Butterfly Joy

I seem to be on a card making frenzy (at least it's a frenzy for me) lately.  I've made 4 cards in the past two days.  That almost never happens!!  So many great challenges out there inspiring is what I suspect is the cause.  Today's card was made to bulk up my stash of birthday cards.  I also had a few challenges in mind.  I really wanted to participate in the current Hero Arts blog challenge going on.  And I really wanted to use this butterfly stamp by HA that I won a few months ago and had yet to ink up.  So, I came up with this...

(This would fall under the category of "anything goes birthday" for the HA challenge.)

I love this stamp (H5426).  So much fun to colour too!  I used my Spectrum Noir markers to colour it in and then I fussy cut it out.  I took a white card base and stamped the butterfly several times in black along one side.  Then I stamped the sentiment in black.  This is actually made up of two different sentiment stamps.  One is a Christmas one by HA from their Joy to All set (CL460). I just masked out the word "holiday".  Then I took a sentiment from Scrappy Cat and did the same thing.  I masked out the "wishes" to just stamp the birthday part.  I love making my own sentiments this way.  :-). I attached the coloured butterfly, curling the edges a bit to give it some dimension.  Then I added a few sequins from Neat and Tangled.  I got them free with my stamp order.  Wasn't that nice?  I love how this turned out.

I'm also going to link this up to these challenges too:

Addicted to Stamps and More - the challenge is "Make Your Mark", have to use markers and such to colour something.
CAS-ology - cue word is "bold".
Fusion Card Challenge - here's the sketch/inspiration photo.  Obviously, I didn't use the sketch.

I have another card to share but that will be a separate post.  Maybe it'll be another twofer day!  Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!