A few cards

As promised, here are a few more cards to show you.  Once again, Dana Florence is the one who shared her talents with us.  For the first one, she created a background using several colors of Glimmer Mist, then stamped the butterfly from the Critters Stamp & Stitch set in a random fashion.  Then she used the matching butterfly from Greetings and stamped that on an oval that was cut and matted using the Nestabilities dies from Spellbinders.  Instead of stitching on all of the butterflies, she added interest to the sentiment by stitching only on that one.  You can't tell it in the scan, but it's all assembled on top of a long, tie-clasp envelope!   

For the second card, again created by Dana, she once again used a stamp from Critters, this time the cute little bumble bee. Instead of stitching on this one, she shaded in the wings and then used Stickles to add some shine and sparkle on the wings.  I love how versatile the stamps are.  You can choose to stitch accents, or just use them as regular stamps.  And did you notice that she used those Nestabilities again?  I think I'm going to have to get some of those!  I just can't imagine trying to get scallops like that with decorative scissors.  It makes me cringe just thinking about the time and wasted paper it would take for me to get it that perfect!

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