One card – 2 ways

Hi Everyone.  Happy Wednesday night.  I hope you all having a fabulous week so far.

I have a little something different for you tonight.  I created a card for the stamping411 challenge this week.  The talented design team have provided us with a fabulously simple and versatile layout and I couldn't wait to play with it.  In fact, this week, I might actually get to submit a card for the challenge before the closing time!  

I made two cards.  One a more simple version and the other one taken up a notch with a little bling.  Both use the same colors, but take on entirely different hues.

I really enjoyed playing around with the sketch, so why don't you pop along to the site and check out the inspiration and submission cards.

Here's the first version of the card.  

I love it…. What was my inspiration?  The swallowtail butterflies that have been attracted to our bird and butterfly garden this year.  They are so big and so beautiful, that when I stamped this image Lou suggested I really color it in yellow.  The image is not Stampin' Up! but the rest of the supplies are.  

As much as I love this card and think it works for the layout of the challenge, I wanted to take it up just a little bit.  I wanted to make the central image richer and the background more subtle.  So I stamped the same image – only this time in black and colored it using almost the same colors.  I just changed up the red/orange a little.  The background card stock changed and voila – an entirely different feel.

Here's version 2 – with a little bit of bling.

 

You can see that the layout is the same, the image is the same.  I changed out the background DSP and made the color on the hindwing of the butterfly a richer color than on the original.  This time I used Cherry Cobbler.  The background card stock and the ribbon are also Cherry Cobbler.  The shiny brad is from the new Mini catalog and I just love them!   

I stamped and colored the image and then stamped Versamark all over the focal image and embossed it with Iridescence Ice embossing powder and heat set it.  It made the colors much richer and the bling makes the card feel even more special.

I've put the recipe for both cards at the bottom of the post for you.

On a personal note… still hot and very, very humid.  With the heat indices it was 105 yesterday.  We have been promised cooler weather this coming weekend.  YAY!  I hope you are having decent weather where you are!  Charlie (the kitten we picked up last week) is staying with us for a little longer.  The local shelters are all overflowing with animals and they are placing on average 1-2 juvenile kittens a week.  Which may sound a lot, but considering there are over 50 in the network – and getting more every week – it's going to be tough to find a home for little Charlie.  He really is the cutest little thing.  I just wish we knew where he had come from.  Certainly no-one has reported him lost.  So, for now, we continue to house him in the garage and the laundry room.  He goes in to be neutered next week and then hopefully we can begin looking for a home for him.

Prayers tonight for Trish, Germaine, Arthur, T, Pri, Angela, Missy's family and Hugo.

I hope you all have a fabulous Thursday and… as always… thank you for spending time in my little area of the stamping blogosphere.  Your visits are always much appreciated.

Hugs

Jaydee

Card recipes:

Card 1:

• Card stock:  Poppy Parade, Whisper White
• DSP:  In color DSP (level 1 hostess set)
• Stamp:  Non SU (Memory Box butterfly collage)
• Sentiment:  Just Believe (120453)
• Accessories:  Daffodil Delight satin ribbon

Card 2:

• Card stock:  Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White
• DSP:  Non-SU (Webster's Pages)
• Stamp: Non SU (Memory Box butterfly collage)
• Sentiment:  Just Believe (120453)
• Accessories:  Cherry Cobbler ribbon from the new mini; shiny brad from the new mini; Iridescence Ice embossing powder;  Tag cut from the Lots of Tags Sizzlits die (114508)