Thank You

Hi folks - as you probably know by now, Kimm and I have made the tough decision to stop the challenges and retire the design team. There were a lot of factors that went into this decision and as hard as it is to say goodbye, we believe it was the right one.

Today I want to send out a cornucopia filled with "thank you's". I owe a lot of my creative growth to this team and our challenge participants. I don't think I would have stretched (or been pushed!) in so many different directions without all of you. Thank you!

Gini - I give you credit for inspiring me to broaden my horizons and not always default to a character stamp on my cards. I love coloring my Magnolia stamps, but I also really appreciate the beauty of die cuts using Spellbinders and others. You are a whiz with the dies and I always look forward to your next project. And any time I rough up edges of my layers I think of you. You are the Queen of Distressed Edges!

Patricia - I've always been amazed at your talent with the Tear Bears and Critters and now you're wowing me with the Beary Sweet Designs cutting files. You have a great eye and a wonderful spirit, and I cherish the friendship that has developed outside of the team.

Jamie - You have inspired me over and over that there is way more "out there" than cards. Your 3D projects are amazing and I love seeing your family in scrapbook layouts. I can't believe how much your kids have grown while this team has been together!

Lori - Your designs are always beautiful! I'm so glad you were able to join us and sad that our time together was so short. I look forward to keeping up with your blog and being inspired by you!

Thanks so much to Elise, our beautiful former teammate and to our wonderful guest designers Brenda and Debbie. Wow, I look at these 7 names and see 7 very different styles. I've taken a "stroll" through each of our posts and really can't get over how lucky I've been to have such a talented team.

Kimm - We've had a great run here, haven't we? Thank you for allowing us to offer these challenges every month and giving out great prizes. You have been very generous to me and the girls, and I am grateful. I look forward to continuing the friendship that started years ago when I discovered tear bears and you were so generous with your time.

Challenge participants and blog followers - THANK YOU! It's been wonderful to visit your blogs and see your projects based on our challenges. With all my heart I appreciate your continued support of our challenges and The Beary Scrap.

Card Recipe

• Paper: My Mind's Eye Lost & Found "Breeze" 6x6 pad; Bazzill card stock
• Medium: Ranger Seasonal Distress Ink "Gathered Twigs"; Glossy Accents
• Embellishments: Ivory seam binding distressed with a little Gathered Twigs ink & water; flowers, etc from stash
• Adhesive: 1/4" Scor-Tape

There is still plenty of time to enter "Your Beary Best" in our challenge. You could win a $30 gift voucher to The Beary Scrap!

Cheers,
Susan

My Beary Best Tag So Far This Month

I have to say that I just love how this tag came out, I was lost as to what to make for a tag for this post, so I posted a contest on my personal facebook fan page asking for ideas and Peg came up with a Santa Bunny. Well I did Mrs Bunny Clause and I love her.

She was made with:

Background paper from My Minds Eye 12 Days of Christmas

Bella Bunny Acrylic Pattern

Mulberry Paper

Hat, glasses and nose from Beary Sweet Designs Mr and Mrs Clause Patterns

Colorbox Ink

Stickles

Fabri Tac Glue

Now lets see your project and enter it ---HERE---

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Boo To You

Have you seen the new collection from My Mind's Eye/ Mischievous.  I think it's got such a vintage feel.

The little puppy is attached to the pumpkin with a small amount of twine...so he can be pulled up to wish you a Boo but he can't get lost from the card.  Nothing sadder than a lost puppy, LOL.

Once you untie the string you'll find a Halloween wish inside.  Love, love, love this card.

What amazing creation have you come up with...remember right now our challenge is anything goes...so get crafting and enter our challenge where you could win a $20 gift certificate. 

See ya next week,

Hugs,

Bling In The Season

How could you not love My Mind's Eye new Lost and Found Christmas paper collection?...YUM with all that glitter.   I love it!!!  I'm also loving our current challenge, Anything Goes.  So basically all you have to do is something beautiful that shows your creativity and enter it in our challenge, where you might just win a $20 shopping spree.

Have a great week. 

Hugs,

My Creepy Sketch Challenge

It's time for another look at our sketch challenge for
The Beary Scrap
This one I had a lot of fun with and I really like how it came out, OK I personally love how it came out. The challenge for the design team is to make it not Girly, well other than the flower I think its more creepy than Girly atleast thats what Im going with, lol.

Card recipe:

Paper from My Minds Eye Haunted (2010)

Stickles

Pearls

Colorbox Ink

Fabri-Tac

Other Items from stash

3D Spider, Wings, Dollie, Spellbinders Die, Stampin Up Die, Martha Stewart Punch.

Now you only have just a few hours to still enter our challenge and enter your card ---HERE---

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Tic-Tac-Toe . . . .and a Tear Bear

Oh! I just love this new challenge and it's been fabulous looking at the entries you all have entered so far! Keep up the great work!

For my tic-tac-toe project, I chose paper piecing, pearl and button to make this baby card for my neighbors who just had a new little girl:


To start I paper pieced a Baby Tear Bear-- this is the first time I have made one of these tiny little guys and they are oh so cute! Just as easy as the original Tear Bears to make and the perfect size for a baby card.




I used My Mind's Eye Alphabet Soup Girl papers to make my easel card-- I love these colors for a baby girl-- I'm not a big fan of pink so to mix it up with a little blue and even green was perfect!

Then I added my pearls and my buttons are actually stick pins with pastel buttons on the ends.

Supplies used:
My Mind's Eye Alphabet Soup Girl papers
Bazzill cardstock -- cream
Mulberry paper-- mocha and white
Baby Tear Bear pattern
Tear Bear Tools
Colorbox Fluid Chalk-- Creamy Brown
Kaisercraft Pearls-- Latte
Prima flowers-- Original Sprites, Blue dotted
Seam Binding-- white

So, if you haven't done it yet, pick your three squares on our Tic Tac Toe board and enter your project in our current Beary Sweet Challenge and good luck!

New Ways to Look at a Sketch

I always love the sketches from the Beary Scrap, but I think it's fun to remember that this sketch is not only great for cards! Jaimie always does a fantastic job of using the sketch for layouts, but you can think smaller too - like this tag that I made. Sure, I took a little artistic license, but, hey, that's what it's all about. Here's the sketch - See how I just squished everything in a little?

I pulled out some of the My Minds Eye Lost and Found/ Market Street collection. I always forget how beautiful this paper is, until I bring it out. I cut the tag with the Tim Holtz Tag die, and covered the patterned paper with Golden's Acrylic Medium and put a layer of tissue paper. Then I inked over some of the wrinkles using Distress Ink in Pumice Stone. You can still see the lovely paper, but it just makes it a little dreamy. I inked all of the edges of my papers with Crushed Olive. The bird and borders were cut from the paper. For final embellies, I added mulberry paper roses, Kaisercraft rhinestones, and seam binding.

Do you always follow a sketch to a "T"? or do you use it as a starting point? I hope you will play along with us, however you decide to interpret the sketch!

Happy Birthday

Happy Friday to everyone out there! I hope you have enjoyed seeing the absolutely FANTASTIC creations the Beary Sweet ladies have offered up this week in conjunction with our new sketch challenge. We can't wait to see how you interpret the sketch!

My take on the sketch is a 12 x 12 layout using My Mind's Eye Fine & Dandy True Blue papers. I think these papers include some of my favorite color combinations ever and they were perfect for a picture of my 4 year old celebrating his birthday.



I loved this sketch and pretty much stuck right to it, except for substituting stars for the flowers since this is a boy-ish layout. All the accents are from the same Fine & Dandy collection-- buttons, brad, and trim-- I love it when they all come matched already!

Supplies Used:

My Mind's Eye Fine & Dandy True Blue papers
My Mind's Eye Fine & Dandy True Blue trims
My Mind's Eye Fine & Dandy True Blue Buttons
My Mind's Eye Fine & Dandy True Blue Brads
My Mind's Eye Fine & Dandy True Blue alphabet stickers
Colorbox Fluid Chalk-- Chestnut Roan
Miscellaneous brown letter stickers

Check out all the details for our current Beary Sweet Challenge featuring this sketch here-- we hope to see your entry soon!

Happy Birthday!

Hey there crafty folks! I hope you had a great weekend. This week the Beary Scrap design team is showing more samples for our current Sketch Challenge & Blog Candy. On Thursday our next Guest Designer is sharing her first project with us. I can't wait to see what Lori Leng of Pinkcloud Scrappers will show us first! At the end of the week Jamie will usher in a new challenge and we will announce our winners on Sunday the 17th. We have a busy week in store for you!

I've gone whimsical and cute for this week's project. I knew I wanted to color my new Balloon Kaylee stamp and went poking through my papers to find a good match. Lo and behold I found the cutest My Mind's Eye Alphabet Soup papers. I forgot I had them!

Click the pic for a larger view

I combined 2 lines from My Mind's Eye - Alphabet Soup for the papers and Tickled Pink for the ric-rac and brad inside the big flower. I love how these 2 lines coordinate!

Kaylee is layered and I'm still decided whether to use Star Dust Stickles on either the headband or balloon. It seems needed up there, but I'm not sure which to do. What do you think?

Oh, and the "Happy Birthday" stamp included with Kaylee will go on the inside panel.

Card Recipe

• Stamp: Some Odd Girl's Kaylee
• Paper: Bazzill Basics (50% clearance!); My Mind's Eye Alphabet Soup (Girl) - Sunny Stripes, Lovely
• Medium: Copic for skin (E000, E00, E11); Prismacolor with OMS; Glimmer Mist; Stickles - Fruit Punch around the edges, Stardust on flowers and Kaylee; Ranger Distress Ink in Vintage Photo blended with Spun Sugar on the striped layer, Broken China on the heart layer.
• Embellishments: My Mind's Eye Fine & Dandy Tickled Pink Trim; Fine & Dandy Tickled Pink Decorative Brads (flower center); "Leandro Blue" seam binding behind Bazzill tulle; 16mm & 10mm Mulberry paper roses - 16mm white is spritzed with Clover Glimmer Mist; Homemade decorative pins; crochet flower from stash
• Adhesives: 1/4" Scor-Tape; 3D Dots; silicone

Click to go to the challenge!

Blog Candy - every challenge entry is eligible to win!

That's it for me! I hope to see you at our challenge, going on through Thursday night!

Cheers,
Susan

Jamie's Christmas in July

Merry Christmas everyone! At least I hope you have enjoyed our Christmas in July projects this week and definitely hope you have entered your own project in our current challenge for your chance to win that great Christmas Magnolia stamp and some other goodies.

Here is my second go at the current sketch, this time a 5 x 7 Christmas card:

The base of my card is Bo Bunny Double Dot in a dark green and then I used the My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Union Square papers for the center. I trimmed the die cut edges from one of the papers and used those for my edges instead of punching my own fancy edge-- this worked perfect!

For my image I downloaded a FREE vintage Christmas graphic from this site: Vintage Christmas Images-- check it out for Christmas and lots of other vintage images. I added a bit of lace, pearls and a tiny bit of red Stickles (to match the glittered designer paper) to my Santa to dress him up before applying him to my card.

I used white seam binding spritzed with Brick Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist to go behind the Santa image and then tie the bow at the top and accented with some holly leaves and pearls. I absolutely love how easy it is to spray that seam binding to match any project! I am now totally out of white I have used it so much- time to restock!

Supplies Used:

Bo Bunny Double Dot Cardstock-- Olive
My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Union Square Designer papers
Seam Binding-- White
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (currently 30% off!!)
Stickles- Christmas Red
Kaiser Craft Pearls-- Latte
Holly leaf brads from my Christmas stash
Glue Dots

You have one more week to enter your projects based on our sketch so time to get craftin' and good luck!

DIY Crinoline Flower

Hello crafty friends! This week the design team is continuing with Do It Yourself Embellishment samples to go along with our current challenge. I've been a fan of crinoline flowers seen here and there and decided to try it myself!

Click for a bigger, better view!

I used Tim Holtz/Sizzix Tattered Florals die and cut three medium flowers and 2 of the smallest flowers on the die. I pressed one of each flower size into a Spun Sugar Distress Ink pad, and the others were spritzed with Glimmer Mist. It has a pink-ish brown-ish color and was perfect for the vintage look. I used a heat tool and tweezers to dry each flower then poked a hole in the centers. The flower "pollen" is a button from the My Mind's Eye Market Street button set. 

The tag is cut using the Tim Holtz Tag & Bookplate die. I used the Madison Avenue Dress Shop Glitter paper. Ages ago I cut out the dress form from this paper but never used the rest of it. Luckily I cut close enough to the form that I was able to use the sewing machine image as a design element on this tag, weeks later. Yay for pack rats!

  The twine on the faux spool is from the Madison Avenue collection, and the needle from my stash. And here's the rest of the story:

Card Recipe

• Paper - My Mind's Eye Madison Avenue: "Pretty" Dress Shop Glitter; "Cherish" Pintuck on the back;  dress form and faux thread spool are cut from Madison Ave's "Girlfriends" Lovely Glittered Paper
• Medium - Ranger Distress Ink's Vintage Photo layered over Spun Sugar in the edges, and Spun Sugar on the flower layers; Glimmer Mist
• Embellishments - My Mind's Eye Madison Avenue: "Happily Ever After" Trim on the thread spool and rhinestone buttons Kaisercraft Pearls in Latte; Baby Pink Seam Binding on the corseting, and both Baby Pink and Ivory as the tag's hanger; lace, eyelets and needle charm from stash
• Tools - Tim Holtz Alterations Sizzix dies: Tattered Florals and Tag & Bookplate
• Adhesives - 1/4" Scor-Tape; 1/8" 3D Dots; Fabri-Tac

Thanks so much for stopping by today. The design team will be showing all sorts of cool DIY embellishments all week, and hopefully we can inspire you to join our Beary Sweet "DIY Embellishment" Challenge. It's going on now through June 30th - come play with us!

Cheers,
Susan

For The Birds

Hiya crafty friends! I hope you had a great weekend. We got rained out at a local minor league baseball game. It was a shame since the game had serious promise (1st- and 3rd-placed teams in the league). Anyway... I can hear your yawns, so I'll get on with my BSC #27 sketch sample. You still have a little time to get crackin' on an entry of your own and have a great chance to win a $20 gift voucher for The Beary Scrap! This sketch proved to be a bit challenging for some folks - are *you* up to the challenge?

For this project I relied on my My Mind's Eye Portobello Road paper and embellishment collection. I threw in a little Bazzill brown, distress ink and an assortment of adhesives. Seriously! All four of My Mind's Eye's Lost and Found collections are like one-stop-shopping for cardmakers!

Card Recipe

• Paper - Bazzill; My Mind's Eye Portobello Road - various patterned sheets, including "Buddies" Perfect Glitter Paper and "Family" First Class Glitter Paper
• Medium - Ranger Distress Ink in Vintage Photo; hairspray to seal glitter to paper
• Embellishments - Portobello Road "Buddies" Decorative Trim and brads (sold out). Crepe paper flower is discarded crepe from another Portobello Road trim kit.
• Adhesives - Scor-Tape; Fabri-Tac; 3D Dots 1/8"; 3D Dots - 1/16"
• Tools - Scor-Pal; Honey Bee Scissors; Ranger Blending Tool

 I hope this can inspire you to join our Beary Sweet Sketch challenge - you have until Midnight tomorrow (Tuesday) to come and play!

Cheers,
Susan

Christmas in June

Hi there! Brenda again. Perhaps I'm yearning for cooler weather because I finally felt the urge to scrap a Christmas picture of my daughter. Hey, I've got one down, probably 100 more to go.

I used a few different lines on this layout, and as you can see, I used non-Christmas-themed papers for a Christmas layout. I think it worked quite well. This is a combination of Echo Park's Be Mine, and My Mind's Eye's Alphabet Soup, Lost and Found, and Fine and Dandy. 

Instead of flowers, I decided to go with pinwheels. The tab on the top right corner was cut using my die cut machine. 

The title was made using Fine and Dandy banner stickers. I think I need to buy a couple more sheets of those because they are just my absolute favorite! 

 Thank you so much for looking and I do hope you'll join us on our Sketch Challenge! 

How Sweet It Is. . . .

Hi folks - please check back Saturday, June 4th for our Beary Sweet winners. Thanks!

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We have a sweet sketch for you this week and I have absolutely loved seeing the gorgeous cards Patricia and Debbie have made with it so far. But I have to admit, it was a challenge for me! I really wanted to make this into a two page layout as I haven't posted one for awhile and it took a bit of thinking and rearranging to adapt it to my sweet layout.

Here you can see most elements of the original sketch-- I just love the triangles, big and small, across each side:


Notice how instead of centering it on one page, I stretched the sketch across my two 12 x 12 pages and then here you can see how I expanded it a little further to include more photos:




I used the Alphabet Soup Paper Girls line and the colors were perfect for my pictures! The oranges and pinks precisely matched this fun little restaurant we went to in Las Vegas where everything is bright orange and hot pink, and the ice cream sundaes cost $15 but are huge and worth every penny!

Supplies used:

Alphabet Soup Paper Girls Designer Papers
Tim Holtz Distress Ink-- Broken China and Crushed Velvet
Colorbox Fluid Chalk-- Creamy Brown
Bazzill Cardstock
Glue Dots
Foam Squares
Prima Flowers
Miscellaneous buttons

Whether your take is a card or a layout, we can't wait to see what you dream up with this sketch! Make sure to enter it in our current challenge for your chance to win a Beary Scrap store voucher.

Faux-Hawk Girl

Hello everyone! I just looked at the date on my calendar and I can't believe we are almost halfway through 2011! This week, the design team is tackling the challenge of nature plus a charm.

When my daughter, Harper, was a newborn, she had quite a bit of hair. At about 3 or 4 months it started falling out and I would take her around town and people would remark about how she had a mohawk. Some people even asked us if we cut it that way. No, I did not cut my three month old baby girl's hair into a faux-hawk!

I used My Mind's Eye Alphabet Soup and Fine and Dandy on this layout. I did a little abstract representation of nature, but used the Fine and Dandy chipboard pieces to create a border of nature elements. I drew a stem and leaves under the round chipboard pieces and then poked holes with a paper piercer and stitched them with embroidery floss.

The "girl" in the title is from the Fine and Dandy chipboard. The charm is from my stash. And of course I had to use my favorite adhesive, my pink ATG. 

I look forward to seeing everyone's "nature" projects. Have a wonderful weekend!  

Happy Day

The weekend! Whew. What a sigh of relief. I have been sick this week and still have had to go to work on top of mommy duties. Please forgive me if this blog post is shorter than usual. Also, I should mention that I made this layout, took pictures, and wrote up the blog post before I realized that I totally forgot about the additional challenge this week of embossing. Oh my! I'm so sorry! Can I just blame it on my foggy sick-brain?

Anyhow, I used My Mind's Eye Fine and Dandy on this layout about visiting with my daughter's great grandma. This line is so so cute! I used the True Blue and Tickled Pink Chipboard for the loop de loop, the title, the stars, and the sun/flower, the Tickled Pink Banner Stickers, and True Blue Patterned Papers.

Additional Supplies Used:

Scotch Pink ATG

Glue Dots

Thanks for looking! I do hope that you will be able to join us in this sketch challenge. Just remember to have your project uploaded by tonight, May 14th, at 11:59 EST!

Celebrate ...

Hello all and welcome to The Beary Scrap Challenge Blog!  Today I am sharing another fun card with our current sketch challenge and the Design Team was additionally asked to use embossing on our inspiration cards the week ... I love to emboss paper!!

These fun 6" x 6" papers are from My Mind's Eye - Fine and Dandy Collection.  They are so bright and cheery ... they just make me 'happy'!!!  I used a couple of Kaisercraft pink rhinestones on the sentiment tag to add a bit of bling and sparkle!

The delicious turquoise paper flower is from Prima - Trellis Roses Fontaine.

You have until May 14th to give this fun sketch a try ... I cannot wait to see what you'll create :)

Thanks for peeking in today -- have a wonderful stampy day!

Hugs,

Debbie

xoxoxoxoxo

Alphabet Soup

I don't think it's any secret; I have a thing for Alphabet Soup. No, I'm not talking about the kind of soup my mom used to give me when it was cold out (although, come to think of it, I have a thing for that as well). I'm talking about My Mind's Eye Alphabet Soup. It is so darn cute! I might only have a daughter, but I had to get both the boy and the girl sets because they have such a broad appeal. I have made several cards and layouts out of these papers and love each one of them, and this layout is no exception!

For a few years now, my husband and I have gotten into the habit of blowing kisses to each other from across the room but basically just smacking our lips and not actually blowing. It was so cute when our daughter Harper picked up on it at about 7 or 8 months. Whenever she does it, it's like she has to put so much effort into making the noise. She squeezes in her cute little cheeks and opens her mouth with a loud smack. So adorable! Anyhow, I've called it her fishy face for quite a while now and when I saw this card from the Alphabet Soup Boys Playing Card pack, I knew it was meant to be!

I took two different patterned papers from the girls Alphabet Soup collection kit and cut out strips of circles. Then I weaved them somewhat to give it a more cohesive look. Then I used my sewing machine to stitch around the edges of the background paper. I used the Martha Stewart Double Arch Punch to make a little border from one of the patterned papers. I added alphas from my stash to complete the title, and then used the fish from the Boys Chipboard Elements and the journalling block from the Boys Diecut Elements to finish off the page.

Thanks so much for looking. I really enjoyed using this sketch and hope to see you all join us in this challenge. Please have your projects linked up by May 14th at 11:59 pm ET to be included in the drawing for the prize voucher!

It's sketch time!!!

Happy Sunday Morning to you all.  It's Kimm here with you to kick of our new challenge!  I hope you have been having a wonderful weekend and the sun is shining wherever you are.  I am so excited to be here with you all this week.

It's the first of the month and that means it is time for a new challenge at The Beary Scrap.  It's a sketch, and a fabulous one at that.  I have decided to challenge myself to make the time to participate at least twice a month.  My ultimate goal is to participate every week.  For now I'm just going to keep my goals obtainable.

I so miss my craft space since the shop has taken up residence there.  I've been working off the dining room table and still digging through bins to find my supplies.  One thing I can say is that it feels SO GOOD to be creating again.  I realized that I was missing a HUGE part of me since November when I had everything boxed up and no place to work.  When I sit down with some papers, stamps, markers... I feel back at home again.  It's like food for the soul!

This week I am also joined by my little princess Lindsay.  She's home with me, so Mommy can't create anything without her working side by side with me. 

Now for my card...

My image is another Magnolia stamp.  She's been colored with Copic.  I don't remember the colors I used.  I got a little carried away with the stamping around the image, but I really like the concept.  The accent stamp is from Bo Bunny's Midnight frost stamp pack.  Again, I am using papers from My Mind's Eye Just Dreamy 2 line.  I just love these papers and the colors are so perfect for spring and summer. All my papers are distressed, inked up with distress ink, sewn and dazzled with a little Stardust Stickles.  I used a piece of corrugated board and pained that up with some antique linen acrylic paint and more distress ink.  I used a piece of Leandro Blue seam binding.  Flowers are both Prima and Beary Scrap Mulberry Paper Flowers.  I attached a few beads to my stick pins and added a cute heart charm that I found in my stash.  Lastly, I added some lace and a few KaiserCraft Pearls.  

And here is Lindsay's Card.  I helped with sizing her paper cuts, but she did most of the work.

Lindsay used another adorable image from Magnolia.  She's been colored with coloring pencils.  I made a bow for her out of some ribbons she picked out of my bin.  Papers are from My Mind's Eye Laundry Line collection.  Very simply, but she's only 4 and she loves to see her cards posted on my blog.  She's going to need one of her own soon. :)

Here is the sketch we are working with.

I have a new blog, separate from the store blog.  I would love for you to come and be a stalker :)!  You can find my blog HERE.  I'm also on facebook for my crafty friends too HERE.  You are welcome to send me a friend request.  I'll be happy to add you.  

Thank you for stopping by for a visit.  I'll be stopping by to see you too.  I can't wait to see what you create with the sketch.

Until next time

♥ Hugs ♥

A Card to Say Hello

Ahh, the weekend finds us again. I am especially excited about this weekend because I am going to the Scrapbook Expo! But before I do that, I wanted to share with you a card that I made for a friend of mine. 

I will be seeing this friend of mine at the Expo and I thought it would be the perfect occasion to make a card for her.  I started by taking a piece of Kraft paper from my stash and using it as the base of the card. Then I took four different patterned papers from the Cosmo Cricket Upcycle Mini Deck and inked them with Tim Holtz Distress Ink. Then I machine sewed my squares of patterned paper in a wonky, zig zag fashion. I let all the imperfections be as it is generally my motto that imperfection is interesting and beautiful. 

I took some seam binding and scrunched it up and adhered it with some glue dots. Then I took a brad from the My Mind's Eye Lost and Found line and put it in the center of my scrunched "flower." I used another glue dot to adhere the butterfly to the side of the "flower," and added a paper doily cut in half from my stash. I used the Martha Stewart Large Double Arches Punch  to punch a border strip in another piece of patterned paper from the Upcycle Mini Deck. 

Lastly, I took a label sticker from my stash and used My Little Shoebox's Mini Alphas to make the sentiment (love those alphas!). 

I really hope you'll be inspired to join us for this Wings challenge. If you do decide to participate, please have your creations linked up before 11:59 EST tonight (April 30th). Thanks for looking!