Happy Easter for GDP131

Easter is about new beginnings. Baby bunnies, baby chicks, flowers and butterflies are all symbols of Easter that also help to usher in Spring. The Global Design Project is hosting an Easter-theme challenge this week. I color-blocked soft colors behind a bold butterfly for today’s nod to Easter. Here’s my card:

And here’s the banner for the challenge that inspired my card:

Tips, Tricks and Reminders

• Stamp Sets. This card is really clean – lots of untouched space – but it’s not as simple as it might seem. I used three stamp sets to create this soft, sweet Easter card – the bold butterfly is from Beautiful Day, the sentiment is from Hello Easter and the patterns on the wings of the butterfly are from the Marbled background set. Here’s a look at Beautiful Day:
  

  Beautiful Day, Stampin’ Up!

  Here’s a peek at the Hello Easter set (which I also featured on a fun card yesterday – you can see that card here):

  

  Hello Easter, Stampin’ Up!

  And here’s a look at the beautifully textured Marbled background set:

  

  Marbled, Stampin’ Up!

• Building the Butterfly. As I mentioned, this butterfly is not simple. I stamped the Marbled background stamp three times on Thick Whisper White – in Blushing Bride, Soft Sky and Wisteria Wonder. I then stamped the butterfly in Archival Basic Black ink on each of the Marbled patterns. I snipped the entire butterfly from the butterfly on the Blushing Bride piece, snipped four center patterns from the butterfly on Wisteria Wonder and snipped the remaining six patterns from the butterfly on Soft Sky. I glued the Wisteria Wonder and Soft Sky pieces to the Blushing Bride butterfly – time consuming but worth every bit of the time. I glued the butterfly to solid panels of cardstock (adding no pattern) to make sure the soft patterns on the butterfly came through. The Soft Sky panel measures 3-1/2″ x 4-3/4″, and the Soft Sky panel measures 3-1/2″ x 3″.
• Sweet Color Blocking. If soft pink, soft blue and soft purple don’t scream “Easter,” then no colors will. I love this combination of Blushing Bride, Soft Sky and Wisteria Wonder – they are grounded a bit by the thick black outline of the butterfly and the thick sentiment. If you like these colors, too, please save this:

Stamp Sets: Beautiful Day, Hello Easter, Marbled  Papers: Blushing Bride, Soft Sky, Wisteria Wonder, Thick Whisper White  Inks:  Blushing Bride, Soft Sky, Wisteria Wonder, Archival Basic Black  Accessories: Stampin’ Dimensionals

Beautiful Day Clear-Mount Stamp Set – 145915

Price: $21.00

Hello Easter Photopolymer Stamp Set – 145783

Price: $17.00

Marbled Clear-Mount Stamp Set – 144772

Price: $15.00

Marbled Wood-Mount Stamp Set – 143755

Price: $20.00

Blushing Bride 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 131198

Price: $8.00

Soft Sky 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 131203

Price: $8.00

Wisteria Wonder 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 122922

Price: $8.00

Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock – 140272

Price: $7.00

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin’ Pad – 131172

Price: $6.50

Soft Sky Classic Stampin’ Pad – 131181

Price: $6.50

Wisteria Wonder Classic Stampin’ Pad – 126985

Price: $6.50

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad – 140931

Price: $7.00

Supply List

I hope you’ll pop over to the Global Design Project site to see the cards by the design team members and to play along with this week’s challenge. I’d love to see your Easter-themed creations.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

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