Love is like Butterflies

Happy Wednesday!
So I tried something new with my cards this week.  A few things that I've never done/hardly do.  And I must say, I really love how it all looks!

Today's card was supposed to just be my practice card, but it turned out so cute that I finished it all up and decided to share it :)
First off...this is my first time ever sewing on a card!  Yeah, I need some practice...those lines are not very straight...but over all it's so darn cute!  Plus I hardly ever do single layer cards.  So when this idea popped into my head, and it actually looked good once completed, I got super excited :)

I used kind of a jumble of images on here.  The sweet butterfly is from 2 Cute Ink.  I just love these sweet little images!

The flower border is from Doodle Pantry.  It's a part of the Spring Song Birdies collection, but worked so perfect as a border for this card.

And finally the sentiment is from Create with TLC.

I pretty much left off all embellishments except for the twine and bow at the top and a few small liquid pearl dots under the sentiment to pull a little shimmer into the card.  The background has been lightly chalked and I did my best to "ground" the flowers with some added grass and dirt.

So tell me, do you sew on your cards?  Any tips for a beginner like me? :)

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Craft Your Passion #176-Summer Flowers
    Crafty Cardmakers #98-Fun in the Sun
    Divas by Design-Use Some Twine
    Doodle Pantry #37
    Incy Wincy Designs-One Layer Cards
    Stampin for the Weekend-Butterflies
    That Craft Place-Stitching
    Whimsy Stamps #62-Clean and Simple

Thanks for stopping by!!

8 comments:

  1. Fab image. The butterfly looks so cheerful watering the flowers.

    Thanks for sharing with us

    Lin xx
    Crafty Cardmakers

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  2. love the cute image and sentiment-thanks for joining us at Incy Wincy
    Carol (GDT Aug) x

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  3. Gorgeous card - adorable image and I love the sentiment.
    Fabulous stitching too :o)
    Thanks for playing along with The Divas this week.
    Good luck.
    Debs xx

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  4. So cute!!!! Thanks for playing along with Craft Your Passion's Summer Flowers challenge this week! Good luck!
    Adina

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  5. Adorable card, love the use of the Doodle Pantry flowers, they are just right for this card! Thanks for joining us at the DPDC#37

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  6. This is so cute! ! Thanks for joining us at Craft Your Passion! HUgsxx

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  7. Such a sweet card. Thank you for joining us at Divas by Design this week.
    Sarah-Jane xx

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  8. Beautiful card, and wow for first time sewing you have done a brilliant job.
    Thanks for sharing with us at That Craft Place x

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