Beautiful Friendship and Butterflies

It's Monday and I'm starting the week with some of my favourite bright colours as I share a card for the current challenges over at Color Throwdown and the Paper Craft Crew: 

I love those colourful florals on the CTD badge so thought it was high time I made another card using my current favourite floral stamp set - take a look:

Here's the low-down on today's card:

Beautiful Blooms - I just love the 'Beautiful Friendship' stamp set - I can't believe I overlooked it on my first pass through the catalogue. I think it is actually up there as one of my most favourite floral stamp sets of all time. It's just so easy to use. I love yellow flowers, so decided to choose yellow blooms with a side of hot pink for the buddleia-type flowers, with some bright green leaves for good measure. 

And A Butterfly - I 'saved' my orange for my little butterfly, which I stamped in black then coloured with a blender pen and some Grapefruit Grove ink. I have to say I'm not sure about the butterfly having added it to my card - what do you think - better with or without? 

Birthday Wishes - I heat-embossed my sentiment in white on black for a little extra contrast, using one of my current go-to birthday sentiments from the 'Varied Vases' set. It's perfect for cards with a floral theme so is getting a lot of use at the moment. I bordered my sentiment with a thin sliver of Lovely Lipstick ribbon just to tie the whole thing in with my card a little better. 

Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's project for you to pin for easy reference:

You can see all of my 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any. 

We have a day of getting ready to return to school this week! The first of the James Juniors is in tomorrow afternoon for pre-season rugby training - a sure fire way to see it start to rain!! Enjoy your day and I'll be back tomorrow with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used:

Beautiful Friendship Photopolymer Stamp Set (£20.00)	Butterfly Gala Photopolymer Stamp Set (£20.00)	Varied Vases Photopolymer Stamp Set (£24.00)	Daffodil Delight A4 Cardstock (£8.25)	Melon Mambo A4 Cardstock (£8.25)	Basic Black A4 Cardstock (£8.25)
Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad (£7.00)	Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad (£7.00)	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad (£7.00)	Grapefruit Grove Classic Stampin' Pad (£7.00)	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad (£5.50)	Embossing Buddy (£5.50)
Versamark Pad (£8.75)	White Stampin' Emboss Powder (£5.50)	Whisper White Solid Baker's Twine (£3.25)	Lovely Lipstick 1/8" (3.2 Mm) Grosgrain Ribbon (£5.50)