was really sweet of you! I love your card design and the beautiful blue ombre coloring of your die cuts and butterfly! I'm also really drawn to that embossing folder. I don't think I've seen that one before and it reminds me of the way I used to doodle in school on my note paper. Remember doing that? One continuous line and not lifting your pencil or pen off the page? I still like to do it sometimes when I'm on a long phone call!

Anywizzle, I love it! It means so much to me that you dedicated a post to me and entered your pretty card in the linky party at Ardyth's! Mwah!! Darnell

(Thank you, Maureen!)

Lee-Anne said...

Cathy, this is simply wonderful...love all the texture! And that butterfly is perfectly colored...lovely card for Darnell! So happy you could join us at ATSM!

Katie Melhus said...

Love the beautiful blues, especially on the sweet butterfly :) Thanks so much for joining us at Addicted to Stamps and More!

Anonymous said...

Wow, love this one. Stunning combination of texture and colour. Thanks for joining us at ATSM this week. Monika

Anita in France said...

Just gorgeous, Cathy ... those ombré blue hues are so lovely ... and what delicious texture! Anita :)

Happy Dance said...

Such a gorgeous card, Cathy! I apologize for being a bit late with commenting, I had a run of migraines... That butterfly is stunning, and your embossing is brilliant. Love this card!! And I see our Miss D. did too!! Thanks so much for linking up and helping us celebrate the birthday girl. Bev

Taunya Butler said...

So, so, so brilliantly done - that textured background is beautiful and everything about this just sings!!

Anonymous said...

Such a pretty card, Cathy!
I think Darnell is a lucky, lucky girl!

Teri

Princess Judy Palmer said...

That butterfly looks real! Like it is about to take off for flight. What a wonderful card!