Hello Friends! How are you? I can’t believe it’s September 1st. Stamptember… I mean September is a busy month and a special month because it’s the beginning of Simon Says Stamptember. The “Thankful” sentiment is one of the new goodies from the Stamptember collection from Simon Says Stamp. The butterflies are an oldie from Avery Elle but, a favorite for sure.
Today I am a guest on Ruby’s blog … I hope you will check out the post. Ruby asks some fun questions and might have a giveaway .. wink.
You may be noticing that I am using these stitched frames a lot lately (from Lawn Fawn) I love them becase it’s easy to create a shaker card with them because of the thickness of the frame. For the background I used some distress ink and this dotted stencil from Simon Says. To finish off my card I used the water droplets from Pretty Pink Posh .. they are available in two sizes … 6 mm droplets and 4mm droplets . In case you are curious my butterflies were watercolored with distress ink and Tim Holtz’s watercolor paper.
I masked off the butterflies with masking paper and watercolored the background with distress ink. I ended up muddying up the background and it was U.G.L.Y. so when in doubt cut it out lol.
I will be back tomorrow with a Lawn Fawn exclusive from Simon’s Stamptember. Thank you Ruby for having me and thanks to you for your visit today. Hugs, Kathy
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How pretty Kathy! I love polka dots and I would never have thought of using them this way but it’s gorgeous!
What a magical card!! LOVE the vibrant colors and those butterflies are to die for!! LOVELOVELOVE! TFS!
Such a beautiful card! Love how you colored the butterflies and I really love the orange polka dots!
Beautiful card, Kathy. I love your originality, I’ve started using alcohol markers, but I’m not very good at it. Watercoloring is easier for me because I can “color outside the lines” and pretend I meant to do it.
See much to love here! Your new die gradient colors remind me of candy corn! (Did someone say candy corn)? Love the stitch die polka dots matching the inner shaker panel you’re such a genius! Lovely details everywhere!
Amazing card Kathy! Loved to see you as Ruby’s guest!!! <3
This is really beautiful Kathy. I agree with “when in doubt, CUT it out!” (I do that sometimes too as it’s better than, “when in doubt, THROW it out!” LOL)
Thanks for sharing your work and your videos. My 4 y/o grandson now calls himself a card maker and has me stamp off images for him to colour all the time and thanks, in part to you/your videos, he now colours inside the lines! What fun we have…
It was fun learning more about you on Ruby’s blog, Kathy! I was a big Ziggy fan back in the day too 🙂
Hi there, Kathy! What a beautiful, fall, butterfly card you made for us today! Thank-you! I love the dotted and framed background design, it’s so cheerful! ( It’s a gray, windy, rainy day here 🙁 so your card really cheered me up) hugs from Veronica in Canada
Thank you soooooooo much for being a guest. You are so sweet! I love your card so much. The colors are perfect together! <3
I love floral framing.I think it gives so much to an image.This is BEAUTIFUL
Love those frames, your butterflies , and those polka dots…
Two gorgeous cards!! Love the polka dot inspiration! Am a follower of Ruby’s as well.
Gorgeous colours and colouring! You are a true artist, Kathy, Jo x
Geeking out over your color combo, and polka-dots!! I LOVED reading up about you over at Ruby’s:)) My favorite part was that you think the most wonderful part about YOU, is that you LOVE to color.
I think you are the most thoughtful and kind colorist out there in blog/youtube/IG land.
Lovely card Kathy. Thanks for sharing with us.
Love your vibrant colors. Lovely card!
Two really gorgeous cards, Kathy! You always know how to inspire us, that’s for sure…Thank you 🙂
Oh those butterflies…perfect on this background. The coloring in incredible.
You were a great guest with Ruby!
Love the “Thankful” die & colors you use!
As I was adding dots on my stamped flowers last night,
I thought of you =o)
Fabulous card Kathy, the colors just make everything “POP” and the polka dots are my fav!!!
That was a nice guest appearance at Ruby’s. Everything I said over there is true. I love orange and love polka dots, so this is a winner. Such a lovely, unexpected, bright background. Love that Thankful die, too. You make the most of ALL your tools.
Very beautiful card! These dots are so much fun!
Love the butterflies and colors. the background is awesome and how you did the frame out of the same paper. Awesome look
Oh Kathy. This card is so amazingly beautiful. I totally love it.
The butterflies are so vibrant, they look alive, and I love the colour combination, especially the orange polka dots!
Such creative scene cards and also are so adorable and fun. Thank you for the inspiration Kathy. 🙂
Wow! Your butterflies look like they are about to fly off the card! Your coloring is awesome! Such a beautiful card!!!!!
Your butterflies are so gorgeous! I love this card! I left some love for you over on Ruby’s blog too! Congrats on your guest spot!
Opening up my email this morning and seeing this beautiful card almost took my breath away! Those butterflies are so beautifully colored. The dots, the colors, the placement, it is all so beautiful. You knocked it out of the park Kathy!
I love your card !!! How can I pin it to my Pinterest board?? It is not on any of your boards yet? Thank you, Kathy!!!!!
Lovely butterflies!