Hi Ladies, I hope you are all having a Wonderful Weekend :) Before I go any further, I need to share with you the winner of my give away. Drum roll please.....and the Winner is.....
Julie, please email me your address prior to Wednesday, November 25th so I can get your goodies to you :)
The saying "it is a SMALL world" even applies to Blogosphere! Julie Ranae 
happens to be the Manager/Creator of The Play Date Cafe Creativity Challenge site! I want to send a BIG Thank You to ALL the girls on The Play Date Cafe DT for selecting my Happy Birthday card last week as their Featured Spotlight Winner :) This week's colors for The Play Date Cafe Creativity Challenge #5, PDCC5 is being hosted by Julie Campbell. This is what Julie had to say about her inspiration photo, "Being a vintage girl at heart, I fell in love with the beautiful vintage-looking perfume bottles. The colors really drew my eye--I love that the light blue next to the purple...a little bit of
silver, some soft and lovely white all around." I have to agree with Julie, the vintage bottles in this photo with the Beautiful colors are very alluring! I combined a few more challenges to create this card: This week's challenge at the Cards Blog site is to use Buttons, 5 of them! & for Sketch Inspiration: Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #92, TESC92. For your enjoyment & for inspiration, please be sure to check out all the sites that I have mentioned :) Thanks for stopping by today & for taking a peek :) Be Sweet!
I used these colors to make a Mother's Day card.
I have been taking my sewing machine for a daily walk lately :)
I was sooo excited to receive the Spellbinder's Butterfly die set in the mail this week :) / I soooo wish Spellbinders would have offered more than 3 various sides in this set :( / On this card, I used the small & medium sized dies, layering each Butterfly x 2. I sandwiched all the lil' blue Butterflies in a Sizzix Dot EF, then sent them through the Sizzix Big Shot Express.
I used the large & medium Butterfly dies x 2 each to make the tag. The silver embossed PTI flourish images really "POPS" off the SU Rich Razzleberry cs.
I made a few butterflies to share with someone :) All you have to do is leave a comment on this post by Saturday, November 28th EST. I will use Random.Org to select a winner & announce the winner on my post Sunday, November 29th. Please play nice & BE SWEET, ONLY one comment per person :)
Ingredients Used: Stamps: SU Best Yet, Fancy Flexible Phrases, PTI Fancy Flourishes Paper: SU Rich Razzleberry, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Anna Griffin DP Ink: VersaMark, Ranger/Tim Holtz Tea dye Sprinkles: Spellbinders Butterfly, EK Success punches, generic buttons, Making Memories hardware, SU silver cord, Sizzix EF x 2, PTI twine, Offray ribbon, Cuttlebug scalloped flower die
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36 Sweet Comments So Far:
Very Cute! Love the Butterflies and rich colors!
I just landed here through SCS. Love your creations.
Smita
Great project, the colors perfect. Thanks for joining us at the Play Date Cafe. Sandi
Mona, WOW! Just - "WOW"! This is STUNNING! Your use of those gorgeous colors is beyond fabulous. The twine antennae are so cute :) Thanks for offering up some of your awesome creations :) I would love to win them!
Hope you have a great Sunday.
Congrats to your winner!!!! This is stunning! Love your take on the sketch and what you did with this color challenge. I saw this yesterday, and I instantly thought about what gorgeous things you'd make with it. Love this!
Blessings,
Kim xXx
Stunning Mother's Day card....and oh those butterflies are the shining glory of the card. Hugs.
Carole
Love the bright pop of purple on this card! Way cute!!!
Mona this is BEAUTIFUL! I LOVE the butterflies!!! I think I am gonna try to sneak in that color challenge below.. it is so PRETTY!
Have a GREAT day!!
Well, now that I have picked myself up off the floor, may I just say WoW! I am so happy to have won such a fabulous prize. The Cuttlebug dies are not very accessible around my neck of the woods, so what a treat! So thank you Mona!
I am so glad that through visiting Cupcake's Creations you found The Open Window!
Your creation for this week's challenge is a stunner! The girls love having you visit The Play Date Cafe and hope you will for a long time to come! xx
Your card is beautiful, and are everyone else's. I love the butterflies.
It took me a while to realize that I only had to click on the names and I too could see the cards that others entered. Duh! And then I had to enter my card twice, because the first time all I posted was the picture of the card, and not my blog. So, hopefully I have it down now. I also will be sure and leave posts on everyone's cards. Sorry. I'm new to blogging. I haven't figured out the blinky thing yet. (To others I've mentioned this to before I have copied the code from the blinky, and then I've gone back to my blog and clicked on ad a gadget, and then posted the code in the html box. The one and only time I did that, it totally wiped out the blog site. So I don't know if I'm supposed to add this to then end of what is showing up, or if it shouldn't be showing up there. One day I'll get this straight, I hope.
TFS,
dj1952
my blog is http://www.designsbydj.blogspot.com
WOW.. this is so beatiful.. Mona I love the card.. and your butterflies are STUNNING :) thanks for playing with us again this week at The Cafe.. hope to see you next week.. HUGS
your butterflies are stunning. Thanks for the great inspiration!!
Love what you have done in the PDC colours - truly gorgeous. I do love the watering can.
Just gorgreous!!! I am loving everything about it all!! Nice colors and great style! I love buttons and butterflies!! :) Nicely done!!
Absolutely gorgeous, Mona! I love your take on the challenge this week--beautiful work! Thanks, as always, for playing along with us at the PDCC!
So beautiful and inspirational! I love your designs Mona and this one is so special! I just have to tell you that purple is my fav color and these butterflies are so beautiful in purple! Just gorgeous!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! I love it!
Wow Mona! This is totally gorgeous. I do love butterflies and might have to put that set on my wish list lol
Fliss x
I love these colors as well. I always find your blog to be inspiring. Thanks Mona!
Hi Mona--Love how the combination of colors come together. The butterflies are perfect and precious. A great job as always. Sue M.
Yoyr butterflies are gorgeous, I love that color combo too. ~Diane
Love these colors! Your butterflies are divine!
My God, Mona, this is darling! What a great job with those beautiful butterflies! The silver embossing is fabulous!
Love this to death! Those colors and the soft look is gorgeous!
Mona! These butterflies are beautiful! I just used these colors for a baby shower that I threw yesterday, this would have been a perfect addition :) As always, love this card and your lovely butterfly creations!
Love the purple butterflies! So beautiful!
These buttons and butterflies are so thoughtfully intertwined! I love the contrast! Gorgeous!
OMG, I love those butterflies! They are so colorful and embossed so nicely! I want that butterfly tag!
Those PDC colors look gorgeous with your awesome design! Love the buttons on the butterflies! Great idea that I never would have thought of!! Thank you so much!
these are super cute!! love your color combo!
This is so beautiful! You are so talented! Wow! Those butterflies are amazing!
I really think this is such an elegant, gorgeous card and tag! I absolutely love the silver embossed flourishes! Amazing job!
Sweet butterflies and buttons! Gorgeous!
Love those amazing butterflies! Sublime!
beautiful card, I love the butterflies, great job!!
Sensational butterflies, OMG! I love the deep purple and the gorgeous silver embossing! You're killing me!
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