A Skipping Stones Blog Hop

Hello!

Today, I am participating in a very special blog hop in honor of Heather Timmins, owner of Skipping Stones Design Stamps.  You should have arrived from Vanessa's blog, if not check out the SSD blog for details.

Heather has decided to take a break from the stamp business, and this special hop is in her honor, as a way of saying thank you, and good wishes!  I remember the first time I "met" Heather.  I had my very first card published in Papercrafts Magazine back in 2010 using Friendly Fruits and she emailed me to tell me about her very generous incentive program.  Well, a guest design spot soon followed as well as a place on her team.  I have fond memories of my short time with Skipping Stones and adore the fabulously funny as well as gorgeous stamp sets that Heather has designed.  God bless you Heather!

For my card, I chose Breathtaking Butterflies.  It is a newer set, but oh-so lovely!  To start, I stamped the solid image onto my panel in a light blue, added a few strips of Navy cardstock and adhered the panel to a Navy card base.

I then stamped the large detailed image in Navy, cut it out and popped it up over the strips, adding rhinestones and stamping my sentiment underneath.

I couldn't stop there, and created this super clean and simple card using the smaller solid butterfly.  Stamping the image at the base of a white panel, I trimmed around the bottom of the butterflies, stamped my sentiment and after tying on twine popped it up onto a Kraft card base.

Okay, now head on over to see what Judith has for you, and don't forget to leave comments along the way.  There are some fun SSD stamp sets up for grabs to a lucky winner!  The deadline to leave those comments will be Sunday February 3rd.

Supplies-
{Thinking of You}
Paper: Marshmallow Bazzill, Navy PTI
Stamps: Breathtaking Butterflies Skipping Stones Design
Ink: Navy, Sicilian Blue Fresh Ink
Embellishment: Rhinestones Michael's
Tools: Corner Rounder WRMK

{Yesterday, Tomorrow and Today}
Paper: Kraft Wplus9, White Georgia-Pacific
Stamps: Breathtaking Butterflies SSD
Ink: Melon, Birch Fresh Ink, Bermuda, Lichen Amuse
Embellishment: Twine May Arts