Friday, 6 August 2010

Play Date Cafe

I was thrilled to bits to see my good friend Paul as Guest Designer on this weeks Play Date Cafe Challenge.  I only hope I was not influenced by his choice of subject, which was butterflies, when I made this card.

As you can see this is mainly a die cut card but being basically a rubber stamper I had to include some stamping so used just two words on my card which is a gate fold one I got at Aintree when I went to a show.


I am totally in love with these tiny butterflies which I got when I went to see my friend Mary in America last January.  The added advantage is that they emboss at the same time as they cut out - wish I had more dies like this.

Julie had chosen the colours for this weeks challenge and I found it difficult matching them up despite them being amongst my favourite ones.  Inspiration was from a picture of Positano, Italy - a country I love to visit and the rust colour reminded me of the rooftops I love to see when over there.


ps forgot to say that the gate fold card has three square apertures cut out of it so I used my Nestabilities to cut the squares which I placed in a row on the inside of the card.

12 comments:

Paul B said...

Absolutely gorgeous Neet. Love how you've arranged the butterflies with the largest at the bottom and smallest at the top. looks like they are flying off into the distance. Wonderful effect. Very clever. Plus I love the dies you've used. Want, want, want! haha. Pxx

sam21ski said...

Great card Neet, lovely colour combo and great use of the apertures gatefold card

Dotpat said...

Lovely card Neet, I like your butterflys too and love the colours

Sarah A said...

Another gorgeous creation Neet, I am off today and just waiting for the ink to dry on my Play Date entry ;-)

Hope you have a fab weekend!

Sarah x

Terry said...

I love those butterflies also! Lovely card!

Jan Hennings said...

Great card..I love the butterflies, too!

Gayle Page-Robak said...

So beautiful!!

Anne Jagger said...

Gorgeous Neet - I want those dies too, they look fabulous!!!!!

Ruby said...

Very pretty card! The butterflies are lovely! Thanks for playing along with us at the PDCC this week :o)

Suzanne C said...

Lovely design and you can never have enough butterflies. :) Beautiful card. Thanks for joining us at the PDCC.

Anonymous said...

Great card Neet. Like you I don't feel a card is finished until I've stamped, lol. xx

Savannah O'Gwynn said...

That is a great card--those are fab butterflies!! I love how many there are!! Great white space too--looooooove it:) Thanks for playing along and joining in the fun at the PDDC:}