Another Trip Around the Sun for My Baby Girl

 

Another trip around the sun for my baby girl!   Birthstone Challenges is a new challenge that runs in six week cycles beginning the first of of each odd numbered month and ending the 15th of even numbered months.  For each challenge we are asked to create any project featuring the birthstone colors of the challenge period which for January and February would be garnet and amethyst meaning red and/or purple.  You may use one or both colors and include other colors, but the birthstone colors must be dominant.   Katherine's favorite color is purple.  The optional theme for the Seize the Birthday challenge is Things With Wings and she has always loved butterflies.  This shouldn't be difficult!  Here is what I came up with.

I used an old layering die, Butterfly Beauty from the Beauty Abounds bundle by Stampin' Up, to cut the bottom layer from glossy white paper and the top from silver shimmer paper.  I backed the butterflies with some old patterned paper which is primarily shades of purple with a bit of blue mottled together.  The background is the scrap left after using the dies on white paper that I then splattered with a violet Wink of Stella brush and fitted around the butterflies.  I finished it off with a popped up sentiment and sparkles.  

It is hard to see how shiny this card is when photographed inside with a bounce flash, so I used my phone to take this shot outside in an attempt to capture it without a direct flash which would white out everything.

Please consider checking out and maybe entering the current Seize the Birthday challenge which runs until January 24  at 9:00 a.m. and the inaugural Birthstone Challenge which ends February !5 at 4:00 p.m. MT.  Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time, Hansi