Butterfly Sympathy and Announcement

Have you noticed along my sidebar a new little tag under Design Teams? If not, I am proud to announce that I am one of the newest members of the Splitcoast Dirty Dozen Design Team!!!! This month's Dirty Dozen Gallery was released to the Fan Club members on March 15th and I just haven't had a chance to blog about all of the excitement until now. I've been busy with my sick kids and catching up on some housework that I had um, forgotten to do...yeah, that's it...forgotten. Not to be confused with "avoided" *grin*

Since I have finally been able to share my little secret that I have been guarding for what seems like a lifetime, I get to share with you a little something else. Remember way back when in the summer when I was the Featured Stamper on SCS? Well Cindy Motherway (Mothermark) had created this fabulous card for the challenge and mailed it to me with this note on the inside.




I have to say that I was so touched that Cindy put this in my card and that she thought that I was even talented enough to be a Dirty Girl! I have saved this note and proudly put in on display right next to her awesome card so that I could see it every day and hopefully reach that goal! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world because not only to I get to be a Dirty Girl, I also get to be on the team at the same time as Cindy (who wasn't Dirty Dozen at the time the note was written) :) Thanks for the inspiration and sweet, sweet words Cindy!

So after all that, I'll bet you're wondering where the butterfly sympathy card comes in? A few weeks ago I needed a sympathy card for my best friends parents. I decided to use my Beautiful Butterflies set from CDStamps because there is something soothing and peaceful about watching butterflies. I actually don't own any sympathy sentiments so I found this sentiment on the Internet and printed it onto the cardstock.



I love TheresaCC's gallery and used this card for inspiration. It had the perfect layout for what I was looking for and I adore the colours that she chose :) I didn't have a larger leaf stamp so I use the negative paper from the Sizzix Leaf Die to create a stencil for reverse masking using a sponge.



Well, I should probably end this post now as I have a dozing child leaning against my arm and it is getting considerably harder to type! *wink*

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Clear Dollar Stamps - Beautiful Butterflies, Baroque Motifs (SU)
Paper: PTI White, Basic black, Bobunny DP, Watercolour
Ink: Basic Black, Versa Mark, Creamy Caramel, More Mustard, So Saffron, Re-Inkers
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Clear Embossing Powder, Sponges, Sizzix Leaf Die, Aqua Painter, Dimensionals, Computer Generated Sentiment